“Digital Maryland (previously Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage or MDCH), is a collaborative, statewide digitization program headquartered at the Enoch Pratt Free Library/State Library Resource Center in Baltimore. Its mission is to facilitate the digitization and digital exhibition of the historical and cultural documents, images, audio and video held by Maryland institutions.”

They have many free, online collections useful for genealogy and family history research including:

• African American Funeral Programs Collection from the 1960s to present
• City and County Directories
• Business Directories
• Civil War Collections, especially pertaining to soldiers in the 2nd and 3rd Maryland Infantry Regiments
• Original Civil War era photographs, letters, and other documents
• Historic Maps of Maryland from 1650-1939
• H.L. Mencken portraits, photographs, drafts, letters and artifacts
• Oral History collection
• Slave Documents collection