The
Skidompha History & Genealogy Room Resources
Skidompha Library
invites all those interested in town history and family
lineage to explore The Skidompha History And Genealogy
Center located upstairs at the library.
These books,
scrapbooks, and other documents do not circulate, but there
is a copy machine close at hand for copying pages.
Among these special
resources are the following:
Cemetery
Records:
Alna, Bremen, Boothbay, Boothbay Harbor, Bristol, Damariscotta, Damariscotta Mills, Dresden, Edgecomb, Jefferson,
Newcastle, Nobleboro, Somerville, South Bristol, Southport, Waldoboro,
Westport, Wiscasset, Whitefield plus some Maine Cemeteries NOT in
Lincoln County.
Local Ships and Shipbuilding:
"Planters of the Commonwealth", by C.E.Banks, includes list of passengers, ships and the places they settled
in Boston and the Bay Colonies;
"Shipping days of old Boothbay", by George Rice;
" Oyster shells and sailing ships", by Mark Biscoe;
List of Lincoln County ship building, 1964-1994, by Boutilier Photos;
"Mary and John 1630", Volumes 14 & 17; P R Hazeltine 1875-1882; a booklet;
A list of ships built in Newcastle, Nobleboro, Damariscotta and
Bristol, by Lowell Sidelinger, Deputy Collector of Customs.
Maps:
Damariscotta & Newcastle proposed waterworks 1897, Maine 1952, Newcastle 1816, Nobleboro 1813 & 1857, Waldoboro 1815, and Bristol
1815 with old roads superimposed over it and Medieval England.
Microfiche:
Several states, Canadian Providences, and England.
Periodicals:
Downeast Ancestry (Vol 1-Vol 5) with Index,
Second Boat (1980- to 1990) with Index,
The Dinghy (19-to19-) with Index,
The Vine (2000-2003) with Index,
The Mayflower Quarterly (1984 -2004) with index,
Forebears (1994-1998),
The Great Migration (1990-1999) with Index,
Your Yankee Heritage (1979-1981) with index,
Heritage Quest (#1-#30) with index
New England History Genealogical Register (Vol 130-Vol 158) with index books.
Scrapbooks:
newspaper clipping scrapbooks, late 1800's and early 1900's, some have been indexed.
Vertical File Boxes:
Contain subject files for all of Lincoln County's towns, as well as: alewives,
artists, authors, bridges, brickyards, courthouses, doctors, disasters, forts, historical societies, hospitals, ice works,
lighthouses, maps, Monhegan, railroads, Revolutionary War, schools,
shell heaps, ships, shipbuilders, telephone companies, Thompson Ice
House, Underground Railroad, Wawenock Country Club, witch trials,
woodcarvers, WWI, WWII, and worms.
Volumes:
Vital records of the towns in Lincoln County;
Maine 1790 Census;
Family histories & genealogies (257);
Revolutionary & Civil War military records.
Several genealogy resources ranging from basic how-to's, to books on where to find them. Of special note are
Harold Castner's notebooks on local towns and its people histories; plus
George Dow's notebooks on the history of Nobleboro and its people.
In 2003 the Genealogy and History room was designated the Lincoln
County Genealogy and History Room to narrow the focus of research and
thus provide more thorough coverage but the materials from the prior
collection have been retained.
Many thanks to
Carolyn Kelsey for all of her hard work over the past two
years, and to Joyce Brown for her service in years past, and
to all who have lent a hand in organizing the resources of
the Genealogy and History Center.
All Genealogy and History Room materials are restricted to library use
only. The Genealogy and History Room is located on the second floor
and is handicapped accessible via elevator.
SKIDOMPHA
Public
Library