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In the 1950s, as railroads underwent major changes, some marginal lines stoodon the brink of extinction. Steam locomotives grew scarcer by the month, as did rail passengerconnections. With a keen eye for location and composition, James Gallagher in TracksideMaryland captures the drama and majesty of steam transportation in Maryland in its waningdays, when passing trains left clouds of cinders and smoke behind them and the sound of steamwhistles still echoed across the landscape--all these sights and sounds giving way to moderndiesel locomotives. Here Jacques Kelly's evocative prose accompanies Gallagher's ever vigilantlens. We are transported back to the last years of steam railroading.

"Each of Jim's photographs tells a story and conveys mood, spirit, atmosphere, and character. Theground in his photographs rumbles. Some of the antique trains he photographed look as if theymight rust and crumble before the end of their trip. Other photos impart a feeling of majesty andromance. And you don't have to be a train buff to appreciate them. Just step aboard and savor theresults of Jim Gallagher's skill, luck, and persistence."--Jacques Kelly, from the Introduction. ... Read more

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An Outstanding Offering of Railroading Photos and Commentary
Morning Sun Books currently markets a series of railroad books in its "Trackside" series (currently some 80 plus titles) and each title is focused either on a specific geographical area ("Trackside Around Southern California 1954-1963 With Dick Donat", "Western Maryland Trackside With George Leilich", "Trackside Around Kansas 1960-1975 With Lloyd E. Stagner", etc.) or on a specific railroad ("Wabash Trackside With Emery Gulash 1954-1974", "Boston & Maine Trackside With Arthur E. Mitchell", "Trackside Along the B&O 1957-1958 With Edward P. Griffith", etc).

Although at first glance this book may appear to be part of that series, it is NOT. It was published by Greenberg Press (and later re-published by Johns Hopkins University Press), the publishing company of Bill and Linda Greenberg in Sykesville, MD, publishers of a comprehensive line of books on Lionel, American Flyer, Marx and Kusan model trains (including an extensive number of books on Lionel train repair), and other pre-war and post-war stalwart toys (such as Gilbert Erector Sets, "Tootsietoys", doll houses, and Star Trek collectibles, among other toys).

This particular book represents one of Greenberg's several entries into books on full sized railroading ("Union Pacific Business Cars, 1870 - 1991", "The Royal Blue Line: The Classic B&O Train Between Washington and New York", and several others). It is truly an outstanding book on railroading and one of the best of its genre I've seen. The book is chock full of great black and white photographs by photographer James Gallagher accompanied by descriptive prose by Baltimore Sunpapers Columnist Jacques Kelly.

The photos are varied, engaging and plentiful. They are not just about trains (although plenty of them are) but also about RAILROADING, including the people of railroading and the scenes of railroading. Some of my favorites are one of a locomotive engineer accompanied in the cab by his railroad's canine mascot, as well as some taken in and around Harpers Ferry, West Virginia (which is just across the Potomac River from Maryland and must certainly be one of the most picturesque communities and railroad track layouts in the country).

The book is set mainly in the State of Maryland (and surrounding locales) and features the railroads you would expect to see in that area, namely the Pennsylvania Railroad, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Western Maryland Railroad, Norfolk & Western Railroad, and the "Ma and Pa" (Maryland and Pennsylvania) Railroad. It focuses on the time when steam was just starting to be replaced by diesel and while the bulk of the photos are of steam locomotives, there is an ample supply of photos of diesels, GG1 electric locomotives, RDC cars and even a few of the PRR's "Aerotrain".

While Marylanders will particularly enjoy this volume, one need not have a connection to that geographical area to enjoy the exceptional railroad photography and text. Any lover of railroading will truly appreciate it. As of this writing, it is available in hardback on Amazon for a price that's extremely reasonable for railroad books these days (and on Amazon Marketplace for even less in some cases). Even at the full price it surely one of the great values in railroadiana available today.

Railroads and life around them, not just trains
This book offers beautiful photography and useful commentary.It is not just about trains or, worse still, just about locomotives - as are far too many railroad books.These photos show railroads and trains in their physical contexts.
I should mention, however, that the subjects of these photographs are highly concentrated, in/around the state of Maryland, and perhaps are of less interest to persons not emotionally or otherwise connected to that region.

Excellent Book! Many Photo�s
I found this book to be very good; if you're from the Mid Atlantic States it's a great book!Many of the photos and stories are very good; almost all are black and white. This book had me looking back in time andremembering the days of powerful steam engines and then powerful diesellocomotives.A lot of the book is dedicated to the latter.I would highlyrecommend this book, even if you're not from the Maryland area the photosand stories are very good and trains of course are national in nature. ... Read more

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This new edition is a comprehensive research guide to all of Maryland's family history resources, including libraries, archives, historical and genealogical societies. An updated bibliography includes hundreds of the most valuable genealogical book titles as well as available e-mail addresses, web sites, and fax numbers for all the state's research centers and societies. The Guide is organized into sections such as Vital Records, Church Records, Tax Lists, and Special Finding Aids.

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As he did for free blacks in North Carolina and Virginia, Paul Heinegg has reconstructed the history of the free African American communities of Maryland and Delaware by looking at the history of their families.

Free African Americans of Maryland and Delaware is a new work that will intrigue genealogists and historians alike. First and foremost, Mr. Heinegg has assembled genealogical evidence on more than 300 Maryland and Delaware black families (naming nearly 6,000 individuals), with copious documentation from the federal censuses of 1790-1810 and colonial sources consulted at the Maryland Hall of Records, county archives, and other repositories. No work that we know of brings together so much information on colonial African Americans except Mr. Heinegg's earlier volume on Virginia and North Carolina. The author offers documentation proving that most of these free black families descended from mixed-race children who were the progeny of white women and African American men. While some of these families would claim Native American ancestry, Mr. Heinegg offers evidence to show that they were instead the direct descendants of mixed-race children.

Colonial Maryland laws relating to marriages between offspring of African American and white partners carried severe penalties. For example, one 18th-century statute threatened a white mother with seven years of servitude and promised to bind her mixed-race offspring until the age of thirty-one. Mr. Heinegg shows that, despite these harsh laws, several hundred child-bearing relationships in Delaware and Maryland took place over the colonial period as evidenced directly from the public record. Maryland families, in particular, which comprise the preponderance of those studied, also had closer relationships with the surrounding slave population than did their counterparts in Delaware, Virginia, or North Carolina. Mr. Heinegg recounts the circumstances under which a number of these freedmen were able to become landowners. Some Maryland families, however, including a number from Somerset County, chose to migrate to Delaware or Virginia, where the opportunities for land ownership were greater.

Free African Americans of Maryland and Delaware is a work that will be sought after for its commentary on social history as for its genealogical content and methodology. No collection of African American history or genealogy can be without it. ... Read more

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"This book is yet another expression of the careful social observations Walker Evans and James Agee offered inLet Us Now Praise Famous Men. Patapsco Valley, Maryland, thereby has joined the lucky company of Hale County, Alabama--both places that become, in the hands of an alert photographer and an attentive writer, something quite else: social texts that keep helping us find ourselves.... A valley's portrait becomes an aspect of a nation's ongoing story.... To Alison Kahn and Peggy Fox, then, for giving us Patapsco, we owe gratitude for a splendid, observing effort exceedingly well done, but also for the compelling summons they tender us; through meeting these Marylanders, we get a boost toward ourselves--our similar journey through time and space in America." -From the introduction, by Robert Coles

The love of place shines through in this documentary effort about a historic valley that saw the birth of industry in Maryland, the nation's first railroad, and the nation's first cross-country highway. This compelling portrait of the region is viewed through the memories of its elders from all walks of life. Through their collective memory, we gain a true sense of the cultural legacy of Maryland's historic Patapsco RiverValley.

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Terrific oral histories of life before sprawl
I live in lower Elkridge, MD, in one of the communities profiled in this book. I talk to the old folks in my neighborhood, but my conversations and memory isn't as good as the way the book captures it. If you appreciate the history of the area, and want to get a rich understanding of the way things were, this is a great resource. ... Read more

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Here is a true giant of a work, covering in full some twenty-two colonial Marylandand Virginia families and also treating hundreds of collateral families. Mrs. Doliante not only

establishes the Virginia and Maryland ancestry of the twenty-two main families, but als correctsmany longstanding inaccuracies and dispels some cherished myths, many repeated uncritically inone publication after another, such as the non-existent fourth wife of Henry Ridgley, theerroneous ancestry of Richard Duckett, Sr., and the putative maternity of the Sprigg children.The physical specifications of the book are in themselves impressive. There are over 1,200 pagesof text, more than 150 illustrations, a bibliography, a place name index, and an index of personalnames with over 23,500 entries! In addition to the standard sources both in print and manuscript,the author has had recourse to a wide range of private and public records to substantiate herfacts. Hence the book is amply furnished with transcriptions of such records as wills, inventories,and Bible records. Little will be found wanting here, and for those who are interested in thesefamilies, from their origins in Maryland or Virginia up to recent times, it is gratifying to knowthat someone has spared them the drudgery of sifting through thousands of pages of courtrecords. ... Read more

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Maryland and Virginia Colonials, by Sharon Doliante
This book contains no fewer than five of my family lines and was so well researched, I found my own name and the names of my seven brothers and sisters, who were listed in the correct chronological order and with correct dates of birth, with only one very minor mispelling and one name reversal.I was already familiar with ancestral lines about five generations back and was able to determine Ms. Doliante was quite accurate and thorough in all details.The entire book is extremely well documented, citing land grant records, wills, Bible records, census records, birth, death, and marriage records, court records, and personal interviews to back up all lineages.I found photographs of my ancestors, both some that I had seen before and some that I had not seen, as well as photocopies of Bible records and wills.The book is an absolute gold mine of information for anyone whose family surnames are found within its pages.I was just thrilled to find it!

Good Source
Not out of print.Reprinted in 1991, 1998, and 2000 by Clearfield Company, Inc., by Genealogical Publishing CO., Inc., 1001 N. Calvert Street, Baltimore, MD21202.

Good resource if your family line is there. Found some information on Ninian Beall, his father and grandfather.They were weavers in Scotland!A confusing marriage date is listed in the book but no information on my line through Ninian's Rachel.

This book is NOT OUT OF PRINT.You people need to get updat
This book is not out of print.You people need to get yourselves updated.There is a new, 1998 version, in two volumes for sale and I can't seem to find a price for it.Please Update Yourselves!!You might make a sale!!! ... Read more

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This work contains all the family history articles published in the Maryland Historical Magazine from its inception through 1976. 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 eighteenth century. Since they have been largely inaccessible to the researcher, we have excerpted these articles in entirety and rearranged them in this comprehensive two-volume work, adding an introduction by a noted Maryland genealogist and personal name indexes.

The consolidated articles--nearly 100 in number-- now form a reference work of a type long needed in Maryland genealogy, with the range and scholarly authority demanded by the researcher.Following is a list of the families named in the titles to the various articles: Abington, Auld, Ball, Bartlett, Belt, Berry, Bladen, Blakistone, Bonvile, Brengle, Briscoe, Brooke, Caile, Calvert, Chew, Christison, Churchill, Clements, Cohen, Coplestone, Croker, Cromwell, Dent, Dixon, Dorsey, Dunn, Egerton, Ellicott Elliott, Emory, Fairfax, Faris, Fox, Foxworthy, Frisby, Fritchie, Frith, Gary, Gerard, Gist, Goldsborough, Gordon, Gough-Carroll, Hall, Harrison, Harwood, Haskins, Hausil, Hawley-Halley, Highland, Hollyday, Hungerford, Hynson, Jones, Kemp, Key, Lambdin, Lane, LeCompte, Lee, Levis, Linthicum, Lloyd, Loockerman, Lowe, Lowndes, MacKeeles, Marsh, Merryman, Monroe, Morgan, Murdock, Neale, Owens-Owings, Pearce-Levy, Pennock, Plater, Poe, Price, Pritchett, Randall, Ridgely, Rigbie, Rockhold, Sewall, Sharpe, Skinner, Smallwood, Smith, Snead, Sparrow, Sprigg, Stansbury, Stevens, Stewart, Sweetser, Tasker, Taylor, Tilghman, Todd, Webb, Weems, West, Winchester-Owens-Owings-Price, Wise, Wrightson, and Young-Woodward-Hesselius.

"The scholarship of these articles is high, and GPC is to be congratulated for bringing these articles together in a single publication."-NGSQ (Sept. 1980). ... Read more

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A bibliography of published genealogies of Md. & De. families arrnaged by surname. Over 800 titles on Maryland families and over 200 titles on Delaware families. ... Read more

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Focuses on the this family of Frederick County, Maryland, but include family members found in other locations such as Washington county. Begins with David Stottlemyer (b. Munich, Germany) who reportedly arrived in the colonies in 1750 and left twelve chil ... Read more

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This church records directory is a condensed summary of information collected from over 2,600 Maryland churches. The first part of the book contains a listing of churches alphabetically arranged by county. The religion is shown, followed by the name of th ... Read more

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Maryland presents cartographers with a formidable test of their skills: unusualnatural boundaries, border disputes, and in 1790 the gift of sixty-seven square miles for thecreation of the District of Columbia have given the state a distinctively irregular configuration.Since the early seventeenth century, generations of mapmakers have met this challenge withartistic imagination and a variety of cartographical techniques.

In The Maryland State Archives Atlas of Historical Maps of Maryland, 1608–1908, Edward C. Papenfuse and Joseph M. Coale III bring together in one volume the results of theseremarkable efforts, from Captain John Smith's 1608 detailed sketch of the region to the mapresulting from the Supreme Court's determination of the state's western border in 1908. Utilizingthe latest digital imaging and printing technology, the Atlas contains stunning, full-colorreproductions of more than 250 of the most significant historical maps from stateand federalarchives. This handsome and informative collection--a thoroughly updated and greatly expandedversion of the authors' landmark book, The Hammond-Harwood House Atlas of HistoricalMaps of Maryland (1982)--provides an in-depth history of mapmaking in Maryland andcharts the state's early settlement patterns. ... Read more

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A collection of approximately forty portraits with mini biographies of Maryland's extraordinary African American men and women. Included are well known luminaries Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, "Baby Joe" Gans, Leon Day, Lillie Carroll Jackson, and Thurgood Marshall and equally brave yet not-so-famous Marylanders such as Ann Weems, a fifteen-year-old runaway slave, author Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, physician Louise Young, and Harry Cummings, the first African American to hold public office in Baltimore City.

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This study began with the goal of providing information about the Shaw families generally found in Montgomery County, as listed in the various census returns from 1850 to 1900, and expanded to include information from a number of other sources.The Shaw ... Read more

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This text is intended to present the ancestry and descendants of William Thomas Fisher (born c.1819) and his wife, Eliza Ellen Beckwith (born c.1820). The Fishers discussed here can be traced back to Martin Fisher, a carpenter who died in Anne Arundel Co. ... Read more

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In St. Mary's County, Maryland there was established the first Catholic parish, thefirst Catholic school, and the first community of religious men in English-speaking America, andthe county residents played a key role in the development of the Catholic Church throughoutAmerica.This work has many of the earliest surviving records of Catholic families of the county. From theJesuit parishes of St. Francis Xavier and St. Inigoes there are baptismal records (1767-1794) andmarriage records (1767-1784). There also are congregation lists (1768-69), rent rolls (variousdates), births (various dates), subscribers to the Oath of Allegiance (1778), militia lists (1794),and voters' lists (1789-90). In all, an indispensable source of reference material. ... Read more

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The Prerogative Court was the focal point for probate in colonial Maryland. A judge and various clerks staffed the court. All matters of probate went directly to the Prerogative Court, which was located in Annapolis, Maryland's colonial capital. Eventually, administration of probate was delegated to the several county courts; however, many documents related to probate continued to be filed at the Prerogative Court and not in the corresponding county. It should be noted that the Prerogative Court was also the colony's court for equity cases-resolution of disputes over the settlement and distribution of an estate. (Beginning in 1674, inventories and accounts were recorded in a separate series.) ... Read more

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The main purpose of this work is to chronicle and categorize the life experiences of 519 persons who entered Maryland as indentured servants or, to a lesser extent, as convicts forcibly transported. The text itself is composed of solidly researched sketches of Maryland servants and convicts and their descendants, including 84 that are traced to the third generation or beyond.

Lest genealogists conclude that this work is a mere recitation of statistics, we hasten to add that the text itself is composed of solidly researched sketches of Maryland servants and convicts and their descendants, including 102 that are traced to the third generation or beyond. If your Maryland ancestor is among the following, rest assured that you will be working from the most we know about them to date: ... Read more

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Mr. Hurley's Our Maryland Heritage Series continues with this book, which investigates the Hays and Gott Families, being principally the descendants of Thomas Hays (1678) and the descendants of Richard Gott, the immigrant who died in 1661. Both of the fam ... Read more

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Finding little in print of manumission records, Hunter C. Sutherland set about to collect what information he could from the extant historical records of Harford County including wills, property inventories and military records. The information in this bo ... Read more