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Consisting of the most authoritative books ever published on Maryland in the colonial wars, the 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 which 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 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, you must go to the View menu, select Data CD, then View CD. For FTM 2008 or higher, you must download the Family Archive Viewer.

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.