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Marriage, Death and Allegany County Records: 
Title Location Call Number
Allegany Co. MD Marriage Licenses, 1791-1873 SpecCol F187.A4A83
American Marriage Records Before 1699 REF CS68.C5
County Courthouse Book REF KF8700 A19B46
Marriage Diary of Rev. William Shaw, Allegany Co., MD:
Deacon of the Methodist Episcopal Church 1792-1813
SpecCol BX8481.C8S53 1967
Early Allegany Co. Records, 1787-1825 SpecCol F187.A4C84
Hampshire Co. Marriages of the 1800's SpecCol F247.H2H676 1994
Early Records, Hampshire Co., VA, Now WV SpecCol F247.H2S16 1969
Hampshire Co. Records, 1816-1923: VA/WV SpecCol F247.H2H677 1994
Marriages and Deaths from the MD Gazette, 1727-1839 SpecCol F180.B37
Marriages and Deaths from the Cumberland Alleganian, 5/16/1864- 5/1/1867 SpecCol F189.C9G38
Marriages and Deaths From the Newspapers of Allegany and Washington Co., MD, 1820-1830 SpecCol F180.W65
Marriages and Deaths, St. Mary's Co., MD, 1634-1900 SpecCol F187.S2F37 1982
Marriage Licenses of Frederick Co., 1778-1810 SpecCol F187.F8M99 1986
Maryland Marriages, 1634-1777 Stacks F180.B38
Maryland Marriages, 1778-1800 Stacks F180.B383 1979
Maryland Marriages, 1802-1820 Stacks F180.B384 1993
Where to Write for Vital Records REF CS42.7.W5
Wills and Administration of Accounts SpecCol F187.A4C86

Church Records:
   
Title Location Call Number
Allegany Passage: Churches and Families, W. Marva Dis., Church of the Brethren, 1752-1990 SpecCol BX7820 W38B38 1990
Historic Records of Emmanuel Episcopal Church Cumberland, MD SpecCol F189.C9H57 1984
Lutheran Church Records, 1801-1921: From Allegany Co. Cumberland, MD, and Family Bible Records SpecCol BX8042.C8L9
Maryland German Church Records SpecCol F190.G3M38 1986
Washington Co. MD, Church records of the 18th Century SpecCol F187.W3W29 1988

Cemetery Records:
   
Title Location Call Number
Allegany County MD, Rural Cemeteries SpecCol
Stacks
F187.A4A4313
F187.A4A4313
Cemeteries of Martinsburg and Berkeley Co., WV SpecCol F240.B4
Commemorating Frostburg's Percy Cemetery: A Restoration and Research SpecCol

F187.F7C76 1995

F187.F7C762 2000

Directory of Maryland Burial Grounds REF F179.3.D57 1996
Hampshire County Death Records (1866-1922) SpecCol F247.H2H674 1993
Feldstein's Gone but Not Forgotten: A Biographical Graveside
Tribute to Historic Allegany Co Figures and Personages from the Past
SpecCol
Stacks
F187.A4F42 2v.
F187.A4F42 2v.
Maryland's Garret County Graves SpecCol

F187.G2M37

F187.G2M42 1995

Rose Hill Cemetery, Cumberland, MD: An Inventory SpecCol F189.C8G45 1995
Springfield District Cemeteries of Hampshire County, WV SpecCol F247. H2H678 1993
Washington County, MD Cemetery Records SpecCol F187. W3W28 1982

Census:
Title Location Call Number
1776 Census of Maryland SpecCol F180.C355 1992
Allegany Co., US Census Population Schedules 1790 - 1930 Microfilm HA201.U53
First Methodist Episcopal Church (Frostburg, MD) Church Register Microfilm BX8481.F7F722
Index to 1820 Census of MD and Washington, DC REF F182.P37 1985
John's Church, St. John's Parish Allegany Co. Microfilm BX5980.F7S345
(Reel 2)
St. Johns Episcopal Church (Frostburg, MD) Microfilm BX5980.F7S345
(Reel 1)

Military: 
Title Location Call Number
Family Tree Maker Roll of Honor: Civil War Union Soldiers Media Softw E494.R65 1996
History and Roster of MD Volunteers, War of 1861-65, 2v. SpecCol E512.3.W55 1987
Index to the Roster of the MD Volunteers, 1861-1865 SpecCol F180.T65 1986
Index to U.S. Invalid Pension Records, 1801-1815 SpecCol CS88. C484 1991
Known Military Dead During the War of 1812 SpecCol E359.4.P48 1995
Maryland and D.C. Volunteers in the Mexican War SpecCol E409.7.W45 1991
Maryland Militia In the Revolutionary War SpecCol E263.M3C56 1987
Maryland War Records Commission. Maryland in the World War, 1917-1919 RBR D570.85 M3A4
Military Lots, 1-2475. Title Written in Ink on Front Cover RBR MSS
Revolutionary Soldiers Granted Pensions by the State of Maryland SpecCol F187.A4M468 1993
US Military Records:Guide to Federal and State Sources: Colonial America to the Present REF E181.N43 1994
WV Revolutionary Ancestors: Whose Services were Non-Military and Whose Names Do Not Appear in Revolutionary Indexes of Soldiers and Sailors Stacks F240.R31 1995
Western Maryland/Pennsylvania/Virginia Militia in Defense of MD, 1805-1815 SpecCol E359.M2H85 1983
Westward of Fort Cumberland Military Lots Set Off for Maryland's
Revolutionary Soldiers: with an Appended List of Rev. Soldiers Granted Pensions by the State of MD
SpecCol F187.A4M468 1993

Periodicals/Indexes:
Title Location Call Number
Der Kurier/Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society. V. 1-1985- PER CS610.K97
Glades Star, 1941- SpecCol PER F187.G2G6
Maryland and Delaware Genealogist, 1959- SpecCol PER CS42.M35
Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin, 1960- SpecCol PER CS42.M355
Maryland Historical Magazine, V.9 1991- PER F176.M18
New York Times Index, 1851- REF AI21.N44
Old Pike Post, 1984- SpecCol PER F187.A4O54
Virginia Gazette, 1736-1780, 2v. Ref AI121.V5
Western Maryland Genealogy, 1985- SpecCol PER F186.9.W47
Western Maryland Newspaper Abstracts, 1786-1810 SpecCol F187.E2F75

Newspapers on Microfilm
Title   Call Number
Boston Gazette, 1719-1798   AN4899.B65B6
The Virginia Gazette (Williamsburg), 1736-1780   AN4899.W66V5
Maryland Gazette, 1745-1839   AN4899.A55M3
Palladium of Freedom (Baltimore), 1787 (Aug 8)   AN4899.F8B27
Bartgis's Marylandische Zeitung (Fredricktown, MD), 1785-1789   AN4899.F8B27
Maryland Herald and Eastern Shore Intelligencer (Easton, MD), 1790-1804   AN4899.E35M3
American Eagle (Cumberland), 1809 (Feb 15)   AN4899.F8B27
Cumberland Impartialist, 1809 (Jan 21)   AN4899.F8B27
Hagers-Town Gazette (Hagerstown), 1809-1913   AN4899.H3H3
Freiheitsbothe (Fredericktown MD), 1810 (Apr 14)   AN4899.F8B27
Baltimore Recorder, 1810 (June 16)   AN4899.F8B27
General Straasbothe (Fredericktown, MD), 1811 (Dec 27)   AN4899.F8B27
Cumberland Gazette, 1814 (Jul 21)   AN4899.F8B27
Weekly American Farmer (Baltimore), 1819-1820   AN4899.F8B27
Centinel of Freedom (Rockville), 1820 (Jan 14)   AN4899.F8B27
True American (Rockville), 1824 (Mar 10)   AN4899.F8B27
Cumberland Alleganian, 1845-1851   AN4899.C85C82
New York Times, 1851-Current   AN4899.N5N48

Southern ( Bel Air, MD) Aegis 1857-1868

  AN48899.B4M3
Valley Register (Middleton, Maryland), 1858-1865   AN48899.M5M3
Examiner (Frederick, MD), 1860-1866   AN4899.F7P6
Gate City Guardian (Georgia), 1861   AN4899.A85S6
Baltimore American and Commercial Advertiser, 1861   AN48899.B3A4
Southern Confederacy (Georgia), 1861-1865   AN4899.A85S6
Hagerstown Mail, 1861-1870   AN4899.H3M3
The Mountain City Times (Cumberland), 1869-1875   AN4899.C85M6
Frostburg Mining Journal, 1871-1911   AN4899.F75F7
Cumberland Daily Times, 1872-1891   AN4899.C85C82
The Oakland Republican, 1877- present bound and/or microfilm   AN4899.O25R4
Civilian (Cumberland), 1880 and 1882-1883   AN4899.C85W4
Weekly Civilian (Cumberland), 1890-1891   AN4899.C85W4
The Times (London), 1890-1916   AN5119.L83T5
The Sunday Scimitar (Cumberland), 1894   AN4899.C85S9
Cumberland Evening Times, 1916-1987   AN4899.C85C82
Afro-American National Edition (Baltimore), 1893-1899, 1915-2001   E185.5.A3
Cumberland Press, 1914-1916   AN4899.C85C86
Current People's Weekly World, 1919-   HX1.W6
Cumberland Sunday Times, 1925-1931   AN4899.C85C82
The Allegany Citizen (Frostburg)   AN4899.F75C5
The Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition), 1958-Current   HG1.W2
The Citizen (Frostburg), 1961-1983   AN4899.F75C5
People's Guardian (Frostburg), 1965-1980   AN4899.F75G8
The Washington Post, 1971-Current   AN4899.W3W34
The Sunday Times (London), 1980-1986   AN5119.L83T5
The Citizen Record (Frostburg), 1983-1985   AN4899.F75C5
The Frostburg Journal, 1986-1988   AN4899.F75C5
The Cumberland News and Evening Times, 1987 Apr-Sept   AN4899.C85C82
The Cumberland News, 1987 March   AN4899.C85C82
The Cumberland News and Times, 1987 Oct-Dec   AN4899.C85C82
Current (Hagerstown) Morning Herald, 1988-2001   AN4899.H36M6
Current Cumberland Times-News, 1988-   AN4899.C85C82

General Materials
Title Location Call Number
1991 Frederick Co., MD, Genealogical Research Guide REF F187.F8R87
Abstracts from the South Branch Intelligencer (Hampshire, Mineral, and Hardy Co., WV): June 1837-Dec.1839 REF F247.H2H67
Afro-American Genealogy Sourcebook REF E185.96 Y67 1987
Age Search Information REF CS68.S54
American Passenger Arrival Records: A Guide to Records of Immigrants arriving at American Ports by Sail and Steam REF CS49.T46 1993
Archives of Maryland, 72v. SpecCol F176.A67
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Employees: 1842, 1852, 1855, 1857 SpecCol HE2791.B3K36 1982
Bell Publishing Co 1893-94 (Directories of Local Towns) RBR F817.A4A18 1883
A Bibliography of American County Histories REF E180 F54 1985
Brown's Miscellaneous Writings Upon A Great Variety of Subjects SpecCol F187.G2B76
Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry American Families With British Ancestry REF CS45.B78 1975
Burke's Presidential Families of the United States of America REF CS69.B82 1975
DAR. Abstracts of Land Records From Deed Books, 1795-1806 SpecCol F187.A4D3
Directory Of American Libraries With Genealogy Or Local History Collections REF Z675 G44F56 1988
Directory Of Historical Societies and Agencies in The U.S. and Canada REF E172.A538
Finding Your People in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia REF F232 S5G57 1988
Four Centuries of Genealogy Mediatape CS16.F6 1982
Frederick County MD Genealogical Research Guide, Revised REF F187 F8R87 1987 and 1991
Genealogical and Local History Books in Print REF CS47.G45 1996
Genealogical Research in MD: A Guide REF F180.M39 1992
Guide to Genealogical Research in National Archives REF CS68.U54 1982
Guide to Newspapers and Newspaper Holdings in MD REF PN4897.M33M257 1991
Guide to the Research Collections of the MD Historical Society REF F181 M39 1981
Historical, Biographical Sketch of Frostburg, MD and its Citizens, Old and New SpecCol
Stacks
F189.F7M5
F189.F7M5
History of Hampshire Co, WV, From its Earliest Settlement to the Present SpecCol F247.H2M4
How to Research and Write Your Personal History Mediatape CS16.H34
In Search of Your British and Irish Roots REF CS414.B38 1987
In Search of Your European Roots REF CS403.B39 1985
In Search of Your German Roots REF CS614.B39 1987
Index of Source Records of MD, Genealogical, Biographical, Historical, 1940 RBR
Stacks
Z1293 P3 1940
F181 P3 1967
Jewish Family Names and Their Origins: An Etymological Dictionary REF CS3010.G84 1992
MD and DC Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1899-1900-1901 SpecCol F179.M363
MD Biographical Sketch Index V.1. REF F180.A54 1983
MD Family Genealogies and Histories: A Bibliography SpecCol F180.V5
New Dictionary of American Family Names REF CS2481.S55
Newspapers in Microform 1948-1972 REF PN4855 L5
Newspapers in Microform U.S. 1973-1977 REF PN4855 L5
Oral History, Family History and Genealogy Mediatape CS16.S58
Pharmacy Account Record of a Local Drug Store RBR Uncataloged
Portrait and Biographical Record of the Sixth Congressional District RBR F187.A4P8 1989
Researching, Writing, and Documenting a Family History Mediatape CS16.H3
Ship Passenger Lists: the South, 1538-1825 Stacks CS68.B75 1979
Ships of Our Ancestors REF VM38.A58 1993
Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy REF CS49.C65
Writing of a Personal and Family History Mediatape CS16.S7
Washington County MD Genealogical Research Guide REF F187.W3R87 1993

Other Libraries/Archives of Interest
Local Resources:    

Allegany College Library
12401 Willowbrook Rd., Cumberland, MD 21502-2596 - phone: 301-784-5138

Allegany County Courthouse
30 Washington St., Cumberland, MD 21502 - phone: 301-777-5922
  

Allegany County Historical Society
218 Washington St., Cumberland, MD 21502 - phone: 301-777-8678

http://www.historyhouse.allconet.org/

Allegany County Public Library
31 Washington St., Cumberland, MD 21502 - phone: 301-777-1200

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Phone: 301-777-2888
  

Friends Family Association National Heritage Museum and Library
Maple St., Friendsville, MD 21532 phone: 301-746-5338

Frostburg Museum Association
69 Hill St., Frostburg, MD 21532 - phone: 301-689-1661

Garrett County Court House

203 South 4th Street
Oakland, MD 21550 - phone: 301-334-3403

Garrett County Historical Society
107 S. Center St., Oakland, MD 21550 - phone: 301-334-3226

http:www.deepcreekhospitality.com/fr_gc_historical.asp

Garrett County Public Library --Ruth Enlow Library
6 N. 2nd St., Oakland. MD 21550 - phone 301-334-3996

http://www.relib.net/gen.asp

Genealogical Society of Allegany County
P.O. Box 3103 LaVale, MD 21504-3103

Location 215 Bowen St., Cumberland, Md 21502  phone: 301 777-8850

State Resources:  

Enoch Pratt Free Library
400 Cathedral St., Baltimore, MD 21201-4484 - phone: 410-685-3750

www.prattlib.org/

Maryland Historical Society Library
201 W. Monument St., Baltimore, MD 21201-4674 - phone: 410-685-3750

www.mdhs.org

Maryland State Archives
350 Row Boulevard, Annapolis, MD 21401 - phone: 1- 800-235-4045 (toll-free)

www.msa.md/gov

Maryland State Law Library
351 Rowe Boulevard, Annapolis, MD 21401 - phone: 1-888-216-8156 (toll-free)

www.lawlib.state.md.us

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