Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire

Oceanport, NJ: Digital Editions, 2005. This new edition, published on a USB Flash Drive (credit card style), contains three text files in DOC format (8.5 Mb), for MAC and PC and most current word processing programs. Originally published in five parts from 1928 to 1939, this Digital Edition (1007 pages) has been reformatted and repaginated to improve readability (among other things, eliminating the small print of the original).

It is THE standard reference for genealogists who had ancestors in Northern New England (Maine and New Hampshire) in or before 1699. Its scope, however, is much larger than its title would suggest, for it contains much information about people who came from, or removed to, other colonies in New England (Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut), New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and points south. Additionally, it contains information about several dozen, perhaps hundreds of women and children who were captured by raiding Indians and transported to Canada, where many remained to marry and raise families. Though the cut-off date is 1699, the compilers carried the genealogies of many, if not most settlers well into the Eighteenth Century.

Most researchers will be interested primarily in the information provided for their own ancestors. Nevertheless, the Digital Editions editor recommends perusing the work for the insights it affords about life in primitive New England.

Enhancements: Quick links at the head of the text file to transport you instantaneously to the approximate location (within five to seven pages) of the surname you're looking for. Format enhancements improve readability. Nearly twenty pages of additions and corrections have been integrated with the text file. "Topography and Abbreviations" and "Lists" have been published in separate files so that they can be opened concurrently with the main "Dictionary" file.