The Enoch Pratt Free Library is one of the oldest free public library systems in the United States. Dating back to its opening in 1934, the Maryland Department is responsible for a collection of materials relating to the history, economics, social conditions, literature and the arts and all aspects of the development and status of Maryland and its citizens.

The Enoch Pratt Library offers searching of some historical Maryland newspapers (and current papers) online with your library card. This includes the "Baltimore Afro-American" and the "Baltimore Sun." Maryland residents can get a free library eCard to access these databases.

Enslaved: People of the Historical Slave Trade is a public clearinghouse of data on enslaved people in the Americas. The University of Maryland is a partner in the development and maintenance of the site. It includes entries on the enslaved in Maryland.

The Archives of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland contains official records, manuscripts, and related materials about the Church of England in colonial Maryland and its successor, the Episcopal Church in Maryland and the District of Columbia since the Revolution. This includes church records of churches that have closed. (List of available church registers as of June 2025.) Active churches maintain their own records. Some of the original Episcopal Churches in Maryland have had their records copied by the Maryland State Archives.

The Evangelical and Reformed Historical Society holds a variety of church records for church congregations that originated in the former Reformed (German) Church in the United States, Evangelical (German) Synod of North America, the Evangelical and Reformed Church, and the present United Church of Christ. They have the records of 42 Maryland churches.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Region 8 Archives provides access to records created by ELCA synods and disbanded congregations within these areas: Central Pennsylvania (Allegheny Synod, Upper Susquehanna Synod, and Lower Susquehanna Synod), Delaware and most of Maryland (Delaware-Maryland Synod), and the Washington D.C.-Northern Virginia metropolitan area (Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Synod). It also houses some records from ELCA Region 8 predecessors such as the Central Pennsylvania Synod and the Maryland Synod. The Archives is located in Gettysburg. It prefers email for research requests and provides information on the Web site for making requests.

Past MGS Board Member Malissa Ruffner's blog highlights discoveries from her personal genealogy, including research on the Offutt and Dukes families of Maryland. She also discusses other aspects of her continued genealogical education, including her volunteer work at the Baltimore City Archives. Entries for 30 January 2012 and 14 February 2012 give detailed information about research at that repository.

Family History Books - on the FamilySearch web site - is a collection of more than 150,000 digitized genealogy and family history publications from the archives of some of the most important family history libraries in the world. The collection includes family histories, county and local histories, genealogy magazines and how-to books, gazetteers, and medieval histories and pedigrees. The valuable resources included in Family History Books come from the following institutions: Allen County Public Library; Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library; Brigham Young University Idaho David O. McKay Library; Brigham Young University Hawaii Joseph F. Smith Library; Church History Library; Family History Library; Houston Public Library - Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research; Mid-Continent Public Library - Midwest Genealogy Center; Historical Society of Pennsylvania; and Onondaga County Public Library.

Offering a wealth of original source material for the genealogist, the newly updated Web site offers even easier access to national and international records.

A good general page on the FamilySearch Wiki on researching newspapers.