Group Administrator:
Jonathan Beacher - Email:
dna@SearchTrees.com
Project Surnames
Beacher, Becher, Becker, Beecher, Beicher, Beougher, Bicher, Biecher, Bisher, Bocher, Boecher, Boocher, Boogher, Booher, Booker, Bougher, Buche, Bucher, Bücher, Buchter, Bucker, Buckert, Buecher, Bugher, Bushar, Busher
Project Background
View the Y-DNA Marker patterns for tests back from the lab in the table at page bottom under DNA Test Results (Alleles) for Project Members. Please scroll the box to see all the results for the many unique family lines we've discovered.
Our DNA research focuses on surnames that have Soundex code B260 including Bucher, Booker, Booher, Bicher, Becher, Becker, Beecher, Beacher, Beougher, Boecher, Booher, Bougher, Bugher, Buecher.
Our DNA testing has proven these names tend to descend from the same surname groups in the 1700's:
- some trace to the Swiss/German surname Bücher which was Americanized for some into an EEE sound and others into an OOH sound. Sometimes the ending took on a hard "ker" or "chur" or a soft "her", so modern-day names vary from Beecher to Booker to Booher to Bucher
- some descend from Beechers from the British Isles who migrated there from Germny
- some descend from Beckers from Germany, England, or eastern Europe
Some Beechers, Beckers, Boohers and Bookers will be surprised to learn they descend from a Bücher - their spelling was simply Americanized in later generations. The DNA test can help tell what your surname was in the homeland, and whether you ancestors were English or German speaking.
See our extensive Research Site at
www.searchtrees.com/dna where you'll find the database all Buchers etc. arriving in 1700's Pennsylvania, descended across the US to about 1900, including all German-speaking Beecher lines originating from PA.
Descendants of John Beecher 1594-1637 from CT is Bill Beecher and Jim Shaw's tree of descendants from the English Beechers who arrived in 1637 in Connecticut (Henry Ward Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, etc.