United Kingdom Resources and Information

• Book: Gary Boyd Roberts's The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies (2008) - lists all the gateway ancestors to British North America with their closest royal descent. Each line gives names, no dates, but is fully referenced for further research.
  
• Tim Powys-Libbe's medieval work  
• Chris Phillips's.Medieval English Genealogy website
  
• Plantagenet Ancestry (2004) by Douglas Richardson
• Magna Carta Ancestry (2005) by Douglas Richardson
• The ancestry of the Prince of Wales was published in two volumes by Gerald Paget in 1977. Because his maternal grandmother was primarily British, Prince Charles's ancestry yields many overlaps to colonial immigrants and provides their entire ancestry, not just lines back to royals and nobles. 
• Thompson and Charles Hansen's ongoing study of the ancestry of King Charles II of England, which has been serialized in the journal, The Genealogist, and is presently back to ancestor #2031
• Two more works will yield additional information in forthcoming publications: the ancestry of the late Princess of Wales for twelve generations was published in 2007 by Richard K. Evans, and in its next volume will be devoted exclusively to medieval times. 
• Leo van der Pas's Genealogics website gives many medieval lines, all of which are well-documented, although too much emphasis is given to 19th century works such as the Complete Peerage and Europaischer Stammtafeln.  
• Foundation for Medieval Genealogy 
• soc.genealogy.medieval USNET
  
• http://paleo.anglo-norman.org/medfram.html or http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/default.htm from the British National Archives. 
• British National Archives, and many other depositories, are making their holdings available online either fully (such as the Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills) or as indexes to materials.

Maryland - Baltimore City and County Resources and Information

• US GenWeb Baltimore County Site 
• HistoryKPress - Publishes genealogy and historical information for Baltimore persons of Polish descent.
• Mount Olivet Interment Records
  
• St. Vincent DePaul's Church Cemetery Transcriptions
  
• Saint Stanislaw Kostka Church - Baptismal Record 1879-1889 (order through HistoryKPress)
  
• Marriage Licenses, Januray 1800 through January 1817 
• Marriage Licenses, 15 to 26 February 1834

Maryland - Dorchester County Resources and Information

• Dorchester County, MD Genealogical Magazine Good for Newspaper Obit index and Death and Marriage indexes.
• Information about early newspapers of the Eastern Shore is located here (i.e. what newspapers were published and when they were published and where you can find copies of them now and information about purchasing books that have newspaper abstracts).
  

France Resources and Information

• Denis Beauregard's website Genealogy of the French in North America.
  

Ireland Genealogy Resources and Information

• Online Record Search System, is part of the Irish Genealogical Online Record Search System (ORS) organized by the Irish Family History Foundation - the coordinating body for a network of government approved genealogical research centers in the Republic of Ireland (Eire) and in Northern Ireland. Almost 40 million Irish Ancestral records, primarily Church births (baptisms), marriages and deaths have been computerized.  
• FamilySearch Labs now has Ireland Civil Registrations Indexes, 1845-1958.
• Irish Times -- do click on the link labeled "Roman Catholic" on the left. 
• clickable maps that will eventually tell you what Roman Catholic Parish records survive and where they are held, for each parish.
• Civil Registration -- England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland 
• Pre-Civil Registration Births, Marriages and Deaths -- England and Scotland 
• Non-Conformist pre-1837 Records - England (though this talks of London, the information is relevant country-wide)

Scotland Genealogy Resources and Information

• ScotlandsPeople. Searches are free and then you pay a fee to acquire a document. This service is a partnership between the General Register Office for Scotland, the National Archives of Scotland, et al and is the official online source of parish register, civil registration, and other records for Scotland.
• "Old Parochial Register" index and document information are at ScotlandsPeople and the IGI. 
• FreeREG project.
• The National Archives of Scotland (NAS) holds records for the Free Church, and various other dissenting ('seceding') congregations. Most records of the Roman Catholic Church are held by the Scottish Catholic Archive and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Glasgow Archive. If NAS dos not hold the records that interest you, check out the denominational and local archives.
  ScotlandsPeople now has available Catholic Parish Registers 1703-1955. This also suggests that more may follow.
  

England and Wales Genealogy Resources and Information

• 1837 - Present: Since 1837 all births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales have had to be registered at the register office in the district where the event took place, while for Scotland the start date is 1855 and for Ireland it was 1864 for births & deaths and 1845 for marriages (though many Irish records were destroyed in 1922).
• FreeBMD project, whose goal is to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales, and to provide free internet access to these transcriptions.
• FamilySearch Labs now has index information for England baptisms (1700-1900) and marriages (1700-1900) with more records coming.
• Overview of the Registration Districts in England and Wales (1837-1974).
• "Online Parish Clerk" projects are individually run projects which aim to extract and preserve the records from the various parishes (along with other data) and to provide online access to that data, FREE of charge. The Lancashire project includes a nice list of all the current projects; go to the page and click on "links" on the left side.   
• FreeREG is a companion web-site to the FreeBMD site already mentioned - sharing the same purpose of making transcribed baptism, marriage and burial (from both parish and non-conformist registers) available to be freely searched on the internet. It includes records for England, Wales and Scotland
• .GENUKI Directory of UK genealogy-related material. You can browse at the county level for a pretty comprehensive overview of what materials might help your search in that particular county.
• Non-conformist (e.g., Methodists, Wesleyans, Baptists, Independents, Protestant Dissenters, Congregationalist, Presbyterians, Unitarians, Quakers, Dissenters, Catholics, Russian Orthodox, etc.)? (read the complete piece).Some 'dissenters' still considered themselves part of the Church of England and, in many cases they continued to use their parish church for the rites of baptism, marriage, and burial. In 1754, after Hardwicke's Marriage Act, only clergyman of the Church of England could perform marriages. However, Quakers and Jews were exempted. Some Anglican vicars refused to bury an unbaptised person, which can result in the establishment of a separate burial ground or burial on unconsecrated ground. After 1837, non-conformist records were recorded as above.
  Non-conformist registers are just coming online at the www.BMDRegisters.co.uksite (in association with the UK National Archives).
  

Civil War Ancestors Resources and Information

Where to find genealogy information on ancestors who served in the Civil War

• At the Cemetery: Many Civil War veterans were given government-issued headstones, or included details about their service on their grave markers. You can also look for a Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) medallion located near the grave of a Union veteran. The G.A.R. was formed by and for Civil War Union veterans and ceased to exist when the last Union veteran died in 1956.
• 1910 U.S. Census: Column 30 was used to indicate whether or not men over 50 were Civil War veterans. The results were entered as UA for Union Army, UN for Union Navy, CA for Confederate Army, and CN for Confederate Navy. Because many surviving Civil War records pertain mostly to Union veterans, the 1910 census is a great resource for locating Confederate veterans still living at the time.
• 1890 Special Schedule of Union Veterans and Widows:Only part of the record survived the fire, but you can check records for half of Kentucky through Wyoming, plus the District of Columbia; records for people living in Alabama through part of Kentucky were lost. Civil war veterans and widows of veterans are listed.
  
• Index to U.S. Military Pension Applications of Remarried Widows for Service between 1812 and 1911, transcribed by Virgil D. White, 1999.
• 1865 New York State Census and other state Census records: The 1865 New York State Census includes information about Union veterans living AND dead. If you are tracing someone who lived in Georgia, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, or Wisconsin, be sure to check the appropriate state census.
• National Archives in Washington, DC, has Compiled Military Service Records (CMSRs) for both Union and Confederate veterans. These files are short summaries of attendance and pay records. If a soldier was captured, there might be more information, but there is rarely any personal information other than the occasional physical description. Many of these records are available online at Footnote.com. You can also read more about how to order copies of these records from NARA at: http://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records/pre-ww-1-records.html. 
• Union Pension Files: Both Ancestry.com and Footnote.com have digitized NARA indexes to the Union pension files. If you are still having trouble linking a veteran with a common name to your family tree, the pension files often contain a great deal of genealogical information.Remember, not everyone applied for a pension
• Men in the United States Colored Troops: Ancestry has the Series T288 index (sorted by the veteran's surname), and Footnote has the Series T289 index (sorted by state and unit). Men in the United States Colored Troops are included in these files. Once you have verified that a veteran (or his dependents) received a pension, you can use the NARA link cited above to order a copy of the file. Some pension files, particularly those of widows, Navy survivors, and Navy widows, have been digitized and posted on Footnote.com.
• State Confederate Pensions: The federal government did not grant pensions to Confederate veterans, but many individual states did. An excellent summary of where those records are located can be found on the NARA website here: http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/military/civil-war/confederate/pension.html. Some states, such as Georgia, have digitized and posted online their Confederate pension files. 
• Civil War Rosters: Some states have posted Civil War rosters, some of which include physical descriptions of the men.
• National Park Service's Civil War Soldiers and Sailors database has lists of Union and Confederate soldiers, as well as African American sailors.
• Canadians in the American Civil War at: http://www.geocities.com/cancivwar/cancivwar.html 
• Jewish-American Civil War Veterans at: http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/USA/. 
• http://www.civilwardata.com/

Maryland - Anne Arundel County Resources and Information

From: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mdannear/hist.htm


Year of First Settlement: Winter of 1649/1650 at Providence (across the Severn River from Annapolis)
by Puritans and Independents from Virginia who resisted Gov. Berkleys demands for them to attend services at the Church of England.

Formation of County: Summer of 1650, the third county formed in Maryland and was named in honor of Lady Anne Arundel, wife of Cecilus (Calvert), Lord Baltimore.

Subdivisions - Hundreds:  The concept of a hundred is old and dates to the Roman occupation of England. A Hundred was said to be an area that could raise a force of 100 soldiers However, Hundreds in Maryland seemed to primarily been used for tax collection and land rent purposes.

There were Five hundreds in Anne Arundel Co in 1707.

• Herring Creek Hundred was the southern-most part of the County
• West River Hundred lay to the the north Herring Creek Hundred, around the West River,
• South River Hundred, was the area between West River Hundred and the South RIver.
• Middle Neck Hundred took in the area between the South River and Severn River
• Broad Neck and Town Hundred. was area east of the Severn River and included the original settlement of Providence.

The Hundreds of Anne Arundel County from the 1783 Tax Lists are the:

• Annapolis Hundred
• Broad Neck Hundred
• Elkridge Hundred
• Elkridge Landing Hundred
• Herring Creek Hundred
• Huntingdon Hundred
• Lyons Creek Hundred
• Magothy Hundred
• Middle Neck Hundred
• Patapsco Hundred
• Patuxent Hundred
• Road River Hundred
• Severn Hundred
• South River Hundred
• Town Neck Hundred
• Upper Fork and Bear Ground Hundred - (this is in Howard County today)
• West River Hundred

Parishes
In 1692 the Maryland Assembly passed an act establishing the Church of England as basically the state church and setup the establishment of Parish boundaries and establish vestries to support the church. Fortunantely of use today, the parish was to keep a register of all the births, deaths, and marriages. These parish registers provide us today with a great deal of genealogical data available on late 17th and 18th century Anne Arundel County. It should also be noted that the Quakers also kept minutes of their meetings in which births, marriages and deaths were recorded. The Parishs for Anne Arundel County through the 18th Century were:
St James Parish (also called Herring Creek Parish) took in all of Herring Creek Hundred and part of the West River Hundred. It basically took in the southern part of Anne Arundel County below West River and Muddy Creek. St James Church today is located on Rt 2
All Hallows Parish (also called South River Parish) took in the area of South River Hundred and part of West River Hundred. It is basically the area south and west of South River, bounded to the south by St James Parish. All Hallows Church is located today near Davidsonville. The orginial church was apparently erected near Birdsville.
St Annes Parish. (also known as Middle Neck Parish) included the land between the South River and Severn River. The church is located today in the center of Church Circle in Annapolis.
St Margaret's, Westminister Parish (also called Broad Neck Parish) This parish took in Broad Neck and Town Hundreds and was the area east and north of Severn River extending up to the Baltimore County Line (St Paul's Parish).
Christ Church, Queen Caroline Parish, was formed in 1728 from the western portions of All Hallows, St Anne's and St Margaret's, Westminster Parishs. This parish included the area which is now Howard County and the western edge of Anne Arundel County. The chapel was built near Guilford.

LAND RECORD RESOURCES

• Maryland State Archives, Huntington Collection of Maryland State Archives Security Microfilm, Anne Arundel County (Land Records), 1665-1778 (28 v.), series units 153 (1666-1752), 154 (1675-1712), 155 (1708-1724, 156 (1722-1733), 157 (1730-1734), 158 (1740-1754), 159 (1747-1768), 160 (1763-1771), 161 (1770-1778), 162 (1774-1797)

 
WILLS

• Maryland State Archives, Huntington Collection of Maryland State Archives Security Microfilm, Anne Arundel County (Wills), 1777-1820 (6 v.), series units 162 (1774-1797), 163 (1788-1820)