Welcome to Dorchester County, Maryland A Proud part of the Genealogy Trails Group 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 Births Biographies Cemeteries Census Records Church Records Cities and Towns County History Death Records Land Records Marriage Records Military Data Newspaper Gleanings Obituaries Wills and Probate Documents   Website Updates: Oct 2012: Bio - MURRAY, William Vans - . Transcribed by Richard Ramos Apr 2012: Death Notice: Mary Fish, News: Explosion at Charles Smith's Store Mar 2011: Marriages From the Journal of American Ancestry Genealogy Nov 2010: death notice for VICARS, ANDERTON,GOLDSBOROUGH, HERON, MANADIER Oct 2010: Births, Marriages, Land, Will/Probate, Quaker Records for STEPHENS/STEVENS 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 © by: Genealogy Trails - with original rights reserved for contributors