Maryland Newspapers

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History
Newspaper publication in Maryland began in 1727 with the release of the Maryland Gazette in Annapolis.

Libraries and Archives
The following libraries have Maryland newspaper collections on site.


 * Enoch Pratt Free Library
 * Maryland Historical Society
 * Maryland State Archives

Newspaper Directory
The U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present is a national directory from the Library of Congress of over 140,000 newspaper titles. The directory provides a list of libraries from around the country that have the newspapers in their collections.

Digital Issues Online
Historical newspapers


 * Maryland State Archives (free) online collection covers the Maryland Gazette (1728-1839), and a dozen nineteenth-century newspapers.
 * NewspaperArchive.com ($) has a large collection of Maryland newspapers online. This database is free at some libraries. It may be under the name Access NewspaperArchive.
 * Ancestry.com ($) has over 20 historical Maryland newspapers.
 * University of Pennsylvania (free) has links to a handful of free historical Maryland newspapers online.
 * 1790-1799 - The Maryland Herald is available online at Google News - free.

Current newspapers


 * RootsWeb Obituary Daily Times (free) has a searchable database of over 14 million modern-day obituaries extracted by volunteers. Most are from 2000 or later, but some date back to the 1980s.
 * ABYZ Newslinks (free) has a directory of links to over 140 Maryland newspapers online organized by city.
 * OnlineNewspapers.com (free) links to over 110 Maryland newspapers online.
 * SHG Resources State Handbook &amp; Guide (free) links to over 30 current Maryland newspapers online.

Indexes

 * Barnes, Robert W. Gleanings from Maryland Newspapers. Four Volumes. Lutherville, Maryland: Bettie Carothers, 1975-76. (ISBN: none) (OCLC;8196057) (FHL book ; film This work covers 1727 to 1795.
 * Barnes, Robert W. Marriages and Deaths from the Maryland Gazette, 1727-1839. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1973. (ISBN 0806305800) (ISBN 0806305800);(OCLC;28916982) (FHL book )
 * Green, Karen Mauer. The Maryland Gazette, 1727- 1761: Genealogical and Historical Abstracts. Galveston, Texas: Frontier, 1989. (ISBN 0932231071); (FHL book )

Guides

 * Maryland newspapers are identified county-by-county in "Guide to Maryland Newspapers," available online, courtesy: Special Collections, Maryland State Archives.
 * Hofstetter, Eleanore O. and Marcella S. Eustis. Newspapers in Maryland Libraries: A Union List. Baltimore, Maryland: Division of Library Development Services, Maryland State Department of Education, 1977. (ISBN: none) (OCLC 3160087) (FHL Book ; fiche )
 * White, Les, et al. Newspapers in Maryland: A Guide to the Microfilm Collection of Newspapers at the Maryland State Archives. Annapolis, Maryland: Maryland State Archives, 1990. (ISBN: none) (OCLC 19906122, 23530179, 23140665) (FHL book )

Family History Library
To locate newspapers in the Family History Library's collection which pertain to a large part of Maryland, The Family History Library is not actively collecting newspapers of the United States.