Allegany County, Maryland Genealogy

Guide to Allegany County Maryland ancestry, family history, and genealogy. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.


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

United States Maryland  Allegany County

Allegany County Maryland Courthouse
Clerk Circuit Court has marriage, divorce, court and land records from 1791 and naturalization records 1821-1973. Register of Wills has probate records.

Allegany County Maryland 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.

For animated maps illustrating Maryland county boundary changes, "Rotating Formation Maryland County Boundary Maps" (1637-1997) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.

Variant Spellings

 * Alleghany

Record Loss
For a list of record loss in Maryland counties see: Maryland Counties with Burned Courthouses
 * Lost census: 1890

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
Maryland 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
Census records


 * 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

Family Histories

 * [Lamar] Lamar, William Harmong, "Thomas Lamar of the Province of Maryland, and a Part of His Descendants," Publications of the Southern History Association, Vol. 1, No. 3 (Jul. 1897):203-210. Digitized by Internet Archive.
 * [Randolph] Randolph, Blanche Willie Grace and Deborah Ann Kraemer Small. The Randolphs of Prince William County, Virginia. Little Rock, Arkansas: B. Randolph, 1979.
 * [Randolph] Small, Deborah Ann Kraemer and Blanche Willie Grace Randolph. The Randolphs of Prince William County, Virginia, Volume II. Winter Park, Florida: D. Small, 1989.
 * [Randolph] Raski, Arma, James Randolph, and Glenita Guthrie. Additions &amp; Corrections to Vol. II, the Randolphs of Prince William Co., VA by Deborah K. Small.

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

Revolutionary War

 * A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services: With their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, as Returned by the Marshalls of the Several Judicial Districts, Under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census]. 1841. Digital version at Google Books. 1967 reprint: 973 X2pc 1840. [See Maryland, Alleghany County on page 127.]

War of 1812

 * List of Pensioners on the Roll, January 1, 1883; Giving the Name of Each Pensioner, the Cause for Why Pensioned, the Post-Office Address, the Rate of Pension Per Month, and the Date of Original Allowance... Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1883. 973 M2Lp v. 5; digital versions at Google Books and Internet Archive. [See Vol. 5, Maryland, Alleghany County [sic], pp. 109-110. Identifies War of 1812 veterans living in this county in 1883.]

Civil War
Civil War service men from Allegany County served in various regiments. Men often joined a regiment or a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are the military units that were formed in or had many men from Allegancy County.


 * - 2nd Regiment, Maryland Infantry, Potomac Home Brigade, Companies A, B, C, E, G, H, I and K.


 * - 3rd Regiment, Maryland Infantry, Potomac Home Brigade, Companies A, B, C, D and H.

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.

Research Guides
Russell, Donna Valley. Allegany and Garrett Counties, Maryland, Genealogical Research Guide. New Market, Md.: Catoctin Press, 1996.

Taxation

 * 1793 - "1793 Tax Assessment of Allegany County," Western Maryland Genealogy, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Apr. 1990):50-55; Vol. 6, No. 3 (Jul. 1990):107-112; Vol. 6, No. 4 (Oct. 1990):160-164.

Vital Records
Birth

Marriage


 * Allegany County Marriage Records
 * Marriage Licenses of Allegany County 1847-1865
 * Marriage Licenses of Allegany County 1865-1873
 * Marriage Records - Maryland State Archives

Death


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

Allegany County Maryland Genealogy Societies and Libraries
Donald L. Alexander Library Allegany College of Maryland, Cumerland Campus 12401 Willowbrook Road, SE Cumberland, MD 21502-2596 301/784-5005

The archives of the Genealogical Society of Allegany County, Maryland (ACGS) are held in the Appalachian Room of the Library of Allegany College of Maryland (http://www.allegany.edu/library/). Various newspapersare available mostly in microfilm format. A collection of extracts gleaned from obituaries published in local Allegany County newspapers in the 19th and 20th centuries is available on microfilm in the Appalachian Room (Call No. Apl CS68.G46.H36). Known as the Mrs. Hazel Groves Hansrote notes, the collection includes carefully transcribed notes of family relationships mentioned in the obituaries and is organized alphabetically by family surname.

Research assistance is generally available on Mondays, staff by the ACGS.

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Cumberland Maryland Family History Center

Allegany County Maryland Genealogy Websites

 * Allegany County, MD History, Records, Facts and Genealogy (Genealogy Inc)
 * The Allegany County MDGenWeb Project, a member of The MDGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project.
 * "Allegany Co.," in Genealogical Sources in Periodicals at The Maryland State Archives.
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project for Allegany County.
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project for Allegany County. (backup site)
 * FamilySearch Catalog for Allegany County.