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)

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.

Ignore Johann as this is a saint’s name given to a child when baptized in the 1700’s, but the child used only his/her 2nd name later in life, so in records you’ll find Engel or Henrich (German which will be found as Henry in America).

Are you related?

This SearchTrees.com website has the family tree of their descendants including everyone born before 1950 and often later.

Simply search Google as follows for the name of your grandfather or father:

site:searchtrees.com (firstname) (lastname)

Putting site:searchtrees.com before the name restricts Google to searching this website.

1. Scroll down in the search results to see if your ancestors is listed, then click on that person to read about them!
2. Be sure to scroll down their page to review all the evidence!
3. Then click on the ancestors or children to learn about them. 

You can trace your family line all the way back to Engel or Henry!

Please contact Jonathan Scott Beacher at searchtrees@gmail.com

I would love to meet all my cousins and share additional information with you as more is discovered! Get yourself on my email list so you stay up to date when new discoveries are made.

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.

In 2003 when Y-DNA testing first became available at the only firm offering the test, FamilyTreeDNA.com, Jonathan was 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!