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 a local Native American word, oolikhanna, which 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
Maryland State Archives has uploaded free images and indexes to their website of the complete series of Allegany County Deed Books (1791-present). Visit their site to find the land records that interest you: MDLandRec.Net: A Digital Image Retrieval System for Land Records in Maryland. (Free registration is required.)

Other Allegany County land resources include:

Allegany County Land Records

Newspapers
Obituaries

Excerpts from the Cumberland Times

Probate
Allegany County Wills

Vital Records
Allegany County Marriage Records

Marriage Licenses of Allegany County 1847-1865

Marriage Licenses of Allegany County 1865-1873

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.