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Marriage, Death and Allegany County Records:

  • 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

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Church Records:

  • 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

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Cemetery Records:

  • Allegany County MD, Rural Cemeteries :: SpecCol, Stacks :: 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.

  • 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

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Census:

  • 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)

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Military: 

  • Family Tree Maker Roll of Honor: Civil War Union Soldiers :: Media Software :: 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

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Periodicals/Indexes:

  • 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

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Newspapers on Microfilm

  • 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

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General Materials

  • 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

  • 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: Z1293 P3 1940 :: Stacks: 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

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Other Libraries/Archives of Interest

    Local Resources:
    State Resources:

Websites

African Ancestored Genealogy

Ancestry.com

Genealogy.com

Genealogy Blog

Genealogy Gateway

Genealogy Helplist

The Genealogy Homepage

GenWeb - World

GenWeb - US

GenWeb - Maryland

GenWeb - Allegany County

Mormon FamilySearch

NARA Passenger Lists

National Archives Genealogy

Native American Genealogy

RootsWeb

UK and Ire. Genealogy

US Census Bureau Genealogy

WHILBR Western Maryland’s Historical Library


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