Local History and Genealogy

Springvale Public Library's Genealogy collection specializes in Northern New England materials and is searchable through our library catalog.

The collection includes:

Maine vital records, town histories and family histories
Maine vital records, pre-1892 and 1892-1955 on microfilm
Sanford/Springvale vital records (cemetery records, town reports and directories)
Census records for York county on microfilm
Early Sanford/Springvale newspapers
Sanford/Springvale voter registrations from 1935
Historic photos of Sanford/Springvale
IGI for United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland and France
Franco-American and Acadian records
Mayflower families and early American immigrants
Town Registers
Springvale Advocate/Sanford Tribune Digital Newspaper Archive

*Materials in the Genealogy collection do not circulate and are not available for interlibrary loan*

Visit the Genealogy Room

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Family Search

The Community History Archive has digitized versions of our newspaper collections from 1899 to 1989. Click here to go to the searchable database.

Digitized Sanford Distaff Yearbooks

The Springvale Public Library, in collaboration with the Digital Maine Repository, has digitized and made the Sanford Distaff yearbooks available online going back as far as 1918. To view individual yearbooks, click on this link to go the Digital Maine Repository.