Re: Johan Engel Bucher and Johan Henrich Bucher
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Re: Johan Engel Bucher and Johan Henrich Bucher
Bonnie Good 2/12/04
Hi,
I wish you had written sooner -- I've been seeing a LOT of Buchter folks in cemeteries as I've been searching all of Lancaster and Lebanon for Bucher tombstones. I would suggest getting the cemetery and chruch microfilms at your local family history center, if you can. The site to look up what is available is at:
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asphttp://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp
Buchter is a different surname than Bucher, and usually the two are not related, unless the person recording the name was unfamiliar with the family (or Pennsylania German) in which case occassionally I find a Bucher mislabeled as Buchter or vice versa. More often I've found this in the census, but rarely in church records, where the ministers usually knew the family and knew their name.
Bucher is most often of Swiss origin, where the name is very popular. Buchter is most often German in origin.
I remember seeing your ancestor in the Brickersville Cemetery listings in Lancaster County when I viewed that microfilm, but I think some are online here:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mickey/bkervillecem10.htmlhttp://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mickey/bkervillecem10.html
I've also seen some here at Swamp:
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jgensemer/swampdea.htmhttp://mywebpages.comcast.net/jgensemer/swampdea.htm
On my website I have an index of the 1790, 1800, 1810, and 1820 census for PA and it will have anyone with the Buchter name in that list, along with the name of the township they were in and the census page (and microfilm).
My site it at http://www.siteservers.net/familyhttp://www.siteservers.net/family then click on Bucher Index to see those lists.
I am searching Lancaster quite hard now looking for the grave of an Engel Bucher, covering every church, and I will try to keep an eye out of Buchter. I study them just to make sure they aren't really Bucher, but haven't kept track of them. But I have seen a bunch!
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Re: Johan Engel Bucher and Johan Henrich Bucher
Lori Aidt 7/12/06
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Re: Johan Engel Bucher and Johan Henrich Bucher
Bonnie Good 2/13/04