The April 2022 issue of the Journal is now available. Members receive their copies by mail. Earlier issues of the Journal are available for sale, and members receive a discounted price. Click here for information on prices and how to purchase.

 

In this issue, Ed Funk leads off with the story of Johannes Ziemer, one of his ancestors, whose exploits led to tragedy, but whose bravery and self-sacrifice are still commemorated in the German village where they took place. Mike Sapp rediscovered a handwritten letter from 1832 and set out to identify the people named in the letter as well as the letter’s author and recipients. Through census records, property transactions, cemetery records, and other resources, he sorts out the Stinchcomb family in Baltimore County. Helen Hinchliff examines whether Job Davidson and Job Davis were actually the same person. Her use of birth and baptism, military, property tax, and census records, as well as occupations and locations in city directories and online sources, lead her to conclude that the two men were one and the same. Carleton Weidemeyer untangles the family tree of Jacob Schlag, in which first and second cousins, half-siblings, and step-siblings, as well as siblings in the same family with the same name, all challenge the genealogist. Our Photo Vault article by Allender Sybert explores the families of Dr. John Neff and Dr. Charles W. Neff of Allegany County. William Hollifeld has provided a transcription of the Robertson-Dashiell-Stewart Bible, Jane Burgess challenges your genealogical knowledge in the crossword puzzle, and Allender Sybert reviews current books and genealogical resources in our review section.

For a look at the full table of contents, click here.

 

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We're pleased to announce the addition of five more years of data - from 1915-1919 - to the MGS Baltimore City Marriage Licenses Index! Previously, the online index was an electronic version of two Maryland State Archives card indexes with information on marriages from 1851-1914. The index now also includes additional information for marriage records from 1915-1919. The index cards for 1851-1914 are alphabetized by the name of the groom, so the MGS online index provides the first searchable index to the names of the brides. This index is also the first ever created for the marriage records from 1915-1919. The index database includes 284,643 marriage records.  

 

To access the data, click on Members Only, then sign in and look for “Baltimore Marriage Index” on the left side of the page.

MGS has an inventory of used genealogy-related books available for purchase on the For Sale page. MGS members receive a 12% discount on purchases. (Be sure to be signed in on the website as a member before ordering!) All prices already include shipping and handling. Sales are first come, first served!
 
In addition to books on Maryland, our current inventory includes the following topics: family histories; U.S., British, German, New England, Pennsylvania, Polish, Scottish, and Virginia research; photography; lineage societies; royalty and nobility; Norman ancestry; heraldry; and general interest. We will be adding books as they become available.

 

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Would you like to see images of your ancestors included on the MGS Web site? Members are encouraged to submit photos for inclusion in the gallery of images at the top of the page that rotate and change each time visitors go to a new page on the Web site. (Each has a caption that you can read by hovering your cursor over the image.) For more information about submitting images, click here.

 

   

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