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John Martin: Expert Observer - Martin-Raynes-Stevens Family Trees

"Martin-Raynes Family  Raynes-Stevens Family  Mt. Hope Cemetery, Bangor G. Fred and Annie Martin Snow X"

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Lincoln, Maine - The Stanislaus Family

"… on the Stanislaus Family Why did the Stanislaus family live in Lincoln? I think that the Stanislaus family chose to live in Lincoln in the 1920s…"

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Landeen Family History

"Landeen Family History Landeen Family, New Sweden, ca. 1890New Sweden Historical Society My great grandmother Annie came from Sweden when she…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family

""Fly Rod" CrosbyMaine State Museum If one family member died of consumption, usually more family members caught it."

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Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"… the area, the proprietors offered lots to any family showing that they could successfully homestead on these lands in the northern area of the…"

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - RESOURCES

"Web. (Google Books) 4 Jan 2010. (N) McArthur Family Papers (c.1865-c.1944). (DC.34) McArthur Library Special Collections."

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Skowhegan Community History - About the Project

"Lee Granville, president of the History House, then invited a small group of teachers to the History House for an introduction to their collections…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… area is a wealth of architectural, economic and family history revealed in part by the stories connected to the sites on this website."

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Skowhegan Community History - Early Settlement in Skowhegan

"Joesph and his family came by boat up the Kennebec River. Then they got to a spot where it was too shallow to go on by boat, so they started to cut a…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Savage Family of Mount Desert

"This is a record of one of these earliest white pioneer clans, the Savage family, who settled on Bingham Heirs’s Lot #67 in a hamlet they called…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Bryants and Rockefellers: Two Seal Harbor Families

"Once he and his family had moved off of Isleford in 1923 and settled into Seal Harbor, Donald worked as a mechanic at a small garage."

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Biddeford's Movers & Shakers

"… here are five people famed in Biddeford's history, from the time of the American Revolution to recent history -- giving just a taste of the city's…"

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Skowhegan Community History - Farming in the Skowhegan Area

"Skowhegan GrangeSkowhegan History House Maine lost many of its people at the turn of the century and there were 5,000 fewer farms in Maine in 1900…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 4 of 4

"We are connected by our past, and will share the future as families, neighbors and friends. Spring Brook Farm by Anne Tarbox X"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"… Elm Farms Dairy on Ledge Road; The O' Donnell family ran North Yarmouth Dairy in the 1930s and 1940s, and the Weston and Sherman Grover families…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"… Yarmouth Historical Society Dolloff Family Era: 1876 – 1970 Abbie and Oscar Dolloff raised a family of six daughters and one son at Skyline Farm…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"On its books in 1764, North Yarmouth listed 188 families living in 154 houses, for a total of 1,097 inhabitants, including 18 African Americans."

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Skowhegan History House

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Westport Island History Committee

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Lawrence Packing Co., North Lubec, 1936Lubec Memorial Library Entire families, including children, found work processing sardines."

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Washburn-Norlands Living History Center

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"… $10 a week, and they usually boarded with a local family. Today, MSAD 58 students from kindergarten to eighth grade attend the Strong Elementary…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… who came to found a home for themselves and their families were generally without pecuniary means. Mere hangers-on were not tolerated nor did they…"