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Online Resources

• 1785-1950 Maine Newspaper Archives (1785–1950), GenealogyBank
• 1861-2008 Maine Newspapers, 1861-2008 at MyHeritage ($)
• Maine Online Historical Newspapers
• Index of Names in TheOldenTimes.com Historic Newspapers
• Newspaper Archive ($)
• Maine Newspapers Online
• World Vital Records Newspaper Archive Collection in Maine ($)
• Maine Online Historical Newspapers
• Maine Newspapers
• 1800s-1999 U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999 at Ancestry - index ($)

History

Newspapers have been published in Portland, Maine, since 1785. Many cities and towns first published newspapers in the 1820s or 1830s. Other towns began publishing in the 1870s. Some indexes to marriage notices and obituaries in newspapers have been published.

Resources for Maine Newspapers

Libraries and Archives

The University of Maine's Fogler Library has the state's largest newspaper collection and indexes to several papers. The Portland Public Library has indexes to 16 Portland newspapers for 1785 to 1845. The Maine Historical Society also has indexes to several papers.

The Family History Library has very few Maine newspapers but does have:

• Young, David C. Young. Vital Records from Maine Newspapers, 1785-1820. Two Volumes. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1993. (Family History Library book 974.1 V2y). This is an alphabetical list of notices of births and marriages; death notices which include cause of death; miscellaneous notices of runaways and thieves.

Newspaper Directory

The <a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/titles">U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present</a> is a national directory from the Library of Congress of over 140,000 newspaper titles. The directory provides a list of libraries from around the country that have the newspapers in their collections.

Digital Issues Online

Maine Newspaper Archive $ (GenealogyBank $) Twenty-two early Maine 18th and 19th century newspapers, 1785-1898 online. Indexes (free); digital images ($). These newspapers are from Augusta, Bangor, Belfast, Brunswick, Castine, Eastport, Falmouth, Hallowell, Kennebunk, Portland, Saco and Wiscasset.

Websites

• University of Maine Special Collections
• Portland Public Library
• Info Maine
• http://bit.ly/h5Hnp4 $ Maine Newspaper Archives - GenealogyBank
  

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