Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland Genealogy

Guide to Hagerstown, Washington County ancestry, genealogy and family history, birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.



City Hall
1 East Franklin St. Hagerstown, MD 21740 301-739-8577

History
Hagerstown is a city in Washington County and is the County Seat. It is also the largest city in a region known as Western Maryland and has also been recognized as Cumberland Valley. Johanthan Hager founded this community in 1762. Orginally named Elizabeth-Town for Jonathan Hager's wife, the Maryland Legislature passed a law in 1814 renaming Elizabeth-Town "Hager's-Town."

Bible Records
Family Bible records in the Washington County Free Library, Hagerstown, Maryland; Fuller, Marsha Lynne; Washington County Free Library. Indexed "These records, covering the years 1738 to 1999, include first and last name, event (birth, christening, confirmation, marriage, death, obituary), date, event location, age, ...name of spouse, residence of bride and groom, minister and location of ceremony, names of parents, and name of family bible. This volume provides over 8,000 entries...." -- Back cover.

Baptist

 * Emmanuel Baptist Temple 16221 National Pike Hagerstown, MD 21740 301-582-0378


 * Harvest Baptist Church 951 Woodland Way Hagerstown, MD 21742 301-797-4630


 * Mountain View Baptist Church 12107 Walnut Point Rd Hagerstown, MD 21740 301-582-1468

Catholic - Roman Catholic

 * St. Ann 1525 Oak Hill Avenue Hagerstown, MD 21742 (301) 733-0410


 * St. Joseph 17630 Virginia Ave. Hagerstown, MD 21740 (301) 797-9445


 * St. Mary 224 West Washington St. Hagerstown, MD 21740 (301) 739-0390

Church of the Nazarene

 * Hope Bridge Church 920 W. Washington Street, Suite #106 Hagerstown, MD 21740 (301) 791-9003

Episcopal

 * St Johns Episcopal Church 101 South Prospect St Hagerstown, MD 21740 (301) 733-2560

Lutheran

 * St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church

Lutheran - Evangelical Lutheran Church of America

 * Trinity Lutheran Church 15 Randolph Ave. Hagerstown, MD 21740 301-733-2878

African Methodist Episcopal (AME)

 * Ebenezer 26 West Bethel Street Hagerstown, MD 21740

Methodist

 * Asbury United Methodist Church 155 N Jonathan St Hagerstown, MD 21740-4811 (301) 791-049


 * John Wesley United Methodist Church
 * St. Matthew's United Methodist Church
 * St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church
 * Washington Square United Methodist Church

Pentecostal

 * Bridge Of Life Church 14 S. Potomac St. Hagerstown, MD 21740 301-791-1674


 * Iglesia De Restauracion Adonai 1826 B. Dual Highway Hagerstown, Maryland 21740 240-315-2330

Reformed Church

 * Reformed Congregation
 * Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church
 * Zion Reformed Church

Seventh-Day Adventist

 * Hagerstown Highland View Seventh-day Adventist Church 21600 Academy Terrace Hagerstown, MD 21740 (301) 739-3144


 * Hagerstown Seventh-day Adventist Church 11507 Robinwood Drive Hagerstown, MD 21742 (301) 733-4411

United Church of Christ

 * Zion United Church of Christ 201 N. Potomac Street Hagerstown, MD 21740 301-739-7244

Immigration and Emigration
Ellis Island Passenger Arrival Records (1892-1924), the passengers who are from Hagerstown or heading to Hagerstown.

Newspapers

 * Hagerstown Mail
 * Herald of Freedom and Torch Light (later called Herald and Torch Light)
 * Maryland Free Press
 * The Herald-Mail, Online newspaper
 * Washington County Free Library, newspaper indexing

Libraries and Museums

 * Samuel B. Jamieson Genealogical Library, located in basement of the Miller Museum
 * Miller Museum

Local Histories

 * A History of Washington County, Maryland, by Thomas John Chew Williams from the earliest settlements to the present time, including a history of Hagerstown, to this is added a biographical record of representative families prepared from data obtained from original sources of information. A snippet view can be seen at Google Books.


 * History of western Maryland : being a history of Frederick, Montgomery, Carroll, Washington, Allegany, and Garrett counties..., by J. Thomas Scharf  from the earliest period to the present day; including biographical sketches of their representative men.

Societies

 * Hagerstown Frederick Railway Historical Society
 * Washington County Historical Society
 * Washington County Historical Society is the website to The Miller House which is the headquarters of the Washington County Historical Society office and the Simms B. Jamieson Genealogical Library.

Vital Records

 * Social Security Death Index, (F) begins about 1962 to 2 calendar months before the current month. It is updated on monthly basis.
 * Maryland Vital Records: Marriages (F) (1892-1966), marriage records of one or both spouses whose residence was in Hagerstown.

Websites

 * Webtree.com, (F) listing individuals who born or died in Hagerstown, Maryland. Submitters of gedcoms may add, update or remove contents.