There are many resources available on the WWW, for example:
To explore our genealogy with other interested people, subscribe
to surname-based Mailing Lists
http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/b/batdorf.html
http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/b/bottorff.html
www.familysearch.com
PAF4 Family History Software – Free
Search Mormon Church Records (Latter Day Saints)
Tutorial – How to Start Your Family History
www.rootsweb.com
Search by Town or County
Search SS Death Records
Links to many other genealogy and search resources
Surname-based Mailing Lists
http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/b/batdorf.html
http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/b/bottorff.html
Eric Bocher has some information on the Jonathan Bottorff family at
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~elblocher/bottor.htm
Tutorial - RootsWeb's Guide to
Tracing Family Trees
Bottorff Site http://resources.rootsweb.com/~clusters/surnames/b/o/BOTTORFF/
Batdorf Site http://resources.rootsweb.com/%7Eclusters/surnames/b/a/BATDORF/
www.ancestry.com
www.familytreemaker.com
www.usgenweb.com
www.heritagequest.com
Here is one great site
http://www.genealogy.com/
http://www.genealogy.com/genealogy/cgi-bin/iffgen?last=Bottorff&lo=lu&ref=gen
http://www.genealogy.com/genealogy/cgi-bin/iffgen?last=batdorf&lo=lu&ref=gen
For more sites, search on Google
or a meta search engine such as
www.ixquick.com
When searching, try these spelling variations:
Badorf, Badorff, Badtorf, Badtorff, Badtorfin, Batdord,
Batdorf,
Batdorff, Battdorff, Battorf, Battorff, Botdorf, Botorff, Bottorff,
Bottroff, Butdorf, Buttorf, Buttorff, Paturf, Potterf, Pottorf,
Pottorff, Potturff