Resources: Links, Books, etc.

These are resources, both online and off, that I've found very useful. They are concentrated in the areas of my research: the Upper St.John River Valley in Maine and New Brunswick, Quebec, Acadia, the Canadian Maritime provinces, as well as Poland, South Carolina, and...

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Upper St.John River Valley (resources covering both sides)
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The Upper St.John River Valley
(resources that cover both sides of the St.John River)

Online Links:

• 1820 US Census of Matawascah (Madawaska) Parish transcribed, indexed, online
• 1830 US Census of the Madawaska Settlement (at that time part of Penobscot Co., Maine)
• 1831 Survey of the Madawaska Settlements by Deane and Kavanagh
• 1833 NB Special Census of Madawaska Settlement Covers South Bank of St.John too
• 1840 US Census of the Madawaska Settlement. Covers both sides of the river.
• Centre de documentation et d'études madawaskayennes from the University of Moncton, NB (in French)
• Norma Kennedy Plourde's Genealogy Site Lots of names from Upper St.John river valley, both sides
• Voici the Valley Cultureway Website of self-guided tours of the upper St.John valley, focusing on culture and history
• Steve Young Photography, great photos of the valley

Books:

• Genealogies of the Catholic Families of Maine, New Brunswick, and the Province of Quebec, 1999, by Diane P. LaVerdière Voskuhl and Robert K. Voskuhl, on compact disc.
• Genealogist's Handbook for Upper St.John Valley Research by George L. Findlen (Baltimore: Clearfield Co., 2003). Guide to all the kinds of records available for researching families from the upper St.John River Valley.
• Mariages de Frenchville, Maine (Sainte-Luce), 1843-1970, Léon Guimond, compiler (Sillery, Qué.: B. Pontbriand, 1987).
• A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783-1842 by Francis M. Carroll (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001).
• Imaginary Line: Life on an Unfinished Border, by Jacques Poitras (Goose Lane Editions, 2011)
• Repertoire des marriages au Nord-Ouest du Nouveau Brunswick, Canada, pour les comtés de Madawaska, Restigouche (partiellement) et Victoria / Marriages of Northwestern New Brunswick, Canada, for Madawaska, Restigouche (partially), and Victoria Counties, by Jean-Guy Poitras (Edmundston, NB, 2002).
• St-Basile le Grand Madawaska County, New Brunswick: Marriages 1791 to 1877. RP012 (Manchester, NH: American-Canadian Genealogical Society, 1995).
• "State of the Madawaska and Aroostook Settlements in 1831: Report of John G. Dean and Edward Kavanagh to Samuel E. Smith, Governor of the State of Maine," edited by W.O. Raymond, Collections of the New Brunswick Historical Society (St.John, N.B.) number 9 (1914), pp.344-386.

Maine (especially Aroostook County)

Online links:

• Aroostook County (Maine) Genealogy
• Aroostook County (Maine) Queries
• Online Aroostook County Cemetery Transcriptions Part of the Tombstone Transcription Project
• Aroostook County Cemeteries Transcriptions in the collections of the Maine Old Cemetery Association housed in the Maine State Library
• Franco-Maine: Maine's French Communities An excellent site on French-Canadian, Acadian and French heritage and influence in the State of Maine. Great maps showing percentages and distribution of French-speakers and French-ancestry people throughout the state and, for Aroostook and Androscoggin Counties, by township; old roadways to and within the region; recent articles on the topic; and much more. In English and French / En anglais et en français.
• Madawaska Historical Society
• The Franco-American Women's Institute / L'Institut des femmes franco-américaines
• Franco-American studies program, University of Maine
• Franco-American Oral History Archives (English and French)
• First Settlers of Aroostook from Linda Allen
  • 1837 Maine Census Aroostook valley
  • 1840 US Census Aroostook valley
• 1820 US Census of Matawascah (Madawaska) Parish transcribed, indexed, online
• 1830 US Census of the Madawaska Settlement (at that time part of Penobscot Co., Maine)
• 1831 Survey of the Madawaska Settlements by Deane and Kavanagh
• 1833 NB Special Census of Madawaska Settlement Covers South Bank of St.John too
• 1837 Special Census of the Aroostook River valley communities from the Aroostook Co. GenWeb site
• 1840 US Census, Aroostook County, Maine transcribed, indexed, online
• 1850 US Census, Aroostook County, Maine trancribed, indexed, online
• 1860 US Census, Northern Aroostook County, Maine: Annotated transcribed, indexed, online
• 1860 US Census of Aroostook, Maine Online images of the census returns for the entire county
• Partial transcription of 1860 US Census of Aroostook Maine, with name index Text files: read file "partial.txt" first
• US GenWeb Census Project: Maine Census
• Maine Census - USGenWeb Archives Census Project
• Census Online - ME
• Aroostook County Obituaries Indexed by township
• St. Bruno Church, Van Buren records online at the LDS's genealogy website, FamilySearch.org
  • Go to http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/search_IGI.asp&clear_form=true
    Choose the region (North America), country (US), and state (Maine). in the "batch number" box, at the bottom left hand corner, type in C503281. Hit search, and you'll get a list of all records from St.Bruno's church
• Ste Luce cemetery, map and database of names, from Ken Roy
• The French Connection by Robert Chenard Excellent source on French-Canadians, especially in Maine
  • Catholic parishes of Maine, with dates parishes were established, from Chenard's French Connection website
• The American-French Genealogical Society
• St.John Valley Times, weekly newspaper out of Madawaska
• Norma Kennedy Plourde's Genealogy Site Lots of names from Upper St.John river valley, both sides
  • On Norma's Site: Transcription of old St.Louis Church cemetery, Fort Kent
• Corrections to Dictionnaire Généalogique de Madawaska, Marriages in the upper St.John River Valley From Robert Chenard
• Ken Anderson's Aroostook County page
• Maine State Archives - Online Searchable Marriages (1892-1996)
• Maine State Archives - Online Searchable Death Index (1960-1996)
• Maine Migrations Project Database: Tracing people who came to and left the state
• Maine Memory Network: Online resources about the history of Maine.
• Canaan, Somerset County, Maine USGenWeb
• Bingham Page, Bingham, Somerset County, Maine
• Historic Maps of Maine online maps from 1930s of the US Geological Service; great detail though large
• Old Canada Road Historical Society: History of Maine's Upper Kennebec Valley
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland, Maine
  • Catholic parishes of Maine, with dates parishes were established, from Chenard's French Connection website
• Old photos (1935-1945) from the US National Archives
  • This link brings you to a search page. Type "Aroostook" or "Houlton" or "Van Buren" or a family name and you'll come up with what this collection includes on those topics. Excellent photos, very interesting!
• Home: The History of Maine Maine PBS Series on the state's history
• Genealinks:  Maine Genealogy
• Cyndi's List - U.S. - Maine
• Cyndi's List - U.S. - Maine - Localities
• "The Capitulation of Maine" during the War of 1812. Document in which the heads of the militia in Washington County (including parts now in Aroostook) capitulate to the British, under the condition that they had British "assurance that while we remain in this Situation and Consider ourselves under British Government until further Orders, we shall have the safe and full enjoyment of our Private property, and be protected in the exercise of our usual occupations." Part of a bigger War of 1812-1814 web site
• Upper St.John River Organization devoted to sustainability of upper St.John, Fish, St. Francis, Allagash and other sub-watersheds of the St.John

Books:

• The Allagash by Lew Dietz (Camden, Me.: Downeast Books, reprint of 1968 edition).
• History of Bridgewater Maineby Annie E. Rideout (Manchester, Maine: Falmouth Publishing House, 1953).
• Maine Place Names and the Peopling of Its Towns by Ava Harriett Chadbourne (Portland: The Bond Wheelright Company, 1955).
• Maine: A History by Harrie B. Coe (NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc, 1928).
• Mother's Painful Secret: From Howling Wilderness to the Halls of Congress by Anne Lehman. (The book starts in Houlton, Maine circa 1818 and continues with the first four generations of the Aroostook County Dillen/Dilling Family.)

New Brunswick

• New Brunswick Provincial Archives on-line searchable (births, marriages, deaths)
• New Brunswick Land Grantbook Database (searchable)
• New Brunswick GenWeb Project
• History of New Brunswick site
• Irene Doyle's New Brunswick Genealogy Site
• Norma Kennedy Plourde's Genealogy Site Lots of names from St.John valley and western NB
• 1822 Grain Bounty for York County List of farmers to whom the province paid grain bounties in 1818-1822 in the county that included the Upper St.John River valley; transcribed by Norm DeMerchant
• Assumption Parish, Grand Falls, early birth, death, marriage records online!
• Grand Falls Genealogy Club / Club de Généalogie de Grand-Sault Cemetery and census transcriptions and other items of interest related to Grand Falls
• Royal West-India Rangers page by Mori Hillman. Information on RWIR veterans who settled in New Brunswick; lots of personal information on each person, from three different archival sources!
• Madawaska County GenWeb project
• Victoria County GenWeb project
• Carleton County GenWeb Project (Madawaska and Victoria Counties used to be part of Carleton County)
• New Brunswick Census Legislation, 1824 - 1861 by Craig Walsh
• 1820 US Census of Matawascah (Madawaska) Parish transcribed, indexed, online
• 1830 US Census of the Madawaska Settlement transcribed, indexed, online (covers communities in what was then York Co., NB)
• 1831 Survey of the Madawaska Settlement, North Bank of the St.John River
• 1833 New Brunswick Special Census of Madawaska Settlement
• 1840 US Census of the Madawaska Settlement transcribed, indexed, online (covers communities in what was then Carleton Co.,NB)
• Ruby M Cusack: New Brunswick Genealogy.
• Craig Walsh's History of New Brunswick pages
• Wallace Hale's web site: Some NB families
• The Studholme Report on settlers on the lower St.John River, 1783; includes a number of French families in Sunbury Township, above Ste-Anne's, as well as other settlers who subsequently moved into what is today Victoria, Madawaska, and Aroostook counties
• NB Gen Links - Researching NB
• New Brunswick's Past - Main Menu
• William Flowers' website on Restigouche County, New Brunswick; Bonaventure County, Quebec; and other adjacent areas on the Bay of Chaleur
• Land Records for Carleton County Online maps showing early settlers

Books, articles, etc.

• Maliseet & Micmac Vital Statistics from New Brunswick Church Records (Fredericton: The Mi'kmaq-Maliseet Institute, 1998).
• "La République du Madawaska et l’Acadie: La construction identitaire d’une région néo-brunswickoise au XXe siècle," by Jean-Paul Couturier, in Revue d'Histoire de l'Amérique Française, vol. 56, no. 2, automne 2002, pp.153-184.
• "A Monograph of the Evolution of the Boundaries of the Province of New Brunswick," by William F. Ganong, in Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, second series, Volume VII (London, 1901), section II, pp.139-449.
• William Baird, Seventy years of New Brunswick life : autobiographical sketches (St.John: Geo.E.Day, 1890).
• W. Austin Squires. The 104th Regiment of Foot (the New Brunswick Regiment) 1803-1817 (Fredericton: Brunswick Press, 1962).
• William F. Ganong, A monograph of the place-nomenclature of the Province of New Brunswick (Ottawa, Ontario: J. Durie, 1896).
• Peter Thomas, Lost Land of Moses: The Age of Discovery on New Brunswick's Salmon Rivers. (Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions, 2001).
• Recensement 1851 Census, Comté de Victoria (Incluant l'actuel comté de Madawaska), Province de Nouveau-Brunswick / Victoria County (Including the actual Madawaska County), Province of New Brunswick by Jean-Guy Poitras (Edmundston, 1998).
• Alan Rayburn, Geographical Names of New Brunswick, Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names. Ottawa, 1975.
• Recensement 1861 Census, Comté de Victoria (Incluant l'actuel comté de Madawaska), Province de Nouveau-Brunswick / Victoria County (Including the actual Madawaska County), Province of New Brunswick by Jean-Guy Poitras (Edmundston, 1998).

Families: Genealogies and family sites of families in the Upper St.John River Valley

• Joseph and Théogenie Theriault Acadian Family, one of the early families of St- Jacques, New Brunswick and later, St-Hilaire
• Scott Michaud's Family Genealogy Pages Info on Michaud, Daigle and other northern Aroostook names, plus great links and articles on Acadians and Franco-Americans
• Philip Long (Lang), first known ancestor to the considerable Long-Lang families of Madawaska County, New Brunswick, Canada, website of Benoît Long
• Page Family Website of Raymond A. Page
• Ken Roy's * Roy and Boucher Family & Nadeau and Soucy Family * website
• John Nelson's Levesques of St André genealogy site
  

Maps

• Historic Maps of Maine online maps from 1930s of the US Geological Service; great detail though large
• State of Maine Geographic Information Systems
• Land Records for Carleton Co., New Brunswick, Canada Online maps showing size, ownership and value of land, by township, mid-1800s.
• Maps from New Brunswick GenWeb
• Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789 from the US Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
• Maps from the Bibliothèque Nationale du Québec
• Maps from Franco-Maine showing distribution of French-speakers and people of French ancestry in Maine
• Maps from 1895 Atlas of Maine counties at the website of Pam Rietsch
• The David Rumsey Map Collection An absolutely outstanding online collection of old maps, includes ability to zoom in to the smallest detail of every one of the thousands of old maps in the collection. A must see!
• Internet Map Catalogue: Old Maps
• National Atlas of Canada online
• National Atlas of the US online

First Nations / Native Peoples (Micmac and Maliseet/Wulustukieg)

Online links:

• Mi'kmaq-Maliseet Institute at the University of New Brunswick
• Online exhibit of old photos of Maliseet from the Province of New Brunswick Heritage
• Online photos of Micmac and Maliseet cultural objects from the Museum of Civilization in Hull
• Maliseet and Mikmaq Vital Statistics from New Brunswick Church Records Online database containing records of the baptisms, marriages, and deaths of Maliseet and Micmac people living in New Brunswick.
• Information on the Malecite (Maliseet) language
• Lots of links on Maliseet culture and history
• Tales from the Malecite from the Maine Folklife Center
• The Aroostook Band of Micmacs
• The Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians
• Union of New Brunswick Indians
• The Wulustuk Grand Council (click on "Wulustuk in left frame)
• St.John River Valley Tribal Council
• The Indians of Madawaska, a history of the Malecites and their interaction with Europeans, from the Acadian Genealogy Home Page

Books:

• The History of Maliseets and Micmacs in Aroostook County, by James Wherry (Houlton: Assoc. of Aroostook Indians, June 1979).
• Maliseet & Micmac Vital Statistics from New Brunswick Church Records (Fredericton: The Mi'kmaq-Maliseet Institute, 1998)
• The Wabanaki: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Books, Articles, Documents about Maliseet, Micmac, Passamoquoddy, Penobscot Indians in Maine Annotated by Native Americans, edited by Eunice Nelson (Cambridge, Mass.: American Friends Service Committee, 1982).

Québec Genealogy (includes sites on New France and roots in France)

• FrancoGene (formerly Denis Beauregard's Genealogy Page) Excellent source for info on Franco-American and French-Canadian Genealogy
• Le Centre de généalogie francophone d'Amérique
• Les Dépouillements gratuits sur Internet (BMS ou autres dépouillements généalogiques) (free lookups, France: French)
• New France: Genealogy for descendants of the French Colonists in North America by Michel Robert (lots of interesting info on people in Québec from 1534-1899)
• Acadian and French Canadian Ancestral Home
• Project GenWeb de Québec/Quebec GenWeb Project, in French and English
• Fichier Origine: First Settlers of Quebec
• Welcome to the PRDH web site Program of Research in Demographic History of Quebec: Massive databases of marriages, births/baptisms, etc. in Quebec from early days of French settlement
• Huguenots database from Michel Barbeau. Huguenots were French Protestants who usually had to hide their religious background to come to New France
• The Habitant's Home Page includes ascendancy to French kings and Charlemagne (see section on Baillon)
• Bas-du-Fleuve, Québec Genealogy of lower St. Lawrence River communities
• Kamouraska History, genealogies, baptisms, marriages, burials of Kamouraska, Québec (home of many of the migrants who moved to the upper St.John River valley) (in French)
• Quebec and Eastern Townships Genealogy Research page, includes a searchable database of the index to protestant church records in Quebec (including Gaspé).
• Gaspé History
• Bonaventure and Gaspé county discussion group
• Gaspé history, links and documents
• William Flowers' website on Bonaventure County, Quebec; Restigouche County, New Brunswick and other adjacent areas on the Bay of Chaleur
• Transcribed 1666 Census of Québec from Hugh Armstrong
• Visite au Perche Some photographs of the Gagnonnière, the original home in France of the three Gagnon brothers who came to Quebec in 1630s, as well as their church in nearby La Ventrouze in the province of Perche.

Acadia (now Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island)

• Acadian Archives at the University of Maine at Fort Kent
• Les Acadiens Censuses, passenger lists, etc. of Acadians
• The Isaie and Scholastic Martin Acadian Homestead: the oldest Active Acadian-built home in Madawaska, open for tours (check website)
• Acadian Genealogy Homepage :
  • Master index to the Acadian Genealogy Homepage web site
  • Complete list of churches/parishes, by location, where early Acadian records have been found in church registry.
  • Acadian place names and what they're called today
  • Acadian censuses from 1671 to 1820, online
• Acadian and French Canadian Ancestral Home
• ACADIAN GenWeb Site
• The registers of St.Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755, searchable online database from Public Archives of Nova Scotia
• FrancoGene (formerly Denis Beauregard's Genealogy Page) Excellent source for info on Franco-American and French-Canadian Genealogy, see section on Acadia
• The Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755 from the Public Archives of the Province of Nova Scotia
• 1752 Census for Ile Saint Jean, Acadia (now Prince Edward Island)- Index
• Nova Scotia Census Records Online (includes Acadians)

Canada (general) genealogy

• Canada GenWeb Project
• National Archives of Canada
• Canadian Genealogy Centre - Centre canadien de généalogie en ligne
• Alberta Family Histories Society (AFHS) Genealogical Projects Registry Great pages on each of the provinces and territories
• Our Roots / Nos Racines Canada's Local History Online
• 1901 census online: Online ongoing transcription project
• InGeneas searchable Canadian genealogy databases
• Hugh Armstrong's Genealogy Site
• The Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
• The King's Men: Loyalist Units in New York and North America

Nova Scotia

• Nova Scotia GenWeb Project
• History of the Scots in New Scotland (Nova Scotia)
• Nova Scotia Census Records Online (includes Acadians)

Prince Edward Island

• The Island Register - P.E.I. (Prince Edward Island) Genealogy
  • The Island Register's Transcription of the Heads of Households 1798 P.E.I. Census
• PEGenWeb Page
• Prince Edward Island Surname List
• Irish-born in PEI: Searchable database
• The P.E.I. Genealogical Society
• PEI Census 1841-1891-1901 Searchable
• 1752 Census for Ile Saint Jean, Acadia (now Prince Edward Island)- Index

General

• GeneWeb: A dynamic on-the-fly database (operates as a Unix daemon), freeware, very powerful though basic
• Geneanet: a website where you can put your GeneWeb data online
• Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
• RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project
• Javascript Perpetual Calendar
• Census Microfilm Expeditors Get your own copy of US census microfilm, reasonably priced
• Anglicized French names
• Surname distribution in the US Based on US census data, online searchable database giving the distribution of surnames by state from 1850 to 1990
• Rootsweb's US Social Security Death Index Interactive Search
• The Genealogy Home Page
• Hierarchy of the Catholic Church. History of Bishops and Dioceses globally, with dates personal biographies.
• Dziennik Chicagoski Polish language newspaper in Chicago: Searchable obituaries
• Sweden Genealogy
• South Carolina GenWeb
• Cumbria Surnames - Family History, Genealogy, Cumbria England
• Illinois Statewide Marriage Index
• Mammie's Polish Genealogy Links
• CensusLinks
• GenForum
• Gedcom Viewer
• RootsMagic Genealogy Software (formerly Family Origins)
• Software Lists Hosted by RootsWeb
• The USGenWeb Project - Home Page
• US GenWeb Census Project Home Page
• US GenWeb Archives Census Project
• DistantCousin.com - The Comprehensive Genealogy Site
• THE COMPASS: Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild

AND other stuff of interest

• Ethnologue: Languages of the World
• Native Languages of the Americas
• The Rosetta Project -- Building an archive of 1,000 languages
• MEDIA-Link: Online Newspapers, radio, tv from around the world!
• Office of the High Representative The international organization that is running Bosnia
• International War and Peace Report Great coverage of the situation in global crisis spots, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Balkans, etc.
• International Crisis Group Reports on crisis areas around the world
• Windows Annoyances
• Windows Tips (click on Software Guides)
• Switchboard: Find a Person (US version of Canada411)
• Canada411 (Canadian version of Switchboard)
• Vicinity Corporation's MapBlast!
• USPS City State / ZIP Code Associations
• The United States Naval Observatory
• Junkbusters Home Page Are you sick of junk-mail, junk phone calls, junk e-mail? Check out this site
• Shields UP! -- Internet Connection Security Analysis