There are many excellent resources for Bucks County, PA. Somehow it seems that the original settlers had great success in establishing large families with many descendants.
Many Quakers lived there, and there were immigrants from Scotland via Ireland, and from India, Holland, Germany, and Sweden as well, way, way back in time, beginning in the 1600's.
The PA GenWeb Archives for Bucks County is one of the best of all the GenWeb archives, with excellent abstracts of wills, which are well-indexed. The abstracts themselves are excellent. They will really help you link your family connections together. You can find the wills in complete form by using the FamilySearch.org website. The wills are not yet indexed there, but you can combine the indexing done at PA GenWeb Archives with the documents at FamilySearch with good results. The will abstracts at the Bucks County Genweb Archives cover time periods from the early 1700's to the early 1800's.
Also very useful is the website PARoots.
A few additional resources for later years can be found on google books, but not all pages will be shown online.
There are also excellent biographies, area descriptions, and the like online for Bucks and Philadelphia counties.
George Williams Brown, a prolific writer from the area, has written a number of books on people he knew or heard about in the history of that area. Many of the books can be found digitized online.
Just takes some looking, but a lot of what you may be looking for in Bucks County is digitized.
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