The Maryland Historical Society has now put up a century’s worth of Maryland Historical Magazine, the society’s journal, on a free, on-line searchable database.  I stumbled on it the other day when I was looking for information on Carrollite, a mineral named for Carroll County where it was first found in 1852. I already had the historical society bookmarked in my research folder, but I quickly added this one. I’m always working on Maryland topics and this will definitely help with my research. If you use the search feature, make sure you try the most-unusual words that will get your information, otherwise you may get a lot of dreck in your results. For instance, a search of the word “Carrollite” yielded two useful hits, but “Carroll” gets you any article where Carroll County, Charles Carroll, Carroll Creek or John Carroll Read more…