MDGenWeb Project

11/13/2025

Founded in 1634 as the first English Settlement in the state, and named a county in 1637, St. Mary's is rich in history. Early laws, early faiths and early families set the tone for the Maryland that followed.

If you're researching St. Mary's County, don't miss these repositories. You're sure to find something!

1️⃣ St. Mary’s County Library:
📍23250 Hollywood Rd, Leonardtown, MD 20650
☎️ Phone: (301) 475-2846 (Main Library System)
🖥 https://www.stmalib.org/research-learn/genealogy-local-history/

💥 Highlights 💥

🔹 The “Maryland Room” houses the collection of the St. Mary’s County Genealogical Society: includes local family histories, census records, marriage licenses and death records
🔹 Newspaper microfilm holdings including 'The Beacon' (1852-1984) and 'The Enterprise' (1952-2020)'
🔹 Can't get there? You may submit 2 remote genealogy requests per month. WOW!

2️⃣ St. Mary’s County Historical Society (Tudor Hall)
📍 41680 Tudor Place, Leonardtown, MD 20650
☎️ (301) 475-2467
🖥 https://www.stmaryshistory.org/

💥Highlights💥

🔹 One of their Oral History Collections named 'Unified Committee for Afro-American Contributions' offers personal insights from as far back as 1900. Nothing like learning about an area straight out of the mouths of those that were there.
🔹 Land & tax records, historic maps and military records of the county from colonial times through the 20th century. Including Provincial Rent Rolls, Surveyor Journals and so much more!
🔹 Large file-cabinet collection of 1,135 local family histories files, newspaper clippings, articles and more.

Both of these repositories offer a LOT of records, photos, maps, patents, clippings, books, journals, oral histories and much, much more.

Have you been?

11/13/2025

Maryland o' Maryland!

Maryland has 23 counties and one independent city. Over the next few weeks, and in order of formation we'll be sharing 1 or 2 local resources you should check out if you're researching your ancestors.

The MDGenWeb project hosts a page for each county and is always looking for volunteers and/ or contributors.

VOLUNTEER: If you'd like to work with us by being a county coordinator, we'd love too have you! If you'd rather assist with inquiries and transcribe and submit records, consider being a co-coordinator.

CONTRIBUTE: If you'd like to share information, we'd love that too! We will gladly consider adding information to our county pages about the people that lived there, the businesses they owned and the lives they lived. This might be:
📰Newspaper clippings
⛪️Funeral cards, obituaries
📃 Written histories or letters
📓Journals
📖Family bibles with recorded dates

We only live as long as people are talking about us. Let's keep the stories of our loved ones alive by saying their names and sharing their stories.

12/31/2023

Happy 123123!!

12/06/2023

Genealogy Books for sale:

A long-time supporter of TNGenWeb Project is downsizing and has donated nearly 100 books for us to sell to raise money for our Web-hosting and other costs. These items are in mostly like-new condition, except for the older/historic volumes. A table below contains the items. Some of the external link...

03/18/2023

02/21/2023

Social Security numbers of people who have passed away are pretty easy to find. Here's a list that may help narrow down location of the person. Cards were issued beginning in 1936. The first 3 digits are the "area number." Cards issued before 1972: the first 3 digits are tied to the state where the card was applied for. Beginning in 1972: the first 3 digits were tied to the zip code of the mailing address on the card application. This changed again 25 Jun 2011. https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/geocard.html

08/26/2022

Research Tip 18 & 19 for Starting a Family Tree.
Shop at Locked Tree Family History Pages to record the information you find about your family.

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