Maryland Resources

Submitted by Ilene Shipman

Large Collections

Maryland State Archives

http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/homepage/html/refserv.html

Good jumping-off page for Maryland Archives:

http://guide.mdsa.net/viewer.cfm?page=topviewed

County formation list:

http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/refserv/html/counties.html

Cyndi’s List -- Maryland Page -- Extensive list of Maryland sites

http://www.cyndislist.com/md.htm

Enoch Pratt Free Library -- “Maryland Department”

http://www.prattlibrary.org/findanswers/subjects/guide.aspx?id=27140

Land Records

http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/refserv/genealogy/html/land.html

Maryland Land Records (email for password)

www.mdlandrec.net

Maps

County formation maps for Maryland

http://www.familyhistory101.com/maps/md_cf.html

Maps of early Maryland counties

http://jrshelby.com/hcl/md.htm

Historical maps of Maryland

http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/historicalmaps/us_states/maryland/index_Before1875.html

Historical maps of Maryland’s Eastern Shore

http://www.mikehitch.com/1876maps.htm

1895 US Map -- Maryland

http://www.livgenmi.com/1895/MD/state.htm

Historical maps of Baltimore, Annapolis, Hagerstown and U.S. Naval Academy

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/maryland.html

1914 County Maps by State

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~shastaca/maps_index.html

Historical Societies

Maryland Historical Society: links to county historical societies, “Sailor” (MD’s public info link), and other historical sites.

http://www.mdhs.org/library/research_Links.html

List of county historical societies and county-based genealogical societies

http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/refserv/html/societies.html

Maryland Birth, Marriage and Death Records

Vital records before 1924

http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/refserv/html/vrwebannounce_oct.html

Vital records after1925 to the present are available from the Department of Health & Mental Hygiene:

http://www.dhmh.state.md.us/lifeevents/birth&deathcert.htm

Available at www.ancestry.com:

Index of Marriage Licenses, Prince George's County, Maryland 1777-1886

Index to Marriages and Deaths in the Baltimore Sun 1837-1850

Index to Marriages and Deaths in the Baltimore Sun 1851-1860

Marriage Licenses of Caroline County, Maryland, 1774-1815

Marriage Notices, 1785-1794

Marriages and Deaths from Baltimore Newspapers, 1796-1816

Marriages and Deaths from the Maryland Gazette, 1727-1839

Maryland and South Carolina Lutheran Newspapers, Marriages and Deaths

Maryland Marriages, 1634-1777

Maryland Marriages, 1655-1850

Maryland Marriages, 1667-1899

Maryland Marriages, 1778-1800

Military Records

http://www.msa.md.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/html/military.html

Miliatry page at MD Archives:

http://guide.mdsa.net/viewer.cfm?page=military

Newspapers

Maryland newspapers 1775 – present

Genealogybank.com

http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/newspapers/sourcelist/#Maryland

Immigration

Ancestry> Immigration > Baltimore Passenger Lists, 1820-1948

Comprehensive list of Maryland immigration and emigration

www.ancestry.com/search/locality/dbpage.aspx?tp=2&p=23&categoryFilterID=40&showPaging=true&recordCount=50&firstRecord=1

Cemeteries

http://www.cyndislist.com/md.htm#Records

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cemetery/maryland/maryland.html

List of cemeteries in Maryland

http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localSearch.php?state=21&locTGroup=Cemeteries&searchStr=&sec=0&destType=&Submit=Search&searchType=0

AfricanAmerican cemeteries in Maryland

http://africanamericancemeteries.com/md/

Catholic cemeteries

Note: Currently, only All Saints Cemetery is in the database.
Cathedral and Gate of Heaven will be coming soon.

http://www.cdow.org/cssaints.html

More Catholic cemeteries -- covers Delaware and parts of Maryland

http://www.cdow.org/cemeteries.html

Find a Grave – Maryland

http://www.findagrave.com/php/famous.php?page=state&FSstateid=22