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Data at this Site
Death Certificates
15 Feb 1834-26 Feb 1834 Marriage Licenses
Baltimoreans who died during 1850 in New Orleans, LA

USGenWeb & Rootsweb

Data Sources

Researcher and Volunteer Listings

Baltimore County was formed by 1659. At that time it included parts of (or the whole of) todays: Harford Co., Cecil Co., Frederick Co. & Carroll Co. The original County Seat was at Spesutia Island , it was next located in Joppa Town. As a result of a popular referendum in 1768 (there is a large list of residents signing the petitions, which seems to be about the most complete list of men in the County at the time), the county seat was moved to Baltimore Town. When Baltimore was incorporated as a city, the county seat was moved to its present location in Towson.
Since 1851 Baltimore City and Baltimore County have been two completely separate enities, each with their own records. There is a separate web page for Baltimore City on the MDGenWeb Project. So please also check the Baltimore City page when looking for persons in the city or for information on cemeteries and land that are now located in the City. One way to identify the difference in census records is that the city was in wards and the county had districts.

What Is New On This Web Site?

We are now using Google Groups for current queries! 

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Jan 2021 we finally have access to these pages again.  I am updating ALL of the pages- please email me any updated information that you have!  ASC Rebecca Maloney

Also added transcription of the 1869 Collection Book, 5th Col Dist of Baltimore county. This volume is apparently originally recorded the tax assessment for 1869 of the 5th district of Baltimore County. The page with surnames beginning with S is missing and part of the page with names beginning with M had been cutout.

Maps showing the approximate boundaries of Baltimore county from its formation circa 1659 to 1918 .

From the 1906 Atlas, here is a map of the southern 3/4 of Baltimore county.

How To Find Genealogical Information in Baltimore County:

There is a significant amount of material, such as church, county, and state records that have been abstracted and family genealogies, for Baltimore County. Here is a Bibliography of material for Baltimore County Genealogical Research. As an aid to researchers here is a listing of dealers/bookstores that sell books on Baltimore County Genealogy topics. Most of these enterprises have websites where you can check titles.

I have included a short sumary of my experience on available information for various time periods in researching. We are fortunate, that many early Baltimore Couny Records are existent. Finding information on marriages is easier in MD than some states such as PA and NY, since MD institued marraige licenses about 1777, but MD did not require marriage bonds like VA.

Also there is local history and genealogical information available at the Baltimore County Public Libraries and the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore. The Enoch Pratt library website now has a page for genealogy research, Enoch Pratt will look up, for a modest fee, obituaries nd marriage announcements in Baltimore Papers that where printed during at least the last 150 years.

Genealogical/Historical Repositories and Societies

There are several Genealogical and Historic Societies which have information of interest to Baltimore County genealogy researchers and you may be interested in joining.

There are several repositories for information on Baltimore County.
The Maryland State Archives in Annapolis is the best place to obtain copies of vital records, wills and other government documents.
Other files of genealogical data are located at the Maryland Historic Society and Maryland Genealogical Society in Baltimore. Here are Addresses for contacting these organizations.
The Baltimore County Historical Society maintains a research library located in the old Almshouse. They also are sposoring various events and conferences. The maintain a vertical fle on genalogical material
The Baltimore County Genealogical Society maintains a library at 8601 Hartford Rd, (intersection with Hiss Ave.) 

The Maryland State Archives is making information available on the web, current offerings include a search engine for the supplemental listings of Maryland Settlers recently published by Dr. Carson Gibb and alphabetically indexed HTML pages of marriages that have been inferred from records. Also available for viewing is a listing of the Baltimore County Records held at MSA.  A new feature from the Maryland State Archives is on-line death indexes for Baltimore City and Maryland Counties. This site provides instructions for order copies of vital records from the MSA and department of vital records. The county records are listed by surname in various year groupings.

Sometimes records for Baltimore county families have been found in court and other records at the Baltimore city archives.

Genealogical Research Aids from Rootsweb and the MDGenWeb Project

We have an on-line fourm for reviewing and searching QUERIES about persons in Baltimore County, Maryland

As part of the USGenWeb Archives we have genealogical information for Baltimore County. If you have a file to contribute and share (such as extracts of old records you have compiled, family histories) and have archived on our system please contact the Baltimore County MDGenWeb Coordinator

The MDGenWeb Project is sponsoring a collection of tombstone inscriptions in additon to the cemetery inscriptions you will find on this website.

The MDGenWeb project has a collection of archived files of various types such as Bible records, Cemetery Records, Military Records and more.

On-Line Data Available from this Site and Linked Sites

To help genealogy researchers in Baltimore County, we have begun a researcher-surname registry for Baltimore County. Please provide the surnames you are researching for the registry or view who else might be researching lines you are interest in.

Visit the USGenWeb Archives for Baltimore County

The First Families of Anne Arundel and Baltimore Counties is a collection of linked family group sheets of early settlers of Baltimore and Anne Arundel Counties (for now we are working on families who were in the area by 1720) and links to other sites with linage data Contributions of GEDCOMS or text files are welcomed to add to these pages.

Wills of Baltimore County from the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries over 300 transcriptions of early wills. How to obtain Wills for Baltimore County that are not on our site.

Obituaries from Baltimore Newspapers starting in the 1840s. Over 17,700 records are on-line to date. Another extracts from newspapers which so far only contains a few entries are Orphans Court Proceedings which provided notice of the probate and administration of estates and Divorce Notices Published in Baltimore area newspapers

19th and 20th Century Marriage Notices from Baltimore Newspapers.

Transcription of Baltimore County Marriage Licenses from MSA Microfilms, an ongoing project with entries from Januray 1800 through January 1817 available.

Baltimore Co. Marriage Licenses from 15 to 26 February 1834

A recent addition to the project is a collection of Family Bible Records

We are attempting to obtain Transcripts of Tombstones and other cemetery information to place on-line to help researchers. Also to aid researchers here is a page of cemeteries in the Baltimore area with phone numbers or addresses

War of 1812 Pensions to Indigent Soldiers and Widows of Soldiers. Acts of the Maryland Legislature of 1868 and 1870.

Extracts from newspaper of historical events and biographics. The premier data are extracts from the Baltimore American and Baltimore Sun about the explosion of the steamship Medora on 14 April 1848 and resulting loss of life.

Transcript and images of the Shaver (St. Abrahams) Lutheran Church register from 1805 to 1860s. This is a newly discovered portion of the Church's register listing births, baptisms, a few deaths, communicants, and confirments starting in 1805 for the Shaver (Now called St Abrahams Church) in Beckleysville.

On-line Transcripts of other old documents , such as deeds, grants, court orders are also being collected to help researchers.

The New Orleans LAGenWeb site has provided a list of Persons from Baltimore who died in New Orleans in 1850.

There are some mid 19th century maps of Baltimore county available on line (from the Library of Congress) and others that can be purchased showing original land grants. These maps show the names of landowners.

We have useful links for helping you find information in Baltimore County. Also a page of various links to general interest, historical, and biographical web information involving Baltimore County MD

We Need Your Help

We welcome contributions of material to add to this sites collection. This ranges from GEDCOMS, lists of descendants, transcripts of wills, deeds, Family Bible Records and other documents, or if you have a site with substanial information on Baltimore County Genealogy (such as linages) or History we would like to provide a link to your site. Please Contact the Coordinator  If you would like to contribute.

COUNTY COORDINATOR: AVAILABLE

STATE COORDINATOR: SHARI HANDLEY

ASSISTANT STATE COORDINATOR: REBECCA MALONEY