Search Baltimore Roman Catholic Parish Congregational Records

Each record will provide you with an image and a transcript of the vital facts. The transcript will include a combination of the following facts:

• Name
• Birth year
• Event year
• Event date
• City
• Parish
• County
• State
• Country
• Archive

The image will provide you with additional details such as the type of event (whether it is a communion or confirmation) or the other people in attendance.

This collection of sacramental registers has been digitised from the Maryland State Archives and the Archdiocese of Baltimore, the oldest Roman Catholic diocese in America. Among the records is marriage registers from the Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, America’s first Catholic Cathedral.

If you have discovered your ancestor in the marriage records, you should search for your ancestor’s baptism record in Baltimore Roman Catholic parish baptisms. You may even find your ancestor’s marriage record in the Baltimore Roman Catholic parish marriages.

If you would like to cite this record in your family history research, Findmypast suggests the following format: [Name of Parish] [Location]. Sacramental Registers, 1782 - 1918, [page number], [Item of interest "John Smith and Mary Jones, 17 October 1873"]; Archdiocese of Baltimore. Digital Images. Findmypast. (https://search.findmypast.com/search-world-records/baltimore-roman-catholic-parish-registers-browse : accessed DD MMM YYYY).

For example, the communion record for Irene McKee from 1890 would be cited as:

St Margaret (Baltimore, Maryland). Sacramental Registers, 1782-1919, page 15, Irene McKee communion, 7 December 1890; Archdiocese of Baltimore. Digital Images. Findmypast. (https://search.findmypast.com/search-world-records/baltimore-roman-catholic-parish-baptisms: accessed 7 September 2018).