Welcome to Dorchester County, Maryland
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Hello and welcome to the Genealogy Trails website for Dorchester County.

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Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers.

This website is in need of a dedicated host!

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Settlers from England began to claim lands in the mid 1600’s under land grants from Lord Baltimore and by 1669 Dorchester County was recognized as a County. It was named for the Earl of Dorset, a family friend of the Calverts (the founding family of the Maryland colony).

The county seat is Cambridge

In 1773 a part of Dorchester County, together with a portion of Queen Anne's County, was taken to form Caroline County.



ONLINE DATA

We're looking to add the following types of data to this site:

Births

Death notices and obituaries

Marriages

Biographies

Events

Census Data

Cemeteries

Newspapers

County History

Cities and Towns

Military Data

 
Website Updates:
31 Oct 2007: 1790 census index
30 Oct 2007: Marriages 1780-1785
27 Oct 2007: 1 new bio for William Andrews
30 May 2007: Cities and Towns; Cemeteries; death notice for FISH

Surrounding Counties
Caroline County (north)
Sussex County, Delaware (northeast)
Wicomico County (east)
Somerset County (southeast)
Talbot County (northwest)


This County is available for adoption
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