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Genealogy : Free online sources

PPL’s general Genealogy page:
https://www.portlandlibrary.com/topics/genealogy/

Heritage Quest access:
With your Portland Public Library Card barcode number, you may access Heritage Quest from wherever you are: https://www.heritagequestonline.com/barcode?aid=53971

AND….
Here are some FREE Genealogy websites for your home research
:

Geni : Family Tree & Family History:
https://www.geni.com/

The U.S. Gen Web Project:
http://www.usgenweb.org/

Family Tree Magazine’s Best Free Genealogy Websites:
https://www.familytreemagazine.com/premium/best-free-genealogy-websites/

Family History Forms:
https://www.mymcpl.org/genealogy/resources/family-history-forms

Family Search’s Maine page
:
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Maine,_United_States_Genealogy

Cyndi’s List has been a trusted genealogy research site for more than 20 years. Cyndi’s List is free for everyone to use and it is meant to be your starting point when researching online.
https://cyndislist.com/categories/

U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014:
https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/3693/

The Boston Public Library Obituary Database indexes obituaries appearing in the Boston Evening Transcript (BET), Boston Globe (BG), and the Boston Herald/Herald American (BH) from 1932–1941 and 1953–2010.
https://obits.bpl.org/