Northampton County Genealogy Project
Lookup Volunteers

Page last updated: Tuesday, 16 March 2010

If you have reference dealing with Northampton County and would be willing to do lookups for others, please let us know! Send e-mail to Nancy

NOTE: Time constraints do not allow me to personally do look-ups. I suggest you post your queries to the Northampton Mailing List. History has shown that there are a lot of very helpful members who will be glad to help, if possible.
Nancy

When asking for a lookup, please provide as much information as possible, giving full names and dates if possible. Be sure to include which reference you are referring to when sending in your request and put the words "Northampton County Lookup" in your subject line. Please do not send in a blanket request, for example: looking for all of the Jones in Northampton County-we are volunteers, not paid researchers! Your request should be limited to one name per request and please be sure to thank the volunteer for their time!

These volunteers have generously offered their time and energy. Many others visit this site, so please try to keep your requests simple.

Regina Mathews   free lookups for the reference 

GENEALOGICAL ABSTRACTS OF ORPHANS COURT RECORDS,  Northampton County Pennsylvania

VOLS.A-E 1752-1795 Vol.1 by Candace E.. Anderson

Roy W. Schreffler 

Roy has purchased Fairview Cemetery and has volunteered to do lookups.  A big thank you goes out to him.

Roy Schreffler 

• I have a copy of the book titled " St. John's Lutheran and Reformed Church,  Howertown, PA printed by E.H. Lechty, Bethlehem, PA with a record of persons buried from 1835 to 1935 in the Old Burial ground and the Greenwood Cemetery, and I will do lookups for free.
  • ST. JOHN'S UCC
    Howertown Road, just south of Route 329, Howertown.
    Started in 1833 as St. John's Union Church.
    Old cemetery adjacent to the church is
    now a closed cemetery.
    
    Allen Township.
     

Robert Arnts

• I have a copy of the Polk's Slate Belt (Northampton County., PA) Directory (including Bangor, East Bangor, Mt. Bethel, Pen Argyl, Portland, Roseto and Wind Gap). Published 1938 by the R. L. Polk & Co, 401 N. Broad St., Philadelphia PA. It contains names, addresses and occupations of inhabitants. I am willing to do lookups.

Mike Bartholomew

• Lutheran and Reformed Church christening records in Upper Mt. Bethel Township, covering the years 1772 through 1890

I am willing to do searches on a volunteer basis. I can't always guarantee that my response will be immediate, but I will get to the requests as soon as I'm able. My response will be by e-mail, and I don't want to bother with making copies of pages and mailing them out. The information from 1772 to 1823 is available on microfilm from the LDS. The later years I obtained from a member of the current church. They are transcribed records, not copies of the originals.

Geri Brennan

1. Commemorative Biographical Record for Northeastern Pennsylvania
2. Revolutionary War Pension Abstract Files (all 4 vols.)
3. Index to the War of 1812 Pension Files (both vols.)

Sue Collins

• "Jacobsburg, A Pennsylvania Community and Its People" by Charles M. Sandwick, Sr.

This book talks about Jacob HUBLER and his family, and also the William HENRY family who took over the HUBLER property. Names include: GLASS, HELLMAN, CHRIST, EYERLY, WOLLE, AHRY, JORDAN, BENADE, COPE, EDMONDS, COLVER, ALLEMAN, FEHR, WARD and GOLD. I will be happy to do lookups in this book. Please put something like Lookups in Book in subject line so I don't delete it.

Judy Gray

• I recently acquired a copy of the 1880 US Census on
  CD-ROM from the LDS, and would be happy to do lookups, not only in Pennsylvania, but the entire U.S.

Jane Green

• "Pennsylvania Births, Northampton County 1733-1800," by John T. Humphrey

Nancy Griffith (not available 12/2006)

• "A Genealogical Index of the Wills of Northampton County PA: 1752-1802," compiled by John Eyerman

Kay Martz Knoblach

• "67th Pennsylvania Volunteers (Companies A through K)," U.S. Army Military Institute in Carlisle, PA

These Civil War volunteers came from Northampton, Monroe, and surrounding counties.

Yvonne Osmun (not available 12/2006)

• Willing to answer basic (general) questions about Northampton. Visits Historical Room at the Easton Library and occasionally Northampton County Historical Museum.

Pamela K. Proctor

1. I have the three volumes of "The History of Northampton County" by William J. Heller, published by The American Historical Society 1920. It has 536 pages of county and township history, 639 pages of biographical sketches and some great photos.
   I can scan the page and send it to imaging and attach the image to an email. I've sent other things out recently, using this method, and so far no one has had difficulty opening the attachments.
2. Some of the First Settlers of "The Forks of the Delaware" and Their Descendants - First Reformed Church of Easton Records 1760-1852

Susan Schlack maintains Moravian Church Genealogy Links for information about the Moravian Church in Bethlehem and Nazareth, PA from 1741.

• A big thank you to Sue for doing lookups for the Northampton PAGenWeb site.  Sue is taking a break, but you can still enjoy her website.

1. Moravian Historical Society, 214 E. Center St., Nazareth, PA 18064 (610) 759-5070. Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society, Vol. I, No. 7, "A Register of Members of the Moravian Church, and of Persons Attached to Said Church in this Country and Abroad, Between 1727 and 1754," Abraham Reincke, W.C. Reichel.
2. _____, Vol. V, No. 2, "Moravian Immigration to Pennsylvania, 1734-1767, with some account of the Transport Vessels," John W. Jordan.
3. _____, Vol. V, No. 3, "Old Moravian Cemetery of Bethlehem, Pa., 1742-1897," Augustus Schultze.
4. _____, Vol. V, No. 4, "Index to Old Moravian Cemetery of Bethlehem, Pa."
5. _____, Vol. VII, No. 3, "Moravian Graveyards at Nazareth, Pa., 1744-1904," Edward T. Kluge.
6. _____, Vol. VII, No. 3, "Index to Moravian Graveyards at Nazareth"
7. Hamilton, Kenneth G. The Bethlehem Diary, Volume I, 1742-1744. Bethlehem, PA: The Archives of the Moravian Church, 1971.
8. Levering, Joseph Mortimer. A History of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 1741-1892, with Some Accounts of Its Founders and Their Early Activity in America. Bethlehem, PA: Sesqui-Centennial Committee of the Moravian Congregation of Bethlehem, 1903.
9. Ancestors of Ours ~ Database
   http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=smschlack
10. Ancestors of Ours ~ Text Version
    http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~smschlack/

Josephine Stocker (12/12/2006)

• "First Reformed Church of Easton, PA," by Chris & Patti Marsicano

I can do some lookups for some Northampton county cemeteries. I have mainly Easton and surrounding areas

Spencer Walters  (No longer available, but thank you for all the reponses)

• I have a birthday book, from 1898, I believe, and it includes many Northampton County surnames, such as BECK, BLOSS, CLEWELL, GEITING, HAMAN, KINIPER, KRAMER / KREMER, MESSINGER, MOSER, OTT, STAUBER, STEINER, STOUT and WALTER. Originally, it belonged to Ellen C. BLOSS, and a fellow genealogist offered it to me several months ago after learning these were many of the names I am researching. I have typed up all the names and dates and indexed it all. I'm sure the information could be useful to many genealogists, especially those with ties to Northampton County.

Jay Willis (12/18/2006)

1. Xerox copy of the 1907 Pa German Society's reprint of the St. Luke's Lutheran Church, Williams Twp., Northampton Co. PA or "Old Williams Lutheran" or Williams Twp. Lutheran church's records 1733 thru 1831.
2. I also have a Xerox of the original handwritten records for 1831 thru 1880.

I would be happy to be a "look up" volunteer. I would ask peoples patience since there is no index and all responses would have to be typed rather than cut and paste. My interest is the SLOYER family.