Amanda Bagley: > My family came from the town of Muhlau. The last name is Bucher. Any > information on the name or town or where to start would be greatly > welcome! I thought you might like to know that the surname Bucher is a variant of Buch, a German topographic name for someone who lived by a beech tree or beech wood (German "Buche", Middle High German "buohe"). This according to "A Dictionary of Surnames". -- Kjell Ove Hattrem