The other location I decided I needed to explore was the Maine State Library<\/a> and the Maine State Archives<\/a> .\u00a0 These are located in the same building in Augusta.\u00a0 Based on the time we had available and the driving times, it seemed that Scarborough and then Augusta were about all we could do in this trip.\u00a0 Plus there were things my sister wanted to see and do that weren\u2019t genealogy-related.<\/p>\n I have to admit that I was not fully (or anywhere near fully) prepared for this trip in terms of knowing what specific records or information I wanted to look for.\u00a0 So, for example, just before we left I found a Find A Grave entry that may be our ancestor Samuel Boothby in an old cemetery in Portland.\u00a0 Did I know where it was or how to find the stone that is pictured on Find A Grave?\u00a0 Did I know anything about where the records, if they exist, for this cemetery might be found?\u00a0 No!\u00a0 I also found a family tree for this Samuel on Ancestry.com, so I printed out the family group sheet to take along as possible hints about our family.<\/p>\n Here is what we did \u2013 from the genealogical perspective.\u00a0 We drove up to Scarborough and found the Scarborough Historical Society.\u00a0 Luckily our planning had allowed for a visit there on the one morning a week they are normally open (which is Tuesday for anyone who is interested).\u00a0 It was easy to find, right on Route 1 next to and slightly behind the When the Society folks finally started closing up for the day, they directed us to the Saco public library and the museum next door to it.\u00a0 In between repositories and lunch and walking and coffee with a niece we did find time to wander through the old Dunstan Cemetery in Scarborough and locate a number of Boothby stones.\u00a0 None of these are our direct ancestors and I don\u2019t yet know who they all are, but I got pictures and a listing of all the Boothbys from a work that had transcribed all the headstones.\u00a0 There were also a number of Snows (another family line for us), so I took some pictures of some of them too.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know of any of our line of Snows who migrated to Maine so these may not be relatives.<\/p>\n Then we headed for Augusta.\u00a0 Even though I was not as organized as usual about knowing exactly where we were going, we found our way with little trouble or backtracking.\u00a0 ![\"IMGP4257\"](\"http:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMGP4257_thumb.jpg\" "\\"IMGP4257\\"")
<\/a>Dunstan Fire House as they describe on the website.\u00a0 The building is a neat old place and there is stuff everywhere.\u00a0 The Museum is connected (the white building to the left and also had lots of stuff.\u00a0 I was so taken by the people and the resources in the Society, however, that I never really got a good look at the Museum.\u00a0 I definitely need to return.\u00a0\u00a0 The collection of what the Society has is not really catalogued formally (i.e., there is no online catalog and I don\u2019t think there is a paper one in the building) but the group of people who were there working that morning were all very knowledgeable and helpful.\u00a0 A lovely woman named Sarah took us in hand and started providing folders of papers and books and pictures for us to explore.\u00a0 They don\u2019t have the original vital records there, but they do have microfilm and books of transcriptions from the microfilms that go back to the earliest days (some into the late 1600s and more from the early 1700s).\u00a0 I was able to find the transcriptions of the baptisms of the children born to Samuel and Esther Boothby and the transcriptions showing my Josiah Boothby\u2019s two marriages, first to Betty Beard and then to Sarah Stuart.\u00a0 I did not find records of any of Josiah\u2019s children, nor of the death of his first wife (presumed to have died).\u00a0 I found the burial of Esther, wife of Samuel Boothby.\u00a0 I did not find any record of Samuel and Esther\u2019s marriage.<\/p>\n![\"IMGP4338\"](\"http:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMGP4338_thumb.jpg\" "\\"IMGP4338\\"")
<\/a>The Dyer Library<\/a> in Saco has a Maine History Room which is a repository for more historical and genealogical resources.\u00a0 The Saco Museum in the York Institute building had a well-done exhibit on the Civil War from the perspective of a local man who served in it.\u00a0 The Roy P. Fitzgerald Maine History Room is staffed by a group of volunteers who are both very knowledgeable about local history and families and also very helpful to researchers who wander in.\u00a0 I was very excited to find books that collected deeds for York County, and found a couple involving a Henry Boothby and a Richard Boothby in Wells.\u00a0 It is not clear at this point exactly who these Boothbys are.<\/p>\n![\"IMGP4359\"](\"http:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMGP4359_thumb.jpg\" "\\"IMGP4359\\"")
<\/a>My photo shows the front of the building both the Archives and the State Library are housed in, and the convenience of the parking lot.\u00a0 I was impressed.\u00a0 The Archives requires a Research Room Privileges card so we both filled out the short form and provided picture ID to establish our credentials.\u00a0 I spent a couple of hours browsing through microfilm looking for our Boothbys in the Kittery vital records \u2013 hoping for the marriage of Samuel and Esther but not finding it.\u00a0 I now wish I had spent some time with the Scarborough films since it was very easy to make printed copies of pages.\u00a0 I did look quickly at a film of some Saco records as well, though didn\u2019t find anything.\u00a0 My sister, in the meantime, had gone up to the Library and was browsing the collections there.\u00a0 (There may also have been a short nap involved.)\u00a0 My two finds were the record of Thomas Boothby and Lydia Cane\u2019s intention to marry, in 1725, and Thomas\u2019s will in a book of Maine wills.\u00a0 No will for Samuel.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Our last day in Maine was spent doing a leisurely drive over to the coast from Augusta to Boothbay Harbor and then a lovely morning of wandering in Boothbay and having lunch where we had a great view of the waterside.\u00a0 We watched kayakers and paddle boarders go out and come in, and enjoyed the beautiful sunny summer day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"