Allegany County, Maryland Genealogy


 * This article is about a western Maryland county. For other uses, see Allegany.

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County Courthouse
Allegany County Office Complex 701 Kelly Road, Suite 407 Cumberland, MD 21502 ph: (301) 777-5911

Quick History


The name Allegany comes from the Allegheny Mountains. "Allegany" itself, derived from a local Native American word, oolikhanna, means "beautiful stream."

Wikipedia

Parent County
25 December 1789: Allegany County was created 25 December 1789 from Washington County.

Boundary Changes
4 November 1872: western part of the county was set off to form Garrett County.

Cities
Cumberland | Frostburg

Towns
Barton | Lonaconing | Luke | Midland | Westernport

Variant Place Names

 * Mount Savage &gt; Arnold Settlement, Corriganville, Jennings, Jennings Run, Jennons Run, Luthworth

Neighboring Counties
Garrett | Washington | Pennsylvania counties: Bedford | Fulton | Somerset | West Virginia counties: Hampshire | Mineral | Morgan

Biographies
Allegany County Biographies

Biographies from Allegany County, Maryland

Cemeteries (Rural)
For cemeteries in or very near cities or towns, please refer to populated places above.

Census

 * 1790
 * 1800
 * 1810
 * 1820
 * 1830
 * 1840
 * 1850
 * 1850 Slave
 * 1860
 * 1860 Slave
 * 1870
 * 1880
 * 1890 Veterans
 * 1900
 * 1910
 * 1920
 * 1930

Church Records
Maryland State Archives' Guide to Maryland Religious Institutions identifies all churches known to have existed in Allegany County, Maryland. It covers all denominations and includes record descriptions. The following records from their collection have been digitized and made available to view for free online:


 * Methodist Episcopal, First Methodist Episcopal Church, Registers 1838-1852, 1859-1870, 1870-1892, 1892-1915, 1914-1928 "One Hundredth Anniversary of Organization and Rededication 1832-1932"
 * Roman Catholic, St. Michael's Church, Baptismal Registers, 1852-1910; Marriage Registers 1852-1871; Pew Book 1861-1864; Creditors of the Church 1853-1857; Subscribers 1857; Invested Persons; Indexes
 * Roman Catholic, St. Michael's Church, Marriage Register 1946-1984; Interments 1920-1984; Confirmations 1868-1940, 1943-1966, 1975-1985; First Communions 1923-1983
 * Roman Catholic, St. Patrick's Church, General Register, 1818-1884 (baptisms, communions, marriages, confessions, deaths, cemetery records, renunciation of secret societies, choir subscriptions, and indexes)
 * Roman Catholic, St. Patrick's Church, Marriage Register 1932-1983; Interments 1885-1939

Allegany County Church Records

Court
Allegany County Court Records

Land
Through a Joint eGovernment Service of the Maryland Judiciary and the Maryland State Archives, free images and indexes of the complete series of Allegany County Deed Books (1791-present) have been uploaded to their website: MDLandRec.Net: A Digital Image Retrieval System for Land Records in Maryland. (Requires free registration.)

Other Allegany County land resources include:

Allegany County Land Records

Newspapers

 * Allegany County newspapers are identified in "Guide to Maryland Newspapers," available online, courtesy: Special Collections, Maryland State Archives.

Obituaries
 * Excerpts from the Cumberland Times

Probate
Allegany County Wills


 * "Index to Wills of Allegany County, Md., 1784-1850," The Maryland and Delaware Genealogist, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Winter 1990):10-11; Vol. 31, No. 2 (Spring 1990):50-51; Vol. 31, No. 3 (Summer 1990):90-91. FHL US/CAN Book 975 B2m.

Vital Records
Birth

Marriage
 * Allegany County Marriage Records
 * Marriage Licenses of Allegany County 1847-1865
 * Marriage Licenses of Allegany County 1865-1873

Death
 * Maryland Death Certificate Index 1898-1944, available online, courtesy: Vital Records Indexing Project, Maryland State Archives.

Web Sites

 * The Allegany County MDGenWeb Project, a member of The MDGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project.
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project for Allegany County.
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project for Allegany County. (backup site)
 * FamilySearch.org Family History Library Catalog for Allegany County.