Welcome to Frankenfield - Beam Genealogy

Two new surnames discovered, Lautenschläger and Rambach - Received the family bible of Isaac Brown after missing for almost 40 years. It contained his marriage to Dorothea Paulus and also the birth records for Isaac listing his parents(Johannes Braun and Magaretha Lautenschläger) and Dorothea Paulus listing her parents (Michael Paulus and Christina Rambach). Plus all of Issac and Dorothea's children's birthdates in order and a granddaughter.

Easton Argus Obits: I've been going through the Easton Argus obits from 1900 to 1910 page by page. I found a lot of information. I made photocopies of the pages I was interested in.

In this latest project for this web site. I'm taking the pages and abstacting the information Please remember these are for cetain dates and only the obits I photocopied from the Microfilm. Not everyone in the Mortuary Record Section may be listed in the abstracts.

Easton Daily Argus: 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899
Easton Daily Argus: 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909
Easton Daily Argus: 1910

Special Notice: As the President of the Frankenfield Reunion, I have received copies of the late Alfreda Patton Davison's book Frankenfield Family in America Beginning 24 Aug 1749. We have reduced the price of the book to $30.00 plus postage and handling and the order form can be found here.

Alfreda, the Frankenfield family genealogist, passed away on February 8, 2008. I will be doing the updates, which are available at the reunion, for her book. Any questions can be directed to me. If I can't answer, Alfreda's sister is willing to help me.

Group Sheet indexes for the following surnames: Allshouse, Anderson, Beam, Brotzman, Brown, Cole, Diehl, Frankenfield, Fox, Glessner, Gruver, Inscho, Kester, Kiefer, Kitchen, Kline, Kreidler, Kuhlman, Nixon, Paulus, Raub, Scott, Steckel, Stoneback, Sundermier, Wagner, Walter/Walters, Weaver, Weller, Weygandt, Wilhelm, and Young. Currently indexing group sheets by surname.

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This site includes my research (Church Records, Will Abstracts, Orphan Court Records amd deeds) of the families listed on the left column. (Note: not all surnames contain my notes.) Clicking on a surname on the left will display my notes from my research and it will also display group sheets on select direct ancestors.

Cemetery Records can be found at the sister site: www. frankenfield-beam.net. Another site that's is across the river from Northampton County in Warren County, NJ is www.raub-and more.com. I highly recommend if your researching in both areas.

About Us section, contains some direct ancestor information and history of my research.

Cemeteries section contains cemeteries I transcribe from photo's I took. Not all photos are loaded onto website at present time. You can make requests for a photo. The request must contain the name of the cemetery and the file no.

More cemeteries to come in 2008. Photo projects for 2008, Durham Cemetery, Bucks County, Forks Church Cemetery, Forks Township)

In 2007, Adele Hartman and I photographed the Allen Union Cemetery in Allen Township. These photos are currently being transcribed by Adele. I photographed and transcribed the Arndt Cemetery in Forks Township.

Many thanks to Jay Willis for adding addtional notes to several of the cemeteries listed on the website and helping decipher the Lower Saucon tombstones.

Resource section contains contains links and sources (useful books, cemetery listings, local libraries) for Bucks and Northampton Counties in Pennsylvania and Sussex/Warren Counties in New Jersey. It also contains related family sites and well as William Township Cemeteries online complete with digital photographs.

If you would like to send me an email, my address is: (Address is graphic to eliminate spam)

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Raub/Steckel Genealogy

I just Finished working on a book, The descendants of George Steckel, sub supplemental informaiton on the descendants of Peter Raub, the Immigrant.An index of surnames can be found here. My sister is in the process of proofreading the document and will be sent to Lulu.com for publishing. If your interested in ordering a copy or have information to add; please e-mail: Steckel.book@gi3dotcom. (note: please replace the word dot with a period.)

The current information is over 400 pages, includes the Garis family from South Side Easton, Steckel family from Williams Township and Phillipsburg, and the Stocker family from Williams Township.

Recent Email I sent out to relatives who expressed interest in the book.