Editor, Rachel Townsend Cox. Committee on publication* Elizabeth F. Reed ... Published under authority of the Maine historical society.
This website has the entire collection online and searchable.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009701753
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"Find A Grave allows the public to search and add to an online database of cemetery records."
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There are 16 of Bowdoin's cemeteries included in this database.
by Jayne E Bickford (Author)
"This book is the result of thirty years of painstaking research and compilation using town records remaining after a fire in 1872, town reports, the 1790 and 1850 Census records, probate and land records, family Bibles, interviews with family members, DAR records, cemetery and church records, and especially the Vital Records of Bowdoin, Maine to the Year 1892, as well as many family genealogies and town history books. "
https://www.amazon.com/Early-Bowdoin-Maine-families-descendants/dp/0788420879
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https://www.archives.gov/research/genealogy/charts-forms
This website has useful forms, as online PDFs, for keeping census record categories organized, family trees, charts and more. GREAT Resources!
PDFs forms and charts to download and print.
by Charlene B. B. Bartlett & Jayne E. Bickford
"Over forty-five Bowdoin, Maine, cemeteries, plus burials in Potter Cemetery (once located in Bowdoin) are included."
https://www.amazon.com/Cemetery-Inscriptions-Revolutionary-Veterans-Bowdoin/dp/1556137710
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The Digital Commons through the Library at the University of Maine as some of the Town of Bowdoin Annual Reports viewable online.
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Angela Wheeler
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