Berks County Genealogical Society

Volume 7, No. 1, July-Aug 1986

• Directory of Reading - 1806. 

Volume 7, No. 2, Sept-Oct 1986

• Churches of Berks, Part 1: St. Gabriel’s Episcopal “Old Morlatton” Church. 
• Berks Co. Township Name Origins. 
• Berks County Farmer’s Directory, 1867 - 68, A to Lower Heidelberg). 
• Tombstone Readings Amity United Brethren Cemetery.
• Berks Co. List of First Taxables, District, Douglass and Rockland Townships.

Volume 7, No. 3, Nov-Dec 1986

• Churches of Berks, Part 2: Zion “Reed’s” and Christ Lutheran Churches. 
• Berks County Farmer’s Directory, 1867 - 68, (Maidencreek  to Z).  

Volume 7, No. 4, Jan-Feb 1987

• Churches of Berks, Part 3: Albany Township Churches - Jerusalem “Red”, Friedens “White”, and New Bethel “Eck”, “Rosenthal” or “Corner”. 
• Roster of Von Heer’s Light Dragoons. 
• The Allemaengel Road and the Indian Massacres. 

Volume 7, No. 5, Mar-Apr 1987

• Churches of Berks, Part 4: Oley Churches - Salem Reformed, Christ Lutheran and St. Joseph Hill Church. 
• Berks County & The War of 1812. 
• Includes Rosters of Berks County Soldiers who served, part 1. 

Volume 7, No. 6, May-Jun 1987

• Churches of Berks, Part 5: Zion “Spies” Union, Schwarzwald Union, Alsace Lutheran and Grace Alsace UCC. 
• Annette Burgert society talk on European Conditions Contributing to German Emigration. 
• List of Alsace Twp. Residents in 1838 Account Book of Daniel Berger. 
• Berks County & The War of 1812.  Includes Rosters of Berks County Soldiers who served, part 2.

Volume 8, No. 1, July-Aug 1987

• Churches of Berks, Part 6: Christ Episcopal and First Presbyterian, Reading. 
• List of all Reading Churches as of 1984. 
• List of Initial Land Warrants and Patents in Readingtown with Map. 
• Short article on Rededication of Nein Private Cemetery. 

Volume 8, No. 2, Sept-Oct 1987

• Churches of Berks, Part 7: Christ Little Tulpehocken, Friedens, Bernville, and Zion Blue Mountain. 
• Publishing Your Family History, summary of the Societies September speaker. 
• List of Main Churches in Berks County before 1900. 
• Pitfalls of Pennsylvania German Names. 
• Word Puzzle.

Volume 8, No. 3, Nov-Dec 1987

• Churches of Berks, Part 8: St. John’s “Hains” Reformed, St. Daniel’s Lutheran, North Heidelberg Reformed, and Zion Union, Womelsdorf. 
• 1800 Septennial Census of slaves in Berks County Townships. 
• Deciphering German Script.

Volume 8, No. 4, Jan-Feb 1988

• Churches of Berks, Part 9: St. Pauls, Amityville.
• List of Huguenots in Berks Co., and where they appear. 
• List of Berks County Naturalizations 1752 - 1764. 
• List of Ministers who served Berks Co. and have kept a Private Record.

Volume 8, No. 5, Mar-Apr 1988

• Churches of Berks, Part 10: Zion Moselem and Zion Windsor Castle Churches.
• Bucks County Genealogy, summary of the Societies March speaker.
• List of Berks County Naturalizations 1765 - 1772. 
• List of Physicians in Berks, 1907, with College and Graduation Year.   

Volume 8, No. 6,  May-June 1988

• Churches of Berks, Part 11: Host Reformed and Altalaha Lutheran, Tulpehocken Twp. and Salem Reformed, Bethel Twp. 
• Berks County Map locating the 18th Century Churches. 
• Every Name Index of Volume 8.

Volume 9, No. 1, Fall 1988

• Assessment Lists for the 1798 U.S. Direct Tax (Window Tax) for Brunswick, Manheim and Pinegrove Townships. 
• Churches of Berks, Part 12: Salem (Belleman’s) Union and St. Michael’s Union, Tilden Township. 
• Pleasantville Union Cemetery, Oley Township.

Volume 9, No. 3, Spring 1989

• Berks County Courthouse: A User’s Guide, with lots of Lists, Including Office Holders, but not Mayor or Sheriff. 
• Welsh in Berks County, article based on Society speaker. 
• 4 Page essay on Keim Ancestors from year 1020.  
• Churches of Berks, Part 14: Bern Union Church and Epler’s Church. 

Volume 9, No. 4, Summer 1989

• Immigration Patterns into Berks.  Beyond the Boats: Tracing German Roots. 
• Tax Revolt, 18th Century Style, Summary of Protest against 1779 Supply Tax. 
• 1850 US Census Mortality Schedule for Berks. 
• Ancestor’s Profile: Israel Peter Adam. 
• Churches of Berks, Part 15: Quaker Meetinghouses.

Volume 10, No. 1, Fall 1989

• PA Militia and Volunteers thru 1870.  List of Civil War Berks County Conscientious Objectors, 1862.  
• Excerpts from 1898 Kutztown Patriot. 
• Headstone Readings Private cemeteries: Bieber-Lesher,  Schaeffer,  Kiefer,  Herbein, and Kelchner. 
• Churches of Berks, Part 16: St. John’s, Kutztown; Christ Delongs, Bowers;  Longswamp Reformed, and Christ Mertz, Dryville. 
• Quakers in Berks County. 
• Ancestor Profiles: Jacob Steinbruch; Jacob Reppert.

Volume 10, No. 2, Winter 1989

• Village and Urban Development in Berks
• Residents of 19th Century Kutztown, Hamburg, and Bernville
• Churches of Berks, Part 17: Allegheny Union, Robeson (Plow) Church, St. John’s, Gibraltar. 
• Early Settlers of Brecknock Twp. 
• Kirbyville and Kirby cemetery. 
• Abstracts of Philadelphia County Wills for those identified as from Berks County. 
• Ancestor Profile: Samuel Leibig.

Volume 10, No. 3, Spring 1990

• Use of Original Land Records,  Early Lancaster County Deed Abstracts for Lands that became Berks Co. 
• Manasses Bixler’s Undertakers records for Brecknock Twp. (abt 1885 - 1909) 
• Ancestor Profiles: Johann Abraham Bollenbacher, and Philip Klahr. 
• Churches of Berks, Part 18: St. John’s, Hamburg;  St. Paul’s “Smoke” Church,  St. John’s “Gernants” Union.

Volume 10, No. 4, Summer 1990

• Isms and Schisms: Evangelicals in Berks. 
• List of Evangelical Churches by Townships in Berks. 
• Churches of Berks, Part 19: St. Peter’s Reformed, Molltown.  (Series concludes).  
• List of early diseases with today’s term. 
• The Kistler Confusion, 2 pages. 
• Ancestor Profiles: Simon Kohl and Jacob Keim.

Volume 11, No. 1, Fall 1990

• Immigrant Migration into Eastern and Central Berks. 
• Chester County Taxables related to Berks. 
• Certificates of Removal for Berks Quakers. 
• Berks Marines of the Frigate South Carolina. 
• Beginning at a Stone, finding an ancestors land. 
• Berks names on a 1779 anti-PA convention petition.

Volume 11, No. 2, Winter 1990

• Township Development of Berks County. 
• Berks County Death Records 1852-1855.
• 2 pages data from Reading’s Home for Widows & Single Women.

Volume 9, No. 2, Winter 1988

• Sources of PA’s Early Military Records.  Some muster lists as examples (Daniel DeTurks Company) and Pension Lists as examples. 
• Article on Jim Holton’s talk to the Society on the History of the Reading Railroad. 
• List of persons in Berks who paid the 1863 Civil War Income Tax as printed in the Berks and Schuylkill Journal newspaper. 
• Churches of Berks, Part 13: New Jerusalem (Dunkel’s) Church and New Bethel Zion’s Church. 
• Half page map of Allemaegel Region with location of early settlers, no date but shows Frieden’s Ch., est. 1770.