Maryland Register of Wills Records - FamilySearch Historical Records/Known Issues

Known Issues
Question #1: In Kent &gt; Bonds there are missing years between volumes 5 and 6. Are there any Bonds available for the years 1767-1777? Answer #1: In the browse file “Bonds 1664-1708” the original record keeper started recording bonds for the years 1773-1776 at the end of the ledger where the bonds for the years 1664-1798 were recorded. Image #87 shows page 162 on the left side of the record and is dated 1708. The right side page 163 is dated 1773 and the images up to #160 are dated to 1776.

Question #2: In Kent County there is a gap between Wills 1777-1781 Vol 6 and wills 1827-1835 Vol 11. Are those missing volumes available? Answer #2: Volume 7 is available on microfilm number 14159, which can be ordered and viewed at your local FamilySearch Center. See Ordering Microfilm. FamilySearch does not have volumes 8-10.

Question #3: There are missing pages in Washington &gt; Administration accounts 1778-1795 vol 1. Are these pages available for viewing somewhere else? Answer #3: Pages 229-230 which should fit between images 129 and 130 on DGS 5085790 were missed on the original microfilm as well and are therefore not available for viewing.

Question #4:  I am having trouble searching the Will Indexes and Will Books in Frederick County. Can you give me some help? Answer #4: There are various types of books in these collections. The Will Indexes use the titles of the books. If you will compare the Film titles in the Catalog at this link https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/13610 with the year and vol numbers listed in the online waypoints you should be able to match the records.

Question #5:  I am looking for the page listing the letter “R” in the Somerset &gt; Index A-W browse point. Is it available to view? Answer #5:  This page was missed in the filming of these records, and is not available for viewing.

Question #6: When viewing some records in the Queen Anne’s browse point I get the message “Image Not Available”. Can you explain this? Answer#6: There are contract restrictions on the film that holds the records for Account and Bond index 1741-1790 and Wills, 1706-1734 Vol SC that restricts online access to the images. Until these issues are resolved you may order the films (See Ordering Microfilm or Microfiche) into a FamilySearch Center and view them there.


 * Account and bond index 1741-1790 is on Film #14316
 * Wills, 1706-1734 Vol SC - is on Film #14159

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