Indexes & Search Tools
For researchers who cannot visit our facility in person, we are pleased to be able to make available online versions of several of our unique 3 x 5" index card files and typed indexes. These indexes represent many years worth of effort by our volunteers and staff to increase the ease of conducting research.
- Western Maine Births
- Western Maine Deaths
- Western Maine Marriages
- Bethel Newspaper Index
- Oxford Democrat Index
Tips for Searching the Indexes
Text has been extracted from these cards using optical character recognition (OCR), to make them keyword searchable. After opening a stack of cards, press Ctrl+F (Command+F on a Mac) on your keyboard to open a keyword search box and easily jump to relavent records.
Please note that the OCR process is not perfectly accurate and keyword searches may miss a few results. If you do not find what you are looking for by keyword search, you should still try searching by scrolling to the correct place.