Maryland State Archives

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Contact Information
E-mail: [mailto:archives@mdsa.net archives@mdsa.net]

Address:


 * 350 Rowe Blvd.
 * Annapolis, MD 21401

Telephone:  Maryland toll free 800-235-4045, or 410-260-6400 Fax:  410-974-2525

Hours: Wednesday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and some Saturdays 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., and 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more details, click here.

Internet sites and databases:


 * Maryland State Archives at mdsa.net
 * Archives of Maryland Online at www.msa.md.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/html/index.html
 * Vital Records Indexing Project at http://mdvitalrec.net/cfm/index.cfm (deaths 1875-1972)
 * Underground Railroad Database Search at ww2.mdslavery.net/

Collection Description
Births 1654-1924 ;marriages 1640-1997 ; deaths from counties 1654-1991, from Baltimore City 1875-1994 ; divorces, adoptions, census, city directories, cemetery, church records, courts, criminal, land, immigration, naturalization, plats, probates, taxation, biographies, newspapers, and periodicals.

Tips
The Archives will be closed on some Saturdays — click here to learn which ones.

Guides
Maryland State Archives, Guide to Government Records [online] at http://guide.mdsa.net/ (accessed 21 October 2008).

Substitute Repositories

 * Maryland Division of Vital Records - births 1898-1972; marriages 1951-1997; deaths 1968-present.
 * Maryland County Circuit Courts (see individual county courthouses) - supplied many of the earlier copies of the births, marriages, and deaths at Maryland States Archives.
 * NARA
 * Family History Library - has books and microfilms of
 * Library of Maryland History
 * Maryland State Library
 * Maryland Historical Society at http://www.mdhs.org/
 * surrounding state archives in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, and West Virginia.