All my ancestors arrived in Pennsylvania in the 1700's and didn't leave PA until later in the 1900's, except one branch (Bury/Buri) arrived in Lehigh, PA in 1885 from Germany. In Pennsylvania my ancestors were primarily in Lancaster, Lebanon, Schuylkill, and Lehigh counties.

I live in Georgia now and take tombstone photos in GA for those who need them.

My surname, Beacher, is derived from an original Bücher and in researching it I founded the Beecher/Bucher Y-DNA project, which has now discovered 14 unique Bucher families in 1700's PA, plus learned that almost all Beecher, Biecher, Beicher, Bicher and Beacher ancestors in the 1700-1850 in PA are one family. One related branch went to Rowan County NC in late 1700s, Henry Beeker (1764-1837). The PA Beechers are not related to the New England Beecher lines (Henry Ward Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, etc.)

I share a searchable database of 25,000 PA ancestors on my website at http://www.SearchTrees.com

My Direct Line Surnames: Balt, Beacher/Beecher/Bicher/Becher, Bechtold, Blatner, Bordner/Bortner, Breinig, Bucher/Bücher, Buri, Bury, Danner, Diehl, Eichenberger, Eisenhart/Eisenhard, Eisenhuth, Faess, Fisher, Geist, George/Georg, Haman/Hamman, Hartman, Haupt, Herber, Herber, Herter, Himmbelberger, Hinterskirch, Hoehn, Hoffman, Hoffman, Holtz, Jacky, Jacobs, Jarett, Kemp, Knerr, Kocher, Kocher, Kosin, Limberger, Mertz , Michal/Michael, Milhouse/Muhlhaus, Neuhard/Newhard/Newhart, Ottilila, Papenkuhl, Plowhead, Riegel, Saylor/Seiler, Schall, Scherer, Schmidt, Schneider, Schultheis, Schweitzer, Segni, Shey/Shay, Siegfried, Simon, Smith, Snyder, Stupp, Tschudy, Vautrin/Wotring, Vogelman, Wagner, Wetzel, Wotring, Zettelmeyer.

All my ancestors arrived in Pennsylvania in the 1700's and didn't leave PA until later in the 1900's, except one branch (Bury/Buri) arrived in Lehigh, PA in 1885 from Germany. In Pennsylvania my ancestors were primarily in Lancaster, Lebanon, Schuylkill, and Lehigh counties.

I live in Georgia now and take tombstone photos in GA for those who need them.

My surname, Beacher, is derived from an original Bücher and in researching it I founded the Beecher/Bucher Y-DNA project, which has now discovered 14 unique Bucher families in 1700's PA, plus learned that almost all Beecher, Biecher, Beicher, Bicher and Beacher ancestors in the 1700-1850 in PA are one family. One related branch went to Rowan County NC in late 1700s, Henry Beeker (1764-1837). The PA Beechers are not related to the New England Beecher lines (Henry Ward Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, etc.)

I share a searchable database of 25,000 PA ancestors on my website at http://www.SearchTrees.com

My Direct Line Surnames: Balt, Beacher/Beecher/Bicher/Becher, Bechtold, Blatner, Bordner/Bortner, Breinig, Bucher/Bücher, Buri, Bury, Danner, Diehl, Eichenberger, Eisenhart/Eisenhard, Eisenhuth, Faess, Fisher, Geist, George/Georg, Haman/Hamman, Hartman, Haupt, Herber, Herber, Herter, Himmbelberger, Hinterskirch, Hoehn, Hoffman, Hoffman, Holtz, Jacky, Jacobs, Jarett, Kemp, Knerr, Kocher, Kocher, Kosin, Limberger, Mertz , Michal/Michael, Milhouse/Muhlhaus, Neuhard/Newhard/Newhart, Ottilila, Papenkuhl, Plowhead, Riegel, Saylor/Seiler, Schall, Scherer, Schmidt, Schneider, Schultheis, Schweitzer, Segni, Shey/Shay, Siegfried, Simon, Smith, Snyder, Stupp, Tschudy, Vautrin/Wotring, Vogelman, Wagner, Wetzel, Wotring, Zettelmeyer.