Adams County Genealogy
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Adams Countywide Sources
1790-1940 U.S. Federal Census Archives
1790-1940 United States Federal Census
1862 Adams County, Pennsylvania : indexed Civil War draft lists Family History Library
1906-present Pennsylvania Birth Certificates (order here) Archives
1906-present Pennsylvania Death Certificates (order here) Archives
A Pioneer Outline History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, . . . Tioga, Potter, McKean, Warren, Crawford, Venango, Forest, Clarion, Elk, Jefferson, Cameron, Butler, Lawrence, and Mercer Open Library
A history of Adams County, Pennsylvania, 1700-1990 Family History Library
Abstracts from the Republican compiler, Adams County, Pennsylvania 1831-1851 Family History Library
Abstracts of Adams County, Pennsylvania wills, 1800-1826 Family History Library
Abstracts of Orphans Court records, 1800-1810, Book A, Adams County Courthouse, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Family History Library
Adam County Official Draft List - March 1865
Adams County - Civil War July 1864 Draft List
Adams County - Civil War June 1864 Draft List
Adams County 1917 Draft List
Adams County 1940 Draft List
Adams County American Revolutionary War Soldiers
Adams County Cemetery Index Adams County Historical Society
Adams County Civil War 1862 Substitutes
Adams County Civil War Exemptions - November 1863
Adams County Clergymen Adams County Historical Society
Adams County Deaths - 1 May 1899 to 1 Nov 1899
Adams County Delayed Birth Register 1893-1905 Adams County Historical Society
Adams County Military Records US Gen Web Archives
Adams County Obituaries Adams Library
Adams County Original Land Records Series Volume I Adams County Historical Society
Adams County Original Land Records Series Volume II Adams County Historical Society
Adams County Original Land Records Series Volume III Adams County Historical Society
Adams County church records of the 18th century : marriages, births, deaths from the earliest record through 1800 of the Dutch Reformed, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Presbyterians, Quakers, Roman Catholics and Reformed (German) Family History Library
Adams County church records, 1745-1825 Family History Library
Adams County history Family History Library
Adams County in the World War : April 6, 1917 to November 11, 1918 Internet Archive
Adams County, Pa. cemeteries; York County, Pa. cemeteries : copied from article by R. J. Lewis in York (Pa.) Dispatch of Nov. 20, 1937 Family History Library
Adams County, Pennsylvania land ownership maps, [185-?] and 1858 Family History Library
Adams County, Pennsylvania, area key : a guide to the genealogical records of Adams County, Pennsylvania, including maps, histories, charts and other helpful materials Family History Library
American Genealogical Biographical Index Databases World Vital Records
An index to Hagerstown newspapers Family History Library
An index to the wills and administration bonds of Adams County, Pennsylvania, 1800-1864 [A-Z] Family History Library
An index to the wills and administration bonds of Adams County, Pennsylvania, books, A-G, 1800-1864 Family History Library
Atlas & plat book Adams County, Pennsylvania Family History Library
Atlas of Adams Co., Pennsylvania Family History Library
August 1863 Civil War Draft for Adams County
Backgrounds of Adams County history, articles nos. 1-74, July 31, 1937 to January 21, 1939 Family History Library
Bedford County, Pennsylvania, cemeteries Family History Library
Benders Lutheran Church Cradle Roll, Oct.1921-Jan.1929
BillionGraves Cemetery Records Index Family Search
Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Cumberland, York, and Adams counties, Pennsylvania, with new index Family History Library
Birth, marriage, & death record (transcripts) of Adams County, Pennsylvania, 1852-1855 Family History Library
Births, marriages, and deaths of Adams County, Pennsylvania, 1852-1854 Family History Library
Cemetery records, Adams County, Pennsylvania Family History Library
Chamberlin Hill Cemetery
Church records surname index of Adams and York counties, Pennsylvania Family History Library
Church records, 1848-1854 [Franklin Circuit of the United Brethren in Christ] Family History Library
Church records, 1856-1913 [Paradise United Brethren in Christ] Family History Library
Conewago centennial celebration, Church of the Sacred Heart, 1787-1887 Family History Library
Cumberland County, Pa., church, Bible and cemetery records Family History Library
Decedents index, 1864-1937 Family History Library
Deeds, 1800-1851; index 1800-1937 Family History Library
Delayed birth certificates, special registration, filed 1941-1950 Family History Library
Digges' choice, 1724-1800 : a history of land transactions within a portion of York and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania Family History Library
Early Lutheran baptisms and marriages in southeastern Pennsylvania : the records of Rev. John Casper Stoever from 1730 to 1779 Family History Library
Early families of Frederick County, Maryland and Adams County, Pennsylvania Family History Library
Estate Files Sampubco
Estate files, 1849-1976 Family History Library
Every name index to Rupp's history and topography of Dauphin, Cumberland, Franklin, Bedford, Adams, and Perry counties Family History Library
Every-name index to History of Cumberland and Adams counties, Pa Family History Library
Family File Index Of The ACHS (photos, family histories, correspondences, newspaper clippings, etc) Adams County Historical Society
Federal Land Patents Bureau of Land Management
Find A Grave Gravestone, Tombstone, and Memorial Photo Collection World Vital Records
Flohr's Lutheran Church Cemetery
Founding Catholic families of Conewago : a compilation Family History Library
Gazetteer of York and Adams counties, Pennsylvania Family History Library
Genealogical abstracts of Adams County, Pennsylvania; bith, marriage, and death registrations 1852-1855 with surname index Family History Library
General census of cemeteries in Adams County (Pennsylvania), 1932-1937 Family History Library
Germany Township, Conewago Township, Union Township, Mount Joy Township, Mount Pleasant Township, Straban Township : Adams County, Pennsylvania: original Pennsylvania land records, volume 1 Family History Library
Gettysburg Death Notices 1802-1834
Guide to research in York & Adams counties, Pennsylvania Family History Library
Gunsmiths of Adams, Franklin, and Cumberland counties, Pennsylvania Family History Library
Historical map Adams County, Pennsylvania Family History Library
History and Directory of the Boroughs of Adams County, Pa.; published by John T. Reiley (1880) US Gen Web
History and Topography of Dauphin, Cumberland, Franklin, Bedford, Adams, and Perry Counties US Gen Web
History of Adams County, Pennsylvania Family History Library
History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania Internet Archive
History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania : Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages
History of Cumberland and Adams counties, Pennsylvania : containing history of the counties, their townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc.; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; biographies; history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, etc., etc. Family History Library
History of Scottish dissenting Presbyterianism in Adams County, Pennsylvania : an account of Reformed Presbyterian, Associate Presbyterian, Associate Reformed, Independent, and United Presbyterian Church of North America clergy and congregations Family History Library
History of the Eighty-Seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers by George R. Prowell (1903) US Gen Web
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, York Springs, Adams County, Pennsylvania; records 1831-1957 Family History Library
In the Court of common pleas at Adams County, Pennsylvania : sitting in equity, January term, 1889: no. 1, between John Reed, Sylves- ter Byrne, Frederick Middleton, Julius B. Allen, and Charles W. Devitt, representing the survivors of the 72nd regiment Pennsylvania volunteers, plaintiffs : and Gettysburg Battle-field Memorial Association, .. Family History Library
Inventory of the county archives of Pennsylvania, no. 01, Adams County Family History Library
Listing of inhabitants in 1779, Adams County, Pennsylvania Family History Library
Lobach Cemetery
Lower Marsh Creek Cemetery, of the Lower Marsh Creek Presbyterian Church, located five miles west of Gettysburg, Pa. Family History Library
Lutheran Cemetery
Marriage book 1822-1852, 1860-1870 Family History Library
Marriage dockets, 1885-1950 Family History Library
Marriages 1885-87 US Gen Web Archives
Marriages recorded by the Adams County Clerk of Courts Family History Library
More names in stone : cemetery inscriptions from the peripheral areas of Frederick County, Maryland Family History Library
Naturalization and declaration of intention papers, 1802-1906 Family History Library
Notes on the history of Adams County, Pennsylvania Family History Library
October 1862 Civil War Draft
Official original colonial warranted lands : map #1 - Adams County - south east: original Pennsylvania land records series Family History Library
Orphans' Court dockets, 1800-1853 ; general index to Orphans' Court records Family History Library
Parochial registers for Lutheran congregations in Adams County, Pennsylvania, 1745-1985 : a guide to genealogical resources in the parish records of baptisms, marriages, and burials, as well as to translations and copies in print and in public institutions Family History Library
Pastor's record, 1744-1801 : Reformed churches in York and Adams counties, Pennsylvania; Carroll and Baltimore counties, Maryland Family History Library
Pastor's records, 1858-1927 Family History Library
Pennsylvania (state) directories Family History Library
Pennsylvania Births, 1852-1854
Pennsylvania Church Records - Adams, Berks, and Lancaster Counties, 1729-1881
Pennsylvania County Marriages, 1885 - 1950 Family Search
Pennsylvania Genealogies; Scotch-Irish and German by William Henry Egle (1886) US Gen Web
Pennsylvania German Marriages: Marriages and Marriage Evidence in Pennsylvania German Churches World Vital Records
Pennsylvania Marriage Records, 1700-1821
Pennsylvania Records of Marriages, 1885-1889
Pennsylvania migrations : here and there marriages, Revolutionary soldiers, tomb records Family History Library
Pennsylvania, Births and Christenings, 1709-1950 Family Search
Pennsylvania, Marriages, 1709-1940 Family Search
Pfoutz Meeting House Cemetery
Records in stone Family History Library
Records of the Menallen Monthly Meeting, York County, Pennsylvania Family History Library
Register of births, 1893-1899 Family History Library
Register of deaths, 1893-1905 Family History Library
Register of negroes and mulattoes, 1800-1820 Family History Library
Register of wills, 1800-1851 ; Index to wills, 1800-1864 Family History Library
Registration of births, 1852-1854 Family History Library
Registration of deaths, 1852-1855, 1873-1881 Family History Library
Registration of marriages, 1852-1855 Family History Library
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Middle District : May term, 1891, nos. 20 and 30 : appeal of the Gettysburg Battle-field Memorial Association, from the decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Adams County; and appeal of John P. Taylor, J.P.S. Gobin, John P. Nicholson, and R.B. Ricketts, com- missioners appointed by the Governor of the State of Pennsylvania, from the decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Adams County : paperbook of appellees Family History Library
Tax list of York County, 1779 : pertaining to persons living in York County and present-day Adams County Family History Library
Tax lists, 1798-1842 Family History Library
The Blunston license book, 1733-1765 Family History Library
The Church book belonging to the Evangelical Lutherans, the year of our Lord, 1824-1942 Family History Library
The Farm journal directory of Adams County, Pennsylvania Family History Library
The History and Topography of Dauphin, Cumberland, Franklin, Bedford, Adams, Perry, Somerset, Cambria & Indiana Counties
The History and Topography of Dauphin, Cumberland, Franklin, Bedford, Adams, and Perry Counties, Pennsylvania Internet Archive
The centennial memorial of the Presbytery of Carlisle : a series of papers, historical and biographical, relating to the origin and growth of Presbyterianism in the central and eastern part of southern Pennsylvania Family History Library
The churches of Adams County, Pennsylvania : a brief review and summary Family History Library
The history and topography of Dauphin, Cumberland, Franklin, Bedford, Adams, Perry, Somerset, Cambria and Indiana counties : containing a brief history of the first settlers, notices of the leading events, incidents and interesting facts, both general and local, in the history of these counties, general and statistical descriptions of all the principal boroughs, towns, villages, etc., with an appendix Family History Library
The history and topography of Dauphin, Cumberland, Franklin, Bedford, Adams, and Perry counties (Pennsylvania) : containing a brief history of the first settlers, notices of the leading events, incidents and interesting facts, both general and local, in the history of these counties, general and statistical descriptions of all the principal boroughs, towns, villages, etc., with an appendix Family History Library
The medical profession of Adams County Family History Library
The registers of the York Springs Lutheran Charge, Adams County, Pennsylvania, 1840-1867 Family History Library
The story of the creation of Adams County, Pennsylvania, and of the selection of Gettysburg as its seat of justice : an address before the Historical Society of Adams County, on its first anniversary, May 6, 1889 Family History Library
Tombstone inscriptions, Friends graveyards, York and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania Family History Library
Topographical map, Gettysburg - Antietam, Bonneauville sheet Family History Library
Township assessment lists, 1762-1849 Family History Library
Transcript of records of Warrington Quarterly Meeting, 1787-1801; Women's quarterly meeting minutes, 1787-1813 Family History Library
U.S. City Directories (includes Adams County 1880)
U.S. Federal Census 1790-1940 Family Search
United States Obituary Collection
Will Testators Indexes Sampubco
World War I Draft Registrants from 1917 US Gen Web Archives
World War II Draft Registrants December, 1942 US Gen Web Archives
World War II Draft Registrants November, 1940 US Gen Web Archives
World War II Draft Registrants October, 1940 US Gen Web Archives
York and Adams counties, 1821 and York County, 1860 Pennsylvania land ownership maps Family History Library
More Adams County records are available on the statewide page