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This CD combines six of the most authoritative books ever published on the subject of Maryland genealogy: Maryland Marriages, 1634-1820 (3 volumes) and Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759, by Robert Barnes, as well as the two-volume Maryland Genealogies from the Maryland Historical Magazine. The six volumes combined refer to 125,000 individuals resident in Maryland, most of whom are identified in the context of family relationships.

The three-volume Maryland Marriages, 1634-1820 is a compilation of all marriages recorded in church records and other documents on deposit at the Hall of Records in Annapolis and the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore. In general, the marriage records were extracted from parish registers, ministers' returns of licenses, and printed sources, including the Maryland Historical Magazine and the Archives of Maryland. Also included are marriages recorded in the registers of certain individual ministers that are not housed in either of the above repositories. Besides giving the names of the bride and groom and the date of the marriage, entries also note places of origin, parentage, and previous marital status.

Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759 provides comprehensive genealogical data on the hundreds of families and thousands of individuals who settled in the county during the first hundred years of its existence. Parish registers, administration bonds, wills, and inventories were used as the nucleus for each family group, while court records and deeds were combed for supplementary data. In general, family histories commence with the Baltimore County progenitor and continue for about three generations.

Maryland Genealogies is composed of articles that originally appeared in the Maryland Historical Magazine, the well-known journal of the Maryland Historical Society. The first volume of the Magazine contained accounts of the Brooke and Tilghman families, and in fact since 1906 the Magazine has included articles on families from all parts of the state--from the Goldsboroughs, Lloyds, and Tilghmans of the Eastern Shore, to the Lowndes, Spriggs, and Taskers of southern Maryland; from the Todds, Merrymans, and Gists of central Maryland, to the Brengles and Fritchies of western Maryland--nearly 100 articles in all, naming 15,000 persons. Most of the articles begin with the first member of the family in Maryland and trace descendants in the male line down to the early 18th century. The format is the so-called New England Register plan, with the immigrant ancestor described, then his children, his grandchildren, and so on, generation by generation.

All names mentioned in the combined works are accessible on this CD via a single, electronic index.

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 http://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).

To access information on our Family Archive CDs using the Family Archive Viewer:

1. Install the Family Archive Viewer CD or download it from http://www.genealogy.com/dlfav6.html.
2. Start the Viewer if it is not already running
3. Insert the CD you wish to view into the CD-ROM drive. If you have 2 or more CD-ROM drives, the CD must be placed in the first one.
4. The CD should open automatically, but users of later versions of the Family Archive Viewer must click the CD/magnifying glass icon in the top toolbar (above the template in some versions) to read the CD.
5. When the screen entitled “About this Family Archive�? appears, click OK where prompted.

To access information on our Family Archive CDs using Family Tree Maker:

1. Start your Family Tree Maker and open a Family File. (If the program is already running, skip to Step 2.)
2. Insert the CD in your computer's CD-ROM drive. (If you have 2 or more CD-ROM drives, the CD must be placed in the first one.)
3. From the View menu, select Family Finder, or select the Family Finder icon from the toolbar.
4. For FTM 2005, FTM 2006, or Version 16 or later: From the View menu, select Data CD, then View CD.

To search the CD for names, select the Search Expert button in the top right of your screen, then select "Search this archive for someone NOT from your Family File." You can also search for names by using the Index.

Note: If a window opens that contains a list of files on the CD, simply close it.