Maryland Cemeteries


 * Maryland's Tombstone Transcription Project

There is no major statewide collection or index of tombstone inscriptions and cemetery records. See the United States Research Outlinefor 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, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1986. (On 66 Family History Library films beginning with 1429937.)

The Govanstown Cemetery (Baltimore County) is now online as part of the Govans Presbyterian Church web site. To go directly to the PDF Listings click on:   http://i.b5z.net/i/u/1627491/f/CemetaryByInterred.pdf  (If that does not work go to www.govanspres.org and click on "cemetery listings"

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 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, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1988. (Family History Library films 1206468-94.) Film 1206475 includes Maryland among other states.

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

MARYLAND - CEMETERIES

MARYLAND, [COUNTY] - CEMETERIES

MARYLAND, [COUNTY], [TOWN] - CEMETERIES

Web Sites
http://www.interment.net/us/md/

http://www.daddezio.com/cemetery/junction/CJ-MD-NDX.html

http://www.obitcentral.com/cemsearch/md-cem.htm

http://www.ancestorhunt.com/maryland-genealogy.htm

http://marylandgravestones.org/