Resources

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• Wikipedia
• FamilySearch
• National Archives Military Records Research
• Library of Congress view thousands of photos, newspapers, books, maps, etc. of Cecil County
  • 1858 Martenet's Map of Cecil County shows names of residents
  • 1877 Illustrated Atlas of Cecil County
  • 1932-1948 White and Yellow Pages - Cecil County
• Internet Archive
  • 1866 History of Maryland by E. Allen and L. VanBokkelen
  • 1872 History of the Rock Presbyterian Church in Cecil County, Maryland, by John H. Johns
  • 1887 Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland, by George Johnston
  • 1902 Maryland Geological Survey: Cecil County has many terrain photos
  • 1903 Leading Events of Maryland History by J. Gambrill and S. Bates
  • 1903 The Descendants of Polly and Ebenezer Alden, by E. Alden and H. Shaw
  • 1907 The Groome Family and Connections: A Pedigree, by Harry C. Groome
  • 1909 Records of a Family of the House of Alexander, by Frances A. Butterworth
  • 1922 Clan Ewing of Scotland, Early History and Contribution to America; Sketches of Some Family Pioneers and Their Times, by Elbert W. R. Ewing, pages 103, 228-230.
  • 1932 Genealogy of the Manlove Family, by Zula J. Barker
  • 1932 The Washington Ancestry, and Records of the McClain, Johnson, and Forty Other Colonial American Families, by Charles A. Hoppin
  • 193? History of the Haines Family, by Sarah E. H. Wilson
  • 1942 Robert Alexander, Maryland Loyalist, by Janet B. Johnson
  • 1942 Crerar, Owens and Allied Families: A study in genealogical history, by Marie G. Crerar
  • 1943 Six Quaker Clockmakers, by Edward C. Chandlee
  • 1944 Hollingsworth Family and Collateral Lines of Cooch-Gilpin-Jamar-Mackall-Morris-Stewart: Early History and Cecil County, Maryland lines, by Mary H. Jamar
  • 1946 Mecklenburg Signers and Their Neighbors, by Worth S. Ray
  • 1949 My Family and Antecedents; Including the Read, Thompson, Norris, Jordan, Potter, Sharp, and Allied Families of Maryland and Pennsylvania, by Carl R. McKenrick
  • 1951 John Piggott Sr. (1680?-1738) of Susquehannah Hundred in Cecil County Md.: Together with some account of the Browne and Clayton families from whom his wife Margery Brown Piggott descended, by Warren E. Pickett
  • 1955 Historical Sketches of Harford County, Maryland, by Samuel Mason
  • 1957 Ewing-McCulloch-Buchanan Genealogy, by Marguerite and Vernon Brown
  • 1958 History of the Wells and Allied Families of the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Delaware, by George H. Wells
  • 1960 Bell-Sharpe, by Frank F. Bell
  • 1963 Nashes of Ireland: Richard and Alexander Nash of Eastern Shore and their Allied Families, 1200-1956, by Anna C. Pabst
  • 1964 Carolina Cradle: Settlement of the Northwest Carolina Frontier, 1747-1762, by Robert W. Ramsey
  • 1996 At the Head of the Bay: A cultural and architectural history of Cecil County, Maryland, by Pamela J. Blumgart
  • 2001 Rose Hill: An Historic Structures Report, by Donna M. Andrews
• 1881 History of Cecil County, Maryland, by George Johnston
• USGenWeb Tombstone Project
• FindAGrave
• Yolanda (Campbell) Lifter is a LookUp Volunteer of entries in Cecil County, MD, Tombstone Inscriptions, Districts 7, 8 & 9, Volume I, published in 1992 by the Genealogical Society of Cecil County, Inc., Post Office Box 11, Charleston, Maryland 21914. Cemeteries listed in District 7: Asbury, Baptist, Cokesbury United Methodist, Harmony Chapel Methodist, Jones Memorial, Patterson Private, Principio, Sterrett Private, St. Mark's Episcopal, Taylor's. Private Cemeteries listed in District 8: Bethesda, Conowingo Baptist, Mt. Zoar, Success Farm, St. Patrick's Catholic. Cemeteries listed in District 9: Brick Meeting House Quaker, Trinity Church, Zion Methodist, Zion Presbyterian.
• Chronicling America - Library of Congress free online newspaper collection
• Native Americans of Maryland: Great Contributors Underappreciated an essay by Amy Kirkley
• National Register of Historic Places
• Historic Elk Landing
• Cecil County Government Offices
• Cecil County Health Department - birth and death certificates
• Cecil County Public Library
• Historical Society of Cecil County
• Cecil County Farm Museum
• Maryland Courts, Vital Records
• Maryland State Archives
  • Guide
  • Military Records
  • 1783 Tax Assessment Index
  • Cecil Whig Newspaper Collection
• Secretary of State
• Bureau of Land Management - land patents
• Historic Map Works
• MapGeeks
• Maps of US - interactive map of Maryland county formation history
• Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
• Surname  Queries
• Genealogy of Doug Arbuckle & Kelli Mansel
• Anne Arundel Genealogical Society
• Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness
• Message Board at Genealogy.com
• Message Boards at RootsWeb
• American Revolutionary War Soldiers & Their Descendants
• FamousKin
• George W. Bush's Ancestral Ties to Cecil County
• Slate Thomas "Beau" Walker owned slaves in Cecil County
• Linkpendium
• AccessGenealogy
• GenealogyTrails
• Churches

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