Genealogies and Genealogical Tools
Updated 07/29/2023
Genealogies are a popular form of historical research. Perhaps no other type of research allows an individual to better establish a bond with their ancestors. On this page, you will find different forms of genealogical information that are related to families with ties to the Auburn area. Due to the extensive nature of some of these forms, they are primarily available in PDF format. Click on any icon to open the file on that particular family line. Also, you will find a comprehensive listing of some genealogical tools the A.A.H.S. is providing for your research.
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AUBURN-RELEVANT GENEALOGIES
Berger Family Genealogy Information - click on icon to open | |
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GENEALOGICAL TOOLS
Genealogical Tools Listing for this webpage:
Auburn Cemetery Register - (also referred to as the "Auburn Public Cemetery", "Church of God Cemetery",
"First Bethel Church Cemetery", "lower cemetery", "Mill Street Cemetery", "old Auburn Cemetery" and
"Schoener's Dale Road Cemetery"). This cemetery is located adjacent to, and west of, Mill Street, Auburn, PA.
Auburn Church of God Cemetery Register - This cemetery is located north of Pearson Street, and west of
Cemetery Road, Auburn, PA.
Fahl Cemetery #1 Chart - This family cemetery is located on private property north-east of the bridge
spanning the Schuylkill River adjacent to Auburn, PA. Permission should be obtained from the actual property
owner prior to entering the property.
Fahl Cemetery #2 Chart - This family cemetery is located on private property in a wooded lot south of the
bridge spanning the Schuylkill River between the river and Fort Lebanon Road. Permission should be
obtained from the actual property owner prior to entering the property.
Mengel's Eck Cemetery Chart - This family cemetery is located on private property approximately three
miles east-southeast of Auburn, PA. Permission should be obtained from the actual property owner prior to
entering the property.
St. John's Church (Pearson Street) Cemetery Register - This cemetery is located north of St. John's
Church and Pearson Street, and east of Cemetery Road, in Auburn, PA.
Map of Known Cemeteries in the Auburn area - (the "Auburn-area" has been designated as a three-mile
radius from the center of Auburn).
Auburn Cemetery Register - (also referred to as the "Auburn Public Cemetery", "Church of God Cemetery",
"First Bethel Church Cemetery", "lower cemetery", "Mill Street Cemetery", "old Auburn Cemetery" and
"Schoener's Dale Road Cemetery"). This cemetery is located adjacent to, and west of, Mill Street, Auburn, PA.
Auburn Church of God Cemetery Register - This cemetery is located north of Pearson Street, and west of
Cemetery Road, Auburn, PA.
Fahl Cemetery #1 Chart - This family cemetery is located on private property north-east of the bridge
spanning the Schuylkill River adjacent to Auburn, PA. Permission should be obtained from the actual property
owner prior to entering the property.
Fahl Cemetery #2 Chart - This family cemetery is located on private property in a wooded lot south of the
bridge spanning the Schuylkill River between the river and Fort Lebanon Road. Permission should be
obtained from the actual property owner prior to entering the property.
Mengel's Eck Cemetery Chart - This family cemetery is located on private property approximately three
miles east-southeast of Auburn, PA. Permission should be obtained from the actual property owner prior to
entering the property.
St. John's Church (Pearson Street) Cemetery Register - This cemetery is located north of St. John's
Church and Pearson Street, and east of Cemetery Road, in Auburn, PA.
Map of Known Cemeteries in the Auburn area - (the "Auburn-area" has been designated as a three-mile
radius from the center of Auburn).
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Auburn Cemetery Register (also having been referred to as the "Auburn Public Cemetery", the "Church of God Cemetery"; the "First Bethel Church Cemetery", the "Mill Street Cemetery, the "old Auburn Cemetery" and the "Schoenersdale Road Cemetery") for the cemetery located adjacent to Mill Street on the southern side of town. This is the Auburn area's original public cemetery begun long before any church was established in Auburn. The actual ownership of this cemetery has recently been established as belonging to the congregation of the Auburn Church of God but it is maintained through donations by various organizations from the Auburn area. This cemetery has the earliest recorded interment within the borough (Johannes Staudt - 1823) as well as other historically significant interments such as David Fry - 1897 (a private in the "colored troops" during the Civil War) and William Hay - 1847, a Scotchman who tended canal locks in the immediate area, which in turn caused the locals to refer to the area & new settlement as "Scotchman's Lock" prior to it being officially named "Auburn". If you have any information about any individual who was interred within this cemetery, please contact the AAHS Chairperson in order that your information might be included within this enhanced cemetery directory and map. You can access the Auburn Cemetery webpage by clicking on the green button below.
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Auburn Church of God Cemetery Register (the cemetery is located north of Pearson Street in Auburn, PA, adjacent to the St. John's Church original or "old" Cemetery) is in the process of being compiled and should be available by Fall of 2019! This cemetery contains over 650 different interments to include several unique individuals such as Dr. Charles E. Quail and his two sons whom were both also named Charles E. Quail; his son Dr. Foster Koehler Quail; Wellington Jones, a controversial Civil War veteran; Elwood Walter Moyer, a four year old who accidentally drowned in the Schuylkill Canal: and Ida Borkey, a Missionary for 44 years. The AAHS would like to express its appreciation to the Auburn Church of God for lending us their cemetery records to complete this project. If anyone has any information relevant to this cemetery in general, or to a specific interment within the cemetery, please contact the AAHS ASAP in order that we might provide the most accurate and detailed information possible. To view information pertaining to the cemetery once the page has been completed, click on the green button below.
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Fahl-family Cemeteries #1 and #2 Charts are available for the two cemeteries which are located within the immediate Auburn area on private property. Permission should be obtained from the actual property owner before entering the property. These cemeteries contain several early interments to include that of Maria Christina (Fahl) Miller who was interred in 1811, leaving Maria the dubious distinction of being the earliest known visible interment in the immediate Auburn area. Access these two charts by clicking on the green buttons below.
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Mengel's Eck Cemetery Chart is available for the private family burial ground located approximately three miles east of Auburn on private property. Permission should be obtained from the actual property owner before entering the property. Contradictory records indicate that at least three, possibly four members of Mengel descent are interred on site. Access this chart by clicking on the green button below.
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St. John's Church of Auburn's "original" (Cemetery Road) Cemetery Register is now available on-line via this website! This is NOT your common Cemetery Directory but a greatly enhanced tool intended to aid individuals who are conducting Genealogical or Historical Research. Created on an Excel spreadsheet, this document enables the viewer to include or exclude whichever categories apply to their research, to organize individual topics alphabetically or by date order, to search out specific surnames or dates, etc. This directory was compiled by first listing any implied or recorded interments listed in other documents or websites. On-site visitation and verification of each actual grave site was then utilized to either confirm or possibly refute those prior listings as well as submit additional listings which had been missed by all prior efforts. As a result, this compilation definitively lists any and all interments for which there exists actual physical evidence at the grave site. Any prior listing which strongly indicates an interment but for which there is no physical evidence are highlighted in gray. Any prior listing which appears to possibly be erroneous in nature is highlighted in brown along accompanied by an explanation as to why this listing is questionable. This feature allows those individuals who have already compiled genealogies or who have already conducted historical research using these tools to quickly identify any potentially erroneous information and correct their work accordingly. Any information which has been confirmed by two or more sources is indicated by bold font. Any information which is offered but has not been confirmed by multiple sources is indicated by regular font. Standard information such as first, middle and last names, dates of birth and death and plot number (according to the SJC plot map) is included in this directory. This directory differs from any common directory by offering the following twelve additional features: (1) the directory has eighteen columns offering different choices of information. The first column not only lists each interment alphabetically by last name (surname), but any married individual who was previously known by a different surname is listed twice...once under their married surname and once by their maiden surname to assist researchers in their efforts to locate a specific individual; (2) the second column lists the individual's first name or initial in alphabetical order within that same surname grouping as is standard, with the third column listing the individual's middle names and/or initials if known; however, the fourth column lists "nicknames" for that individual...either those nicknames confirmed as being assigned to that person, and/or other possible nickname suggestions for an individual who has that specific name. For example, someone who found seemingly conflicting information on two prior ancestors named "Harold" and "Henry" may not realize that "Henry" is merely an accepted nickname for "Harold"; (3) the fifth and sixth columns lists either the maiden name and/or the wedded name of a married individual if known; (4) the seventh column lists similar surnames to that of the individual as sometimes surnames were altered, shortened or otherwise changed from one generation to the next or even between different families within the same generation; (5) the eighth column lists surname translations both from the original foreign language to English or from English back to a potential original language. For example, someone research the family genealogy of "Worth" may not realize that at some point in the distant past the "Worth" name was possibly Anglicized from the original "Wert" surname. (6) the ninth column lists possible first name derivatives. For example, someone who found reference to an ancestor named "Peggy" may not realize her actual first name was Margaret. (7) the tenth and eleventh columns simply list the date of birth and date of death if known, while the twelfth column calculates their approximate age at death if possible; (8) additionally, based on ages, any interment of a juvenile (under the age of 18 years old) has their surname and first name highlighted in either blue (for a boy) or pink (for a girl) or purple (if the gender of the child is not specified due to inscriptions such as "Baby" or "Infant"); (9) the thirteenth column lists the plot number of the individual grave site as was assigned by the Saint John's Church, while the fourteenth column lists a newly added "section number" which divides the entire cemetery into twelve smaller portions to make locating a particular grave easier. Both the "plot number" and the "section number" can be matched to a "map" or chart which is also available on this website; (10) the fifteenth and sixteenth column are references to the website "findagrave.com". The fifteenth column informs you of whether that website has an actual picture of the tombstone or monument posted; and the sixteenth column informs you of whether the interment is listed on that website; (11) the seventeenth column lists military service if known; information gleaned not only from actual headstone inscriptions but also from military records, death certificates, obituaries and other sources; (12) the eighteenth and final column lists additional genealogical and historical research information ranging from any known parents, siblings, spouses and/or children to occupations if known, causes of death if known, etc.
This document and the supplement maps and user guide can be downloaded to your computer via the "St. John's Church - Pearson Street" option under the "Cemeteries" category. You can directly access this cemetery listing by clicking upon the green button below.
This document and the supplement maps and user guide can be downloaded to your computer via the "St. John's Church - Pearson Street" option under the "Cemeteries" category. You can directly access this cemetery listing by clicking upon the green button below.
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Map of known cemeteries within the Auburn area is now available for the numerous burial grounds located with an approximate three miles radius from the center of the town of Auburn. This map shows eight different sites...six of which are listed within this webpage as "Auburn Cemetery; Auburn Church of God Cemetery; Fahl Cemetery #1; Fahl Cemetery#2; Mengel's Eck Cemetery and St. John's Church (Pearson Street) Cemetery". Site #6 (St. John's "new" cemetery located north of and adjacent to Rt. 895 east of Auburn) does not have an on-line cemetery register available as of this date, although this is a future project planned; and Site #7 titled "Family Burial Plot" which pinpoints a small private family plot which is believed to have been relocated several decades earlier and for which no information is available at this time. Additionally, since the creation of this map, a ninth potential cemetery within the Auburn area has been tentatively identified as having once been located due north of the Stein Hollow Beagle Club but this site is still in an unconfirmed, rumor-status only. View the site of the eight known burial grounds/cemeteries within the Auburn area by clicking the map pictured below.
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DISCLAIMER: Please keep in mind that while the information contained within these revised and improved cemetery directories is reasonably accurate, due to the very nature of this research some information simply cannot be definitively confirmed nor refuted. Additionally, just because original sources such as findagrave.com or church records may conflict with the actual inscriptions on tombstones or physical evidence at the grave sites, it does not automatically mean that their information is definitely inaccurate since tombstones can, and have, been incorrectly inscribed on occasion while still other tombstones or grave markers may have been damaged, lost or stolen since the interment has occurred. Hopefully you will find these tools an aid in physically locating a particular grave as well as a valuable aid in your genealogical and/or historical research of these individuals.