[Another link to the same main genealogy ancestor database is at the
end of this page. Read the good information down the page.]
We list sources for the information when sources are available, so you can
verify to insure accuracy of the information. New information is added
every week to the data in the Society's office. Then, the Society's
database is revised and republished on this site about every four months.
Therefore, if you do not find the ancestor or descendent you are looking for
now, check back in about four months.
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Bucklin is an unusual name. Bucklins are less than 1/1000 of 1% of the persons in the United States
(i.e., less than 0.001% in the population of the United States.) But there
still have been at least 5000 Bucklins that descended from William Bucklin!
It is almost a certainty that any American named Bucklin is descended from
William Bucklin, who was born about 1606.
Due to our privacy policy, we do not release information on
living persons.
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Genealogy of participants in the Gaspee raiding
party. The Joseph Bucklin Society has as one of its three main
divisions, the history of the Gaspee attack of 1772. Therefore, our data
bases includes the names of the raiders of the Gaspee, and their genealogy.
This is offered for those seeking the family, social, and economic relationships
among those raiders.
About our main data base; who and what is included.
More Bucklin ancestors than any other single source.. It is the best
place to go for the most Bucklin genealogical data.
The Bucklin Family Genealogy Database is the most complete and most verified of
the general databases of Bucklin genealogy data and information. It is the most
complete because it is not limited to any particular Bucklin lineage or family
tree. The Joseph Bucklin Society collects the family genealogy information on
any Bucklin who lived, or is living, anywhere or anytime. The publicly available
information however, is limited to Bucklins who are not now living. (See our
privacy policy.) Not only do we have a large collection of the usual genealogy
data of birth days and death dates, but also we strive to include stories of the
ancestors' lives and surrounding events that lend richness to the history of
these persons.
[ Note: For those of you not experienced in reading American
Colonial Dates, keep in mind that in England (and hence the English colonies): before 1752 the year began on March 25th. Dates
between January 1st and March 24th were therefore at the end of the year rather
than the beginning. Such dates are sometimes seen in the form 12 Feb 1696/7.
It was not until 1752 that the date change for a year began on January 1st instead of March 25th.]
This site is not just a family tree. This site also historical data
about Bucklins, interesting facts, photos, and information of the places
they lived and the events of their lives where such is available.
The archive has certain limitations on data entry, to keep the searching fast
and upkeep of data to a manageable size. If the person's surname (family
name) is Bucklin they are entered in the data base with
- their spouse(s) and the children of the Bucklin and his/her spouse(s),
- the immediate parents
of both the husband and wife, as well as the children of those parents, and
- the siblings of the Bucklin and his/her spouse, as well as the children of
those siblings,
This is the general rule (although there are exceptions). Therefore, if
a woman Bucklin marries a non-Bucklin, her children are in the data base, but
grandchildren not named Bucklin are not entered. This is done to conserve
the spread of names to an unmanageable list of descendent Bucklins.
(Note: All known Bucklins in the United States, to date, appear to be
descendants of William Bucklin who arrived on a Winthrop ship in the
Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. When William arrived, his last name was
spelled in various ways, with "Buckland" being common. However, after the first
generation, the present spelling was adopted and appears unique to the
descendants of this William. Present day "Bucklands" are most likely not related
to "Bucklins".)
This archive of Bucklins is the most verified of the large genealogy
databases of lineage of this particular family. The reason is the large volume
of family tree heritage information that has been collected and submitted. This,
in turn, is the result of the Society's coordination of effort by the members of
the Joseph Bucklin Society.
When information on a Bucklin is submitted we always request and enter the
sources of the information, so that future researchers and scholars can verify
the information and continue their own research. The information in the database
is entered in the following order of preference.
If there is no other information on the specific Bucklin submitted, we list
in the database whatever information on that family member or descendant is
submitted, even if no source for the information is given. When a source is
submitted to us, we list the source for the data. When inconsistent data is
submitted for the same specific Bucklin, we list only the data for which a
source is given. If we obtain, from various submissions, multiple sources for
the same data, we list all the sources. If inconsistent data for the same
Bucklin is submitted, and both submissions list sources for the data, we list
both the inconsistent data and both sources. In short, we strive to list sources
for verification, and prefer the data with sources given; we list partial
information for the benefit of further research by the members of the Society.
So, if you are searching for your family tree, your ancestry, your ancestors
and their descendants, or researching a particular ancestor or descendant, this
is a good place to start. The archives of the Joseph Bucklin Society are your
easiest source of family data, information, ancestry, lineage, and heritage.
When starting your own Bucklin family tree, if you have no other information,
use this database and look for an ancestor from whom you can trace backward, or
forward for descendants. Or, if you are an experienced researcher, looking for a
specific Bucklin, try our database.
The greatest exception to the above general rule about limiting the data
entry to Bucklins is that we include much information on Gaspee raiders.
The Society is one of the two public researchers on the Gaspee event. We are
unique among the Gaspee historians in our emphasis on researching the
interfamily connections among the raiders and those who participated in keeping
secret their identity. Therefore, this is not only a family archive, but also a
historical group archive.
Here is the last of the
three entry links on this page
to the Main Database.
Researchers and webmasters: If you use information from this
website on a website of your own, please give us appropriate credit and a
link back to our site. We would appreciate it, but do not require, that
you use the following code in your webpage.
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research." href="DATABASE_BUCKLIN_GENEALOGY.htm">
Bucklin family history and genealogy.</a>
That code will produce a link that looks like this ->
Bucklin family history and genealogy.
