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HathiTrust
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
HeritageQuest Online
HeritageQuest Online is available through public libraries. In Maryland, if you have a Maryland public library card, you can access HeritageQuest Online at home. (If you do not have a card, visit your local library to access the site there.) Included among the resources on the site are digitized versions of more than 28,000 family histories, local histories, and other books.
Historical Society of Baltimore County
The Historical Society of Baltimore County collects, preserves, and interprets the rich history of Baltimore County for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
Calvert County Historical Society
The Calvert County Historical Society, Inc. was founded in 1953 by a small group of concerned Calvert County residents. The main purpose of the Society was to further the collection of historical data and records concerned with Calvert County and other materials bearing on the history of the State and Nation, including private letters, documents, manuscripts, early events and acts as recorded in structures and works of public and private nature.
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes: texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections, and provides specialized services for adaptive reading and information access for the blind and other persons with disabilities.
Caroline County Historical Society
The headquarters of the Society is located within the Museum of Rural Life, on the Courthouse Square, on the corner of Second and Gay Streets, in Denton, Maryland.
MyHeritage Compilation of Published Sources
This collection includes a compilation of thousands of published books ranging from family, local and military histories, city and county directories, school, university and hospital reports, church and congregational minutes and much more. All records include images of the book's pages. Searching the collection is FREE, you do not need to have a subscription to MyHeritage.
Penn State University Libraries Digital Collections
The University Libraries' Digital Collections, close to 100 in all, cover a wide range of subject areas, including agriculture, the Civil War era, geology and geography of Pennsylvania, labor history, Pennsylvania history, Penn State history, and political protest. Many of these collections were digitized from holdings in the Special Collections Library.
The Historical Society of Carroll County
Founded in 1939, HSCC is dedicated to the research of piedmont Maryland's cultural heritage and the preservation and interpretation of objects significant to Carroll County history. The Society accomplishes this mission by sponsoring educational programs, research projects, exhibitions, publications, and community outreach programs to provide broad public access to this region's cultural heritage.
The Historical Society of Cecil County
The Historical Society of Cecil County was incorporated by an act of the General Assembly in 1931. Its research library has the largest collection in existence of books, manuscripts, maps, government documents, and newspapers pertaining to Cecil County. Its Web site includes a variety of online databases and indexes.