Adams County, Pennsylvania
USGenWeb
Project
(Family History and Genealogy)
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.
Adams County Maps
Adams County Genealogical and Historical Information
Online Records
- Online - Multiple Record Types
- Adams County USGENWEB Archives (census, cemeteries, court records, land records, newspapers, obituraries, wills, etc.)
- Civil War Era Collection at Gettysburg College
- FamilyHart Database at Rootweb WorldConnect (Over 1 Million linked PA Dutch names, many from Adams County)
- Online - Census
- 1850 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed
- 1860 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed
- 1870 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed
- 1880 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed
- 1900 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed
- 1910 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed
- 1920 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed
- 1930 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed
- 1940 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed
- USGENWEB Census Project - Adams County
- Online - Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- FamilyHart's Harry Senft Cemetery Pictures and Indices (100s of 1000s of pictures of headstones; mostly York and Adams County)
- Lobach Cemetery - Latimore Township
- Marsh Creek Cemetery (Partial) - Highland Township
- Evergreen Cemetery - Gettysburg
- Evergreen and Soldiers National Cemtery - Misc Tombstone Photos
- Adams County Cemetery Report - (LMHS; 1993)
- Adams County Cemetery Locations
- USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project - Adams County
- Internment.net Adams County Cemetery Records
- Find-A-Grave Adams County
- Political Graveyard - Adams County
- Dating Tombstones
- Online - Church and Civil Records
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg Parishes
- Historical Sketch of Rock Chapel - Huntington Township
- Marriages - 1804-1834 - Extracts in Adams County Newspapers
- Online - Military Records
- Adams County American Revolutionary War Soldiers
- Reading Township - Militia Company Orders- April 1848 and 1849 Enrollment
- Adams County Soldiers in the Civil War
- Adams County Civil War Draft - October 1862
- Adams County Civil War Substitutes - 1862
- Adams County August 1863 Civil War Draft
- Adams County Civil War Excemptions - November 1863
- Adams County June 1864 Civil War Draft
- Adams County July 1864 Civil War Draft
- Adams County Official Draft List - March 1865
- Adams County Prisoners of War from Andersonville
- Adams County 1917 Draft List
- Adams County 1940 Draft List
- Online - Biographies
- Online - Documents
- Online - Miscellanous Records
- Adams County USGENWEB/Rootsweb Queries
- Diseases found on Death Certificates and their Meaning
- Epidemic Calendar for Genealogists
- FamilyHart Database (over 986,000 linked names online; many are from Adams County)
- Rootsweb WorldConnect Search
- Online - Obituaries
- Adams County Obituaries (Adams County Library)
- Gettysburg Times Current Obituraries
- Gettysburg Newspaper Death Notices 1802-1834
- Gettysburg Complier, Deaths in the County, 1 May 1899 to 1 Nov 1899
- The Adams Centinel Obituaries 1820-1841, 1850-1851
- Online - Videos
- Online - Books
- General History
- History and Directory of the Boroughs of Adams County, Pa.; published by John T. Reiley (1880; Google Scanned Book (5MB pdf))
- History and Topography of Dauphin, Cumberland, Franklin, Bedford, Adams, and Perry Counties, by I. Daniel Rupp (1846; Google Scanned Book (23MB pdf))
- Books and Articles on the The Battle of Gettysburg ($; some books free)
- History of the Eighty-Seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers by George R. Prowell (1903; Google Scanned Book (16MB pdf))
- Documents
- Family Histories and Genealogies
- The Genealogy of the Jackson Family, by Rev. Hugh Parks Jackson (1890; Google Scanned Book (3MB pdf))
- Pennsylvania Genealogies; Scotch-Irish and German by William Henry Egle (1886; 27MB pdf)
- Through the Years (Reed, Sanders, Riley, Ferree, Shulley, Boyd, Reynold, Dubois) by May Sanders Riley (4.6M pdf)
- Trimmer Notebooks
- Dierdorff Notebooks
Historical and Genealogical Societies & Libraries
Other Adams County and General Resources
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.
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