One Y-DNA Family:
Beecher, Beacher, Beicher, Biecher,
Bicher, Beechert, Beeker, Beher, Buecher, Bücher 

You’ll love this free e-book if you are curious about ancestors with surnames Beecher, Beacher, Beicher, Biecher, Bicher, Beechert, Beeker, Beher, Buecher or Bücher.

Our Y-DNA research begun in 2003 has proven all these different surnames are actually a single family descending from two immigrants who arrived in 1751 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

• Johann Engel Buecher (Engel)

• Johann Henrich Buecher (Henry)

In America, they are recorded as Engel or Henry because Johann is a saint’s name given to a child when baptized in the 1700’s in Germany, but not used in their everyday life. Their second name is what dad and mom called them!

The Buecher surname in German is also spelled as Bücher with an umlaut – two dots – above the u, which is shorthand for “ue”. Buecher / Bücher are identical, but this e-book uses Buecher because most people don’t know how to type umlauts on keyboards on PCs and smartphones.

Please contact Jonathan Scott Beacher at searchtrees@gmail.com

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Join the Bucher/Beecher Y-DNA Project

Any male can take a simple saliva test (mailed to you) to prove your father’s father’s father’s line. Y-DNA is not like the popular tests offered by Ancestry.com and others that only find cousins back a few generations. Y-DNA is only passed from a father to his sons and finds relationships back thousands of years. Jonathan may even pay for your test if it helps us find more branches of our family.

In 2003 when Y-DNA testing first became available at the only firm offering the test, FamilyTreeDNA.com, Jonathan became the volunteer admin who founded our Bucher/Beecher Project which tests any males with B*er spelling. Hundreds of tests later, we have identified the many different Bucher/Bücher families as well as my own. Click here to visit our project.

Buy a Y-DNA 37-marker test (or higher), add some saliva to a test kit, and mail it back. Soon you’ll know who you are related to!