Adams County, Pennsylvania
Genealogy
USGenWeb
(Note: This is the Trostle Farm on the Gettysburg Battlefield)
Adams County was formed on January 22, 1800 from York County. It was named in honor of John Adams, the second President of the United Stated. The county seat is Gettysburg.
Questions or comments about this site can be addressed to FamilyHart , aka Don & Jeanine Hartman
or Joan Young , your Adams County, Pennsylvania USGENWEB Coordinators.
If you have records pertaining to Adams County to add to our USGenWeb Archives, please contact Kathy Francis, who is the archivist for Lancaster County.
Adams County Maps
Adams County Genealogical and Historical Information
Online Records
- Online - Multple Record Types
- Adams County USGENWEB Archives (census, cemeteries, court records, land records, newspapers, obituraries, wills, etc.)
- Library of Congress Online Holdings for Adams County
- Online - Census
- USGENWEB Census Project - Adams County
- 1850 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed (Pilot; Pennsylvania complete)
- 1850 U.S. Census Browsable (Pilot)
- 1860 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed (Pilot; incomplete)
- 1870 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed (Pilot; Pennsylvania complete)
- 1870 U.S. Census Browsable (Pilot)
- 1880 Lancaster County Census Extraction (complete)
- 1900 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed (Pilot; Pennsylvania complete)
- 1900 U.S. Census Browsable (Pilot)
- Online - Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- List of Adams County Cemeteries
- Adams County Cemetery Locations
- USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project - Adams County
- Internment.net Adams County Cemetery Records
- Find-A-Grave Adams County
- Adams County Cemetery Locations
- Political Graveyard - Adams County
- Lobach Cemetery - Latimore Township
- Lower Marsh Creek/Sanders Burial Ground - Highland Township
- Marsh Creek Cemetery (Partial) - Highland Township
- Wenksville UMC Cemetery (Partial) - Menallen Township
- Evergreen Cemetery - Gettysburg
- Online - Churches and Church/Civil Records
- List of Adams County Churches (Pre-1900)
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg Parishes
- Wenksville UMC
- Online - Military Records
- Online - Miscellanous Records
- Adams County USGENWEB/Rootsweb Queries
- FamilyHart Database (over 560,000 linked names online; many are from Adams County)
- Rootsweb WorldConnect Search
- Online - Obituaries
- Online - Books
- General History
- Documents
- Family Histories and Genealogies
Historical and Genealogical Societies & Libraries
- Adams County Historical Society
- Adams County Library
- Gettysburg Battlesfield Preservation Association
- National Genealogical Society
Other Adams County and General Resources
- Adams County Lookups
- Gettysburg.com
- The Battle of Gettysburg
- FamilyHart DNA Projects
- LDS FamilySearch
- Rootsweb's Guide to Genealogy
- Hiring a Professional Genealogist
- Copyright Fundamentals for Genealogy
- Ancestral Quest Genealogy Software
- Early Adams and York County Land Records
- Explore PA History
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Adams County Family Genealogy Websites If you have a family genealogy page with roots in Adams County, contact FamilyHart to be added to the list. Site must show strong relation to Adams County genealogy. Adams County Genealogy Neighbors
Adams County Historical Photos Warning: These pages contain graphic files which may be very large! If you have any historical Adams County pictures of people or places to add, drop FamilyHart a note. Adams County Today Other FamilyHart Sites
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