Maryland Minority Records online include African American records, Native American Records, and more. This is a preliminary list.
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Maryland Immigration Records online
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Maryland Minority Records Online at the federal level
US – African American – Discover Freedmen, at FS (searches FS Freedmen’s Bureau records), at FS
US – African American – United States Freedmen’s Bureau Miscellaneous Records,1865-1872, index links to images (misc, court, land, labor, medical, African American) NOT IN DISCOVER FREEDMEN DATABASE SEARCHES, at FS
US – African American – United States Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen, 1865-1872, index & images (census, labor, immigration, slavery, birth, death, military, African American) NOT IN DISCOVER FREEDMEN DATABASE SEARCHES, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedman’s Bank Records, 1865-1874, index & images (bank, business, family information, African American), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Claim Records,1865-1872, index & images (marriage, labor, land, court, medical), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Hospital and Medical Records, 1865-1872, index & images (medical, African American, cemetery, birth, death, family names), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Labor Contracts, Indenture and Apprenticeship Records, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, court, labor, bounty, medical, land, personal information), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872, index & images, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Ration Records,1865-1872, index & images (African American, rations, relief, slavery, slave owners), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Records of Persons and Articles Hired, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, employment, medical), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Freedmen’s Court Records, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, court, military, school, misc), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Land and Property Records, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, land, court), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen’s Complaints, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, legal), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, school, legal), at FS
US – African American – US Freedmen’s Bureau Marriage Records, 1846-1867, at Anc$
US – African American – U.S., Freedmen’s Bureau Records of Field Offices, 1863-1878, at Anc$
US – African American – USGenWeb Project: African American Archives, at USGWA
US – African American – Great slave narratives, IA
US – African American – African American genealogy: a bibliography and guide to sources, at FS
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol I, IA
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol II, IA
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol III, IA
US – African American – African, Americans and the Gettysburg campaign, IA
US – African American – Before the Mayflower : a history of the Negro in America, 1619, 1964, IA
US – African American – Black courage 1775, 1783: Documentation of Black participation in the American Revolution, IA
US – African American – Black genesis : a resource book for African, American genealogy, IA
US – African American – Black Indian genealogy research, IA
US – African American – Black slavery emancipation research in the Northern States, FS
US – African American – Compiled military service records of volunteer soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops : 1st through 5th United States Colored Cavalry, 5th Massachusetts Cavalry (Colored), 6th United States Colored Cavalry : pamphlet describing M1817, IA
US – African American – Compiled military service records of volunteer Union Soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops, infantry organizations, 14th through 19th, IA
US – African American – Finding a place called home : a guide to African, American genealogy and historical identity, IA
US – African American – Forgotten patriots : African American and American Indian patriots of the Revolutionary War : a guide to service, sources, and studies, DAR
US – African American – Free Negro owners of slaves in the United States in 1830, together with Absentee ownership of slaves in the United States in 1830, GB
US – African American – Generations past : a selected list of sources for Afro, American genealogical research, at FS
US – African American – History of the American negro and his institutions, at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 1. Cases from the courts of England, Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 2. Cases from the courts of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 3. Cases from the courts of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 4. Cases from the Courts of New England, the Middle States, and the District of Columbia), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 5. Cases from the Courts of States North of the Ohio and west of the Mississippi Rivers, Canada and Jamaica), at FS
US – African American – List of Black servicemen compiled from the War Department collection of Revolutionary War records, at FS
US – African American – List of free black heads of families in the first census of the United States, 1790, at FS
US – African American – Memorials of Lieut. George H. Walcott, late of the 30th U.S. Colored Troops, HT
US – African American – Missing pages in American history : revealing the services of Negroes in the early wars in the United States of America, 1641, 1815, GB
US – African American – Negro population in the United States, 1790, 1915, HT
US – African American – Noted Negro women : their triumphs and activities, at FS
US – African American – Patriots of color: a peculiar beauty and merit : African Americans and Native Americans at Battle Road & Bunker Hill, HT
US – African American – Progress of a race, or, The remarkable advancement of the American Negro : from the bondage of slavery, ignorance, and poverty to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust, at FS
US – African American – Recollections of a colored troop, LOC
US – African American – Record of the services of the seventh regiment U.S. colored troups, at FS
US – African American – Reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33rd United States Colored Troops, late 1st S.C. Volunteers, GB
US – African American – Report to the Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission, 1864 : the refugees from slavery in Canada West, HT
US – African American – Services of colored Americans in the wars of 1776 and 1812, at FS
US – African American – Slavery in the courtroom: an annotated bibliography of American cases, HT
US – African American – The colored patriots of the American Revolution, GB
US – African American – The colored patriots of the American Revolution, with sketches of several distinguished colored persons : to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans, GB
US – African American – The Forty, Third Regiment United States Colored Troops, Gutenberg
US – African American – The National cyclopedia of the colored race, GB
US – African American – The negro as a soldier in the war of the rebellion, LOC
US – African American – The Negro soldier : a select compilation, at FS
US – African American – The underground rail road : a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c. narrating the hardships hair, breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others, or witnessed by the author, HathiTrust
US – African American – The Underground railroad from slavery to freedom, Gutenberg
US – African American – Two colored women with the American Expeditionary Forces, at FS
US – African American – Who’s who in colored America : an illustrated biographical directory of nolable living persons of African descent in the United States, at FS
US – Japanese American – United States, War Relocation Authority centers, final accountability rosters, 1942-1946, index & images, at FS
US – Minorities – United States Russians to America Index, 1834-1897, index
US – Minorities – United States Germans to America Index, 1850-1897, index
US – Minorities – United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012, index & images
US – Minorities – United States Italians to America Index, 1855-1900, index
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index links to images, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index links to images, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images, at FS
Maryland Minority Records Online at the state level
Maryland – African American – Maryland and Delaware, Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872, at FS
Maryland – African American – Registers of signatures of depositors in branches of the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company, 1865-1874, at FS
Maryland – African American – Registers of signatures of depositors, 1866-1874, at FS
Maryland – African American – Maryland Obits, at AG
Maryland – African American – MDGenWeb: African American Resources, at MDGW
Maryland – African American – Slavery Commission Records, at MSA
Maryland – African American – Volume 365 – Searching for Ancestors Who Were Slaves, at MSA
Maryland – African American – Volume 366 – History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-6, Volume 2, at MSA
Maryland – African American – Volume 670 – The Study of the Legacy of Slavery in Maryland (external link), at MSA
Maryland – African American – Volume 822 – C. Ashley Ellefson, Servants and Slaves: Status, Runaways, Punishments (2010), at MSA
Maryland – African American – Maryland State Colonization Society, at MSA
Maryland – African American – Descriptions of African American Records, at MSA
Maryland – African American – Commissioner of Slave Statistics – Montgomery County, at MSA
Maryland – African American – Maryland State Colonization Society Papers, 1827-1871, at MHS
Maryland – African American – Maryland African American Records, at MCFHC
Maryland – African American – A Listing of Slaves and Indentured servants in Somerset County, 1668-1720, at IA
Maryland – African American – A narrative of the life of Rev. Noah Davis: a Colored man, at IA
Maryland – African American – Manumissions and Sales of Slaves recorded in land records of Somerset and Worcester Counties, Maryland, 1859-1866, at IA
Maryland – African American – Maryland slave owners and superintendents, at FS
Maryland – African American – Slave statistics of Saint Mary’s County, Maryland, 1864, at AoM
Maryland – African American – The first colored professional, clerical, skilled and business directory of Baltimore City, at HT
Maryland – African American – The Hawk yearbook (1949), at IA
Maryland – African American – The Hawk yearbook (1950), at IA
Maryland – African American – The Hawk yearbook (1952), at IA
Maryland – African American – The Hawk yearbook (1953), at IA
Maryland – African American – 1954 The Hawk yearbook (1954), at IA
Maryland – African American – The Hawk yearbook (1956), at IA
Maryland – African American – The life of John Thompson, a fugitive slave : containing his history of 25 years in bondage, and his providential escape, at GB
Maryland – African American – The price of freedom : slavery and manumission in Baltimore and early national Maryland, at GB
Maryland – Minorities – Historical sketches of the Swedes on the Delaware, at FS
Maryland – Minorities – Maryland and Delaware, Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office records, 1865-1872, at FS
Maryland – Minorities – The Pennsylvania-German in the settlement of Maryland, at FS
Maryland – Minorities – Records of the field offices for the states of Maryland and Delaware, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872, at FS
Maryland – Minorities – Records of the Superintendent of Education for the District of Columbia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872, at FS
Maryland – Minorities – Report with recommendations of the Maryland Inter-Racial Commission to the Governor and General Assembly of Maryland, at FS
Maryland – Minorities – History, politics, and education, at FS
Maryland – Native American – A character of the province of Maryland, at FS
Maryland – Native American – Indian lands in Dorchester County, Maryland : selected sources, 1669 to 1870, at FS
Maryland Minority Records Online at the county level
Maryland – African American – Slavery Commission Records, at MSA
Maryland – Minorities – Maryland State Colonization Society Biographies by County, at MSA
Anne Arundel County – Volume 821 – Anne Arundel County Register of Wills, Certificates of Freedom, 1805-1864, at MSA
Anne Arundel County – Volume 823 – Anne Arundel County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1810-1831, at MSA
Anne Arundel County – Volume 824 – Anne Arundel County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1831-1844, at MSA
Anne Arundel County – Volume 820 – Anne Arundel County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1845-1864, at MSA
Anne Arundel County – Volume 816 – Anne Arundel County Court, Chattel Records, 1829-1838, at MSA
Anne Arundel County – Volume 817 – Anne Arundel County Court, Chattel Records, 1838-1845, at MSA
Anne Arundel County – Volume 818 – Anne Arundel County Court, Chattel Records, 1845-1851, at MSA
Anne Arundel County – Volume 825 – Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1797-1807, at MSA
Anne Arundel County – Volume 830 – Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1807-1816, at MSA
Anne Arundel County – Volume 831 – Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1816-1844, at MSA
Anne Arundel County – Volume 832 – Anne Arundel County Court, Manumission Record, 1844-1866, at MSA
Caroline County – Volume 836 – Caroline County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1827, at MSA
Caroline County – Volume 834 – Caroline County, Certificates of Freedom, 1827-1857, at MSA
Caroline County – Volume 835 – Caroline County Circuit Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1857-1864, at MSA
Dorchester County – Volume 774 – Dorchester County Court, Chattel Records, 1842-1847, at MSA
Dorchester County – Volume 805 – Dorchester County Court, Chattel Records, 1847-1852, at MSA
Dorchester County – Volume 776 – Dorchester County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1852-1860, at MSA
Harford County – Volume 857 – Harford County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1811 and 1818-1842, at MSA
Howard County – Volume 813 – Howard County Certificates of Freedom, 1840-1863, at MSA
Howard County – Volume 814 – Howard County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1854-1860, at MSA
Kent County – Volume 853 – Kent County, Certificates of Freedom, 1849-1865, at MSA
Kent County – Volume 860 – Kent County Register of Wills, Valuations and Distribution of Slaves, 1860-1895, at MSA
Montgomery County – Volume 812 – Montgomery County Slave Statistics, 1867-1868, at MSA
Prince George’s County – Volume 762 – Prince George’s County, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1829, at MSA
Prince George’s County – Volume 764 – Prince George’s County, Certificates of Freedom, Original, 1831-1863, at MSA
Prince George’s County – Volume 763 – Prince George’s County, Freedom Affidavits, 1810-1850 and 1852-1862, at MSA
Queen Anne’s County – Volume 854 – Queen Anne’s County Register of Wills, Certificates of Freedom, 1807-1848 and 1858, at MSA
St. Mary’s County – Volume 369 – Agnes Kane Callum, Slave Statistics of St. Mary’s County Maryland, 1864, Commissioner George B. Dent (1993), at MSA
St. Mary’s County – Minorities – Maryland, St. Mary’s County, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1852, at FS
Talbot County – Volume 858 – Talbot County Court, Certificates of Freedom, 1807-1815, at MSA
Maryland Minority Records Online at the city level
Baltimore (Independent City) – Jewish Records – Jewish Immigrant Aid Societies’ Records of Jewish Arrivals, 1913-1947, at FS
Baltimore (Independent City) – Jewish Records – Vital Records, 1840-1860 [Baltimore, Maryland], at FS
Middletown – Minorities – The Forgotten : the Middletown African Methodist Episcopal Cemetery, Middletown, MD, at FS
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