• First of all, my family, always the FIRST place to start when working on genealogy. I appreciate everyone's help, enthusiasm, and patience!
• Lapham, William B. History of Rumford, Oxford County, Maine From Its First Settlement in 1779 to the Present Time (1890).
• ---. History of Bethel, ME, 1768-1890: Formerly Sudbury, Canada, with a Brief Sketch of Hanover.
  This, and other genealogical books, is available at Picton Press.
• ---. Centennial History of Norway, Oxford Co., Maine, 1786-1886..
  This, and other genealogical books, is available at Picton Press.
• ---. History of Woodstock, Maine(1882).
  This, and other genealogical books, is available at Picton Press.
• Lapham, William B. and Silas P. Maxim. History of Paris, Maine (1884).
  This book is on-line at Ancestry.com, but you have to pay to access it. Incentive: it contains funny stories about Eleazer Cole!
• Martin, Stuart F. New Pennacook Folks: Early Rumford, Maine with Genealogy of First Families (1980).
  This, and other genealogical books, is available at the Bethel, Maine Historical Society shop.
• Barnes, Diane and Jack Barnes. Images of America: The Oxford Hills: Greenwood, Norway, Oxford, Paris, West Paris, and Woodstock.
• Visit my newfound 5th cousin (once removed) Kathy Bisbee's website at www.unbrokenchain.com/roots/. She knows all about the Reddings (as far back as we can trace, anyway)!
• Just before Christmas 2001 I was contacted by Cynthia Cole, my long-lost 2nd-cousin from California! Her grandfather Aubrey was my grandfather's brother. It was wonderful to reconnect with one of the only recent lines of our Maine Coles to have traveled west.
• In the fall of 2001 I was contacted by Barbara Honkala, another fifth-cousin related to Eleazer Cole. Her family (and now cousins) puts the flag on Eleazer's grave every year on Memorial Day. It was great to hear from her, and to trade family information.
• The World Family Tree project of Broderbund Software and John McCormick.
• Maine Families, Bk. 3, by Harold C. Perham discusses the Canwells, the Murches, and the Faunces, among other families. This is also the mysterious "Cole book" that contains the list of Cole ancestors that first got me interested in genealogy. A copy resides in the Maine State Library in Augusta.
• Rumford, Maine Genealogy Project run by Craig Bryant.
• Oxford County (Maine) GenWeb Page, maintained by Tina Vickery.
• Rootsweb.com, especially the Global Search function.
• Notes on Cole's Hill, Plymouth, MA. by Edward Belcher.
• Another Plymouth resource is Plymouth Colony: Its History and People 1620-1691 by Eugene Aubrey Stratton.
• Info on John Spofford can be found at The Spafford, Spofford, Spofforth Web Site.
• Special thanks go to Charles R. "Chas" Clark of Tuscon for all of his help in establishing the Aydelott family line!
• The Mormon Church's Familysearch.org, especially their Search Form.
• Ancestry.com.
• Cyndi's List.com.
• The Maine State Archives Death History Search Form.
• The Maine State Archives Marriage History Search Form.
• This is Janet H. (Rouse) Derbyshire's Perham line. She provides an excellent resource for people searching for Perham info, and helped me correct some misinformation. Thanks, Janet!
• Pam Thompson from California is updating the E.B. Cole Genealogy! I have provided information for my line starting with Laurenson Cole. Can't wait to see your work, Pam!

Links last updated May 2005.