Example of a hand-written document in one of our family files:

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The history of St. Mary's County is inextricably tied to it's people.  We have thousands of items related to families and individuals who have lived in the county.  At the Research Center you will find:

• Over 1,135 Individual Family (Surname) Files.  View Family File List
• Over 2600 books including 212 published family books.  View our Library Shelf List (2,636 cards)
• 12 sets of family papers in our Archives Collection    
• St. Mary's County Census Books from 1790 - 1930 + 1940 index
• Cemetery/Graveyard locations
• Land maps and patents abstracts
• Equity and probate records
• Records from the Confederate Prison at Point Lookout, MD
• Beacon and The Enterprise newspapers on microfilm
• And much more...