Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland Genealogy

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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. An extensive history about Hagerstown can be found at Wikipedia

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.

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 &amp; 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, begins about 1962 to present.
 * State of Maine Marriage (1892-1966), marriage records of one or both spouses whose residence was in Hagerstown.

Websites

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