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• American Ancestors

  Web site of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.

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  • Databases

    Members can search hundreds of unique searchable online collections, offering information on hundreds of millions of people.

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  • NEHGS Library and Special Collections

  • Publications

    • American Ancestors Magazine

      American Ancestors: New England, New York, and Beyond. Magazine published four times a year.

    • The New England Historical and Genealogical Register

      Published quarterly since 1847, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register is the flagship journal of American genealogy and the oldest in the field, focusing on authoritative compiled genealogies. Typical articles also solve genealogical problems, identify immigrant origins, or present treatments of multiple generations. The Register is available free to members.

  • The Bookstore at NEHGS

  • Town Guides

• Finnish American Heritage Society of Maine

  The Finnish-American Heritage Society is organized for the purpose of promoting, in a social setting, a cultural and educational appreciation of Finland and to explore the traditions of the Finnish families who settled here.

• Grand Lodge of Maine Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons

• Independent Order of Odd Fellows - Maine

  Jurisdictions for the IOOF, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Rebekahs.

• Maine Department Auxiliary to Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War

• Maine Franco-American Genealogical Society

  Located in Auburn, Maine. Dedicated to promoting genealogical research and education relating to Americans of French-Canadian and Acadian ancestry.

• Maine Genealogical Society

  Farmington.

• Maine Historical Society

  Houses the Maine Historical Society Research Library, the Maine History Gallery, and the historic Wadsworth-Longfellow House.

  • Maine Memory Network

    Statewide digital museum and educational resource designed to make available historical material.

• Maine Mayflower Society - Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Maine

• Maine Old Cemetery Association

• Maine Society Sons of the American Revolution

• National Society Sons of Colonial New England

  The National Society Sons of Colonial New England is open to any gentleman of 18 years of age or more, who can prove lineal descent from a person born prior to July 4, 1776, in any of the present six New England states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

• New England Archivists

• New England Association of Oral History

• New England Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG)

• Old Canada Road Historical Society

  Bingham, Maine, serving Maine's Upper Kennebec Valley. The Old Canada Road Historical Society was founded when a group of regional historians came together around the work of archaeologists Barry Rodrigue and Alaric Faulkner, who together began a survey of the Canada Road in 1993.

  • OCRHS Online Collections Database

• Order of First Families of Maine

  A lineage society for descendants whose ancestors resided in early Maine from 1604 - 1652.

• Piscataqua Pioneers

  Descendants of settlers of southern New Hampshire and Maine.

• Society Hill: Maine Genealogy

  A list of addresses for genealogical and historical societies in the state.

• Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Maine