Welcome to Prince George's County, Maryland A Proud part of the Genealogy Trails Group Hello and welcome to the Genealogy Trails website for Prince George's 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 informationand contact Kim. Prince George's County was created in 1696 from portions of Charles and Calvert Counties On July 1, 1997, the Prince George's County section of the city of Takoma Park, Maryland, which straddled the boundary between Prince George's and Montgomery counties, was transferred to Montgomery County . The county was named for Prince George of Denmark, the brother of King Christian V of Denmark and Norway, and husband of Queen Anne of Great Britain. Its county seat is Upper Marlboro. Prior to 1792, the county seat was located at Mount Calvert, a 76 acre estate along the Patuxent River on the edge of what is now in the unincorporated community of Croom 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 Cities and Towns County History Military Data Wills   Website Updates: 2 Nov 2007: 1 new bio, 1 new will 31 Oct 2007: Marriages 1777-1780 29 May 2007: Cities and Towns; 1828 Death and Marriage Notices; Cemeteries; will Surrounding Counties Anne Arundel County (east) Calvert County (southeast) Charles County (south) Howard County (north) Montgomery County (northwest) Fairfax County, Virginia (southwest) Alexandria, VA (southwest) Washington, DC (west)