Listed record inventories
Selected holdings and indexes for Carroll County, checked against the repository descriptions linked below. Date spans may contain gaps; an index is not a complete set of original records.
Newspapers
- Carroll County Independent Carroll County Pioneer (Center Ossipee, N.H.)1924-1982
- Carroll County Pioneer (Wolfboro' Junction [Wolfeboro], N.H.)1881-1924
- Carroll County Register (Ossipee, N.H.)1859-1865
- Reformer (Moultonboro' Falls [Moultonborough], N.H.)1833-1834
- Sandwich Reporter (Sandwich, N.H.)1883-1944
- The Carroll County Democrat (Wolfborough [Wolfeboro], N.H.)1868-187?
- The Carter Notch Clarion (Jackson, N.H.)1946-195?
- The Flying Hammer (Manchester, N.H.)1894-1898
- The Fryeburg Reporter (North Conway, N.H.)1922-1944
- The Idler (North Conway, N.H.)1880-18??
- The Jackson Messenger (Jackson, N.H.)1921-19??
- The Reporter (North Conway, N.H.)1909-1944
- The Reporter Including the Fryeburg Reporter and the Sandwich Reporter (North Conway, N.H.)1944-1954
- The Sandwich News (Sandwich, N.H.)1923-19??
- The White Mountain Echo and Tourist's Register (Bethlehem, N.H.)1878-191?
- The White Mountain Record (North Conway, N.H.)1879-1881
- The White Mountain Voice (North Conway, N.H.)1885-1885
- White Mountain News (North Conway, N.H.)1882-1883
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
- Carroll 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.
- The probate court
Wills and estates, by county (now the Circuit Court's probate division).
- The New Hampshire State Archives
In Concord: provincial, court and state records. Birth, marriage and death records are with the state's Division of Vital Records.
- New Hampshire Division of Archives and Records Managementfree
The state archives in Concord, with provincial, court and state government records.
- FamilySearch Catalogfree
Search by place for "New Hampshire, Carroll" to find filmed and digitized records, many viewable free online with a FamilySearch account.
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Boundaries and parent counties
Formed from: Strafford County
Check the parent county for earlier records: Strafford County
Records stay with the county that created them. If your ancestor lived here before 1841, search the parent county. The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries shows each boundary change.
Research tip
In New Hampshire, births, marriages and deaths were kept by towns. Copies of many town records before 1901 were gathered by the state and are indexed at FamilySearch.