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Welcome to Allegany
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
informationand
contact
Kim.
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We regret that
we are unable to perform personal research for you.
All data we come across will be added to this site. We thank you for visiting
and hope you'll come back again to view the updates we make to this
site.
The western part of Maryland (including the
present Allegany County) was incorporated into Prince George's County in
1696. This county included six current counties, and by repeated splitting,
new ones were generated: Frederick from Prince George's in 1748; and Montgomery
and Washington from Frederick in 1776.
Allegany County was formed in 1789 by the splitting of Washington County.
At the time it was the westernmost county in Maryland, but a later (1872)
split produced Garrett County, the current westernmost county.
The county seat is Cumberland. The name Allegany comes from a local Native
American word for the Potomac River, oolikhanna, which means "beautiful stream."
ONLINE DATA |
We're looking to add the following
types of data to this site: |
Births and
Baptisms |
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Deeds and Land
Transfers |
Biographies |
Events |
Cemeteries |
Marriages |
Census Data |
Military
Data |
County History |
Newspapers |
Death notices and
obituaries |
Cities and
Towns |
Will
Abstracts |
Website
Updates:
Mar 2011: Marriages From the Journal of American Ancestry Genealogy
June 2010: Crime news item
Apr 2010: Misc. News item about VALENTINE and Dr. WILLIAMS; Birth announcement
for NOLEN triplets; Malpractice news item under Miscellaneous News; MANY
new obituaries!!!
Aug 2009: Obit for MCBRIDE, O'LEARY
July 2009: Misc. News Item about WALKER; obit for RUCKMAN
Jan 2009: RHODES death announcement from IL
29 Oct 2007: Death notices and Obit's., 2 biographies
27 Oct 2007: Marriages 1791-1800, Marriages 1801-1810
31 May 2007: Cities and Towns; Cemeteries |
Surrounding
Counties
Somerset
County, Pennsylvania (north)
Bedford
County, Pennsylvania (north)
Fulton
County, Pennsylvania (north)
Washington
County (east)
Morgan
County, West Virginia (south)
Hampshire
County, West Virginia (south)
Mineral
County, West Virginia (south)
Garrett
County (west)
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