Welcome to
Androscoggin County, Maine!
What can the GenWeb Project do for you and your research?
Check the Androscoggin County Queries page to see if you "connect" with any other researchers.
Check the Androscoggin County Lookups page to see if a resource is available that may help you in your research.
Search the GenWeb Index for clues in other counties and states.
Search the GenWeb FTP Site for downloadable text resources.
How can you contribute to the GenWeb project?
Send a query on your ancestors in Androscoggin County.
If you have ANY resource materials on Androscoggin County, and are willing to do occasional lookups, volunteer for our Lookup page.
Contribute any text files (no GEDCOMS) to us at no charge.
If you have interest in genealogy and the internet, volunteer to host a county page. Contact Tina Vickery, MEGenWeb coordinator, or get more information on the Maine State page.
Questions? Contact us if you would like to participate!.
Androscoggin County Families
- The Bradford Family A History of the Bradford Family - contributed by Max Maxfield
- The Golden Rocket - Sailed from Bangor to San Francisco. Passengers included the Hellenbrand's. Contributed by Marjorie Jodoin.
- More Family Links at Androscoggin Historical Society
- The Penley Family - History and Genealogy of the ancesters and descendants of Joseph Penly, who settled in Danville in the 1700's.
- The Vickery Family Home Page - Ancesters and Descendants of George VICKERY which includes many Danville descendants.
- Seth M.Carter - Life of of Seth M. Carter, prominent citizen and politician of Auburn.
Androscoggin County Links
- Map of Androscoggin County
- U.S. Census Digital Interactive Maps: Androscoggin County
- Androscoggin County Cemeteries
- Androscoggin County, Maine Cemetery Resources at the Maine State Library \
- Androscoggin County Lookups
- Androscoggin County Queries
- Androscoggin County Surname Registry
- Androscoggin County Town US Gen Web Pages
- Penley Corner Free Will Baptist Church at South Auburn, Maine
- Vital Records
Other Sites for Maine Researchers
- Maine Master County Index
- Special Maine Census of 1837
- GENDEX: The WWW Genealogy Index (Gene Stark)
- Genealogists' Index to the World Wide Web (John Rigdon)
- Maine Vital Records
- Everton's Genealogical Resources in Maine
- US Genealogical Resources for Maine
- Cyndi's List of Genealogical Sites for Maine
- Maine Libraries on Line
LDS Resources in Maine - http://hipp.etsu.edu/ftpdir/genealogy/LDStext/me-0820b.txt
Other Links
THE ANDROSCOGGIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC.
Membership is from June 1st to May 31st the following year
Annual Dues= $15
Family Membership= $25
Life Membership=$150
Checks should be mailed to:
The Androscoggin Historical
Society, Inc.
ATTN: Bruce Hall Membership Secretary
New Androscoggin County Historical & Genealogical mailing list:
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you may subscribe to our list in mail mode by sending a message
to MEANDROS-L-request@rootsweb.com that contains the word
subscribe
and nothing else. If they prefer digest mode, they should send the
command instead to MEANDROS-D-request@rootsweb.com.
Please visit Androscoggin County Town Pages
Our object in this labor is to make a usable past,
to make the cloak of history wearable
so our daughters may fling it over their shoulders
and go off on tracks of their own."
-- Jane Marcus
The Maine GenWeb Project
- The USA GenWeb Project is a national volunteer effort to provide a WWW page for genealogical data for every county in the United States. Begun in March 1996 in Kentucky, the project is growing daily, and has already provided many genealogists with clues to finding their ancestors. Volunteers coordinate the collection of databases and generally oversee the contents of the individual county web pages. This Androscoggin County page is part of the Maine GenWeb Project, which is part of the USA GenWeb Project. Our names are Kevin King & David Colby Young and we are currently hosting Androscoggin County. If you would like to contribute your information to this page, please let us know. If you are interested in adopting a county, please contact Tina Vickery , MeGenWeb coordinator.