Genealogy Overview 

There are many genealogy resources available in the Maryland Department for research on families that lived in Maryland. These resources include: 

• City directories 
• Telephone books 
• Census records 
• Passenger lists for the Port of Baltimore 1820-1948 
• Maryland Naturalization Papers 1797-1951 
• Biography file 
• Vertical file 

Books 

In the collection there are also many Maryland genealogical books covering areas such as, church records, cemeteries, indexes to marriages and death notices or obituaries, wills, and other pertinant topics and time periods. 

Guide 

For more detailed information on conducting genealogy research in the Maryland Department, view the Guide to Genealogical Research in the Maryland Department. 

Newspapers, Journals & Bulletins

Selected Maryland History and Genealogy periodical sources are available in the Maryland Department. 

Published Family Biographies

List of Family Biographies in The Sun of Maryland and Virginia families published in The Baltimore Sun between 1904 and 1908.