Tips for Google Searching Our Trees
You can find an exact ancestor quicker by using a combination search with names, years, places to narrow down the results. Search Henry Bucher and you'll get hundreds; search Henry Bucher Philadelphia you'll get a few.
Also try searching for two people, a husband and spouse's surname, like:
Beecher Keplinger or Bucher Danner.
Dates in our tree are in the format: 01 Jan 1701
Searching for 01/01/1701 will produce no match. Try using just the year,
or year and first three letters of the month name.
Locations are unabbreviated. Search Pennsylvania not PA;
County not Co.; Township not Twp. Try searching:
Henry Bucher "York County". All locations are in 4 parts as Township (or
city), County, State, County but we may be not have all parts if unknown, so
some parts are blank: , , Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Since we have census listings in our tree, searching: 1900
Pennsylvania Adams County
Bucher will reveal all Buchers we have in that 1900 Census.
In our tree, every person's page has a title: Family Tree of Given Middle
Surname (of course if we don't know the middle name or initial it won't be
there). So, adding the word Family Tree to your name search means it will
turn up only people's pages, not other indexes and surname lists also in the
tree's website. Try: Family Tree of Henry C. Bucher or
Family Tree of Henry Bucher.
Using quotes makes Google return only exact matches, so "Henry Bucher" will not find "Henry C. Bucher", but "York County" instead of York County will avoid finding people living in New York.
About the Database of Trees: Think of our data like a giant library of facts, often connected into family trees but sometimes unconnected when we lack evidence. Therefore, you can find the same person listed more than once: perhaps first as father baptizing a son, second for his cemetery listing, etc. If you find two pieces of evidence you know belong to one person, or find a father and son who should be joined, email bucher@SiteServers.net. We welcome all additions and corrections.
Locations for birth, death, cemeteries & churches are
where they are today; we've found it's less confusing for web visitors
unfamiliar with areas changing over time. However, some locations like census
places must always appear as they were that year.
Sources are cited at bottom of each tree page. If no
citation, info is unproven.