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*[http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=25443 Eighty years : embracing a history of Presbyterianism in Baltimore, with an appendix]($), index/images  

E-mail: [mailto:archives@mdsa.net archives@mdsa.net]  

Start with the online guide [http://speccol.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/speccol/catalog/religion/cfm/dsp_churches.cfm Guide to Maryland Religious Institutions: Featuring the Collections of the Maryland State Archives]. Many original records they hold have been digitized and are viewable on their website.  

*Frederick Lewis Weis's ''The Colonial Clergy of Maryland, Delaware, and Georgia,'' is an alphabetical listing of the clergy in Delaware from 1638-1776, and includes names, dates, and places. A copy of the book is located in the {{FSC|589337|item}}. For a copy nearest you, check [http://www.worldcat.org/title/colonial-clergy-of-maryland-delaware-and-georgia/oclc/4040295&referer=brief_results WorldCat].

From 1718 to 1776 Catholics and Quakers were disenfranchised, and few of their pre-Revolutionary records exist. Surviving records of Jesuit Fathers are deposited at the Archives of the Georgetown University Library. University Archivist, Lynn Conway, assists with this collection. Contact: [mailto:conwayl@georgetown.edu conwayl@georgetown.edu]  

*'''Archdiocese of Washington, DC''' Sacramental records are housed [https://adw.org/parishes-masses/parish-mass-finder/ '''in the parish where the event took place'''] and are not open to the public. A [http://www.adw.org/about/pdf/sacramental_records.pdf Sacramental Request Form] should be filled out and sent to [https://adw.org/parishes-masses/parish-mass-finder/ '''the parish.''']<br>

'''The sacramental registers microfilmed by the archdiocese are available for researchers to work with only at the Associated Archives at St. Mary's Seminary and University. '''The [http://www.stmarys.edu/archives/index.htm Associated Archives at St. Mary’s Seminary and University] house the archived records for the [http://www.archbalt.org/ Archdiocese of Baltimore], as well as, [http://www.stmarys.edu/ St. Mary's Seminary and University], and the [http://www.sulpicians.org/ Associated Sulpicians of the United States].;Efforts to microfilm the sacramental registers of the parishes that comprise the [http://www.archbalt.org/ Archdiocese of Baltimore] have been undertaken twice in the past fifty-five years. The first attempt was made in 1954 at the request of the Archbishop Francis P. Keough. The Maryland State Archives made a second attempt beginning in 1977. A majority of the parishes participated in the first microfilming project. Less than half participated in the second. Microfilm copies of the registers [http://speccol.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/speccol/catalog/religion/cfm/dsp_select.cfm?denomin=Roman%20Catholic microfilmed by the Maryland State Archives] are available for researchers to work with at the [http://www.msa.md.gov/ Maryland State Archives], the [http://www.mdhs.org/library/index.html Maryland Historical Society], and the [http://www.stmarys.edu/archives/index.htm Associated Archives at St. Mary’s Seminary and University].  

*A number of parishes have closed. Click [https://www.archbalt.org/parishes/list-of-closed-parishes/ '''here'''] for a listing of those parishes and where the records have been moved to.