Washington County, Maryland    A Proud part of the Genealogy Trails Group 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 We regret we are unable to perform personal research for anybody 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 Biographies Cemeteries Census Data Cities and Towns County History Death notices and obituaries Death Records Events Families Land Records Marriages Military Data Newspaper Data  Wills     Website Updates: May 2013: Biographies: HENRY CLOPPER, PETER MIDDLEKAUF, HIRAM D. MIDDLEKAUFF, GEORGE W. MIDDLEKAUFF, SOLOMAN MIDDLEKAUFF, SAMUEL MIDDLEKAUFF, JACOB MILLER (2), JACOB KAHL, D. FRANKLIN STRITE, JOHN MILLER, LEWIS MILLER - Transcribed by Carol Parrish; GEORGE E. COTTRELL - Transcribed by Tammie Rudder July 2012: Accident (News) John Hart Accidently Killed; Death Notice (Obits) Wilson Infant, William Fitzhugh, Marriage Notice (News) Bicknell-Rogers; Fires (News) Fire in Hagerstown (1829) Feb 2012: Bio - William Heiskell May 2011: Obit: Robert J. FRIEND, 1898 History of Leitersburg District, Washington Co., MD Biographies Index  Nov 2010: STEPHENS Marriages July 2010: Marr. Ann for BUPP-BROOKS June 2010: Sick List News Item May 2010: ALTER death notice; Runaway Slave Notice Apr 2010: marriage announcement for BUCHANAN-GRIEVES and GIBONEY-GILLILAND Feb 2010: VARNER death notice; fire news item 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 © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.