The library has the National Archives microfilms (M313) used in preparing this index. See entry in the Author/Title catalog: United States. Veteran's Administration. Index to War of 1812 pension application files.

The library has the National Archives microfilms (M313) used in preparing this index. See entry in the Author/Title catalog: United States. Veteran's Administration. Index to War of 1812 pension application files.

The library has the National Archives microfilms (M313) used in preparing this index. See entry in the Author/Title catalog under: United States. Veteran's Administration. Index of War of 1812 pension application files.

The library has the National Archives microfilms (M313) used in preparing this index. See entry in the Author/Title catalog under: United States. Veteran's Administration. Index of War of 1812 pension application files.

The library has the National Archives microfilms (M313) used in preparing this index. See entry in the Author/Title catalog: United States. Veteran's Administration. Index to War of 1812 pension application files.

The major part of this work is an alphabetically arranged and cross-indexed list of some 20,000 Maryland families with references to the sources and locations of the records in which they appear. In addition, there is a research record guide arranged by county and type of record, and it identifies all genealogical manuscripts, books, and articles known to exist up to 1940, when this book was first published. Included are church and county courthouse records, deeds, marriages, rent rolls, wills, land records, tombstone inscriptions, censuses, directories, and other data sources.

A subject index, "compiled in compliance with the provisions of a joint resolution approved March 3, 1897, which directs the preparation of an index to all publications of the government from 1881, the date at which the Descriptive catalogue of government publications by Ben: Perley Poore terminates, to 1893, the date at which the index by the superintendent of documents begins, said index to conform in its general plan to ... [Ames'] Comprehensive index of government publications from 1889 to 1893, ' published in 1894."