There is no major statewide collection or index of tombstone inscriptions and cemetery records. See the United States Research Outline (30972) for more suggestions on locating these records.

The Family History Library has the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and the Holdcraft collections that contain tombstone inscriptions from some Maryland cemeteries. These collections are described in the “Genealogy” section of this outline.

A large card file of tombstone inscriptions for Baltimore is:

Loudon Park Cemetery (Baltimore, Maryland). Cemetery Records, 1853-1986. Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1986. (On 66 FHL films beginning with 1429937; computer number 68344.)

The Maryland Historical Society has many cemetery records. They are often filed with records of the church they were associated with. Many tombstone inscriptions have also been published in periodicals.

The Genealogical Council of Maryland is preparing a directory of cemeteries for four Maryland counties. The directory will give the name of the cemetery, its address or location, the name of a contact person, the dates of the earliest and most recent burial, the present condition of the cemetery, whether the tombstones have been transcribed, and where the transcripts can be found.

The a county-by-county list of the cemetery record transcripts available at the Family History Library is:

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Index to United States Cemeteries. Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1988. (FHL films 1206468-94; computer number 475648.) Film 1206475 includes Maryland among other states.

The Locality Search of the Family History Library Catalog lists more cemetery records under:

MARYLAND - CEMETERIESMARYLAND, [COUNTY] - CEMETERIESMARYLAND, [COUNTY], [TOWN] - CEMETERIES

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