Washington County, Maryland    A Proud part of the Genealogy Trails Group Hello and welcome to the Genealogy Trails website for Washington 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 This was the first county in the United States to be named for the Revolutionary War general (and later President of the United States) George Washington. Its county seat is Hagerstown. The western part of Maryland (including the present Washington County) was incorporated into Prince George's County in 1696. This county included six current counties, and by repeated splitting, new ones were generated. The first was Frederick from Prince George's in 1748. Washington County was formed in 1776 by the splitting of Frederick County. At the same time, another county, Montgomery County, was also split off from Frederick County and named for another general, Richard Montgomery. Washington County as created included the areas later to become Allegany County (split off in 1789) and Garrett County (included in Allegany County when it was split off in 1789, later split from Allegany County), so included the entire westernmost part of the state of Maryland. 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 Land Records Wills   Website Updates: 31 Jan 2008: Newspaper story about HOUSHOLDER and STOVER; LIND obit 2 Nov. 2007: 1777-1780 Marriages, 2 biographies 30 May 2007: Cities and Towns; Cemeteries; Obit for BLAIR; Wills Adjacent Counties Fulton County, Pennsylvania (northwest) Allegany County (west) Morgan County, West Virginia (southwest) Berkeley County, West Virginia (south) Jefferson County, West Virginia (south) Loudoun County, Virginia (southeast) Frederick County (east) Franklin County, Pennsylvania (northeast) Back to the Maryland Trails Main page Copyright © 2006 by: Genealogy Trails - with original rights reserved for contributors