Reclaim the Records Liberates Millions of Records from the State of Maryland

 

https://archive.org/details/maryland-state-archives?sort=title

Because this is so important, I am going to copy some of the text of the above email. Here it is. 

GOOD MORNING, BALTIMORE!

RECLAIM THE RECORDS PUTS MILLIONS OF MARYLAND BIRTH, MARRIAGE, DEATH, AND NATURALIZATION RECORDS ONLINE (MANY OF THEM NEVER AVAILABLE BEFORE ANYWHERE) and yes this time we got FULL VITAL RECORDS CERTIFICATES too

Hi. Please excuse the all-caps, but we're currently hyped up on a sugar high from the pumpkin pie, and a records-high from OVER A HUNDRED YEARS OF NEW AND TOTALLY FREE GENEALOGY RECORDS THAT WE JUST PUT ONLINE and we're all pretty darn excited.

Ahem. We at Reclaim The Records are so proud to finally announce one of our largest record acquisitions to date: millions of vital records spanning over one hundred years of history for the state of Maryland.

These records have never previously been publicly available online anywhere else — not on FamilySearch and not on Ancestry and not on MyHeritage and not on [insert some other genealogy website here] — except for some records that had only been available at the Maryland State Archives' internal website, if you happened to be sitting in their building in Annapolis and using their in-house computers, or on their external website, but only if those records were more than a hundred years old.

This announcement is groundbreaking for us at RTR. Not only is this an unusually large cache of materials for one of our records projects, but this time, our acquisition was not limited to a basic name and date index — although we did get those, too! — but in addition to the decades of vital records indices, we also got the digital images of the actual birth, marriage, and death certificates for the state of Maryland. Yep, the real certificates. And now we've put them online, free!

Because my wife and I served as missionaries with FamilySearch.org in digitizing records from the Maryland State Archive, we are extremely happy to see more of the records being made available outside of the Maryland State Archives. 

See more liberated records on the Reclaim the Records website.

The Records are now freely available on Archive.org, the Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/maryland-state-archives?sort=title 

All of the records on the Internet Archive or archive.org are searchable by Google.