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Searching for Maine birth records, Maine census records, Maine marriage records, or Maine death records? How about a free genealogy search? Find help for your family history search and building your family tree. |
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Maine Genealogy Databases
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Maine Genealogy Help Vital records, as their name suggests, are connected with central life events: birth, marriage, and death. Maintained by civil authorities, these public records are prime sources of genealogical information. These records are critically important in genealogy research, often supplying details on family members well back into the nineteenth century. There are many sources for birth, death and marriage events that are not in the Maine vital records office. Cemeteries, church records, newspapers, military records, immigration and naturalization records, as well as family records in letters and Bibles, are all places where evidence of vital events might be found. Once Maine vital records have been researched, and especially if none are available for the location and time period required, a good procedure would be to try to locate your Maine ancestors using Maine census records. Every state has a division charged with the responsibility of maintaining and dispersing public information from its vital record holdings. Each state page on this website indicates the availability of birth records, marriage records, death records, and divorce records and the agencies responsible for maintaining them. |
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Maine Vital Records Information (How to contact the Vital Records Department of Maine) Event: Birth or Death Cost of copy: Certified $10.00, Uncertified $6.00 Address: Remarks: State office has had records since 1892. Records for 1892-1922 are available at the Maine State Archives. For earlier records, write to the municipality where the event occurred. Additional copies of same record ordered at same time are $4.00 each. Check or money order should be made payable to Treasurer, State of Maine. Personal checks are accepted. To verify current fees, the telephone number is (207) 287-3184. Event: Marriage, Divorce Cost of copy: $10.00 Address: Remarks: State office has had records since 1892. Records for 1892-1922 are available at the Maine State Archives. For earlier records, write to the municipality where the event occurred. Additional copies of same record ordered at same time are $4.00 each. Check or money order should be made payable to Treasurer, State of Maine. Personal checks are accepted. To verify current fees, the telephone number is (207) 287-3184. |
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