Carbon County PAGenWeb

Carbon has joined in on the quest to document our ancestors migrations. I would like to start a seperate page showcasing the migration patterns of our Carbon ancestors. Please send your Carbon County Ancestors migration pattern to me Wanted our Revolutionary War units/individuals!! If you have information on our Carbon Revolutionary War units/individuals please e-mail me Thanks!!! Wanted our Civil War units. If you have information on our Carbon Civil War units please e-mail me Thanks!!! Barbara Lavin Commercial use of any information from these pages is prohibited. Carbon County, Pennsylvania Maps by www.expediamaps.com Want to know the weather in Jim Thorpe before you come?    Enter a city or zip     Carbon County was formed from: Northampton MonroeCounties in 1843. Neighboring counties are: Monroe Northampton Lehigh Schuylkill Luzerne Counties. Hi,my name is Barbara Lavin, and I am your county hostess/coordinator. I took this site over from Adam Roberts on May 14th,1999. Hopefully you'll see new and exciting things. Please bookmark this site as things could change regularly. I hope you enjoy your visit and please come again. Carbon county Information County seat: Jim Thorpe (Mauch Chunk) Having problems locating your Carbon Ancestor?? Many of our ancestors migrated to another county - generally one close by. Please try searching in the following neighboring counties.. Berks County maintained by Judy Parsons or Schuylkill County maintained by Barb Lavin We need your town histories!!! Please help us get them all- we don't want any left out. All our Carbon towns and boroughs are important. We need more on all of them - let's make this the best site it can be. To help, e-mail me let me know which town you want to do and I'll add you to the list of angels. Thanks !!! Remember this is YOUR site Barbara Lavin. Useful Carbon County addresses: Carbon County Courthouse 4 Broadway Lock Box# 129 Jim Thorpe, PA 18229-0129 570-325-3611 Mauch Chunk Historical Society 14 West Broadway Jim Thorpe, PA 18229-1932 570-325-4439 Mauch Chunk Museum Cultural Center 41 West Broadway Jim Thorpe, PA 18229 570-325-9190 Carbon County Libraries Dimmick Memorial Library 54 Broadway Jim Thorpe, PA 18229-2022 570-325-2131 Need directions?? Lehighton Memorial Library 124 North Street Lehighton, PA 18235 610-377-2750 Palmerton Library 402 Delaware Avenue Palmerton, PA 18071 610-826-3424 Weatherly Area Community Library 20 Carbon Street Weatherly, PA 18255 570-427-5085 Some Cemetery Addresses St. John's Cemetery Rt. 902, Mahoning Twp (570) 386-4334 Gnaden Huetten Cemetery 610-377-1310 Lehighton Cemetery 4th and Alum Streets (610)377-4403 Lookup Volunteers: You are cordially invited to sign up to be a Carbon County Volunteer. We could not possibly have enough wonderful people who are willing to help others to find Carbon County ancestors. We would love to have your help. Willing to help? What do you do? You may have an old history book with an index and be willing to check to see if someone's ancestor is listed. You might have Tax Lists, Census Records, Courthouse Records, Death Records. Someone needs your information. An alternative to lookups...Indices: Would you be interested in typing an index from any one of the old Carbon County history books? This would be a once and done, permanent help to all of us doing\ research. or cemetery records If you want to help and don't want to type or don't have the time, but you have taken the time to ask your pastor for his church records - marriage, death, baptisms and cemetery. We would love to have you contact us - I have volunteers waiting to help !! E-mail me and I'll forward you the proper postal address Barbara Lavin If you would like to volunteer to make this page better, we sure could use the help! Please e-mail Barb Lavin Help wanted ~~ Immigrants Ship Transcribers Guild To do some of the volunteer work, you don't have to reside in the area. For some of the projects, the coordinators will snail-mail you the records to be transcribed, along with instructions. Or you could provide services for a project involving records that exist in your area. To learn more about volunteering to transcribe passenger ships' lists for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, who then upload the list onto their site on RootsWeb for all to access -- Click Here: ISTG - FAQ Read that entire page of questions and answers (just keep scrolling down the page). If this is something you'd be willing to help with, click on "Fill Out Application" at the bottom of that page. New Carbon County Queries: The new queries will be posted automatically. The instructions are below: 1...Place ALL SURNAMES (within your query) in CAPS. 2...Enter your information exactly as you want it to appear. 3...Please, CARBON COUNTY QUERIES ONLY.. 4...Please TURN OFF THE CAPS. It's hard to see the surnames if your whole query is in caps Carbon Boards - please see main page Hinkle's Board For peole who are looking for their Hinkle Ancestor Ancestry.com's allinclusive board Useful County Information The Dimmick is located in Jim Thorpe's downtown section, on Broadway. If you are coming into JT from the Lehighton direction, turn left at the traffic light and start looking for a parking place. It is up a bit from the traffic light, and sits back off the street, on the right hand side. It is a low red brick building, over 100 years old. Small yard in front with an iron fence. They also are online, the link appears on the Carbon Co. GenWeb page. If coming from far away, and only have one day or so to research at the Dimmick, it is a good idea to call ahead and reserve time on the m-film viewers. Last time I was there, both viewers were taken. ~~Thanks Jack!! If you live near enough to Carbon Co. to visit, the Dimmick Library has all censuses up to 1920 on m-film. If you don't live near, check your local library. If they have a m-film reader, you can have them order the census films at a very reasonable cost. If there is an LDS Archive near you, they also can get the census films ~~Thanks Jack!! Coalrain and Beaver Meadow are two seperate towns. There was an area between the towns that was called Beaver Meadow Mines. Coalrain is still there, but is now called Junedale. If anyone out there is seeking info from a particular time period & wants to look at the Miners Journal, almost all public libraries can request this newspaper available on microfilm through interlibrary loan. microfilm is available at various Pa. schools including Penn State & Bloomsburg. The Library of Congress has some Miners Journal issues in bound volumes that you can access in Washington, DC. contributed by Barbara Bensinger Welsh Where was that town??? Parryville, Carbon Co. .......... In 1780 it was under Towemensing Twp. now Franklin Thanks Ruth Adams Where is that division? The "division" of Lausanne would mean the township. At the time of the 1850 & 60 census, it included all of present day Lehigh & Lausanne Twps., plus the boro of Weatherly. Weatherly incorporated in 1863. In 1850 and probably 60 he was apparently in Penn Haven, living in the hotel run by the Conners in 1850. Penn Haven was located along the upper Lehigh River, about 15 miles from the county border with Schuylkill. ~~Thanks Jack!! Info on birth certificates there were regulations concerning birth registration passed at various times, however, up until around WWII, many people ignored these regulations, especially those who gave birth at home. So, if you don't find any birth record for an ancestor born before the 1930s, you can assume that there may not be a record. In these cases, if you don't have other evidence of birth (SS, death certificate, census, etc), you need to try church records. German Card for Genealogical Research The Sacramento German Genealogy Society issued the "German Card for Genealogical Research", plastic, folds into 2 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.,includes German script, symbols, terms, soundex and more. SGGS, P.O. Box 66061, Sacrament, CA 95866-0061. Useful and portable. Present Price unknown Trying to Decifyer that German Writting "The "f" in the middle of the word almost certainly should be an "s" in the Gothic script that was once commonly used in German texts. The "s" at the end of a word takes the form of the "s" that you are more accustomed to seeing, but in the middle of a word the form of the "s" looks more like an "f" without the right side of the mark that crosses the letter horizontally." Since this time, I've also found the f/s use in handwritten documents. I haven't yet determined any rhyme or reason to when or where it might appear, but it's out there. Hope this was of some help. For example why was "s" sometimes written like an "f"? There used to by a company which sold old time fonts (type faces) from the civil war era and German Fraktur faces. The company was Walden Font and the collection of type faces was called The Gutenberg Press. There was a history of the type faces on their site. www.waldenfont.com Need to find a map? Bureau of Archives and History P.O. Box 1026 Harrisburg, PA 17108 sells warrantee twp maps which show the original land grants within present township boundaries as well as names and other information for the original warrantee and patentee. contributed by Rene Phelan Have a Title Abstract? Keep in mind when dealing with an Abstract - they can contain lots of other information besides names, dates and legal descriptions. Often they contain transcriptions of Wills, Divorces, various lawsuits, etc. If you have any additions or corrections to this list, please let me know. Send email to Barb Lavin About the PAGenWeb / USGenWeb Project In June, 1996, GENCAP and the USGenWeb Project helped organize the Pennsylvania Comprehensive Genealogy Database Project (PAGenWeb). The idea was to provide a single entry point for all counties in Pennsylvania, where genealogical data about each county could be easily found. In addition, the data on all county sites would be indexed and cross-linked, so that a single search in the master index could locate all references to a given surname across all pages and databases associated with the project. At the same time, volunteers were found who were willing to coordinate the collection of data and generally oversee the contents of each web page. Contact the volunteer shown on the appropriate county page if you would like to contribute in some way to the project. Or you can send email to the PAGenWeb state coordinator at nate@pa-roots.com. Volunteers are still needed! If you are interested in hosting a PAGenWeb County, read the Requirements for Home Pages Created under the PAGenWeb Project Want to know more about PAGenWeb? Here's a fascinating article PAGenWeb Project: Volunteers Building Pennsylvania's Online Genealogical Resources The pages at this site are best viewed with a tables-capable browser. Both Netscape 3.01 and Explorer 3.0 support tables and can be down loaded for free. Barb Lavin Commercial use of any information from these pages is prohibited. This page created 19 May 1999 for the PAGenWeb / USGenWeb Project

Carbon County Links Carbon in the Revolution Our Scrapbook Carbon County Mailing List or Digest Mode Carbon County Sites Carbon County History and Genealogy AOH Carbon County Summit Hill Maintained by Lee Mantz Pixler/Bixler Mailing list Palmerton, Orginal and Early Tract Owners Maintained by Marie Robinson Hinkle's Board Carbon County Migration Page Cemteries of Carbon County maintained by Jack Sterling The Greater Weatherly Area Has on line records of various cemeteries in and around the Weatherly area maintained by: Barb Lavin and Jack Sterling Carbon County PA in the Civil War maintained by Nikki Roth-Skiles Excerpts from the Evening Star Saturday, January 27, 1945 Contributed byJean Yandrick Times News Online - Lehighton, PA Diaries Mary Elizabeth Neifert Richards Diaries 1916-1952 Maintained by Barbara Lavin Maps 1875 Carbon County Atlas Business Notices Maintained by Sue Bosevich St. Matthew's Baptisms, Marriages, Confirmations Transcribed by Maria Hydock Search billions of records on Ancestry.com Carbon in the USGenWeb Archives Carbon County Cemetery Page Published Resources Carbon County Query Forum Carbon County, PAGenWeb Query Page 1998 Carbon Co Queries 1997 Carbon County Queries USGS Geographic Names Information System Query Results Carbon County, PA Carbon Homepages Solt Family maintained by Bruce Solt A Reed by many other names Researching:Andreas and Frantz families Maintained by:Richard Emlin Reed Marsteller Family Research Organization Surnames to Brag About Maintained by Irene Diehl Konrad Serfass/Gougher Homepage Maintained by William Searfoss Carbon Census Resources 1920 Census CD contains the 1920 Census Images of Lehighton Borough, Carbon County PA. The area's that are on this are all three wards of Lehighton, Mahoning Township and also Towamensing. If you are interested please email Ivana Anthracite Resources Projects of Coal Coal Castles of Schuylkill County Historical Coal Mine Disasters in the Anthracite Region January 12, 1846 to January 22, 1959 A Tribute to the Anthracite Miner Return to Carbon County PAGenWeb Return to Pennsylvania Genealogy Counties

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County Coordinator: Barb Lavin pacarbon@yahoo.com PA State Coordinator: Nate Zipfel nate@pa-roots.com