GENEALOGICAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETIES
• Select using a map of Maryland →
B I R T H M A R R I A G E D E A T H R E C O R D S
- Maryland State Archives Vital Records (some indexes are available)
Births
Deaths
Marriages
ORGANIZED by map-maker.org - Howard County, Maryland Marriages
• A resource for “No Wait” marriages in the Baltimore / Washington area. 90% of licenses went to out-of-county residents.
C H U R C H R E C O R D S
- BALTIMORE CITY HOUSES of WORSHIP LOCATOR
• Find your ancestor’s nearest church and then find church records. - BALTIMORE AREA CHURCH RECORDS by map-maker.org
- BALTIMORE CITY GUIDE TO ONLINE CHURCH RECORDS
- BALTIMORE CATHOLIC PARISH RECORDS at FindMyPast
• Browse Parish Registers. - Maryland State Archives Special Collections
• Search by denomination or county. - Understanding Catholic and Lutheran Records
• Commonly used German and Latin phrases. - Latin Words
- German Words
- Reading Old Script and Documents
• English, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese. - Generating German Script
Type a phrase and see the German script. - Irish Catholic Parish Registers via National Library of Ireland
• Images from the 19th century books – not indexed.
D N A
- Understanding DNA Presentation by Andy Hochreiter.
* PDF format. Tablet users will have it appear in their Download area.
M A P S & C I T Y D I R E C T O R I E S
- Baltimore City Directories
• Column View
• List View
• 1887 Street Address Index – Old and New - U.S. City Directories
• Requires paid subscription: Ancestry.com - U.S. Telephone Directories
- Baltimore County Burial Project.
- Baltimore City Historical Houses of Worship
• Find your ancestor’s nearest church and then find church records. - Baltimore City and County Atlases & Insurance Maps
• Find the house of an ancestor. - Baltimore City Wards
• Interactive Images of Baltimore Wards as they changed over time. - Baltimore and Maryland Historical Map Images
• Historical maps including the David Rumsey Archive. - Baltimore City Maps at the Baltimore City Archives
• Resources for locating maps and understanding the mapping of Baltimore City - Baltimore City Map – 1887
- 1866 Baltimore County Map with adjustable transparency.
• Use the slider bar in the upper right corner to see through the map.
• A legend for this map will open in a new Tab by selecting: Map Legend.
N E W S P A P E R S
- BALTIMORE AREA NEWSPAPERS by map-maker.org
- Finding U.S. Online Newspapers
• A comprehensive guide presented by FamilySearch.org. - GTRI – Chronicling America
• Developed by Georgia Tech – US News Map provides an easy-to-use interface to search the approximately 11,000,000 digitized newspaper pages (1789-1924) in Chronicling America. Type your search term in the box at the top of the page, and dots appear on the map in the locations of newspapers with that term. Click on the dot to see the dates and issues of each newspaper. - Chronicling America
• Newspapers at the Library of Congress.
As of January 2014, select dates of The German Correspondent are available. Future additions from Maryland will be The American Republican and Baltimore Daily Clipper (Baltimore); The Baltimore Commercial Journal, and Lyford’s Price-Current (Baltimore); Baltimore Daily Commercial (Baltimore); Civilian and Telegraph (Cumberland); The Daily Exchange (Baltimore); The Maryland Free Press (Hagerstown); and The Pilot and Transcript (Baltimore). - TUTORIAL on Chronicling America Searches
• Presented by Liz Caringola - Baltimore’s German Correspondent Newspaper.
• EXPLORING the online GERMAN CORRESPONDENT newspaper tutorial
• About the MdHS Deutsche Correspondent Hilgenberg Archive - TOOLS for Foreign Language Newspapers
• Reading Old Script and Documents – English, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese
• BING Translator
• GOOGLE Translator
• Foreign Language Word Lists - Online Maryland Newspapers
• Maryland State Archives
L A N D R E C O R D S
- Maryland Land Records
• Requires email login – FREE. - Documenting a Chain Of Title
• Learn more about the history of any property. - Property Tax Records for Baltimore City
at the Baltimore City Archives.
N A M E I N D E X
- Name Index at the Baltimore City Archives
- Baltimore City Archives – Legislative Index
(Use this when found in name index above)
N A T U R A L I Z A T I O N S
- Baltimore City Naturalization Index 1867-1906.
At the Maryland State Archives
U T I L I T I E S
- Soundex
• Convert a Surname to a Soundex code - Birth Date Calculator
• Calculate the birth date from a death certificate. - Day of the week calculator
• Finds the day of the week for a news article. Figure the date of any day mentioned.
A R C H I V E S
- Baltimore City Archives
Read the guide → Finding Family History at the BCA - Maryland State Archives
- Maryland State Archives Special Collections
• A complete list of all the special collection series numbers.
• The Archives has removed this link. - Maryland-Genealogy.com
• Directory of Maryland Genealogy Records. - Mid Atlantic Archives
• Covering: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. - National Archives and Records Administration
O N L I N E S E A R C H E N G I N E S
- FamilySearch.org
• Search billions of names across hundreds of collections for FREE - FamilySearch Historical Records Collection
• A list of all of their holdings - Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
• FREE at FamilySearch.org - Genealogy.com
- Archives.com
- Stephen Morse search engines
• Tools for finding immigration records, census records, vital records, and numerous other applications. - ROOTS Surname List
G E N E A L O G Y S O F T W A R E
- Ancestral Quest
- Family Historian
- Family Tree Maker
- Family Origins
- Genbox
- Legacy
- Roots Magic
- TNG – The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding
L I B R A R I E S
- Anne Arundel County Kuethe Library
- Baltimore County Community College Library
- Baltimore County Public Library
- Library of Congress
- Nabb Research Center at Salisbury State
- Sailor: Maryland Libraries
- York Historical Trust
C E M E T E R I E S
- Maryland State Archives – Civil War Veteran Gravestones
⋅ Guide to Gravestones of Maryland’s Civil War Veterans (Special Collections 6197)
I N T E R E S T I N G L I S T S & C H A R T S
- Baltimore Area Pictures – Old & New at Kilduffs.com
- Relationship Comparison Chart
- Charts and Forms – Ancestry.com
M I S C E L L A N E O U S L I S T S
- Baltimore English-German School No. 5: Student List
– 1890-1891 & 1897-1898