Maryland Newspapers

History
Newspaper publication in Maryland began in 1727 with the release of the Maryland Gazette in Annapolis.

Libraries and Archives
The following libraries have Maryland newspaper collections on site.


 * Enoch Pratt Free Library
 * Maryland Historical Society
 * Maryland State Archives

Newspaper Directory
The U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present is a national directory from the Library of Congress of over 140,000 newspaper titles. The directory provides a list of libraries from around the country that have the newspapers in their collections.

Digital Issues Online
Historical newspapers


 * Maryland State Archives (free) online collection covers the Maryland Gazette (1728-1839), and a dozen nineteenth-century newspapers.
 * NewspaperArchive.com ($) has a large collection of Maryland newspapers online. This database is free at some libraries. It may be under the name Access NewspaperArchive.
 * Ancestry.com ($) has over 20 historical Maryland newspapers.
 * University of Pennsylvania (free) has links to a handful of free historical Maryland newspapers online.
 * 1790-1799 The Maryland Herald is available online at Google News - free.
 * 1790-2009 Maryland Newspapers, 1790-2009 at MyHeritage - index and images ($)

Current newspapers


 * RootsWeb Obituary Daily Times (free) has a searchable database of over 14 million modern-day obituaries extracted by volunteers. Most are from 2000 or later, but some date back to the 1980s.
 * ABYZ Newslinks (free) has a directory of links to over 140 Maryland newspapers online organized by city.
 * OnlineNewspapers.com (free) links to over 110 Maryland newspapers online.
 * SHG Resources State Handbook &amp; Guide (free) links to over 30 current Maryland newspapers online.

Indexes

 * 1727-1761 Green, Karen Mauer. The Maryland Gazette, 1727- 1761: Genealogical and Historical Abstracts. Galveston, Texas: Frontier, 1989. (ISBN 0932231071); (Family History Library book )
 * 1727-1795 Barnes, Robert W. Gleanings from Maryland Newspapers. Four Volumes. Lutherville, Maryland: Bettie Carothers, 1975-76. (ISBN: none) (OCLC;8196057) (Family History Library book ; film
 * 1727-1839 Barnes, Robert W. Marriages and Deaths from the Maryland Gazette, 1727-1839. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1973. (ISBN 0806305800) (ISBN 0806305800); (OCLC;28916982) (Family History Library book ). Online at Ancestry ($).
 * 1800s-1999 U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999 at Ancestry - index ($)
 * 1837-1850 Hollowak, Thomas W. Index to Marriages and Deaths in The (Baltimore) Sun 1837-1850. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1978. . Online at Ancestry ($).
 * 1851-1860 Hollowak, Thomas L. Index to Marriages in The (Baltimore) Sun 1851-1860. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1978. . Online at Ancestry ($).

Guides

 * Maryland newspapers are identified county-by-county in "Guide to Maryland Newspapers," available online, courtesy: Special Collections, Maryland State Archives.
 * Hofstetter, Eleanore O. and Marcella S. Eustis. Newspapers in Maryland Libraries: A Union List. Baltimore, Maryland: Division of Library Development Services, Maryland State Department of Education, 1977. (ISBN: none) (OCLC 3160087) (Family History Library Book ; fiche )
 * White, Les, et al. Newspapers in Maryland: A Guide to the Microfilm Collection of Newspapers at the Maryland State Archives. Annapolis, Maryland: Maryland State Archives, 1990. (ISBN: none) (OCLC 19906122, 23530179, 23140665) (Family History Library book )

Family History Library
To locate newspapers in the Family History Library's collection which pertain to a large part of Maryland, The Family History Library is not actively collecting newspapers of the United States.