Anne Arundel County, Maryland Genealogy

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County Courthouse
Anne Arundel County, Maryland 44 Calvert Street Annapolis, MD 21401

Ph: (410) 222-7000

History

 * Named for Anne Arundell (1615-1649), the daughter of Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, member of the ancient family of Arundells in England. She was wife of Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Lord Baltimore.

Parent County

 * 1650--Anne Arundel County was created 9 April 1650 out of the Colonial lands. One of original counties. County seat: Annapolis.

Boundary Changes

 * 13 May 1851, Howard County was created out of the Howard District of Anne Arundel County.

City

 * Annapolis

Town

 * Highland Beach

Neighboring Counties
Baltimore (Independent City) | Baltimore | Calvert | Howard | Kent | Prince George's | Queen Anne's | Talbot

Cemeteries
Interment.net Cemetery Listings for Anne Arundel County, MD. Includes contact information for many cemeteries in the county and volunteer contributed index lists for many of them.

Census
Federal Census reports available 1790-1930 including slave and veterans schedules.

Church
Maryland State Archives' Guide to Maryland Religious Institutions identifies all churches known to have existed in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It covers all denominations and includes record descriptions. The following records, taken from its collection, have been digitized and made available to view for free online:


 * Methodist Episcopal, Severn Circuit (1842-1858) and South River Circuit (1858-1867) Quarterly Conference Minutes
 * Methodist Episcopal, Wesley Chapel, Class Book 1844-1851
 * Protestant Episcopal (Church of England), All Hallow's Parish (South River Parish) 1669-1857 (includes parish registers 1669-1857, vestry papers 1809, 1841-1850, and vestry minutes and accounts 1761-1845; user name: aaco, password: aaco#)
 * Protestant Episcopal (Church of England), Christ Church, Queen Caroline Parish 1712-1939 (includes parish register 1712-1937 and vestry minutes 1728-1776, 1809-1939)
 * Protestant Episcopal, St. Anne's Church, Annapolis, Md. Parish Registers III-VII (1858-1952) (user name: aaco, password: aaco#)
 * Protestant Episcopal, St. Stephen's Church, Severn Parish, Millersville, Md. (includes cemetery lot record book 1857-1869 and plats of the church cemetery)

Court
There is an excellent card index to Anne Arundel County court papers (1600s-1700s) at the Maryland State Archives. Genealogists will find that many English transported convicts make their initial American appearance in these records.

Family Histories

 * [Ogilvie] Ogilvie, The American Genealogist, Vol. 41: 153-157.
 * [Ogilvie] Russell, George E. "Patrick Ogilvie of Maryland, 1702-1717," The American Genealogist, Vol. 53, No. 2 (Apr. 1977):75.

Immigration
The New Early Settlers of Maryland database is a great place to start searching for immigrants who had arrived in the colony by the 1680s. The database "comprises 34,326 entries from Gust Skordas' Early Settlers of Maryland and Carson Gibb's Supplement to the Early Settlers of Maryland." Available online, courtesy: Maryland State Archives.

Other Anne Arundel County immigration resources include:


 * [http://immigrantservants.com/search/advancedResults.php?surname=&givenName=&varientSurnameSpellings=&gender=&dateOfBirthDay=&dateOfBirthMonth=&dateOfBirthQuantifier=&dateOfBirthYear=&placeOfBirthParish=&placeOfBirthTown=&placeOfBirthCity=&placeOfBirthCounty=&placeOfBirthColony=&placeOfBirthNation=&occupations=&religions=&orphan=&familyPosition=&immigrationYearQualifier=&immigrationYear=&portOfDepartureTown=&portOfDepartureCity=&portOfDepartureCounty=&portOfDepartureNation=&placeOfArrivalTown=&placeOfArrivalCounty=&placeOfArrivalColony=&shipName=&convict=&yearOfIndentureQualifier=&yearOfIndenture=&lengthOfIndentureYears=&lengthOfIndentureMonths=&yearOfFreedomQualifier=&yearOfFreedom=&placeOfIndentureTown=&placeOfIndentureCity=&placeOfIndentureCounty=Anne&placeOfIndentureColony=Maryland&agentSurname=&agentGivenName=&agentTitle=&masterSurname=&masterGivenName=&masterTitle=&residenceParish=&residenceTown=&residenceCity=&residenceCounty=&residenceColony=&residenceNation=&landowner=&literate=&spouseSurname=&spouseGivenName=&spouseMarriageDateDay=&spouseMarriageDateMonth=&spouseMarriageDateQualifier=&spouseMarriageDateYear=&spouseMarriageLocationParish=&spouseMarriageLocationCounty=&spouseMarriageLocationColony=&spouseMarriageLocationNation=&deathDateDay=&deathDateMonth=&deathDateQualifier=&deathDateYear=&deathLocality=&deathCounty=&deathColony=&deathState=&testate=&proofServantStatus=&proofConvictStatus=&headright=&preServitudeSources=&postServitudeSources=&comments=&family=&sourceCitations=&interestedResearchers= List of imported servants and transported convicts from Europe] who served labor terms in Colonial Anne Arundel County, Maryland (work in progress), courtesy: Immigrant Servants Database. [Includes Richard J. Cox's abstracts of Maryland Gazette runaways.]

Land
Through a Joint eGovernment Service of the Maryland Judiciary and the Maryland State Archives, free images and indexes of the complete series of Anne Arundel County Deed Books (1653-present) have been uploaded to their website: MDLandRec.Net: A Digital Image Retrieval System for Land Records in Maryland. (Requires free registration.)

Newspapers

 * Anne Arundel County newspapers are identified in "Guide to Maryland Newspapers," available online, courtesy: Special Collections, Maryland State Archives.

Vital Records
Death


 * Maryland Death Certificate Index 1898-1944, available online, courtesy: Vital Records Indexing Project, Maryland State Archives.

Societies and Libraries

 * Anne Arundel Genealogical Society

Web Sites

 * The Anne Arundel County MDGenWeb Project, a member of The MDGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project.
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project for Anne Arundel County.
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project for Anne Arundel County. (backup site)
 * FamilySearch.org Family History Library Catalog for Anne Arundel County.