Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Glen Oley Farms (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Glen Oley Farms. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Glen Oley Farms is located in Berks County .
To see how the shape of Pennsylvania's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries .
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Berks County : Chester , Lancaster , Lebanon , Lehigh , Montgomery & Schuylkill .
Below are the counties that are near Glen Oley Farms. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Glen Oley Farms:
Berks County (The home county of Glen Oley Farms)
The following are listed by their distance from Glen Oley Farms, with the one closest to Glen Oley Farms listed first.
Limekiln (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Limekiln is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limekiln Stonersville (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
Stonersville is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonersville Jacksonwald (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Jacksonwald is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jacksonwald Brice Village (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Brice Village is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brice Village Exeter Village (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Exeter Village is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Exeter Village Saint Lawrence (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Saint Lawrence is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Lawrence Population from the 2020 Census: 1,832 people
Yellow House (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Yellow House is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yellow House Oley (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Griesemersville (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Griesemersville is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Griesemersville Lorane (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Lorane is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lorane Mount Penn (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Reiffton (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Reiffton is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reiffton Birdsboro (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Bucks County
The following are listed by their distance from Glen Oley Farms, with the one closest to Glen Oley Farms listed first.
Argus (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
Argus is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argus Steinsburg (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Steinsburg is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steinsburg Milford Square (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Milford Square is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milford Square Trumbauersville (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Zionhill (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Zionhill is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zionhill Rich Hill (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Rich Hill is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rich Hill Hilltop (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Hilltop is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilltop Shelly (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Shelly is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shelly Derstines (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Derstines is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Derstines Quakertown (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Sellersville (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Perkasie (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Richlandtown (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Carbon County
Germans (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Germans is located in Carbon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Germans Chester County
The following are listed by their distance from Glen Oley Farms, with the one closest to Glen Oley Farms listed first.
Pottstown Landing (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
Pottstown Landing is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pottstown Landing South Pottstown (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
South Pottstown is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Pottstown Kenilworth (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Kenilworth is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenilworth Elverson (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
Coventryville (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Coventryville is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coventryville Knauertown (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Knauertown is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knauertown Bucktown (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Bucktown is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bucktown Fricks Lock (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Fricks Lock is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fricks Lock Pughtown (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Pughtown is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pughtown Isabella (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Isabella is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isabella Loag (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Loag is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loag Nantmeal Village (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Nantmeal Village is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nantmeal Village Slonaker (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Slonaker is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slonaker Delaware County
The following are listed by their distance from Glen Oley Farms, with the one closest to Glen Oley Farms listed first.
Saint Davids (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Wayne (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Indiana County
Ernest (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Ernest is located in Indiana County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ernest Population from the 2020 Census: 431 people
Lancaster County
The following are listed by their distance from Glen Oley Farms, with the one closest to Glen Oley Farms listed first.
Churchtown (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
Beartown (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Beartown is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beartown Red Run (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Red Run is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Run Terre Hill (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Blainsport (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Blainsport is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blainsport Denver (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Reamstown (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Weaverland (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Weaverland is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weaverland Blue Ball (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
East Earl (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
Stevens (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
Hinkletown (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Hinkletown is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hinkletown Cocalico (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Cocalico is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cocalico Lebanon County
The following are listed by their distance from Glen Oley Farms, with the one closest to Glen Oley Farms listed first.
Newmanstown (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Sheridan (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Sheridan is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheridan Stricklerstown (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Stricklerstown is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stricklerstown Richland (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Myerstown (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Schaefferstown (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Johnstown (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Johnstown is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnstown Prescott (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Prescott is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prescott Avon Heights (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Avon Heights is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avon Heights Greble (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Greble is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greble Avon (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Avon is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avon Mount Zion (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Mount Zion is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Zion Lehigh County
The following are listed by their distance from Glen Oley Farms, with the one closest to Glen Oley Farms listed first.
Alburtis (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
Hensingersville (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
Hensingersville is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hensingersville New Smithville (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
New Smithville is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Smithville Powder Valley (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Powder Valley is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powder Valley Hynemansville (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Hynemansville is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hynemansville Weisenberg (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Weisenberg is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weisenberg Ancient Oaks (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Ancient Oaks is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ancient Oaks Hosensack (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Hosensack is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hosensack Macungie (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Old Zionsville (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Old Zionsville is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Zionsville Wallner ‑ Historic(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Wallner is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallner Seipstown (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Seipstown is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seipstown Zionsville (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Montgomery County
The following are listed by their distance from Glen Oley Farms, with the one closest to Glen Oley Farms listed first.
Bramcote (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Bramcote is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bramcote West Pottsgrove (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
West Pottsgrove is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Pottsgrove Halfway House (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Halfway House is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halfway House Stowe (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Gilbertsville (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
Pottstown (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
Pottsgrove (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Pottsgrove is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pottsgrove Congo (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Congo is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Congo New Hanover (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Fagleysville (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Fagleysville is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fagleysville Sanatoga (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Anise (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Anise is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anise Pleasant Run (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Pleasant Run is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Run Northampton County
The following are listed by their distance from Glen Oley Farms, with the one closest to Glen Oley Farms listed first.
North Catasauqua (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
North Catasauqua is located in Northampton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Catasauqua Population from the 2020 Census: 2,825 people
Seidersville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Seidersville is located in Northampton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seidersville Star Village (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Star Village is located in Northampton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Star Village Leithsville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Leithsville is located in Northampton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leithsville Northampton (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Bethlehem (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Hellertown (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Lockport (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Lockport is located in Northampton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lockport Schuylkill County
The following are listed by their distance from Glen Oley Farms, with the one closest to Glen Oley Farms listed first.
Port Clinton (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Auburn (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Deer Lake (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Deer Lake is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deer Lake Population from the 2020 Census: 645 people
Jefferson (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Jefferson is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jefferson Rauschs (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Rauschs is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rauschs Rene Mont (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Rene Mont is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rene Mont Aucheys (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Aucheys is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aucheys Landingville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Landingville is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Landingville Population from the 2020 Census: 149 people
Summit Station (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Summit Station is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit Station New Ringgold (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Lake Wynonah (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Lake Wynonah is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Wynonah McKeansburg (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
McKeansburg is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McKeansburg Orwigsburg (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Glen Oley Farms, see our County-by-County Page for Glen Oley Farms .
Cemeteries Near Glen Oley Farms ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Glen Oley Farms.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know . If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Glen Oley Farms - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Glen Oley Farms covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Glen Oley Farms, with the one closest to Glen Oley Farms listed first.
Young - Kissling Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Schwarzwald Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the west)
DeTurk Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Spies Zion Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spies Zion Cemetery To give a relative sense of its location, the Spies Zion Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<3> Laureldale . The Spies Zion Cemetery has also been known as:
Zions Spies Evangelical Reformed Church Cemetery Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1323059 <2>
Zion Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Hoch - DeTurk - Schenkel Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Union Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Forest Hills Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
St. Johns Church Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
St. Michaels Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
St. Pauls Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Oley Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Continue List (367 more) ...
Friedens Church Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friedens Church Cemetery To give a relative sense of its location, the Friedens Church Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Oley . The Friedens Church Cemetery has also been known as:
Friedens Cemetery Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2211517 <2>
Aulenbach's Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Immaculate Conception Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<4>
While we didn't find Glen Oley Farms in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Glen Oley Farms.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Glen Oley Farms, with the one closest to Glen Oley Farms listed first.
Limekiln (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Limekiln is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limekiln Jacksonwald (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Jacksonwald is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jacksonwald Stonersville (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
Stonersville is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonersville Baumstown (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Baumstown is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baumstown Yellow House (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Yellow House is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yellow House Griesemersville (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Griesemersville is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Griesemersville Oley (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Stony Creek Mills (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Stony Creek Mills is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stony Creek Mills Neversink (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Neversink is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neversink Ridgewood (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Ridgewood is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgewood Seyfert (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Seyfert is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seyfert Gibraltar (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Gibraltar is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gibraltar Continue List (19 more) ...
Birdsboro (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Earlville (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Earlville is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Earlville Spangsville (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Spangsville is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spangsville
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Glen Oley Farms. See our List of 1890's Communities around Glen Oley Farms .
Newspapers Published in Glen Oley Farms ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) .
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 126 newspapers that have been published in the area around Glen Oley Farms.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Glen Oley Farms, there are papers which were published within 8 miles [12.9 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Glen Oley Farms.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Glen Oley Farms:
Websites specific to Pennsylvania Pages specific to Berks County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Bucks County Carbon County Chester County Delaware County Indiana County Lancaster County Lebanon County Lehigh County Montgomery County Northampton County Schuylkill County Cemetery Information and Directories for Pennsylvania Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Glen Oley Farms. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page .
The official website for Berks County: https://www.berkspa.gov/
The official website for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: https://www.pa.gov/
Footnotes ...
<1> While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com . Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Glen Oley Farms) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Glen Oley Farms, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.