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From: "Bette Richards" <>
Subject: All us Bunkers
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 09:18:45 -0700

Check out this site to see how many people in the US share your name.
Bunkers make up approximately .003 of the population and rank 4117 in the
list of surnames. I checked some more of my ancestors and found one that
ranked 44,000 + and another that was the 12th most common name in America.
<http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/freqnames.html>; To determine the
number of people with the name living in the US in 2000, multiply the
percentage (.003) by the total population (281,421,906).

To check out the frequency of names in England
<http://www.taliesin-arlein.net/names/search.php>;
This site tells you how to figure out the number of people living in England
with the name today and also the number who have been recorded since the
1600's. Very interesting site.

If you are researching your ancestors and find that they have a very common
name like one of mine, you will see why you may be having so much trouble
sorting them out. However, even if there is any extremely unusual name with
few people, that does not mean they are all related. Spellings have changed
over the years and names that sounded similar may now be the same as
another. Then again, you may find a name like Küster which is now spelled
Kester, Kuester, Kuster, Kister, Custer, Caster and about 20 more different
ways. And they all descended from the same person. Isn't genealogy fun?

Bette

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