Adams County, Pennsylvania
USGenWeb
Project
(Family History and Genealogy)
(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 Adams County.
Adams County Maps
- Adams County Township Maps
- 1872 Adams County Map
- 1895 Adams County Map
- Township Formation Dates
- ADC Pocket Map - Adams County
- Pennsylvania County Formation Map
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 (over 681,000 linked PA Dutch names, many from Adams County)
- Online - Census
- USGENWEB Census Project - Adams County
- 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 Extraction - Adams County
- 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
- Online - Cemeteries and Cemetery Records
- Harry Senft's York and Adams County Cemetery Pictures (100s of 1000s of pictures of headstones)
- 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
- Adams County Cemetery Locations
- Political Graveyard - Adams County
- Dating Tombstones
- Bender's Church Graveyard - Butler Township
- Hampton Lutheran and Reformed Cemtery - Reading Township
- 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
- Evergreen and Soldiers National Cemtery - Misc Tombstone Photos
- Online - Churches and Church/Civil Records
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg Parishes
- Wenksville UMC
- Adams County Newspaper Extracts - Marriages 1804-1834
- Historical Sketch of Rock Chapel - Huntington Township
- 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 665,000 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
- Online - Videos
- Online - Books
- General History
- History and Directory of the Boroughs of Adams County, Pa.; published by John T. Reiley (1880)
- History and Topography of Dauphin, Cumberland, Franklin, Bedford, Adams, and Perry Counties, by I. Daniel Rupp (1846)
- 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)
- 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
- Dating Tombstones
- Gettysburg.com
- The Battle of Gettysburg
- The Battle of Gettysburg - A Photographic Guide
- 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
- Podcasts, Webcasts, and Internet TV
- LDS York 2nd Ward Family History Newsletters
Adams County Historical Photos
Warning: These pages contain graphic files which may be very large!
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