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| Chesapeake Cousins | ||
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Chesapeake Cousins is the Society's journal helping to further the research of our members.
Published twice per year in the spring and fall (April and October), it contains a wide variety of articles submitted by members.
The articles include family group sheets, lineage charts, family histories, stories of success, queries, brick wall research, family Bible records, ancestor biographies, photographs, court records, depositions, newspaper abstracts, military records, tax records, pension lists, immigration records and articles of genealogical and historical interest. View Table of Contents Volumes 1 to 52-1 |
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| Individual Issues | $9 | $17 |
| All Volumes 1 to 51-2 |
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| Methodist Episcopal Church Records, Hillsborough Circuit, 1860-1890 |
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Includes churches/chapels of Caroline, Queen Anne's and Talbot Counties: Hall's Cross Road, St. Paul's, King's Creek, Wye Mills, Magee's Chapel, Ridgely, Beaver Dam, Miles River, and Hillsboro.
317 pages, fully indexed and includes lists of members, marriages, baptisms, probationers and more. View Full Name Index |
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| Methodist Episcopal Church Records, Hillsborough Circuit, 1860-1890 | $9 | |
| Caroline Sun: History of Ridgely, Maryland | ||
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The Caroline Sun contains newspaper articles from 1902-1959. These articles were originally compiled by Andrew "Tommy" Rampmeyer and were republished by the USGS in 2019. Most articles are from the Caroline Sun newspaper, but they do include several other Caroline County, Maryland, newspapers. These volumes also include "senior memories," and interviews and articles about and by Ridgely and Caroline County residents. | |
| Volume 1: 1902 Volume 2: 1903-1913 Volume 3: 1914-1925 Volume 4: 1926-1928 Volume 5: 1929-1934 Volume 6: 1935-1939 Volume 7: 1939-1943 Volume 8: 1944-1946 Volume 9: 1947-1949 Volume 10: 1950-1952 Volume 11: 1953-1955 Volume 12: 1956-1959 |
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| 4 Counties of Tombstone Recordings | |
| Beginning in 1982, USGSMD undertook a project to transcribe all of the cemetery tombstones (private and public) in the counties of Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's and Talbot. This field work has resulted in the following publications available for purchase. Dorchester County transcribed their own records and these books are available for researching at the USGSMD Research Center.
For a more detailed description and to view the Surname Index for each volume, please see below. |
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| All 15 Volumes Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's and Talbot Counties |
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| Beneath These Stones Tombstones of Caroline County |
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Templeville, Marydel, Greensboro, Goldsboro, Ridgely View Surname Index |
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| Volume 2:
Denton, Burrsville, Hillsboro, Tuckahoe Neck View Surname Index |
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| Volume 3:
Concord, Preston, Smithsville, Federalsburg, Laurel Grove, American Corner, Harmony, Williston View Surname Index |
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| Tombstoning in Kent County | ||
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Chestertown View Surname Index |
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| Volume 2:
Pomona, Rock Hall View Surname Index |
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| Volume 3:
Fairlee View Surname Index |
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| Volume 4:
Kennedyville, Worton, Betterton View Surname Index |
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| Volume 5:
Galena, Millington, Chesterville, Massey, Sassafras View Surname Index |
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| Queen Anne Remembers Tombstones of Queen Anne's County |
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Kent Island (Chester and Stevensville), Grasonville, Queenstown, Carmichael, Wye Mills View Surname Index |
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| Volume 2:
Centreville, Burrisville, Ruthsburg, Bridgetown View Surname Index View Vol 2 Addendum Surname Index |
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| Volume 3:
Crumpton, Sudlersville, Church Hill, Barclay, Price, Ingleside View Surname Index |
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| Tombstones of Talbot County | ||
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| Volume 1:
St. Michaels, Bay Hundred View Surname Index |
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| Volume 2:
Trappe, Oxford, Landing Neck View Surname Index |
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| Volume 3:
Springhill Cemetery, Easton View Surname Index |
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| Volume 4:
Easton (except Springhill), Cordova, Wye Mills, Unionville, Copperville View Surname Index |
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| Deaths Published in the Papers | ||
| Obituaries of the 1960's - 1990's from Newspapers covering the Upper Shore of Maryland 600+ obits in each volume, with full name index. Some of these obituaries are taken from the following known newspapers: Denton Journal, The Times Record, Record Observer, Star Democrat, Bay Times, Kent County News, News and Farmer, The Pilot, Delaware State News and Cecil Whig. |
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| Volume 2:
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| Volume 3:
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| Volume 5:
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| Volume 6:
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| Volume 7:
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| All 7 Volumes | ||
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