bette, a while back you warned us all about the new family tree maker, saw another one at best buy called the saphire (sp) version. do we know about that one, don't want to buy it and then install it and screw up everything?  thanks   lynn atkeson From: Bette Bunker Richards via <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 1:45 PM Subject: [BUNKER] free family tree program and search site http://www.myheritage.com/ is a free site that looks interesting but I have not used.  The Bunker Family database is way too big to move to an online site but for those of you with smaller databases may find this program a good one.  Let me know if you have tried this or what happens when you do. Thanks. Bette ***************************** If you wish additional information about the Bunker Family Association, please visit http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

>From Genealogy in Time Magazine: *Ancestry.com Quietly Shifts Gears* Two announcements out of Ancestry.com this summer suggest the company has made an important change in their future growth strategy. The first was an announcement of the launch of a new service called AncestryHealth <https://health.ancestry.com/>. This service allows users to combine their personal family health knowledge with family trees that have been created on Ancestry websites. The second was an announcement thatAncestryDNA <http://dna.ancestry.com/> had sold the results of DNA sequences collected from some one million Ancestry customers to a Google-affiliated company called *Calico*. Calico is focussed on longevity research. What makes the dataset so valuable to Calico is both its size and the fact that it comes with extensive family trees. Calico will be studying the DNA results combined with the family trees of Ancestry’s DNA customers to look for patterns in longevity across families. These two announcements combined represent an interesting transition for Ancestry.com The company appears to be making the jump from provider of historical records for past generations to keeper of life records for the current generation. Considering that Ancestry websites control a combined 35% of internet genealogy traffic (see Top 100 Genealogy Websites of 2015 <http://www.genealogyintime.com/articles/top-100-genealogy-websites-of-2015-page01.html>), this is an interest shift in strategy for Ancestry and for the genealogy marketplace at large. In the future, there might be more money to be made managing (and selling) the lifestyle data of the current generation than the historical records of past generations. - See more at: http://www.genealogyintime.com/genealogy-news.html?awt_l=5U5mE&awt_m=Ir5fDVVVlAk.Vy#sthash.eOkSXLMZ.dpuf

Ancestry has put online wills and probates of 934 Bunkers among others. To celebrate the launch of the new U.S. Wills and Probates collection on Ancestry,, the collection along with all U.S. birth, marriage and death records, will be available to explore for FREE, September 2 (12pm MT) through September 7 (10pm MT).

Cousins, Additional info: Sons 5 & 6 were Weldon P. and Bellamar. There is a Bellamar Jr and two siblings, Rita & Margaret, all born 1920s NY gil -----Original Message----- From: Gil Bunker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 7:28 PM To: [email protected] Cc: 'elizabeth444four.excite' Subject: FW: Blanche Bunker Cousins, Kathy is searching for info about her grandmother Blanche (D-569-II; 1982 BunGen p.233), Blanche was the second of seven children including 1. Mabel @1890-1838 d in MV accident, 3. Wenonah, 4. Wallace Wendell 1895-1910, sons 5&6 and 7. Belma b @ 1901. All the children born in Mercer, ME. gil -----Original Message----- From: elizabeth444four.excite [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 1:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Blanche Bunker Hi Gil, Hope you had a lovely summer. Can you recommend anyone in the "family" who I could contact that could help me find more information on my grandmother Blanche? Her parents were John Wallace Bunker b 1865 m(1) Hattie Delia Gray b @ 1861 ME; m(2)Lillian ____ m(3) Mary Williams, FL. I know she had siblings but don't know if they are still with us. Any help you could give me will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Kathy

Cousins, Kathy is searching for info about her grandmother Blanche (D-569-II; 1982 BunGen p.233), Blanche was the second of seven children including 1. Mabel @1890-1838 d in MV accident, 3. Wenonah, 4. Wallace Wendell 1895-1910, sons 5&6 and 7. Belma b @ 1901. All the children born in Mercer, ME. gil -----Original Message----- From: elizabeth444four.excite [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 1:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Blanche Bunker Hi Gil, Hope you had a lovely summer. Can you recommend anyone in the "family" who I could contact that could help me find more information on my grandmother Blanche? Her parents were John Wallace Bunker b 1865 m(1) Hattie Delia Gray b @ 1861 ME; m(2)Lillian ____ m(3) Mary Williams, FL. I know she had siblings but don't know if they are still with us. Any help you could give me will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Kathy

[downloaded from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter, The Daily Online Genealogy Newsletter, Dick Eastman, editor, dated Various] 21 August 2015 -- Scottish Ancestral Research Company Releases New Records for Major Family History Show Annan, Scotland – To celebrate the “Lanarkshire Family History Society Local and Family History Show” (the largest family history show in Scotland) www scottishindexes.com is releasing thousands of historical Scottish paternity records. The total number of paternity records now indexed is 11,723! These records give a unique insight into the lives of our ancestors and allows people with illegitimate ancestors to trace their male line more easily; often helping you overcome a ‘brick wall’ in your family tree! As these are a new source to many researchers Scottish Indexes provides a free ‘Learning Zone section to guide you: http://www.scottishindexes.com/learningcourt.aspx 1 August 2015 -- Millionaire Property Developer Used Children’s Gravestones to Build a Patio Here is another “misuse of tombstones” story. You would think people would have more common sense than to desecrate graves. Kim Davies took tombstones from a derelict chapel and cemented them to the walls of Llanwenarth House in Abergavenny, South Wales, where Cecil Frances Alexander penned the famous hymn. Planners were horrified when they saw the ‘decorative stone plaques’ had been used as part of a gaudy £1m makeover to the Grade II-listed home, turning it into a ‘palace for an Iron Curtain dictator’. One of the 150-year-old gravestones was even engraved with the names of three brothers and a sister who all died while under the age of four. The wealthy businessman also used some of the graves as flagstones for a patio which he built at the £2.2m country mansion. It means children are now lying in unmarked graves at the disused Soar-y-Graig Non Conformist chapel in the village of Llechryd. Details may be found in the Daily Mail at http://goo.gl/2eWVgd. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 14 August 2015 -- Forces War Records Releases New Online Database of British Prisoners Of War Held in Japan or Japanese-Occupied Territory On the eve of the 70th VJ day anniversary, Forces War Records released a new online collection of 56,000 records listing the Imperial Prisoners of War held in Japan (Original Source: Transcribed from the National Archive reference WO392/23-26 British Prisoners Of War Held In Japan Or Japanese-Occupied Territory). The following announcement was written by Forces War Records : In 1945, 37,583 British and Commonwealth soldiers were released from Japanese captivity and Forces War Records has their details. During the course of the Second World War, over 140,000 Allied soldiers were captured by the Armed Forces of the Empire of Japan. These men were kept in barbaric conditions, utilised as forced labour, tortured for information and used for medical experiments. Japan, while a signatory of the 1929 Geneva Convention, never ratified it and thus ignored it. Treatment of Allied prisoners was so poor that over 30,000 died in captivity. Many of the guards responsible were subsequently tried for war crimes. Immortalised in films such as “The Bridge on the River Kwai” (1957) and “To End all Wars” (2001), there is no denying the significant impact that these events had and continue to have on survivors, veterans and their families. Indeed, Japanese War Crimes against Prisoners of War are often a hotly debated topic. This collection was compiled by the Directorate for Prisoners of War and lists the soldiers, along with the occasional civilian, who endured these conditions. Prisoners were only obliged to provide their name, rank and number so the amount of military information is limited, however the records do include the date of capture, the camp in which they were held and the date of liberation, be that through release, escape or death. On the 70th Anniversary of the Empire of Japan’s surrender we are pleased to present this collection of 56,363 records, a permanent memorial to the servicemen involved and an invaluable resource for genealogists. In addition, the record set includes such notable entries as: Lieutenant Colonel Philip Toosey, the senior Allied Officer held at Tha Maa Kham PoW camp and the officer upon whom Alec Guinness’ Colonel Nicholson from ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’ was based. James Clavell, born Charles Edward Dumaresq Clavell, co-writer on the films ‘633 Squadron’ (1964) and ‘The Great Escape’ (1963) and author of the novel ‘King Rat’ (1962), based on his experiences in Changi camp. Ernest William Swanton, the BBC Radio Sports broadcaster and journalist who was a regular commentator on ‘Test Match Special’.    Sally Rolls Pavia [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index "Our Soldiers are one of our greatest assets!"

[downloaded from Eastmans Online Genealogy Newsletter, The Daily Online Genealogy Newsletter, Dick Eastman, author, dated July 29, 2015] Gulbenkian Grant Helps Update the “Armenian Jerusalem” Project I was in the Armenian Quarter of Old Jerusalem a couple of weeks ago so this new article caught my eye today. The Gulbenkian Foundation, one of the world’s leading philanthropic organizations, has provided the “Armenian Jerusalem” heritage preservation website project with a new grant, enabling organizers to carry out necessary hardware upgrades and software updates. One of its primary objectives was the creation of an all-in-one family tree that highlights the inter-relationship and inter-connectivity of the “kaghakatsi” residents of the Armenian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. The “kaghakatsi” are a unique genealogical entity: every member of the sprawling clan is related either closely or distantly, to another. As distinguished from the “vanketsi” survivors of the Armenian genocide who found refuge in the Patriarchate’s convent of St James, the “kaghakatsi” are natives who first settled in Jerusalem about 2,000 years ago, their ancestors arriving in the region in the wake of the conquering armies of emperor Tigranes II, “arkayitz arka,” (king of kings). You can read more in an article by Arthur Hagopian in the HETQ.AM web site at: http://goo.gl/cAx7Os. The new “Armenian Jerusalem” Project web site may be found a:t http://Armenian-Jerusalem.org.

The term “Black Dutch” is something you may encounter in your genealogy research, or maybe you’ve heard it mentioned in your family as being part of your ancestry? But what does it mean, exactly? Who were the Black Dutch? If you’re just getting started on your genealogy adventure, you may not know. This is the explanation you need. I found it very interesting to learn that the Black Dutch were not one particular race. That is the most important thing to remember. It is a term that is used in historical documents to refer to several different groups. Knowing your ancestral origins and some of your family history will help you put the term “Black Dutch” in context with your own family. For the remainder of the article: http://www.ancestralfindings.com/black-dutch/ Sally Rolls Pavia [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index "Our Soldiers are one of our greatest assets!"

Winnetka, Illinois, Library To Close Genealogy Room The Winnetka-Northfield Public Library Board of Trustees on July 20 voted unanimously to close the library’s genealogy room, despite protests from residents and people from neighboring communities. While the genealogy collection has been a fixture at the library since 1963, the library will close the room for good on July 30 with plans to relocate the collection outside of the library. Details may be found in an article by by Emily Spectre in the Daily North Shore web site at: http://dailynorthshore com/2015/07/21/winnetka-library-genealogy-room-will-close Acadian French-Canadian Name Variations A long and detailed article about Acadian French-Canadian Name Variations has been contributed to the Encyclopedia of Genealogy entitled Acadian French-Canadian Name Variations. It has been translated and is reproduced in the Encyclopedia with thanks to Claude Perrault and the Socièté Généalogique Canadienne-Française. I recognized several of my Acadian ancestors’ names here! You might do the same. Acadian French-Canadian Name Variations may be found at http://eogen.com/AcadianFrenchCanadianNameVariations.    Sally Rolls Pavia [email protected] List Owner: [email protected] Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index "Our Soldiers are one of our greatest assets!"

Hi Bette, Thanks for that explanation! I've a question regarding the female DNA. My Bunker line goes through my mother, her paternal line and back to her paternal grandmother (Anna Maria Frazier) daughter of Amanda Frances Bunker. I have a cousin who has the same generational relationship with Anna Maria Frazier, daughter of Amanda F. Bunker (married Sam. Frazier) as I do. Anna Maria Frazier (m. Moon) is our great grandmother and Amanda Bunker (m. Frazier) is our great-great- grandmother. The difference is this: Anna Maria Frazier had 10 children with Benj. Moon, the eldest being a male, Philip Moon (my maternal grandfather) and a daughter, Winifred Moon. Next generation, Philip Moon had a daughter, Maurine Moon and I am Maurine's daughter. So from Amanda F. Bunker (m. Frazier) the female line continues to Anna Maria Frazier, then a male..Philip Moon, then back to females Maurine Moon and me, Bonnie. Next to look at my cousins in question: Her paternal grandmother was Philip's sister, Winifred who married and had 3 sons...no daughters. One son married and had 5 children with same wife. Cousin Lynne is one of those 5 children. That son also had a daughter out of wedlock who was "adopted out" as they say. But doing the DNA testing, she showed 1st cousin once removed to my mother and 2nd cousin to me. That means, Carol and Lynne are half sisters. Now cousin Lynne did her DNA and again, matches my mother, me and "cousin Carol" but in what connection, I'm not sure as I only have my DNA report from Ancestry (and Mom's DNA). Is there any way to make sense of this for "proof" for lineage purposes? Bonnie Ward 3820 140th Ave. NE Bellevue, WA 98005 home: 425-885-6727 email: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bette Bunker Richards via Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2015 8:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [BUNKER] DNA realtionships Although men inherit their Y DNA from their father's father's father, etc. and all of us inherit our MtDNA from our mother's mother's mother, etc. the likelihood that we will share other kinds of DNA from our relatives diminishes rather rapidly. We seem to share 85% of our DNA with our first cousins, 60% with our second cousins and great grandparents, but only 15% with our 3rd cousins and great-great grandparents. After that we only share about 1% of our DNA with our more distant cousins. So, it is quite likely that autosomal DNA tests will not show a relationship if your common ancestor is at the great-great-great grandparent level and earlier. Autosomal DNA tests also test your Y DNA if you are a male. It also tests your MtDNA so, if you are related through those lines that will show up. Say I have a common ancestor to James Bunker with others, but I am female and this is through my father. Therefore, I might not share any DNA with that distant Bunker ancestor. However, my brother will as his Y-DNA matches that of other male descendants of James Bunker. Our MtDNA will not match any Bunker. However, my autosomal DNA might match a Bunker and even I might have a connection with a distant common Bunker ancestor. Bette ***************************** If you wish additional information about the Bunker Family Association, please visit http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Although men inherit their Y DNA from their father's father's father, etc. and all of us inherit our MtDNA from our mother's mother's mother, etc. the likelihood that we will share other kinds of DNA from our relatives diminishes rather rapidly. We seem to share 85% of our DNA with our first cousins, 60% with our second cousins and great grandparents, but only 15% with our 3rd cousins and great-great grandparents. After that we only share about 1% of our DNA with our more distant cousins. So, it is quite likely that autosomal DNA tests will not show a relationship if your common ancestor is at the great-great-great grandparent level and earlier. Autosomal DNA tests also test your Y DNA if you are a male. It also tests your MtDNA so, if you are related through those lines that will show up. Say I have a common ancestor to James Bunker with others, but I am female and this is through my father. Therefore, I might not share any DNA with that distant Bunker ancestor. However, my brother will as his Y-DNA matches that of other male descendants of James Bunker. Our MtDNA will not match any Bunker. However, my autosomal DNA might match a Bunker and even I might have a connection with a distant common Bunker ancestor. Bette

Cousins, Will be out of service until Monday gil

From: The Genetic Genealogist <http://www.thegeneticgenealogist.com/> ------------------------------ Applying Autosomal DNA to Complex Genealogical Questions <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheGeneticGenealogist/~3/Qt2ZfQLTG2I/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email> Posted: 04 Jul 2015 01:28 PM PDT [image: 800px-DNA_sequence] A new must-read piece of genealogical scholarship using autosomal DNA as evidence was published this week in the *National Genealogical Society Quarterly* <http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/ngsq>, a publication of the National Genealogical Society. The article, authored by Thomas Jones, Ph.D. <https://www.apgen.org/directory/search_detail.html?mbr_id=377> and entitled “Too Few Sources to Solve a Family Mystery? Some Greenfields in Central and Western New York” is one of a tiny handful that use DNA as one of several different pieces of evidence to answer a genealogical question. While issues of the *NGSQ* are available only to members, gaining access to the benefits of NGS <http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/home> – including the *NGSQ *and the increasing number of articles incorporating DNA – is well worth the $65 membership fee. *Where is the DNA Scholarship?* I’ve lamented before about the lack of publications that incorporate DNA evidence. Indeed, even when JoGG <http://www.jogg.info/>was active, it published only a few articles in either pure methodology or that incorporated DNA into other types of genealogical evidence to examine a genealogical question. Unfortunately, without these publications, it can be very difficult for the genetic genealogist to have a model – or new ideas or suggestions – for either *using* DNA or *writing* about DNA. Most of us are operating as islands without sharing our methodologies or results with others. Hopefully, publications like *NGSQ* and *The Record <http://newyorkfamilyhistory.org/research-discover/elibrary/record>* (and others!) will publish more articles incorporating DNA! *A Growing List* This article joins a growing list articles in the *NGSQ* that apply DNA to a genealogical question: - Thomas W. Jones, “Too Few Sources to Solve a Family Mystery? Some Greenfields in Central and Western New York.”*National Genealogical Society Quarterly* 103 (June 2015): 85-103. - Morna Lahnice Hollister, “Goggins and Goggans of South Carolina: DNA Helps Document the Basis of an Emancipated Family’s Surname,” *National Genealogical Society Quarterly *102 (September 2014): 165-76. - Elizabeth Shown Mills, “Testing the FAN Principle against DNA: Zilphy (Watts) Price Cooksey Cooksey of Georgia and Mississippi,” *National Genealogical Society Quarterly* 102 (June 2014): 129–52. - And more…

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Hi Bette, We did our son's DNA with Family Treemaker--figured we would get both Y and mitochondrial material but never made a single connection. Feel free to check him out kit 23708, password 23AC21 If there is anything you can use, please do or let me know what I have to do. Good luck, Jo -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bette Bunker Richards via Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2015 7:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [BUNKER] DNA project I got this letter and am passing it on to all you Devon Bunkers out there. I am one of the administrators of the R1b-P312 and Subclades project at FTDNA. We currently have over 2000 members in our project. My attention was drawn to the Bunker DNA project by one of our project members. I don't know if you are familiar at all with the R1b haplogroup,. R1b in Europe is R1b-M269, almost all of which is divided into one of two subdivisions or subclades, P312 and U106. Our project is for those who fall into the P312 group. P312 is further divided into six different subclades. I am especially interested in the called DF99. Though only recently discovered, it appears to be comparatively rare. Virtually all of those in the DF99 subclade have 12 at DYS389i. This value is otherwise very rare in R1b, though it is standard in other haplogroups. Somewhere around 95% of R1b has a 13 at 389i. In looking at your R1b1 Bunkers from Devon, I think it is highly probable that that they carry the DF99 genetic marker. We recently found the DF99 marker in a French Canadian whose ancestry is from Normandy. To date, he is the only DF99+ found anywhere in France. We have also found DF99 is present in Scandinavia, specifically Sweden, which suggests DF99 may have arrived in Normandy with the Vikings. Adding this to the apparent French origin of the Bunker surname in England (from bon quer, Old French for good heart), a DF99+ status for the Devon Bunkers could indicate a Norman origin for them. We would very much like to have one or more of your Devon Bunker line join our project. There is no cost to join, no limit to the number of projects one can join at FTDNA, and one can withdraw for any reason at any time. Here is a link to our project: https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/r-p312/about/background To join, one merely needs to click on the Join icon on the project homepage. The project can also be found from the list of YDNA haplogroup projects accessible under the list of projects through one's personal page at FTDNA. We would also urge at least one person from the Devon Bunker group to order a test for the DF99 SNP marker through FTDNA. The cost is only $39. I would very much appreciate it if you could pass this message on to anyone in Devon Bunker group whom you think might be interested. Let me know if you or those in the group have any questions. Best regards, Robert Hatton Administrrator R1b-P312 and Subclades project ***************************** If you wish additional information about the Bunker Family Association, please visit http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I thought only the y chromasome was important. Gar and I did 23andme and I am an H1, doesn't seem to connect with anyone, comes from Doggerland which explains a lot (Nordstrom says we have Celtic feet--my daughter size 3.5 and very wide. My maternal grandfather was from Dursley England but must have had a lot of Celt. 23 told me I mostly originate in the Orkney Islands (55%) which is why I have probably always been so fascinated with them. And my parents would not allow me to date any Irish! -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bette Bunker Richards via Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2015 7:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [BUNKER] DNA project I got this letter and am passing it on to all you Devon Bunkers out there. I am one of the administrators of the R1b-P312 and Subclades project at FTDNA. We currently have over 2000 members in our project. My attention was drawn to the Bunker DNA project by one of our project members. I don't know if you are familiar at all with the R1b haplogroup,. R1b in Europe is R1b-M269, almost all of which is divided into one of two subdivisions or subclades, P312 and U106. Our project is for those who fall into the P312 group. P312 is further divided into six different subclades. I am especially interested in the called DF99. Though only recently discovered, it appears to be comparatively rare. Virtually all of those in the DF99 subclade have 12 at DYS389i. This value is otherwise very rare in R1b, though it is standard in other haplogroups. Somewhere around 95% of R1b has a 13 at 389i. In looking at your R1b1 Bunkers from Devon, I think it is highly probable that that they carry the DF99 genetic marker. We recently found the DF99 marker in a French Canadian whose ancestry is from Normandy. To date, he is the only DF99+ found anywhere in France. We have also found DF99 is present in Scandinavia, specifically Sweden, which suggests DF99 may have arrived in Normandy with the Vikings. Adding this to the apparent French origin of the Bunker surname in England (from bon quer, Old French for good heart), a DF99+ status for the Devon Bunkers could indicate a Norman origin for them. We would very much like to have one or more of your Devon Bunker line join our project. There is no cost to join, no limit to the number of projects one can join at FTDNA, and one can withdraw for any reason at any time. Here is a link to our project: https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/r-p312/about/background To join, one merely needs to click on the Join icon on the project homepage. The project can also be found from the list of YDNA haplogroup projects accessible under the list of projects through one's personal page at FTDNA. We would also urge at least one person from the Devon Bunker group to order a test for the DF99 SNP marker through FTDNA. The cost is only $39. I would very much appreciate it if you could pass this message on to anyone in Devon Bunker group whom you think might be interested. Let me know if you or those in the group have any questions. Best regards, Robert Hatton Administrrator R1b-P312 and Subclades project ***************************** If you wish additional information about the Bunker Family Association, please visit http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Devon Bunkers are from an earlier migration to England than the Beds Bunkers who may have come from Normandy, Although the Bon Couer spelling comes up occasionally in the Beds Bunkers, I have never seen it among the Devon Bunkers. DNA testing is highly unlikely to come up with French or Viking ancestry among the Devon Bunkers. I like to think of the Devon Bunkers as Celts but those of you who know your history know that the so-called Celts were many different groups of people. Maybe the Devon Bunkers were among one of them. It would be interesting to find out wouldn't it? Bette

I got this letter and am passing it on to all you Devon Bunkers out there. I am one of the administrators of the R1b-P312 and Subclades project at FTDNA. We currently have over 2000 members in our project. My attention was drawn to the Bunker DNA project by one of our project members. I don't know if you are familiar at all with the R1b haplogroup,. R1b in Europe is R1b-M269, almost all of which is divided into one of two subdivisions or subclades, P312 and U106. Our project is for those who fall into the P312 group. P312 is further divided into six different subclades. I am especially interested in the called DF99. Though only recently discovered, it appears to be comparatively rare. Virtually all of those in the DF99 subclade have 12 at DYS389i. This value is otherwise very rare in R1b, though it is standard in other haplogroups. Somewhere around 95% of R1b has a 13 at 389i. In looking at your R1b1 Bunkers from Devon, I think it is highly probable that that they carry the DF99 genetic marker. We recently found the DF99 marker in a French Canadian whose ancestry is from Normandy. To date, he is the only DF99+ found anywhere in France. We have also found DF99 is present in Scandinavia, specifically Sweden, which suggests DF99 may have arrived in Normandy with the Vikings. Adding this to the apparent French origin of the Bunker surname in England (from bon quer, Old French for good heart), a DF99+ status for the Devon Bunkers could indicate a Norman origin for them. We would very much like to have one or more of your Devon Bunker line join our project. There is no cost to join, no limit to the number of projects one can join at FTDNA, and one can withdraw for any reason at any time. Here is a link to our project: https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/r-p312/about/background To join, one merely needs to click on the Join icon on the project homepage. The project can also be found from the list of YDNA haplogroup projects accessible under the list of projects through one's personal page at FTDNA. We would also urge at least one person from the Devon Bunker group to order a test for the DF99 SNP marker through FTDNA. The cost is only $39. I would very much appreciate it if you could pass this message on to anyone in Devon Bunker group whom you think might be interested. Let me know if you or those in the group have any questions. Best regards, Robert Hatton Administrrator R1b-P312 and Subclades project

Cousins, Maybe a few of you can host a workshop in the Bunker Graveyard. gil Will you host a Preservation workshop in your Town? A look at our records indicates 99% of the past workshops held by the New Hampshire Old Graveyard Association were initiated by the Officers. To get the word out, the Executive Board thought it a good idea to run these workshops where we would show some basic techniques that our members have tried over the years with success and have made a contribution to preserving the 4000 odd NH burial grounds. This is a uniquely New Hampshire tradition (started by the Puritans on the coast in the 1600s, ending mid 1800s) that you can help preserve. A typical workshop consists of NHOGA members arriving at an agreed time with a bag of goodies (water, Simple green, D/2, brushes, maybe epoxy, shovels, leverage bars...) and selecting a stone or two to be worked on as interested folks watch us work. Nothing fancy. We will tackle a simple break and use appropriate epoxy to bind the pieces together. Usually 9:30 to Noon. Leaning stones should be up-righted. All the preservation techniques are on our website that has a free downloadable Preservation Guide: http://www.nhoga.com/preservation.htm The key is to give amateurs confidence they can preserve a stone. Most anyone can do a cleaning and repair a simple break; I was hesitant to start the process. All you need to do is get permission from the Selectmen after you have chosen a small burial site. The key is that you get permission. See http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/XXVI/289/289-14-a.htm The pros we have interfaced with over the years claim cleaning with water and the mild cleaners we use, helps preserves the stone. We have held workshops in the past for the Weeks descendants and may be involved with the Wiggins in the future. By the way, the site should be a burial ground, as this simplifies things: TITLE XXVI CEMETERIES; BURIALS; DEAD BODIES CHAPTER 289 - CEMETERIES Section 289:1 Definitions. - In this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: I. "Burial ground'' means a private family or religious institution's cemetery, mausoleum, or columbarium on private property and not available for use by the public. For purposes of this paragraph, the term "family'' shall mean members of the immediate family and any individuals related by blood or marriage or civil union to members of the immediate family. Richard Maloon, NHOGA

Cousins, The reunion of Chang and Eng descendants will take place on July 24-25 in Mt Airy, NC Friday presentation at the Andy Griffith Museum Theater. Hot dog supper at Mayberry Campground Saturday lunch catered by Thai Embassy More details from Albert Blackmon 336-972-9049 or [email protected] gil