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From: Bud Dorr <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: Place Names...Yet Again
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 20:27:22 -0500


I think I will do what Lee stated - put Massachusetts with Maine in parens. You
are probably correct in discussing older BMD records for individual towns, but a
lot of the land petition records are in Massachusetts, because that's where the
first petitioners were from and they filed them there. And you are correct
regarding the county records as well. They are at the county seat of the county
where the record was originally established. I have some cleaning up to do, too.

Bud Dorr

wrote:
>
> 49 other states. What have more experienced users done?"
> I don't know if I'm that much more experienced, but I have actually
> found that most pre-1820 records for Maine are stored in Maine. There just
> wasn't that much state-based record-keeping, it was town- or occasionally
> county-based, so the records just stayed where they were, in York, Kittery,
> or wherever. You do find Maine Revolutionary service in the Massachusetts
> set of soldiers & sailors of the Revolution, but there's a Maine volume as
> well. County court records, as far as I know, are with the county that they
> were created in even if the locality was later made part of another county -
> so you find records of some Sagadahoc County towns in Lincoln County,
> Cumberland County towns in York County, and so on. I usually try to remember
> to put either "Lincoln County, now Sagadahoc" or "Sagadahoc, then Lincoln
> County" - and I really should standardize that! Since most of my ancestors
> came to Maine by 1790 and stayed there, I don't know as much about the other
> 49 states, so maybe someone else has other ideas.
> Nikki Strandskov
> Minneapolis, MN
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