Pages Updated – May 2024

Posted on June 1, 2024 by Don Taylor

Library – People – Genealogy

Family Files Folders

Added links to the SHS Family File Folders Collection

Library – Surname Files

Added: R — Roberts

Research

Books Available Online

Maine Historical Society – Collections and Proceedings 

Finding Aids

Coast Watch

I updated the Coast Watch page and the table to 27 April 2024 data.

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Pages Updated – April 2024

Posted on May 1, 2024 by Don Taylor

About Page

ByLaws

A copy of our current (2024) bylaws are available here.

Education

Early Scarborough High Schools

Added Page: Index to “A High School Comes to Scarborough” by Linda Snow McLoon.

Grammar Schools

Bessey School – Grade 6 – [1965]

Genealogy – Linwood Dyer Collection

Added: Stone Genealogy Folder (3 Parts)

Library – People – Surname Files

Added: – Auger

Library – Videos

Added:

Prominent Diseases in the 17th, 18th, & 19th Century Scarborough, Maine – By Dr. Stephen Spalding

Links

Added: Historical Societies – Cape Elizabeth Historical Society

To the Internet Archive, I added “Saco, Maine, Engine Company No. 2, logbook 1839-1842” which includes 1841 Bylaws, Subscribers, & Meeting Minutes from 1839 to 1845.

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Bessey School – Grade 6 – [1965]

Posted on April 28, 2024 by Don Taylor
Back Row: Peter Libby – Fred Merry – Norman Russell – David Fancy – Everett Quimby – Russ Hagis – David Moulton John Pence – Gary Balzano – Walter Jordan – John Cott.
Middle Row: Midge Link – Dee Dee Briggs – Janet Capron – _???_ – Lib Greenleaf – Darlene Kimball –_???_ – Kathleen Friel – Sharon Cunningham – Ann LeGacy.
Front Row: Mike Milliken – Kathie Hodgdon – _???_ – Linda Robinson – Jo Coulthard – _???_ – Ronnie Howes.
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Looking at the Past for Scarborough’s Land Conservation

Posted on April 20, 2024 by Linda Snow-McLoon

SHS/SPL Program
May 5, 2024

The Scarborough Historical Society and Scarborough Public Library are offering a program to be held at the library on Sunday, May 5, beginning at 2:00pm. The program, Looking at the Past for Scarborough’s Land Conservation, will be presented by Andrew J. Mackie, Executive Director of the Scarborough Land Trust.

Andrew Mackie will discuss a mapping project recently completed by the Land Trust that looks at development changes in the town since 1970. He will use this data to support a bold conservation plan moving forward. He will include recently completed acquisitions by the Scarborough Land Trust and some that are in progress. He will also discuss the Town Council’s resolution regarding 30×30 and the current Open Space plan for Scarborough. 

The next program will be held on Sunday, June 2 when Neil Piper, an agricultural historian and Senior Appraiser for Farm Credit of Maine, will discuss Farming in Maine at the time of Statehood.         

Seating is limited, so please reserve a seat at www.scarboroughlibrary.org/SHS
For more information, call the library at 396-6279.

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Genealogy Research – Family Files

Posted on April 9, 2024 by Don Taylor

By Don Taylor, Historian

The Scarborough Historical Society has many resources for genealogy researchers.

Resources include SHS Family Files, Digital Collection, Bill Tolman Memorial Database, Obituaries, Cemetery Records, Genealogies, Vital Records, and the Linwood Dyer Genealogy Collection.

My first recommendation for researchers is to review the material in our SHS Family Files.

The SHS Family Files Collection comprises 647[i] file folders (about 15 linear feet) with information on various surnames and several key individuals. Besides specific details, the file folders often include pointers to other records, such as Vital Records. Several file folders have been digitized and are available electronically through our Surname Files Webpage.  Contact the Society via email (ScarboroughHist@gmail.com) for the availability of the files not included on the Surname Files Webpage {Library | People | Surname Files}.

(Use the searchbox below to narrow your view to specific surnames[ii].)

Family File Folders.

Surname Files

Next time, I’ll briefly examine the Digital Collection, what is available, and how you can access that information.

Endnotes

  1. [i]  The number of folders is subject to change. There were 647 Folders on 6 April 2024. 
  2. [ii] Our thanks to Linda Broadwater & Betty McKown for their indexing these folders. 
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