Adams County, Pennsylvania Genealogy


 * This article is about a southern Pennsylvania county. For other uses, see Adams.

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County Courthouse
111 Baltimore St. Gettysburg, PA 17325-2312 Telephone: (717) 334-6781

Hours: M - F   8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Parent County
Adams County was created 22 January 1800 from York County.  

Neighboring Counties
Cumberland | Franklin | York | Maryland counties: Carroll | Frederick

Cemeteries

 * Harry Senft York and Adams County Cemetery Pictures Harry Senft has taken pictures of 100s of 1000s of headstones in over 200 cemeteries in York and Adams counties that are ALL posted online. In conjunction with [mailto:familyhart@aol.com FamilyHart] (aka Don & Jeanine Hartman), Custom Google Maps for each cemetery location have been produced so that the user can easily find the cemetery.  An index of the cemeteries listed is also provided by name and by location.  In addition, indexing of the actual cemetery picture files with links to the  FamilyHart Online Databaseare being compiled.  The FamilyHart Online Database contains over 600,000 linked family names, most of which have connections to York and Adams counties.  This family database is the most comprehensive and complete listing of York and Adams County names on the Internet. It grows by about 1,000 names per week, and is updated online quarterly.

Maps

 * Ancestor Tracks has posted free, downloadable images from the 1858 Map of Adams Co., Pennsylvania by G. M. Hopkins. This wall map located in the Library of Congress shows major landowners and geographic sites at the date of publishing.

Web Sites

 * Adams County Government Web Site


 * Adams County USGenWeb Web Site This site contains a significant number of links to online Adams County genealogical data.


 * Linkpendium - Adams County
 * USGenWeb project for Adams County
 * Family History Library Catalog


 * FamilyHart Online Database,  [mailto:familyhart@aol.com FamilyHart](aka Don & Jeanine Hartman), has the largest collection of York and Adams County family genealogies online (Total database size over 630,000 linked names, most with York and Adams County ties).  They also have a large collection of family photgraphs, documents, and headstone pictures associated with these families.


 * Harry Senft York and Adams County Cemetery Pictures Harry Senft has taken pictures of 100s of 1000s of headstones in over 200 cemeteries in York and Adams counties that are ALL posted online. In conjunction with [mailto:familyhart@aol.com FamilyHart] (aka Don & Jeanine Hartman), Custom Google Maps for each cemetery location have been produced so that the user can easily find the cemetery.  An index of the cemeteries listed is also provided by name and by location.  In addition, indexing of the actual cemetery picture files with links to the  FamilyHart Online Databaseare being compiled.  The FamilyHart Online Database contains over 600,000 linked family names, most of which have connections to York and Adams counties.  This family database is the most comprehensive and complete listing of York and Adams County names on the Internet. It grows by about 1,000 names per week, and is updated online quarterly.