Piscataquis County, Maine Genealogy
Guide to Piscataquis County, Maine ancestry, family history, and genealogy birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.
| Piscataquis County, Maine | |
| Map | |
 Location in the state of Maine | |
| Facts | |
| Founded | March 23, 1838 |
|---|---|
| County Seat | Dover-Foxcroft |
| Courthouse | |
| Address | Piscataquis County Courthouse 51 E. Main Street Dover-Foxcroft, ME 04426 Phone: 207.564.2161 Piscataquis County Website |
Contents
- 1 Description
- 2 Piscataquis County, Maine Record Dates
- 3 County Courthouse
- 4 History
- 5 Places / Localities
- 6 Resources
- 7 Societies and Libraries
- 8 Websites
- 9 References
DescriptionEdit
The County was named for the Abenaki word meaning "branch of the river". The County has Dover-Foxcroft as its seat and the County was created March 23, 1838. The County is located in the central area of the state.[1]
Piscataquis County, Maine Record DatesEdit
| Birth* | Marriage | Death* | Court | Land | Probate | Census |
| 1892 | 1892 | 1892 | 1838 | 1838 | 1838 | 1790 |
County CourthouseEdit
- Town clerks have birth, marriage and death records.
- Clerk of the Superior Court has divorce and court records.
- Probate Court has probate records.
- Register of Deeds has land records.[3]
HistoryEdit
Parent CountyEdit
1838 - Created 23 March 1838, from Penobscot and Somerset counties.[3]
Boundary ChangesEdit
Record LossEdit
There is no known history of courthouse disasters in this county.
Places / LocalitiesEdit
Neighboring Counties
Somerset | Aroostook | Penobscot
Populated PlacesEdit
For a complete list of populated places, including small neighborhoods and suburbs, visit Hometown Locator. The following are the most historically and genealogically relevant populated places in this census area:[4]
| Towns | ||
| Unincorporated communities | ||
| Census-designated places | ||
| Unorganized territories | ||
NWP=North of Waldo Patent; WELS=West of the Easterly Line of the State. For further details see Maine townships.
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Plantations[5]
Kingsbury Plantation | Lake View Plantation
Extinct towns and plantations'''[6] Barnard | Blanchard | Chesuncook Plantation | Elliottsville | Katahdin Iron Works Plantation | Orneville | Williamsburg | Wilson[7]
ResourcesEdit
CemeteriesEdit
| Tombstone Transcriptions Online | Tombstone Transcriptions in Print | List of Cemeteries in the county |
| Findagrave.com | Family History Library | Findagrave.com |
| USGenWeb Archives | WorldCat | Billion Graves |
| Tombstone Project | ||
| ME Interment | ||
| Billion Graves | ||
| See Maine Cemeteries for more information. | ||
- 1620-2014 - Maine, Tombstone Inscriptions, Surname Index, 1620-2014 at FamilySearch — index
- 1676-1918 - Maine, Veterans Cemetery Records, 1676-1918 at FamilySearch — index and images
- 1780-1999 - Maine, J. Gary Nichols Cemetery Collection, ca. 1780-1999 at FamilySearch — index and images
Church RecordsEdit
Church records and the information they provide vary significantly depending on the denomination and the record keeper. They may contain information about members of the congregation, such as age, date of baptism, christening, or birth; marriage information and maiden names; and death date. For general information about Maine denominations, view the Maine Church Records wiki page.
Court RecordsEdit
- 1718-1957 - Maine, State Archive Collections, 1718-1957 at FamilySearch — index and images
Emigration and ImmigrationEdit
- 1837 - 1965 - Maine & Massachusetts Case Files of Deceased and Deserted Seamen 1837-1965 at FamilySearch - images
GazetteersEdit
HistoryEdit
Local histories are available for Piscataquis County, Maine Genealogy. County histories may include biographies, church, school and government history, and military information. For more information about local histories, see the wiki page section Maine Local Histories.
Land and PropertyEdit
Land and property records can place an ancestor in a particular location, provide economic information, and reveal family relationships. Land records include: deeds, abstracts and indexes, mortgages, leases, grants and land patents.
See Maine Land and Property for additional information about early Maine land grants. After land was transferred to private ownership, subsequent transactions were usually recorded at the county courthouse and where records are currently housed.
- 1718-1957 - Maine, State Archive Collections, 1718-1957 at FamilySearch — index and images
MapsEdit
for more resources
Military RecordsEdit
- 1676 - 1918 - Maine, Veterans Cemetery Records, 1676-1918 at FamilySearch — index and images
- 1718 - 1957 - Maine, State Archive Collections, 1718-1957 at FamilySearch — index and images
Revolutionary WarEdit
- 1835 - 1838 - Maine Revolutionary War Bounty Land Applications 1835-1838 at FamilySearch — index and images
Civil WarEdit
Regiments. Service men in Piscataquis County, Maine Genealogy served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies that were specifically formed in Piscataquis County, Maine Genealogy:
- - 2nd Regiment, Maine Infantry , Company D
Online Records
- 1962 - 1865 - Maine, Civil War Enlistment Papers, 1862-1865 at FamilySearch — index and images
World War IEdit
- 1914-1950 - Maine, State Archives, World War I (WWI) Grave Cards, 1914-1950 at FamilySearch — index and images
- 1917-1919 - Maine, World War I Draft Registration Index, 1917-1919 at FamilySearch — index and images
NaturalizationEdit
- 1718-1957 - Maine, State Archive Collections, 1718-1957 at FamilySearch — index and images
- 1918-1991 - Maine, United States Naturalization Records, 1918-1991 at FamilySearch — index and images
NewspapersEdit
Finding More Maine NewspapersEdit
Additional newspapers abstracts can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Piscataquis County, Maine Genealogy newspapers in online catalogs like:
- WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog).
- Do a Piscataquis County, Maine Genealogy Place-name search for these and other records in the FamilySearch Catalog (For instructions see FamilySearch Catalog Place-name Search).
Probate RecordsEdit
Online Probate Records
- 1584 – 1999 Maine Wills and Probate Records 1584-1999 at Ancestry.com — images and index $
TaxationEdit
Maine tax records complement land records and can be used to supplement the years between censuses. There may be gaps of several years in the records.
Vital RecordsEdit
In Maine, vital records are kept by town clerks or selectmen. Although some towns have existed since the 1650s, most vital records date from about 1700. The vital statistics are often arranged by family. For more information, see the Wiki page for the town and the Wiki page, Maine Vital Records.
- 1589-1966 - Maine, United States Marriages at FindMyPast — index $
- 1670 - 1921 - Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921 at FamilySearch — index and images
Societies and LibrariesEdit
Family History CentersEdit
Family History Centers provide one-on-one assistance and free access to premium genealogical websites. In addition, many centers have free how-to genealogy classes.
- For current information about a center near you, go to the Family History Center Map
WebsitesEdit
- The Piscataquis County MEGenWeb Project, an member of The MEGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project.
- The USGenWeb Archives Project for Piscataquis County
- The USGenWeb Archives Project for Piscataquis County (backup site)
- FamilySearch.org FamilySearch Catalog for Piscataquis County
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Piscataquis County, Maine" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piscataquis_County,_Maine."
- ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Piscataquis County, Maine. Page 304-305 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002; Alice Eichholz, ed. Ancestry’s Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources, Third ed. (Provo, Utah: Ancestry, 2004), 275.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), 181, and 305. At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Piscataquis County, Maine," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piscataquis_County,_Maine, accessed 23 July 2019.
- ↑ For further details see Maine Plantations
- ↑ Before an extinct town was discontinued, it created official town records of interest to genealogists. For preservation these records were usually turned over to a nearby functioning town in the same county.
- ↑ Michael J. Leclerc, Genealogist's Handbook for New England Research, 5th ed. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012), 111. At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 974 D27g 2012.
