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Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812, as well as
books containing newspaper abstracts, church records,
records of marriages and deaths, tombstone
inscriptions, and census records, this Family Archive
CD contains a true cross-section of the records of
some 325,000 early Maryland settlers and soldiers,
all accessed through a single electronic index.
From Gaius Brumbaugh’s celebrated Maryland
Records: Colonial, Revolutionary, County and Church
(2 vols.), which includes the famous 1776 census of
Maryland as well as records of naturalization and
oaths of loyalty, to abstracts of marriages and deaths
from early Maryland newspapers by Robert Barnes
and Thomas Hollowak, to the exhaustive lists of
Maryland soldiers in the Revolution found in such
books as Muster Rolls and Other Records of Service of
Maryland Troops in the American Revolution, 1775-1783,
this CD has something of interest for virtually every
family researcher.
Like other CDs, it is designed to simplify genealogical
research by combining the images of pages
of selected volumes published by GPC with a single
name index that allows you to search all the volumes
quickly and effortlessly. A search on a single name
will turn up all references to that name found in any
of the following volumes:
• Maryland Records: Colonial, Revolutionary, County
and Church (2 vols.)
• Muster Rolls and Other Records of Service of Maryland
Troops in the American Revolution
• Maryland Revolutionary Records
• Revolutionary Records of Maryland
• Orderly Book of the Maryland Loyalists Regiment
• Marriages and Deaths from the Maryland Gazette,
1727-1839
• Marriages and Deaths from Baltimore Newspapers,
1796-1816
• Index to Marriages and Deaths in the “Baltimore
Sun,” 1837-1850
• Index to Marriages and Deaths in the “Baltimore
Sun,” 1851-1860
• A Record of Interments at the Friends Burial Ground,
Baltimore, Maryland
• Marriage Licenses of Caroline County, Maryland,
1774-1815
• Index of Marriage Licenses, Prince George’s County,
Maryland, 1777-1886
• The British Invasion of Maryland, 1812-1815
• Roster of Civil War Soldiers from Washington
County, Maryland
• Civil War Burials in Baltimore’s Loudon Park
Cemetery
System Requirements: You must have a CD-
ROM drive, and in order to read the CD you must
use either the Family Archive Viewer (version 4.0
or higher), which is available as a free download at
www.genealogical.com/content/dlfav6.html, or Family
Tree Maker for Windows, version 4.0 or higher
(Family Tree Maker software can be ordered from
www.FamilyTreeMaker.com).
Pilgrim Genealogies and
Histories 1600s-1900s
By various authors, 2008; Item #GPC7023; Published
by and available from Genealogical Publishing
Co., 3600 Clipper Mill Rd., Baltimore, MD 21211-
1953; Phone: 800-296-6687. $39.99 each with
$4.00 for shipping plus 6% sales tax for Maryland
residents. ISBN: 9780806397078. See: http://www.
genealogical.com/products/7023.html.
The Pilgrims, those redoubtable figures of early
American history and legend, arrived in New England
between 1620 and 1650 and are believed to be the
ancestors of about one-third of all Americans living
today! This is a big statement, but perhaps it explains
why there is so much interest in the Pilgrim Fathers
and why so many books have been written about
them. From William Bradford and Edward Winslow
to John Winthrop and Increase Mather, an entire library
has grown up around them, and no small part
of this literary contribution has a genealogical component.
Already several CDs have appeared which
place particular emphasis on Mayflower genealogy,
among them Mayflower Vital Records, Deeds, and Wills,
by Susan Roser, and Genealogies of Mayflower Families
from The New England Historical and Genealogical
Register. In addition, at least one other CD covers a
wider spectrum of early New England genealogy,
namely, the Genealogical Dictionary of New England,
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