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 Golfshire Hills (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 Golfshire Hills. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
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 north 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.
Golfshire Hills 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 Golfshire Hills. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Golfshire Hills:
Berks County (The home county of Golfshire Hills)
The following are listed by their distance from Golfshire Hills, with the one closest to Golfshire Hills listed first.
Exeter Village (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Exeter Village is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Exeter Village Brice Village (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Brice Village is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brice Village Lorane (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Lorane is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lorane Jacksonwald (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Jacksonwald is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jacksonwald Reiffton (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Reiffton is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reiffton Robeson Crossing (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Robeson Crossing is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robeson Crossing Gibraltar (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Gibraltar is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gibraltar Stonersville (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Stonersville is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonersville Mount Penn (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Saint Lawrence (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Saint Lawrence is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Lawrence Population from the 2020 Census: 1,832 people
Limekiln (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Limekiln is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limekiln Birdsboro (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Deerfield Village (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Deerfield Village is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deerfield Village Bucks County
The following are listed by their distance from Golfshire Hills, with the one closest to Golfshire Hills listed first.
Argus (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Argus is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argus Milford Square (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Milford Square is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milford Square Trumbauersville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Steinsburg (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Steinsburg is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steinsburg Zionhill (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Zionhill is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zionhill Rich Hill (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Rich Hill is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rich Hill Hilltop (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Hilltop is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilltop Shelly (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Shelly is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shelly Derstines (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Derstines is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Derstines Quakertown (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Sellersville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Fairhill (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Fairhill is located in Bucks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairhill Fairhill has also been known as:
Schnabletown Snoveltown Perkasie (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Chester County
The following are listed by their distance from Golfshire Hills, with the one closest to Golfshire Hills listed first.
Elverson (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Knauertown (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
Knauertown is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knauertown 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 (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
South Pottstown is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Pottstown Loag (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
Loag is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loag Isabella (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
Isabella is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isabella Bucktown (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Bucktown is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bucktown Coventryville (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Coventryville is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coventryville Kenilworth (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Kenilworth is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenilworth Cupola (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Cupola is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cupola Dampman (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Dampman is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dampman Nantmeal Village (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Nantmeal Village is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nantmeal Village Pughtown (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Pughtown is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pughtown Delaware County
The following are listed by their distance from Golfshire Hills, with the one closest to Golfshire Hills listed first.
Edgemont (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Edgemont is located in Delaware County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgemont Radnor Station (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Radnor Station is located in Delaware County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Radnor Station Saint Davids (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Wayne (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Lancaster County
The following are listed by their distance from Golfshire Hills, with the one closest to Golfshire Hills listed first.
Churchtown (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
Beartown (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Beartown is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beartown Red Run (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Red Run is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Run Terre Hill (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Reamstown (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
Weaverland (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
Weaverland is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weaverland Blainsport (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
Blainsport is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blainsport Blue Ball (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
East Earl (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Denver (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
Hinkletown (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Hinkletown is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hinkletown Meadville (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Meadville is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadville Stevens (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Lebanon County
The following are listed by their distance from Golfshire Hills, with the one closest to Golfshire Hills listed first.
Newmanstown (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Sheridan (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Sheridan is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheridan Stricklerstown (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Stricklerstown is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stricklerstown Richland (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Schaefferstown (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Johnstown (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Johnstown is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnstown Myerstown (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Prescott (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Prescott is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prescott Avon Heights (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Avon Heights is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avon Heights Avon (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Avon is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avon Greble (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Greble is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greble Cornwall (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Lebanon (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Lehigh County
The following are listed by their distance from Golfshire Hills, with the one closest to Golfshire Hills listed first.
Hensingersville (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Hensingersville is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hensingersville Alburtis (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
New Smithville (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
New Smithville is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Smithville Powder Valley (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
Powder Valley is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powder Valley Hynemansville (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Hynemansville is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hynemansville Weisenberg (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Weisenberg is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weisenberg Ancient Oaks (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Ancient Oaks is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ancient Oaks Hosensack (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Hosensack is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hosensack Macungie (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Old Zionsville (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Old Zionsville is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Zionsville Seipstown (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Seipstown is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seipstown Wallner ‑ Historic(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Wallner is located in Lehigh County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallner Zionsville (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Montgomery County
The following are listed by their distance from Golfshire Hills, with the one closest to Golfshire Hills listed first.
Stowe (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
West Pottsgrove (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
West Pottsgrove is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Pottsgrove Bramcote (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Bramcote is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bramcote Halfway House (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
Halfway House is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halfway House Pottstown (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Gilbertsville (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Pottsgrove (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Pottsgrove is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pottsgrove New Hanover (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Sanatoga (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Congo (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Congo is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Congo Fagleysville (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Fagleysville is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fagleysville Anise (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
Anise is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anise Pleasant Run (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
Pleasant Run is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Run Schuylkill County
The following are listed by their distance from Golfshire Hills, with the one closest to Golfshire Hills listed first.
Port Clinton (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Auburn (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Deer Lake (24 miles [38.6 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 Aucheys (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Aucheys is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aucheys Rauschs (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Rauschs is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rauschs Rene Mont (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Rene Mont is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rene Mont 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 Landingville (26 miles [41.8 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 (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Summit Station is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit Station McKeansburg (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
McKeansburg is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McKeansburg New Ringgold (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Moyers (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Moyers is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moyers
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Golfshire Hills, see our County-by-County Page for Golfshire Hills .
Cemeteries Near Golfshire Hills ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Golfshire Hills.
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 Golfshire Hills - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Golfshire Hills covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Golfshire Hills, with the one closest to Golfshire Hills listed first.
St. Johns Church Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Schwarzwald Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the north)
DeTurk Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Young - Kissling Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Forest Hills Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Friedens Bible Church Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friedens Bible Church Cemetery To give a relative sense of its location, the Friedens Bible Church Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<3> Birdsboro . The Friedens Bible Church Cemetery has also been known as:
Friedens Cemetery Wicklein Cemetery Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2343568 <2>
Immaculate Conception Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
St. Michaels Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Aulenbach's Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Spies Zion Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
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 (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
German Lutheran Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Continue List (355 more) ...
Trinity Lutheran Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
St. Peters Catholic Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
St. Mary's Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
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 Golfshire Hills in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Golfshire Hills.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Golfshire Hills, with the one closest to Golfshire Hills listed first.
Gibraltar (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Gibraltar is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gibraltar Jacksonwald (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Jacksonwald is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jacksonwald Seyfert (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Seyfert is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seyfert Baumstown (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Baumstown is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baumstown Stonersville (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Stonersville is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonersville Neversink (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Neversink is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neversink Ridgewood (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Ridgewood is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgewood South Birdsboro (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
South Birdsboro is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Birdsboro Birdsboro (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Stony Creek Mills (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Stony Creek Mills is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stony Creek Mills Limekiln (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Limekiln is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limekiln Monocacy (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Monocacy is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monocacy Continue List (18 more) ...
Monocacy Station (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Monocacy Station is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monocacy Station Yellow House (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Yellow House is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yellow House Reading (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Golfshire Hills. See our List of 1890's Communities around Golfshire Hills .
Newspapers Published in Golfshire Hills ...
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 Golfshire Hills.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Golfshire Hills, there are papers which were published within 6 miles [9.7 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Golfshire Hills.
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 helpful 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 Golfshire Hills:
Websites specific to Pennsylvania Pages specific to Berks County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Bucks County Chester County Delaware County Lancaster County Lebanon County Lehigh County Montgomery County Schuylkill County Cemetery Information and Directories for Pennsylvania Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Golfshire Hills. 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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Golfshire Hills) 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 Golfshire Hills, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.