Census Available from the State of Maryland

The state of Maryland has four different census searchable from their state archives Web site: 1776 (Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Caroline, Dorchester, Frederick, Harford, Prince George's, Queen Anne, and Talbot Counties), 1778 (Caroline, Charles, and Queen Anne's Counties), 1870 (Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil, Charles, Dorchester, Frederick, Harford, Howard, Kent, Montgomery, Prince George's, Queen Anne's, St. Mary's, Somerset, Talbot, Washington, Wicomico, and Worcester Counties and Baltimore City) and 1880 (Anne Arundel County only).

The search is available at http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/refserv/html/censussearch.html . You may search by date, first name, last name, and county. A last name search for Smith (not very original today) found 4691 records, with record listings including name, date, age, gender, race, birth date, county, and locality. Also included is the location of the original census, but no images are included in this information.

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