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*