Research Tools

Here is a growing list of offsite tools that are handy for doing genealogical and other research:

• Commercial genealogy research sites
  • RootsWeb including:
    • York census
  • FamilySearch An official web site of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
  • Junkins Family Genealogy Forum at genealogy.com

• … and free ones
  • USGENWEB "Land of the Free…genealogy"
    • including USGENWEB census

• Collected state-by-state sites
  • Genealogy Trails a state-by-state portal to hundreds of interesting articles
  • Biofiles a collection of links to books, state-by-state (currently California, Colorado, Montana, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania)

• Individual state sites and local historical societies
  • PA Roots "Bringing our past into the future" - they say
  • MaineGenealogy plug in "Junkins" and have fun
    • including the will of Alexander Junkins
  • The Old Berwick Historical Society
    • including Following the trail of the 1650 Scottish Prisoners

• Privately hosted genealogy sites
  • Billy Burgess' Junkins family web site mostly a re-publication of JFA information, but a few surprising tidbits of his own
  • Lord Family History connected to the Junkins
  • the Thomas Minor Society connected to the Junkins
  • Schleisser-Hicks several Youngs and Nowells
  • Raynes site

• Historical narrative sites
  • New England Frontier a survey of New England during the Indian Wars

• Federal help
  • The Library of Congress try their photograph look-up!

• Maine and Massachusettes Historical Societies
  • Old Berwick Historical Society
  • Maine Historical Society
  • Eliot Historical Society
  • Franco-american Genealogical Society Biddeford, ME
  • Kittery Historical Society
  • Old York Historical Society
  • Maine Archives and Museums

• Other search tools
  • Google News for "Junkins" before 1980 on a timeline (try other names as well)

A list of Google Books

• Indian Wars of New England, Vol. II By Herbert Milton Sylvester - Published by W.B. Clarke Company, 1910
  • references to the Junkins garrison
• True Stories of New England Captives Carried to Canada During the Old French and Indian Wars By Charlotte Alice Baker - Published by Press of E.A. Hall & Co., 1897
• True Stories of New England Captives: Carried to Canada During the Old French and Indian Wars (reprint) By C. Alice Baker - Published by Kessinger Publishing, 2006
• The Ochterloney Family of Scotland, and Boston, in New England By Walter Kendall Watkins - Published by Priv. print. [The Bartlett Press], 1902
• An Elementary History of the United States By Allen Clapp Thomas - Published by D.C. Heath & Co., 1900
• Catalogue of the Collection of Relics in Memorial Hall, Deerfield, Mass., U.S.A. By Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association (Deerfield, Mass.) - Published by The Association, 1908
• Catalogue of the Collection of Relics in Memorial Hall, Deerfield, Mass., U.S.A.
• Introductory History of the United States
• The Border Wars of New England: Commonly Called King William's and Queen Anne's Wars
• The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 1874
• The Pine-tree Coast
• York Deeds By Maine Historical Society, Maine Genealogical Society (1884-), York County (Me.). - Published by John T. Hull, 1904
• Old Kittery and Her Families By Everett Schermerhorn Stackpole, Published by Press of Lewiston journal company, 1903

A list of other texts

• The Silent Watcher
• Ye romance of old York