Listed record inventories
Selected holdings and indexes for York County, checked against the repository descriptions linked below. Date spans may contain gaps; an index is not a complete set of original records.
Newspapers
- Biddeford Daily Standard (Biddeford, Me.)1894-1???
- Biddeford Townsman (Biddeford [Me.])1850-18??
- Biddeford Weekly Journal (Biddeford, Me.)1888-1930
- Columbian Star (Alfred, Me.)1824-1825
- Comic Repository (Saco, Me.)1833-18??
- Daily Evening Star (Biddeford [Me.])1876-1877
- Daily Evening Times (Biddeford [Me.])1872-187?
- Daily Evening Times (Biddeford, Me.)1877-1895
- Daily Standard (Biddeford, Me.)1888-1894
- Eastern Journal and Mercantile Advertiser (Biddeford, Me.)1852-1852
- Eastern Star (Biddeford, Me.)1877-1920
- Freeman's Friend (Saco, Maine.)1805-1810
- Freeman's Friend (Saco, Me.)1805-1810
- High Tide (Kennebunkport, Me.)1936-19??
- Hollandville Times (Limerick [Me.])1876-187?
- Kennebunk Enterprise (Kennebunk, Me.)1904-1924
- Kennebunk Gazette (Kennebunk [Me.])1841-1842
- Kennebunk Gazette (Kennebunk, Me.)1805-1805
- Kennebunk Gazette (Kennebunk, Me.)1821-1831
- Kennebunk Gazette, and Maine Palladium ([Kennebunk, Me.])1831-1841
- Kennebunk Star (Kennebunk, Me.)1921-1965
- Kennebunkport Items (Kennebunkport, Me.)1917-19??
- La Justice (Biddeford, Me.)1896-1907
- La Justice De Biddeford (Biddeford, Me.)1907-195?
- La Justice De Sanford (Sanford, Me.)1925-19??
- Le Figaro : Journal Humoristique, Littéraire Et Sociale (Biddeford, Me.)1895-18??
- Life (South Berwick, Me.)1888-189?
- Maine Palladium (Saco [Me.])1826-1830
- Maine Recorder (Limington, Me.)1832-1835
- Mercantile Advertiser (Saco [Me.])1849-1852
- Morning Star (Limerick, Me.)1826-1904
- National Investigator (Kennebunk, Me.)1884-1???
- National Republican (Saco, Me.)1832-1834
- Ogunquit and Kennebunkport Bulletin (Ogunquit, Me.)1918-1918
- Ogunquit Bulletin (Ogunquit, Me.)1918-1918
- Old Orchard Beach Sea-Side Reporter (Old Orchard Beach, Me.)1880-1???
- Old Orchard Herald ([Old Orchard, Me.])1899-????
- Old Orchard Sea Shell (Old Orchard, Me.)1881-1897
- Old Orchard Summer Rambler (Old Orchard Beach, Me.)1883-1???
- Ossipee Valley Herald (Limerick, Me.)1907-1916
- Ossipee Valley News (Limerick, Me.)1880-18??
- Portsmouth Washingtonian (Portsmouth [N.H.])1841-1843
- Saco Courier (Saco, Me.)1868-18??
- Sanford Budget (Sanford, Me.)1921-19??
- Sanford Siftings (Sanford, Me.)1888-1889
- Sanford Tribune (Sanford, Me.)1950-1977
- Sanford Tribune and Advocate (Sanford, Me.)1923-1950
- Sanford Weekly Ledger (Sanford, Me.)1892-1895
- Sanford Weekly Tribune (Sanford, Me.)1895-1899
- So. Berwick Enterprise (South Berwick, Me.)1891-1???
- South Berwick Chronicle (South Berwick, Me.)1925-1966
- South-Berwick Republican (South Berwick [Me.])1835-18??
- Springvale Reporter (Springvale, Me.)1876-1880
- Surf Echoes and the Old Orchard Mirror (Old Orchard, Me.)1914-19??
- The Academy Quill (South Berwick, Me.)1934-????
- The Alfred Advocate (Portland, Me.)1915-1916
- The Annals of the Times (Kennebunk, Me.)1803-1805
- The Artful Dodger (Saco, Me.)1893-1893
- The Barker (Saco, Me.)1874-18??
- The Bauneg-Beg Monitor (Bauneg-Beg, York County, Me.)1881-1???
- The Biddeford Journal (Biddeford, Me.)1882-1888
- The Biddeford Record (Biddeford, Me.)1898-19??
- The Cornucopia (South Berwick, Me.)1871-1871
- The Daily Breeze (Biddeford, Me.)1890-1890
- The Daily Chronicle (Biddeford, Me.)1876-1876
- The Daily Times (Biddeford, Me.)1868-18??
- The Daily Times (Biddeford, Me.)1876-1877
- The Eagle of Maine (Kennebunk, Me.)1802-1802
- The Eastern Herald (Biddeford, Me.)1860-186?
- The Eastern Journal (Biddeford, Me.)1849-1852
- The Eastern Journal (Biddeford, Me.)1852-1854
- The Evening Post (Biddeford, Me.)1878-1???
- The Evening Record (Biddeford [Me.])1895-1898
- The Farmer's Friend, and Laboring-Man's Advocate (Kennebunk Me.)1831-18??
- The Go-Ahead (Biddeford, Me.)1873-18??
- The Grindstone (Saco, Me.)1887-18??
- The Hilltop Breeze ([South Berwick, Me.])1922-19??
- The Independent (Salmon Falls [Rollinsford], N.H.)1894-1922
- The Joker (Kennebunk, Me.)1885-1???
- The Kennebunker (Kennebunk, Me.)1895-1???
- The Kittery Press (Kittery, Me.)1935-196?
- The Lobster Pot (Kennebunkport [Me.])1896-????
- The Maine Democrat (Saco, Me.)1829-1878
- The Observer (Kennebunk, Me.)1893-1???
- The Old Orchard Mirror (Old Orchard, Me.)1900-19??
- The Old York Courant and Transcript (York, Me.)1901-1902
- The Old York Transcript (York Village, Me.)1922-194?
- The Old York Transcript (York, Me.)1899-1901
- The Old York Transcript and the York Courant (York Corner, Me.)1903-19??
- The Open Sea (Kennebunk, Me.)1892-????
- The People's Defender (Biddeford, Me.)1880-1880
- The Ramrod (Wells, Me.)1852-18??
- The Register (Cornish, Me.)1893-1893
- The Sanford Herald (Sanford, Me.)1884-????
- The Sanford News (Sanford, Me.)1880-1881
- The Sanford Tribune (Sanford, Me.)1899-1923
- The Sanford Weekly News (Sanford, Me.)1881-1???
- The Seaside Echo (Kennebunk, Me.)1901-19??
- The Snow-Flake (Biddeford, Me.)1873-1???
- The Springvale Advocate (Springvale, Me.)1882-1923
- The Sun (Saco Me.)1883-1???
- The Union (Saco, Me.)1845-1854
- The Union and Eastern Journal (Biddeford [Me.])1854-1858
- The Union and Eastern Journal (Biddeford [Me])1854-1858
- The Union and Journal (Biddeford, Me.)1858-1882
- The Washingtonian Banner (Saco, Me.)1841-1842
- The Wave (Kennebunkport, Me.)1887-1908
- The Weekly Arundel Review (Kennebunk, Me.)1948-19??
- The Weekly Record ([Biddeford, Me.])1895-19??
- The York Courant (York Village, Me.)1890-1901
- The York Enterprise (York Harbor, Me.)1904-19??
- The York Weekly (York Village, Me.)1943-Current
- Time and Tide (Kennebunkport, Me.)1946-19??
- Tri-Weekly Herald (Biddeford, Me.)1848-18??
- Turn O' the Tide (Kennebunkport, Me.)1923-19??
- Turn O' the Tide (Kennebunkport, Me.)1935-1935
- Turn O' the Tide Ogunquit and Kennebunkport Bulletin (Kennebunkport, Me.)1919-1921
- Village Register and Farmers' Miscellany (Limerick [Me.])1840-1840
- Weekly Gazette (Biddeford, Me.)1858-1861
- Weekly Visiter [Sic] (Kennebunk [Me.])1809-1821
- York Beach Galatea (York Harbor [Me.])1889-189?
- York County Advocate (Springvale, Me.)1880-1882
- York County Herald (Saco, Me.)1838-1843
- York County Independent (Saco, Me.)1869-18??
See the repository's descriptions and search options
Repository access note: Selected newspaper titles cataloged by the Library of Congress with explicit county geography. Priority is given to titles beginning by 1950; up to five later titles are included where no earlier dated title is listed for that county. Dates describe publication history, not the issues available at a library. Multiple format records with the same title, place and dates are grouped. The catalog may describe paper, microfilm or online resources. Open ends and the word Current reflect the catalog description; confirm present availability and exact holdings with the libraries listed on the linked record.
Sources: the catalogs and repository descriptions linked on the entries above. Selected inventories do not establish complete coverage of every record type or online access to original documents. Read the repository access note for source dates and limitations.
Where to find the records
- York County official website
Hours, addresses and phone numbers for the town clerk, the county registry of deeds and the probate court, and any online record search the county offers.
- The town clerk
Births, marriages and deaths, kept by each town.
- The county registry of deeds
Deeds and other land records (some counties have two registry districts).
- The probate court
Wills and estates, one court in each county.
- The Maine State Archives
In Augusta: state vital records, court records and land records.
- Maine State Archivesfree
The state archives in Augusta, with vital records, court and land records and military records.
- FamilySearch Catalogfree
Search by place for "Maine, York" to find filmed and digitized records, many viewable free online with a FamilySearch account.
Offices change their hours and access rules; call before you visit.
Boundaries and parent counties
Formed from: Land not yet in any county
Later formed partly from York County: Cumberland County, Lincoln County, Oxford County
Records stay with the county that created them. If your ancestor lived here before 1652, search the parent county. The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries shows each boundary change.
Research tip
In Maine, look for births, marriages and deaths in the town where the event happened. Statewide registration began in 1892, and the town records often go back much further. Maine was part of Massachusetts until 1820.