Message Boards

Message Boards can be helpful in your family history research. Several message boards are available:

•Ancestry: www.ancestry.com. Ancestry is a subscription site.

•Cyndi Howells' List: www.cyndislist.com/md.htm.

•Genealogical Bulletin Board Systems (GBBS): http://www.genealogy.org/state.asp?state=md This site lists genealogical electronic bulletin boards where you can look for answers and post queries.

•GenExchange: http://www.genexchange.org/state.php?state=md This site includes databases (church, cemetery, census, land, immigration, naturalization, and vital records), directories, historical accounts, mailing lists, queries, local surname researchers, and look-up volunteers.

•HeritageQuest Heritage Quest can be accessed through many local and university libraries with a patron library card. It can also be accessed at the Family History Library (www.heritagequestonline.com) and some Family History Centers. Databases that can be accessed are census records, digital books, PERSI (Periodical Source Index), Revolutionary War, Freedman Bank and the US Serial Set (various records: legal, court, land).

•Linkpendium – The Definitive Directory http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/MD/ This site has links to state and county resources.

•Rootsweb: http://www.rootsweb.com/roots-l/usa/md.html This site contains a useful list of sites and resources and includes a large, regularly updated research coordination list.

•USGenWeb: www.mdgenweb.org This site is a cooperative effort by many volunteers to list genealogical databases, libraries, message boards, and other resources available on the Internet for each county, state, and country.

•Wee-Monster: http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/vitalrecords.html. Replace ‘vitalrecords’ with ‘deathrecords’, census, military or naturalization to locate other resources.) This site lists records available by state, by county and by some cities.