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National Genealogical Society
The mission of NGS is to serve and grow the genealogical community by providing education and training, fostering increased quality and standards, and promoting access to and preservation of genealogical records.
Naval History and Heritage Command
The Naval History and Heritage Command maintains comprehensive historic resources for the Navy, including links to oral histories, cruise books, photographs, and many other resources.
New Cathedral Cemetery Genealogy Services
Baltimore's New Cathedral Cemetery offers a free online name search of its burial database. Additional records search and genealogy research may be purchased for a fee.
Newberry Library Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
This site provides data on the changing county boundaries of all 50 states, allowing you to confirm what county records to search for any locality at a given date. Particularly helpful are the interactive maps documenting boundary changes.
Newspaper Finder
The goal of Newspaper Finder is to provide comprehensive, one-stop-shopping for finding all newspapers that have been digitized on the internet. Its mapping feature significantly helps in finding newspapers by location. Many Maryland newspapers are included.
NewspaperArchive
NewspaperArchive has content from over 16,000 newspapers and over 3,400 cities from all over the world. Over 20 Maryland communities are included. Members of the National Genealogical Society can access NewspaperArchive.com at no additional cost (https://www.ngsgenealogy.org/newspaperarchive/).
Newspapers.com
This site has over 920 million pages of newspapers from the 1700s–2000s. Newspapers from over 30 Maryland communities are represented. Ancestry All Access members have access to the basic version of this database as part of their membership.
O Say Can You See: Early Washington, D.C., Law and Family
The site allows you to explore kinship and family networks of multigenerational black, white, and mixed families of early Washington, D.C. (portions of which originally were part of Maryland). These networks have been created using information derived from court records, as well as genealogical research. Because of the importance of kinship and family in matters of freedom, the petition for freedom case files in particular often contain genealogical information for the black and white families involved in these suits.
Old Hoopers Island Graveyard at Honga, Dorchester County
Hoopers Island is one of the oldest settled areas in America.
The Graveyard was originally part of the 117 acre tract called "Shapleigh's Chance." The tract, surveyed in 1667, was sold in 1669 to William Travers of Hoopers Island. With the passage of generations, the lands were re-surveyed and subdivided. In 1821 John Parker, William Travers' great-grandson, sold the graveyard to Matthew Travers and the heirs of Travers Tolley. Matthew Travers' first wife, Mary, was buried here in 1805 (the oldest tombstone).