Thought I'd print out a list of the resources I've used to research the Bealls and the resources Jackson H. Day (Jack) put in his database. Jack's cites aren't in perfect format, but you should be able to find the books he's used by title: 1. Jackson H. Day's Beall Database, 200+ pgs., Received Dec. 1996, Jackson H. Day, 11892 Blue February Way, Columbia, MD 21044, Jackson H. Day <TDHM26A@prodigy.com> available http://www.world.std.com/~lsimms/files/daymega.zip Among numerous others, Jack employs the following sources: Fielder M. M. Beall, Bell and Beall Families of Maryland, Maryland Room, Prince Georges County Library, Hyattsville, Md Elizabeth B. Heterick, Five Families Beall of Maryland (Montgomery County Historical Society) Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh, Maryland Records: Colonial, Revolutionary, County and Church from Original Sources, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1993 Fielder Beall: Colonial Families of the US descended from the Immigrants Bell, etc. Genealogy of the Beall Families, located in Montg. Co. Hist. Soc; quoted by Barbara Collins Western Maryland Genealogy (journal) Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin (journal) Alice Norris Parran, Register of Maryland's Heraldic Families, Baltimore: H. G. Roebuck, 1935 J. Thomas Scharf, History of Western Maryland, Philadelphia, 1882, repr. Baltimore, Regional Publishing Co., 1968. George Norbury Mackenzie, Beall & Edmonstone Colonial Families of America, Bk II Charles Ninian Edmonston, "Mary Edmonston" in My Own Edmonstons and a few others, " Katherine Beall Adams, Maryland Heritage, A Family History Pioneers of Old Monocacy Millard Milburn Rice, This was the life: Excerpts from the Judgement Records of Frederick Co, MD 1748-1765, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc, 1984 Effie Gwynn Bowie, Across the Years in Prince George's County. Richmond: Garrett & Massie, 1947 Millard Milburn Rice, This was the Life: Excerpts from the Judgment Records of Frederick County, Maryland, 1748-1765, Redwood City, CA: Monocacy Book Co., 1979 Heitman, F. B., Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army during the War of the Revolution April 1775 to December 1783. Washington, DC: W. H. Lowdermilk & Co, 1893 F. Edward Wright, compiler, Marraiges and Deaths in the Newspapers of Frederick and Montgomery Counties, Maryland, 1820-1830, Westminster, Maryland: J. D. Warfield, The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland, Baltmore: 1973, Regional Publishing Company Patriotic Maryland and the Maryland Society Sons of the American Revolution. Baltimore, 1930 Charles Francis Stein, Jr, Origin and History of Howard County, Maryland. Baltimore, 1972 Frederick C. Beall, Robert Beall (Bell): His Ancestors and Descendents Virgil D. White, Abstractor, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, Vol. I. Muster Rolls of Maryland Troops in the American Revolution, Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, 1972 Robert Barnes, Marriages & Deaths from the Maryland Gazette 1727-1839. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing House, 1973 Helen W. Ridgley, Historic Graves of Maryland and the District of Columbia. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1967. Originally published NY: The Grifton Press, 1908 Maryland German Church Records, Historical Society of Carroll Co, Westminster, MD 1992 F. S. Weiser, Frederick Maryland Lutheran Marriages and Burials 1743-1811, Washington, DC: National Genealogical Society, 1972 Anderson, Grant James, Genealogy, in Part, of the Anderson-Owen-Beall Families, October 1909 2. Anne Arundel Gentry, Harry Wright Newman, Maryland Pioneer Series, 1933. 3. Magruder's Maryland Colonial Abstracts: Will, Accounts and Inventories, 1772-1777, James M. Magruder, Jr., Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1968. 4. Index of Maryland Colonial Wills, 1634-1777 In the Hall of Records Annapolis, MD, compiled by James M. Magruder, Jr., Baltimore, Genealogicical Publishing Company, 1967. 5. History of Frederick County Maryland, TJC Williams and Folger McKinsey, 2 vols., Baltimore, 1910 and 1967, Regional Publishing Co. 12. Magruder's Maryland Colonial Abstracts: Will, Accounts and Inventories, 1772-1777, James M. Magruder, Jr., Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1968. 15. History of Western Maryland, J. Thomas Scharf, Philadelphia, 1882, repr. Baltimore, Regional Publishing Co., 1968. 16. Albert S. Edwards, Historical Sketches of the Beall and Edwards Families, W.W. Rokker, Printer and Binder, 1910. 19. Ministerial Records of Prince George's Parish Register of Baptism 1792-1845. Prince George's Parish, Montgomery County, Maryland - with other records - Mutilated condition" Baptisms 20. TO MARYLAND FROM OVERSEAS __A Complete Digest of the Jacobite Loyalists Sold into __White Slavery in Maryland, and the British and __Continental Background of Approximately 1400 __Maryland Settlers from 1634 to the early Federal __Period with Source Documentation By Harry Wright Newman 21. MARYLAND RECORDS - KILTY'S LAWS REVOLUNTIONARY WAR PENSIONS BTW, it seems that just about any book by Harry Wright Newman has some mention of the Bealls and most other MD families, so I've just perused 'em all. You can use your Public Library's Interlibrary Loan Network to request any book. I live on the East Coast and have received books about MD genealogy thru ILL from California. Lisa