Yearbooks from high school or college are one of the most fun set of records for a genealogist to search. It provides you with a ton of story-like information about your ancestor's life. What their interests were, what sports and clubs they participated in, and often some goofy snapshots of them before they settled into being an adult. And of course, you get to see what they looked like.
Here are a few articles that may convince you to research these gems:
- Using Yearbooks For Genealogical Research
- A Genealogy Education is in School Yearbooks
- Genealogy 101: School Yearbooks
And here is an article providing information on where else you can find online yearbooks; some need a subscription and some do not:
Below is a list of links to free online yearbooks from the state:
Please note that some of the yearbooks are not searchable but are an image of each page in the yearbook.
Please note that there may seem to be duplicates. If there are, that means that there are multiple sites where the same schools yearbooks are available online.
(Updated September, 2020)
- Athens - Somerset Academy
- Bangor - Bangor High School
- Bangor - Eastern Maine Community College
- Bangor - John Bapst Memorial High School
- Bethel - Gould Academy
- Bethel - Telstar Regional High School
- Biddeford - St. Francis College
- Biddeford - St. Francis College
- Biddeford - University of New England
- Brunswick - Bowdoin College
- Carmel - Carmel High School
- Castine - Maine Maritime Academy
- Cumberland - Greely High School
- Cumberland - Greely Institute
- Easton - Easton High School
- Eliot - Eliot High School
- Farmington - Farmington State Normal School
- Fort Fairfield - Fort Fairfield High School
- Glen Cove - Glen Cove Bible College
- Glen Cove - Glen Cove Christian Academy
- Gorham - Gorham State Teachers College
- Hermon - Hermon High School
- Houlton - Houlton High School
- Lewiston - Bates College
- Lewiston - Bates College
- Madawaska - Madawska High School
- Millbridge - Millbridge High School
- Millbridge - Millbridge High School
- Norway - Norway High School
- Old Orchard - Old Orchard Junior-Senior High School
- Orono - Orono High School
- Orono - University of Maine
- Orono - University of Maine
- Portland - University of Southern Maine
- Presque Isle - Northern Maine Community College
- Scarborough - Scarborough High School
- Scarborough - Scarborough High School
- Skowhegan - Skowhegan Area High School
- South Berwick - Marshwood High School
- South Berwick - South Berwick Academy
- South Berwick - South Berwick High School
- Waterville - Colby College
- Waterville - Colby College
To see free online yearbooks from other states. please visit the Yearbooks page.
I am continually updating this list, so you may want to revisit later.
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