Message Boards

Message Boards can be helpful in your family history research. Several message boards are available:

• FamilySearch Forums Free forums organized by geography.
• GenForum at Genealogy.com.
• Ancestry.com Message Boards: Ancestry is a subscription site, but the Message Boards are free.
• Rootsweb Message Boards:  Same boards as Ancestry.com Message Boards, with Rootsweb banner instead.

• Cyndi Howells' List: www.cyndislist.com/md.htm.

• Genealogical Bulletin Board Systems (GBBS):http://www.genealogy.org/state.asp?state=md  This site lists genealogical electronic bulletin boards where you can look for answers and post queries.

• GenExchange: http://www.genexchange.org/state.php?state=mdThis site includes databases (church, cemetery, census, land, immigration, naturalization, and vital records), directories, historical accounts, mailing lists, queries, local surname researchers, and look-up volunteers.

• Linkpendium – The Definitive Directory http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/MD/  This site has links to state and county resources.

• Rootsweb: http://www.rootsweb.com/roots-l/usa/md.html This site contains a useful list of sites and resources and includes a large, regularly updated research coordination list.

• USGenWeb: www.mdgenweb.org  This site is a cooperative effort by many volunteers to list genealogical databases, libraries, message boards, and other resources available on the Internet for each county, state, and country.

• Wee-Monster: http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/vitalrecords.html.  Replace ‘vitalrecords’ with ‘deathrecords’, census, military or naturalization to locate other resources.) This site lists records available by state, by county and by some cities.