Welcome to Maine Genealogy Trails A part of the Genealogy Trails History Group Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy Hello and welcome to the Genealogy Trails website for Maine. My name is Melody Beery and I'm proud to be your state coordinater. We welcome your feedback and comments, and of course, your data contributions. If you have data that you would like to have posted on this website, please contact me. Submit Cemetery Data Submit Obituary Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as it can be. If you are interested in joining Genealogy Trails, view our Volunteer Page for further information and then contact Kim. (Enough knowledge to make a basic webpage and a desire to transcribe data is required) We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for folks. All data we come across will be added to this site. We thank you for visiting and hope you'll come back again to view the updates we make to this site. If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to any or all of our mailing lists Maine is covered under our "Northeast-Coastal" states mailing list. Maine was at one time part of Massachusetts. It became its own state on March 15th, 1820, becoming the 23rd state admitted to the United States of America, although its northern borders were not finalized until 1842. Information about the Seal State Facts State Flower:  White pine cone & tassel State Bird: Chickadee State Tree:  Eastern White Pine Maine is called the Pine Tree State State Motto:  Dirigo (I direct) State Capitol: Augusta Population of Maine in 2000: 1,274,923 Counties: 16 Land Area: 33,215 square miles Length of Coastline: 3,500 miles Lakes and Ponds: 6,000 Forest: 17 million acres Persons per Square Mile: 41.3 Largest City: Portland State Capitol: Augusta Statehood: Became the 23rd State on March 15, 1820   ONLINE DATA Maine's Seal Post Offices Government Military Towns of Lee and Springfield Request for Military Division 1838 Military Reservations, National Cemeteries and Military Parks Soldiers of the Great War Death Records Death Notices Biographies Census Obituaries Events Website Updates History Poetry   GAR   COFFIN JOURNAL   Holidays Early Land Records Newspaper Articles   PROUDLY ANNOUNCING CARD RECORDS OF HEADSTONES PROVIDED FOR UNION CIVIL WAR VETERANS 1879-1903 A group project of GenealogyTrails completed in 2012. Hundreds of names of Union Veterans are listed on this site which lists the Name, Rank, Company, Regiment, place of burial, including the cemetery's name, and the city or town, county and state which it is located; grave number, if any; date of death; name of contractor who supplied the headstone and the date of the contract under which the stone was provided. Follow this link to view the cards: Headstones for Union Civil War Veterans   COUNTIES ANDROSCOGGIN AROOSTOOK CUMBERLAND FRANKLIN HANCOCK KENNEBEC KNOX LINCOLN OXFORD PENOBSCOT PISCATAQUIS SAGADAHOC SOMERSET WALDO WASHINGTON YORK Maine borders the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, New Hampshire to the southwest, the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Visitors since June 5, 2006 Visit our National Site Copyright © Genealogy Trails All Rights Reserved with Full Rights Reserved for Original Contributor Copyright includes all contents of this site. It may not be quoted or retransmitted without a full citation to the author, and may not be put into print -- in whole or part -- without the individual author's express permission. Submitters retain all copyright, along with the hosts.