Welcome to Dorchester County, Maryland A Proud part of the Genealogy Trails Group Hello and welcome to the Genealogy Trails website for Dorchester County. 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! This is a continuation of our original Illinois Genealogy Trails project and we are excited about this opportunity to expand into other states. We welcome your feedback and comments, and of course, your data contributions. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project grow. If you think you might be interested in hosting a county website such as this one, please view the Volunteer Page for further information and contact Kim. If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to our mailing lists 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 Copyright © 2006 by: Genealogy Trails - with original rights reserved for contributors