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Archives of Maryland Online

Historical documents that form the constitutional, legal, legislative, judicial, and administrative basis of Maryland's government. Online access enables users to research such topics as Maryland's constitutions and constitutional conventions' proceedings, session laws, proceedings of the General Assembly, governors' papers, and military records.

Archives UM: Encoded Archival Description at the University of Maryland

ArchivesUM is a portal to help researchers locate materials described in finding aids to archival and manuscript collections at the University of Maryland Libraries. Through ArchivesUM, researchers may browse subject categories, such as 'Family History' or 'History, 1820-1965' or geographical locations, such as 'Baltimore.'

Baltimore County Public Library

Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum New!

As the State of Maryland’s official museum of African American heritage, the Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum serves to document, interpret, and promote African American history and culture in Maryland through exhibitions, programs, and projects in order to improve the understanding and appreciation of America’s rich cultural diversity for all.

Digital Collections at the University of Maryland

Digital Library of Appalachia

Provides online access to archival and historical materials related to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region. The contents of the DLA are drawn from special collections of Appalachian College Association member libraries.

Digital Maryland

Digital State Archives - Maryland

The online portion of the Maryland Archives is certainly hard to wade through. But it's well worth the effort for family history work, as there are some wonderful sets of data here. Some, like 'Early Settlers' date back to the 1600s.

Documenting the American South

Sponsored by the University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this is a a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.

Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History & Culture

Salisbury.

Enoch Pratt Free Library - Baltimore, Maryland

Family History Center, Washington DC Temple

FamilySearch - FamilySearch Center Locator: Maryland

From the FamilySearch web site. Includes address, telephone number and hours of operation.

FamilySearch Catalog

From the FamilySearch web site, an online catalog to the holdings of Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. Microfilm loans can be ordered and then sent to your local Family History Center.

Internet Archive - Reclaim The Records - Maryland State Archives

Langsdale Library - University of Baltimore

LibDex - The Library Index - Maryland

A worldwide directory of links to library homepages and web-based OPACs (Online Public Access Catalogs).

Libraries in Maryland

Library of Congress - Search results for Maryland

Maryland Center for History and Culture - H. Furlong Baldwin Library