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The Baltimore City Archives - in conjunction with the Maryland State Archives - is the central depository for government records of permanent value for the city of Baltimore.

This is the area of the beginning of Prince George's County. "The first session of Prince George's County Court was held in St. Paul's Church in Charles Town on April 23, 1696".

This site contains the Manor House Ledger (1771-1790) of Majors Choice of Calvert County as well as indices of free men, women and slaves.

The Crisfield Heritage Foundation is committed to preserve the heritage of Crisfield and its environs, to educate the public concerning this heritage, and to provide local information thus serving as the central hub around which tourism in the Crisfield area revolves.

The purpose of this organization is to provide genealogical information for this county. There is a large obituary collection along with Bible records, probate, chancery, marriages, deaths, military, church records, etc available.

This site attempts to reconstruct a family tree of early British Colonial Settlers [pre 1776] of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties along the Potomac and Rappahannock River Valleys.

The Nabb Center library contains books, serials, archival and artifact collections relating to United States history, the greater Chesapeake region and the Delmarva Peninsula. The extensive primary and secondary regional archival collection contains family histories, correspondence, photographs, manuscripts, ledgers, diaries, local business and organizational records, maps, newspapers, land surveys, oral histories and rare books. Included in our microfilm collection are governmental and church records pertaining mainly to Somerset, Worcester, Dorchester and Wicomico counties in Maryland; Accomack and Northampton counties in Virginia; and Sussex County in Delaware.

The Enoch Pratt Free Library is one of the oldest free public library systems in the United States. Dating back to its opening in 1934, the Maryland Department is responsible for a collection of materials relating to the history, economics, social conditions, literature and the arts and all aspects of the development and status of Maryland and its citizens.

Begun in 1860, the library collection contains over 300,000 volumes largely from the 18th and 19th centuries. Notable collection strengths are archaeology, British art and architecture, British and American history, biography, English and American literature, Romance languages and literature, Greek and Latin classics, history of science, geography, and exploration and travel including a large map collection.

This site focuses principally on mapping of early patents and land grants in central Maryland, and also provides additional Maryland genealogy research aids, including search aids for Baltimore City and Baltimore County records.