Garrett County, Maryland
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United States
Maryland Garrett County 
Contents |
County Courthouse
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| Birth | Marriage | Death | Census | Land | Probate |
| 1898 | 1873 | 1898 | 1880 | 1873 | 1873 |
Garrett County Courthouse
203 South Fourth Street, Room 207
Oakland, Maryland, 21550
Phone: 301-334-8970
Clerk Circuit Court has marriage, divorce, land
and court records from 1872, military records from 1942,
and naturalization records 1908-1929; Register of wills
has probate records[1]
History
- Named for John Work Garrett (1820-1884), president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Parent County
- Last county created in the state, 4 November 1872, from west part of Allegany County.
Boundary Changes
Record Loss
Places/Localities
Populated Places
Towns
Accident | Deer Park | Friendsville | Grantsville | Kitzmiller | Loch Lynn Heights | Mountain Lake Park | Oakland
Communities
Bittinger | Bloomington | Corunna | Crellin | Gorman | Hutton | Kempton | Keysers Ridge | McHenry | Jennings | New Germany | Sand Spring | Sang Run | Shalmar | Swanton
Neighboring Counties
Allegany | Pennsylvania counties: Fayette | Somerset | West Virginia counties: Grant | Mineral | Preston | Tucker
Resources
Cemeteries
- FamilyHart's Garrett County, Maryland This site contains many cemetery and obituary records for Garrett County.
Census
Federal Census reports available 1880-1930. For tips on accessing Garrett County, Maryland census records online, see: Maryland Census.
Church
Maryland State Archives' Guide to Maryland Religious Institutions identifies all churches known to have existed in Garrett County, Maryland. It covers all denominations and includes record descriptions.
Court
- Come join our Garrett County, Maryland Genealogy Group at Facebook
Gazetteers
Land
Through a Joint eGovernment Service of the Maryland Judiciary and the Maryland State Archives, free images and indexes of the complete series of Garrett County Deed Books (1872-present) have been uploaded to their website: MDLandRec.Net: A Digital Image Retrieval System for Land Records in Maryland. (Requires free registration.)
Other Garrett County land resources include:
- FamilyHart's Garrett County, Maryland This site contains many land records online for Garrett County.
Local Histories
- FamilyHart's Garrett County, Maryland This site has several online local histories and biographies for Garrett County.
Maps
- FamilyHart's Garrett County, Maryland This site contains many online maps of Garrett County.
Marriage Records
- FamilyHart's Garrett County, Maryland This site contains many marriage records online for Garrett County.
Military
War of 1812
- List of Pensioners on the Roll, January 1, 1883; Giving the Name of Each Pensioner, the Cause for Why Pensioned, the Post-Office Address, the Rate of Pension Per Month, and the Date of Original Allowance... Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1883. FHL Collection 973 M2Lp v. 5; digital versions at Google Books and Internet Archive. [See Vol. 5, Maryland, Garrett County, p. 149. Identifies War of 1812 veterans living in this county in 1883.]
Newspapers
- Garrett County newspapers are identified in "Guide to Maryland Newspapers," available online, courtesy: Special Collections, Maryland State Archives.
Obituaries
- FamilyHart's Garrett County, Maryland This site contains many online obituaries for Garrett County.
Probate
Taxation
Vital Records
Death
- Maryland Death Certificate Index 1898-1944, available online, courtesy: Vital Records Indexing Project, Maryland State Archives.
Societies and Libraries
Family History Centers
Web Sites
- FamilyHart's Garrett County, Maryland This site contains online map, cemetery, marriage, military, land, historical, and biographical records for Garrett County, Maryland.
- "Garrett Co.," in Genealogical Sources in Periodicals at The Maryland State Archives.
- The Garrett County MDGenWeb Project, a member of The MDGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project.
- The USGenWeb Archives Project for Garrett County.
- The USGenWeb Archives Project for Garrett County. (Backup site)
- FamilySearch.org Family History Library Catalog for Garrett County
- FamilyHart Online Database This online database contains over 630,000 linked family names. It grows by 1,000 names per week, and is updated online quarterly. There are many many Garrett County family in this database.
References
- ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Harford, Maryland page 317, {WorldCat|50140092|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
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