The publisher assembled this genealogy for Internet presentation mostly from work done by others over many years.  The publisher did some genealogical and historical research to facilitate the assembly process, and to update older works for those who have since died.  He also added a few details from personal experience and records.  The essential genealogical research, photos and other significant contributions came from the following, listed from oldest to newest:

• Etta (Routh) Tucker documented genealogies for roughly 5 generations of her family in her bible, beginning with her Routh great-grandparents through her nieces and nephews, including her Goldey and Taylor cousins.  It appears this was done about 1900-1915.
  
  
• Margaret (Stambaugh) Wehr documented her mother's family in the mid 1930's, including the Wise and Phiel ancestors.  Margaret's documentation also includes 3 of her siblings, her 28 aunts and uncles, and 60 of her first cousins.  The documentation is in narrative form with interesting incidental details.  Her work was passed down through the Harrington family.
  
  
• Alfred Perlee, a professional genealogist in New Jersey, documented the Perlee family as it relates to the early Tucker and Vandervort families.  His work is documented in a 1955 letter he wrote to Fannie (Tucker) Vander Voort.  A copy of this letter passed from her children to the Tuckers about 1978.  Some of his work is from the book Littell's Passaic Valley.
  
  
• Emma (Rieker) Harrington coordinated the archiving at Zoar, Ohio, of much of the American portion of the Rieker and Breymaier families that appears in this genealogy.  This was done around the late 1950's or early 1960's.  She also collected letters and clipping all life long in an effort to document her family's history.  Some of her collection has been useful for building this genealogy and some of it remains a challenge to be deciphered.
  
  
• Paul Harrington, living in Cincinnati at the time, ran across a newspaper story about the Henry Tucker family's involvement in local history.  He made the connection across the generations to his brother-in-law Charlie Tucker, found a copy of the book referred to in the article, and gave it to Charlie in the early1960's.  Although family bibles went back to Henry, Paul's discovery provided the story of the Tucker pioneers in Ohio.  The book is The Past and Present of Mill Creek Valley... by Henry B. Teetor (see Bibliography).
  
  
• Charlie Tucker assembled the core of this genealogy in the mid 1970's.  For many years he made an effort to visit family grave sites throughout the Midwest.  He also examined the old records from Zoar.  While preparing his documentation, he queried his wife Julia (Harrington) Tucker and sister Peg Tucker.  These 2 pulled numerous details out of their personal records and located family bibles from various sides of the family that were scrutinized for details.  His work uncovered all ancestors in 5 generations, counting his own children, and he found a few individuals in 2 generations before that.  He also identified all cousins belonging to him or his wife, along with their descendants.  He completed this work about 1976.
  
  
• Charlie Tucker's daughter took his final work to the New York Public Library genealogical section and was able to find the parents of Henry Tucker.  She also found some details about the individuals her father had identified.  This work was done about 1977.  Later, she found the children of John Tucker in Family Records:  Or, Genealogies of the First Settlers of the Passaic Valley... by John Littell (see Bibliography).  She collected most of the pictures on this website and converted these in 2006-07 from old prints and clippings into digital format.  Resources that had been passed down to her and she maintained were also used to construct this website, such as letters, clippings, charts and bibles.
  
  
• Ross Holland Routh (1907-1987) traced several Routh families and published several genealogical books.  Apparently, he tried to connect all the Routh families in America but was unable to do so.  Ross prepared genealogical charts in the late 1970's that include most descendants of William Routh from about 1770 forward, including many immediate in-laws.  A copy of these charts came to the Tuckers around 1979, however it is unclear whether he published this Routh line.  Ross did not include himself in these charts and there is no known connection between him and the Rouths in this genealogy who descended from William.  Ross gathered most of the information on William's descendants from interviews with those descendants, their family bibles, and public records for Cass County, Indiana.  A few details on William Isaac Routh and his immediate family are from History of Cass County by Powell.
  
  
• Genealogy:  Ephraim and Esther Payn - 1964, author(s) uncertain, unpublished.  This document appears to be a compilation of work by various Payn descendants over many decades.  Contributors that can be identified include:
  
• Jeanette (Payn) Davidson who provided substantial details for her immediate family including "Recollection of Life in Missouri" in 1954.
• Laura (Mackey) Hodgdon who provided "Recollections of John Byers Payn as given to his Granddaughter Laura in 1936."
• Marilla ("Rilla") King Spicer who provided an old bible with the names of Ephraim and Esther Payn's children.
  
  
• Lilla E. (Rieker) Herl did genealogy work for her family including the Rieker branch back to Andreas Riecker.  That portion of her work has been incorporated into this website with permission of her daughter.
  
  
• Pauline Van der Voort, a Tucker descendant, took up genealogy as a hobby late in life and is responsible for some of the  details in this genealogy on the Tucker family, and many in-laws including Thrasher and Woodward.  Her work includes many colorful details.
  
  
• S. S., of Zoar, Ohio, transcribed the Rieker and Breymaier families genealogies from the Zoar archives back to the Tucker family in 2005.  He also included the German ancestors of these 2 families.  The sources of information about the German ancestors is unclear but some of it apparently came from transcriptions of old German church records.
  
  
• P. B., one of the living Harrington descendants, provided additional details on the Breymaier, Payn and Rieker families, including the Civil War details for Christian Rieker.  Much of it comes from old letters and clippings collected by Emma (Rieker) Harrington (see above).  This came to the Tuckers in 2005.
  
  
• E. S., one of the living Harrington in-laws, provided many of the pictures on this website for the Harrington family and converted them from hard copy to electronic format in 2006.
  
  
• A. & V. W.,  P. S. and J. S., living descendants of the Van der Voort family, provided details on their family in 2007.  This includes an extensive list of burial details collected my Mary Vandervort Wolfe Porter.
  
  
• D. & J. M., volunteers for Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness, contributed the picture of Ives Cemetery ("Plain River Cemetery") in Allegan County, Michigan, as well as updated directions for finding it as of 2007.
  
  
• M. H. T., a volunteer for Find a Grave as well as Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness, provided pictures of Zoar Cemetery, taken in 2007.  Photos reproduced with permission.
  
  
• TomKat, a volunteer for Find a Grave, provided pictures of Tucker Burying Ground taken in 2006.  Photos reproduced with permission.
  
  
• T. S., a living in-law to Rieker descendants who did genealogy research for the family, provided in 2009 two similar "Rieker Descendants Registry" lists apparently from records of Anna Maria Rieker (see father).  The publisher of this website unified these lists from translations done in 2009, one by T.W. of Seattle, and the other from old Sutterlin script by Prof. M. Z., a "native Berliner."
  
  
• M. B., one of the living Harrington descendants, provided access for the publisher in 2009 to the Harrington family archives of records, photos and bibles that she conserves.  Several items cited in these credits came from this collection.
  
  
• C. A. B., partner to the publisher, for research and photography beginning 2009.
  

See also Bibliography.