Heinlein Genealogy
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• Supplemental information is needed to help you understand the story.
  • History plays an important role in the story.
    1. European history
    2. Effect of the 30 Years War
  • Geography also plays an important role in the story.
    1. German geography
       • Emigration seaports of Hamburg and Bremen
    2. Where is Bavaria, Germany?
    3. Bavarian connections
       • "between Abtsgreuth and Neustadt an der Aisch"
       • Gleißenberg influence
       • Scherzer family (Leonard and John)
    4. City, town and villages in Middle Franconia
       • Nürnberg (Nuremberg)
       • Neustadt an der Aisch (New City on the Aisch River)
       • Villages of Abtsgreuth, Schornweisach, and Gleißenberg
• Do you remember: Who were the Heinleins? (Conrad, John, Mikel John, Jim)
  • The origin of the Heinlein story can be found in Bavaria, Germany.
    1. Where did the "Heinlein" name come from?
    2. Why did the Heinleins come to the US?
    3. What kind of life were the Heinleins leaving in Bavaria in 1880’s?
    4. Why were the Heinleins Lutherans?
    5. What are the Heinlein married names involved in the research?
  • Where did the Heinleins come from in Germany?
    1. Who came to the US in 1883? (Nuremberg document)
       • Elisabetha Heinlein (1877 to 1963)
       • Johann (1836 to 1919), father ✽
       • Johann Georg
       • Konrad (1863 to 1942)
       • Margareta (1838 to 1917), mother ✽
       • Michael John (1873 to 1965), son ✽
    2. Two Heinlein sons and a daughter from Bernhard and Margartha Heinlein’s family came to the Pittsburgh area:
       • Elisabetha Barbara Heinlein (1834 to 1929, emigrated in 1874)
       • John Heinlein (1836 to 1919, emigrated in 1883)
       • Johann Michael Heinlein (1832 to 1912, emigrated in 1889)
  • The following places, people, and events in Moon Township, Coraopolis, and the Pittsburgh area, had a connection with the Heinleins:
    1. Moon Township, Pennsylvania
       • Bon Air Golf Course (now Moon Golf Club)
       • Scally’s Golf Center
       • Heinlein farms
       • Location of Heinlein farms and airport runways
       • Bell Farm and Greater Pittsburgh Airport
       • Pittsburgh IAP Air Reserve Station
       • Resurrection Cemetery
       • "Uncle Ed's Picnics" (Edward John Heinlein, 1906 to 1971, 1227 Maple Street)
       • Betlyn Heating and Cooling (Paul Betlyn)
       • Where was Heinlein Road? (Was it renamed to McCormick Road?)
    2. Coraopolis, Pennsylvania
       • Coraopolis Cemetery
       • Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church
       • Kuhlman Sales and Service (David and John Kuhlman)
    3. Pittsburgh area, Pennsylvania
       • Ponderosa Golf Course, Hookstown, Pennsylvania
       • Heinlein Reunion at Ponderosa Golf Course (June 12, 1986)
       • Greentree Cemetery, Greentree, Pennsylvania
       • Heinlein and Schorr (Schor) Dairy (McKees Rocks or Crafton)
       • Other Heinleins lived in McKees Rocks, Elliot, North Hills, Aliquippa, Hookstown, Hopewell, Burgettstown, and Duquesne Heights.
       • Heinleins and Becks (Aunt Hetty’s family, Hedwig Beck Heinlein, 1904 to 1987) lived in McKees Rocks area (Elliott, West End)
       • St. Johns Lutheran Home in Mars, Pennsylvania
       • Edinboro Lake (Edinboro, Pennsylvania)
  • There could be other possible Heinlein relatives.
    1. Heinleins in Pittsburgh
    2. Heinleins in the US
    3. Heinleins in Germany today
• Summary:
  • How close were the Heinleins for things to be different in Bavaria?
  • Heinleins came from an area of Bavaria, which is deep in medieval history, which was greatly affected by the 30 Years War, and which is located close to the historical and Christmas Market town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber.

✽ - descendants of John and Margaret Wacker (Wachter) Heinlein.