When doing research on your family do not forget to check out the town and
county sources and histories. http://www.rootsweb.com home page has a link
down the left side of the page to towns and counties. The screen that comes
up will let you enter only a town or a town and state. If you know that
your ancestors were in Hancock but not the state, putting in the city name
will get you the counties and states for all the Hancocks in the country.
There are a lot of links on these pages for all kinds of recor
I am pleased to let you know that children 6 and under will only pay half
price for the tours during our reunion and children 5 and under will eat
free at the banquet at the reunion in Tucson in March 2004.
Bette
Nanci Berry has sent me some very nice pictures of Bunkerville, NV and the
monument to Edward Bunker. If anyone would like to see them too let me know
and I will forward them on to you.
Bette
On the website for Civil War information that I sent earlier, there was as a
confederate prisoner at Ft. McHenry, Eli Bunker captured at Gettysburg 3
July 1863 and incarcerated at Ft. McHenry on July 6th. Eli served in Co. D
of the 52nd North Carolina. Who was this man? He was NOT one of the sons
of the twins. Most of the Bunkers in NC in that era were. Many of the
Bunkers in NC in that era were Black but I doubt that one of them served in
the Confederate Army and if he did that he would have been impr
NEHGS this week is recommending this website for lots of links and
information. It is amazing. This one is right up there with Cyndis List
for its wealth of links. Try it for almost anything.
http://www.daddezio.com/
Bette
Benjamin Chamberlain Bunker (C-7, RN 19670) b. 9 Jan 1731, d. 1810,
Charlestown, MA, last Bunker owner of Bunker Hill. Married Hannah Gibson,
11 Aug 1767. Hannah b. Jun 1745, d. 15 Oct 1802 before Benjamin according
to our records. She married in 1765 David Frothingham. She was also
supposed to have married Richard Trumbull 31 Mar 1775.
If this information is correct, why did she marry Trumbull before Benjamin
Bunker died? Was there a divorce? Are the dates wrong some place? From
these dates she die
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/wwii/army_aaf_honor_list/table_of_
contents.html
Lists the casualties in WW II by state and county for army and army air
corps personnel. There is also a link for Navy and Marines.
Be aware that there is no surname search here. You have to go through each
county to look for the surname. There were a lot of casualties in WW II.
Good source but it takes time to search it.
Bette
The information about the reunion in Tucson in Mar 2004 is now on the
website, thanks to our webmaster, Doug Detling. However, I goofed on the
registration form and the deadline for the Tombstone and Karchner tour is
Oct 30.
Tickets for tours of Karchner Caverns are hard to get and reservations need
to be made well in advance so that we all get on the same tour. Actually if
enough people sign up we will fill more than one tour. We should do that as
I am already receiving registration forms. The tours s
Thanks for this information. One of the bits of information that we most
like to find is information about military experiences.
I hope others will send me information about the service experiences of the
people in their family.
Bette
-----Original Message-----
From: John Snyder [mailto:johnsnyder@onetel.net.uk]
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 12:02 AM
To: BUNKER-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: WW II casualties
Not a casualty, but worth noting that Francis W. (Toby) Bunker was a Navy
vet of WW2, present
Bette Richards writes:
"I get an email from an automatic service that tells me that a message I
sent was not delivered because the addressee was not known, etc. I never
sent a message to this person and have no clue who they are. How can
this happen?"
The sender has harvested your address from messages you have sent to
various mailing lists, the same way the junk advertisers do with
snail-mail. He may also be impersonating the supposed sender's address.
"Am I correct in my belief that a virus could wi
There is another worm making the rounds and it tries to fool you into
thinking that it is a patch from Microsoft. Microsoft NEVER distributes
patches via email. Ever. You can read the details about this new worm
here. http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.swen.a@mm.html
Please, under no circumstances should you install anything that you
receive via email. If you have any questions or concerns, please ask me
or any other member of the dist
>From: Genrit
>Reply-To: AR-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com
>To: AR-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com
>Subject: [AR-CEM] American War Birthdate Guide
>Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 08:26:36 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Often times a monument will have USArmy or USNavy but
>will not have which war they were in. This chart is a
>rough guide as to which war they participated in.
>
> AMERICAN WARS FROM 1791 to PRESENT
>
>
> > Quasi War 1791 - 1800
> > Navel War w/France
> > Approx Birthdates of Induc
Fascinating Betty. I didn't have any problem reading your letter at
all. Thanks for the amusing and informative insight.
Lois
Bette Richards wrote:
>I thought I would send you this to give you another perspective about the
>spelling of names. I was absolutely amazed.
>
>Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
>waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht
>the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.
>The rset can be a total mses and you can
Gil and I are bleary eyed from tracing down the Bunker Civil War vets right
now and I ran across and article that some of you might find interesting.
It is always more interesting to know the stories behind the lives of our
ancestors as well as where they were. This is a government site. There may
be more there to enjoy or learn from.
http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/summer_2003_civil_war_maps
Bette
Most people know about Adobe Acrobat for making files that are readable on
any computer that has the reader provided by Adobe. The reader is free but
the program to write the file is not. Here is a program that writes PDF
files and it is free.
http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/
About a week ago, Kipp sent us another site for a free program that writes
PDF files.
It is http://www.pdf995.com
Bette
I am sending this to the list hoping that Kipp and some of our other very
computer savvy people will explain on the list in simple terms for us
computer dummies the answers to these two questions.
1) I get an email from an automatic service that tells me that a message I
sent was not delivered because the addressee was not known, etc. I never
sent a message to this person and have no clue who they are. How can this
happen? Keep in mind that as far as I know I have never had a virus or
worm. I always h
Some of you may have missed the BFA Holiday Sale ad.
Until Dec 31, 2003, the history book can be purchased at
the reduced price of 2 for $25.00, with free postage
or
you may purchase 1 for $15.00 with free shipping.
They make great gifts for you children or grandchildren.
gil
Ancestry has put online the 1895 Iowa census. For those of you researching
the Andrew Melville Bunker family, Andrew J. is there in Jasper with his
family.
There are also several German Bunkers. If anyone wants me to look up their
Iowa family in 1895 let me know.
There were 144 Bunkers. I expect many of them are Germans as I can't find
them in our database and we do not have all of the Iowa German Bunkers. I
am working on that now though.
Bette
Dave,
A great find and a very kind offer.
The family in question is descended from Benjamin of New London NH.
He b 23 Feb 1764 in Barnstead of Barrington.
Valentine Estabrooks Bunker (U-108, 1965 BunGen p.163) is a grandson of
Benjamin.
A gr-gr-grandson, Colonel Page Scribner Bunker, b 1875 Menomoniw Wisc
was one of our early family historians, and spent nearly 50 years
researching this lineage. He was a vet of 3 wars, Spanish American, WW I &
WW II.
I'm sending you this additional data, and also forwar
I am very nervous right now about Isabel. My son and family are on Cape
Hatteras. The coast guard workers left their homes this morning. He plans
on leaving Wed morning. I want him to leave NOW but his boss wants him to
leave Thursday morning (that is when it is scheduled to hit). I hope all of
you are well prepared and everyone on the coast leaves as soon as possible.
I have been in 80 mph winds but never 125 mph ones. 80 mph is bad enough.
Blows pretty hard. My kids live in a motor home so I am havi
Hi all:
Microsoft (on Sept. 10, 2003) issued another security bulletin (MS03-039)
regarding a security hole in the following operating systems ...
o Windows NT (workstation & server)
o Windows 2000 (workstation & server)
o Windows XP (workstation)
o Windows 2003 (server)
While there are no known exploits (as of Sept. 11, 2003), security experts
believe the code of the Blaster worm could be easily modified to take
advantage of this newly discovered vulnerability.
I advise everyb
This is what Carol sent along with his picture. Interesting man. Bette
The family bible states that Stephen Fales Bunker was born in Athens, Maine,
on December 12, 1840. Official records have his age at the date of
enlistment as 18. In all post war pension applications he goes by the Dec
12, 1843, date until late in life. When he was able to get an increased
pension at age 70, he, for the first time, claimed that he was born in 1840.
He was living in the small community of Empire, near Farmington, in Da
If you are interested in seeing some of the pictures of this terrible fire
go to
http://home.westman.wave.ca/~motherhubbard/fire.html
One of my mom's side of the family lives near there.
Bette