Maryland Archives and Libraries

United States Maryland  Archives and Libraries

Archives

 * Maryland State Archives Hall of Records Building 350 Rowe Boulevard Annapolis, MD 21401 Telephone: 410-260-6400 Fax: 410-974-2525 email: ref@mdsa.net

The Maryland State Archives at onlinehas nearly all available public records from 1634 to 1789; most original state and county records through the mid-twentieth century; microfilm copies of land, probate, and vital records to the present; and an extensive number of volume and card indexes. For more information about the state archives, see the following references.


 * Maryland. Hall of Records. A Guide to the Index Holdings at the Hall of Records. Rev., Bulletin, [Maryland. Hall of Records] No. 17. (Annapolis, Maryland: Hall of Records, 1972.) This is a county-by-county list of indexes and years covered.


 * Papenfuse, Edward C., et al. A Guide to Government Records at the Maryland State Archives: A Comprehensive List by Agency and Record Series. (Annapolis, Maryland: Maryland State Archives, 1992.) This guide lists record types, years covered, and series number.


 * Papenfuse, Edward C., et. al. A Guide to the Maryland Hall of Records: Local, Judicial and Administrative Records on Microfilm. Volume 1. (Annapolis, Maryland: Hall of Records Commission, 1978.) Volume one is a detailed list of many records on microfilm for Allegany County, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore County, and Baltimore City, Maryland. These include court, probate, and land records. The archives has additional computer printout lists for all counties. You can write to them for information about records of specific localities and time periods.


 * Radoff, Morris Leon, et al. The County Courthouses and Records of Maryland, Part Two: The Records. (Annapolis, Maryland: Hall of Records Commission, 1963.) This is a county-by-county list of record types, years covered, and series number.


 * National Archives—Mid-Atlantic Region (Downtown Philadelphia) 900 Market Street Philadelphia, PA 19107-4292 Telephone: 215-606-0100 Fax: 215-606-0116


 * National Archives—Mid-Atlantic Region (Northeast Philadelphia) 14700 Townsend Road Philadelphia, PA 19154-1025 Telephone: 215-305-2000 Fax: 215-305-2038


 * National Archives and Records Administration 700 Pennsylvania Avenue Wahington, D.C. 20408-0001 Telephone: 202-357-5000


 * Baltimore City Archives 2165 Druid Park Drive Baltimore, MD 21211 Telephone: 410-396-0306 Two useful guides to Baltimore records follow.


 * Cox, Richard J., and Patricia M. Vanorny. "The Records of a City: Baltimore and Its Historical Sources." Maryland Historical Magazine 70 (Fall 1975): 286-310.


 * LeFurgy, William G. The Records of a City: A Guide to the Baltimore City Archives. (Baltimore, Maryland: City Archives, 1984.)

Libraries

 * Maryland Historical Trust Library 100 Community Place, Crownsville, MD 21032 (410) 514-7655 (Call for hours of operation) Online catalog


 * Enoch Pratt Free Library 400 Cathedral Street Baltimore, MD 21201-4484 Telephone: 410-396-5430 Fax: 410-396-1441


 * Johns Hopkins University George Peabody Library 17 East Mount Vernon Place Baltimore, MD 21202 Telephone: 410-659-8179 Fax: 410-659-8137


 * University of Maryland College Park Libraries: Theodore R. McKeldin Library College Park, MD 20742-7011 Telephone: 301-405-0800


 * Maryland State Law Library Courts of Appeal Building 361 Rowe Boulevard Annapolis, MD 21401 Telephone: 410-260-1430 Fax: 410-974-2063


 * Frostburg State University Lewis J. Ort Library 1 Stadium Drive Frostburg, Maryland 21532-2342

To learn more about the record-keeping systems of Maryland counties, use the inventories of the county archives published in about 1940 by the Historical Records Survey. The Family History Library has copies of most of these inventories.

Maryland Digital Collections
has statewide online database links which may include vital records, biographies, cemeteries, censuses, histories, immigration records, land records, maps, military records, naturalizations, newspapers, obituaries, or probate records.

Web Sites

 * Sailor - a public service of the Maryland Public Library Community


 * Cyndi's List


 * Kindred Trails