These sites have many pictures of gravestones in cemeteries in several states. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~t42cemeteries/ http://www.findagrave.com http://www.genealogy.com/vcem_welcome.html Bette ____________________________________________ Check out the Bunker Family Association. http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. If your name is Bunker and you are a male, consider joining our surname DNA project.

Free Genealogy Tools - Determine the relationships between relatives for free. Really great site, have already tried it out .. fun to use. http://www.myrelative.com/ Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ sallypavia2001@yahoo.com “We will not be remembered by our words, but by our kind deeds." List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"

Katie, Louisa's parents are Samuel Jackson Bunker b 28 Feb 1797 Concord NH; m 27 Feb 1823 Rumford ME to Charlotte Howe, b 22 Aug 1798 Concord, d 24 Mch 1881. He d 16 Jan 1883 Berry Mills, ME. Louisa Drusilla is a 7th generation descendent of James 1 of Dover NH. If you like, I can send a pedigree chart from Louisa7 to James1, then you will know the rest of your distant Bunker cousins. Need a mailing address. Thanks for the query, always nice to hear from "kissin cousins." gil ----- Original Message ----- From: <katieibond@earthlink.net> To: <BUNKER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 11:39 PM Subject: Louisa Drusilla Bunker > Who are the parents of Louisa Drusilla Bunker (born 7 Jul 1828, Rosbury, ME) who married by 6th cousin 5 times removed Artimas Walton Putnam (b. 17 Jul 1822, Roxbury, ME; d. 4 Nov 1914, Woodruff, UT) > > Your help is appreciated! > > Katie Bond > Portland, Oregon > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~latiebond/bunker.html > > > ==== BUNKER Mailing List ==== > Douglas G. Detling (list coordinator) > e-mail: doug.detling@greencity.org > > >

Who are the parents of Louisa Drusilla Bunker (born 7 Jul 1828, Rosbury, ME) who married by 6th cousin 5 times removed Artimas Walton Putnam (b. 17 Jul 1822, Roxbury, ME; d. 4 Nov 1914, Woodruff, UT) Your help is appreciated! Katie Bond Portland, Oregon http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~latiebond/bunker.html

DNA Can Help People Track Llineage Friday, September 10, 2004 By DAVID RYAN Register Staff Writer Call it CSI for the family tree. DNA testing has come a long way from identifying crooks, murderers and dead-beat dads. At a lecture presented to the Napa City-County Library Tuesday, Dr. Jason Eschleman of Richmond-based Trace Genetics showed how different DNA tests could prove what kind of racial ancestry and parts of the world a person comes from, even if the person has no idea who his biological parents are. The process is different from what people see on television shows. "I test junk DNA," Eschleman said. "That's mostly what I look at." Eschleman's talk offered a detailed, often highly technical assessment of DNA science and how companies like his are using it to help people look back in time. Embedded in strings of DNA that determine such basic traits as the color of your hair and how tall you can grow are many strands of so-called junk DNA that usually aren't active from generation to generation. But this junk DNA can be a key to the past. Depending on where scientists cull their DNA from, it shows people who their families are and where their families come from. That's because families can find where their ancestors derived from, going back thousands of years, using documented DNA patterns of native people around the world. It all starts with different parts of a cell. One test compares inactive junk DNA stored inside cell bodies called mitochondria, which provide energy for the cell. Mitochondria DNA is only passed down by the mother. Its tests have been used to determine maternal relatives of the doomed Romanov family and find out the racial ancestry of adopted children. According to ancestornews.com, a Web site dedicated to helping people trace their family genealogies, DNA testing is "the hot topic in genealogy today." Companies including Trace Genetics, Houston-based Family Tree DNA and Seattle-based Genelex provide services to confirm family trees, provide evidence of Native American ancestry or just plain help someone who doesn't know where he or she came from. In one Trace Genetics mitochondria DNA test, an adopted woman named Debra Anne found out she was descended from Native Americans of the Southwest such as the Apache or Navajo. Before the test she had only known that she was most likely of Native American descent. Another DNA test uses DNA in the Y chromosome, which dictates male gender. The Y chromosome DNA is only passed down the paternal line, and can tell a male where his paternal lineage comes from, down to what part of a continent his early ancestors hailed from, in much the same way the mitochondria test is used to find out geographic origins on the maternal branches of the family tree. Eschleman said an example of the use of the Y chromosome test is the search for relatives of founding father Thomas Jefferson in the African American community. Jefferson was long rumored to have had a romantic relationship with Sally Hemmings, one of his slaves. Two descendants of Hemmings, Thomas Woodson and Eston Hemmings, were thought to be Jefferson's offspring. Descendants of the two men were tested to match the Y chromosome of Jefferson's uncle, who carried the same paternal DNA that Jefferson would have carried. Although the test ruled out Thomas Woodson, it did provide a match for Eston Hemmings. Controversy still exists about whether Jefferson was the real father or whether it was his less-looked-after brother. DNA tests cost anywhere from $150-$400 according to Trace Genetics and Family Tree DNA. http://shorl.com/degratregrustini Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ sallypavia2001@yahoo.com “We will not be remembered by our words, but by our kind deeds." List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"

As many of you know, we have Bunkers who are African American, Native American and Thai/American. Someone was just wondering how you would indicate that in Family Tree Maker. In Family Tree Maker there is a section for notes. In those notes you can add the race of the individual. This information may come from family information, census records or other records. People of many races may have a problem putting themselves into a specific category. The notes area of FTM can be used to reflect this. The last census was the first one (I believe) that allowed people to indicate they considered themselves to be from more than one race. Even so, the form had its inadequacies. I have a problem with the definition "Hispanic". I was told that you are Hispanic if you have Spanish ancestors. Therefore, I am Hispanic. I do not consider myself to be Hispanic however. Another definition is that you are Hispanic if you have a Spanish surname. What happens if your mother was named Ruelas and your father Bunker? It does get complicated. In The Master Genealogist program where the BFA data base is kept, you can create a tag for anything and I have created one for race. In some census records however, "colored" included Asian, African and Native peoples. That too creates a problem. We have one family named Bunker where the census lists the father, a Bunker, as Chinese and the mother as Hawaiian. I have been trying to figure out how a Chinese person got named Bunker. Perhaps in this case, the Bunker was born in China, but his parents were not Asians. However, in the database section for race the Bunker is listed as Chinese and the wife is listed as Hawaiian. What about Mexican? Living in AZ we have many Mexicans here that were born in Mexico. I also have family that was born in Mexico or are children of people born in Mexico. However, in Mexico there were the Natives, Spanish, Germans, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, etc. and today's Mexican citizens are just as much a mixture as most Americans are. Mexican is not a race and not necessarily Hispanic either. I have a cousin that is African, Samoan, Caucasian, North American Indian (Samoans are Native Americans too) and Mexican. Absolutely gorgeous but what would I put as race when I can't trace back to the ancestors who provided these wonderful genes? Also, are Mexicans Caucasian (certainly Spaniards are), Native American, Hispanic or something else entirely? Because certain congenital diseases are more common amongst people of some races, it is a good thing to have this information for your descendants. When people are of mixed races, you should indicate that and describe them all. My darling cousin is a mixture of three races. In my immediate family, we are fortunate to have people of all four races. All of my parent's descendants start out with two (Caucasian and Native American) and we have added the other two along the way. Bette ____________________________________________ Check out the Bunker Family Association. http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. If your name is Bunker and you are a male, consider joining our surname DNA project.

NORTH CAROLINA LOYALISTS DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION While these lists do not claim to include the names of all the Tories of the state, they are representative of that group who were interested enough to take an active part. Prior to making these transcripts it was impossible to locate by name or profession any considerable number of Tories in the state. The names given here and in the following appendices probably include the greater number of the more prominent Loyalists. - Robert DeMond Robert DeMond, Loyalists in North Carolina During the Revolution. Copyright 1940, Duke University Press, Durham, NC. All rights reserved. Table of Contents Appendix A - List of Loyalists - most of these names are those of soldiers, but there are a few widows and orphans listed. Appendix B - Land Confiscated - these names include those who lost their real estate and those who bought the land. Appendix C - Loyalist Claims - these are claims filed by those who remained loyal to obtain recompense. Appendix D - Pension Rolls - these names also include the widows and their children of those who served with the British. This page is published by Debi Polen, who has received non-exclusive permission to publish the appendices of the above-mentioned book from the owner of the copyright, Duke University Press, provided that the proper credit line is posted with each appendix. This permission is for electronic distribution and downloading for personal use only. http://members.aol.com/HoseyGen/NCLOYAL.HTML 21 September 2004 Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ sallypavia2001@yahoo.com “We will not be remembered by our words, but by our kind deeds." List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus" .

I recently found I could not view most of the census images on Ancestry so I complained bitterly and this is the response that I got. If others are having trouble with the census images, this may help you out. It did not work out exactly like the instructions say, but I managed and I can now handle them on IE. Netscape is another matter. I can read them but not manipulate them as easily on Netscape. Bette We apologize for any frustration this matter may have caused. From your description of this issue, it appears you have recently installed Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). Following are the System Requirements for the MrSID viewer, created by LizardTech.com. Compatible Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 95 Microsoft Windows 98 Microsoft Windows 2000 Compatible Processors: 200 MHz PC processor (or faster) Compatible Internet Browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher Netscape Navigator 4.7x At this time the MrSID viewer will not function with the Netscape 6 or 7 internet browsers. It is also not fully tested and supported for Windows Millennium Edition (ME) or XP. While MrSID may function with these settings, if you experience errors there are no current fixes available. Please note that the MrSID plug-in viewer was created by LizardTech.com and is offered only as an additional viewing option for the 1830-1860 and 1890-1920 census images. Ancestry.com cannot guarantee that the MrSID viewer will properly function with your specific internet browser and/or operating system. Thank you for your patience. You should always be able to fully access the Census Images Online using the HTML Viewer that was created by Ancestry.com to be compatible with all systems. To switch from the MrSID viewer to the HTML viewer simply click on the "View This Image With The HTML Viewer" link that is located below any census image. We are currently working on other viewing options in an effort to improve our services. If you wish to continue to use MrSID, you will need to download from LizardTech.com the Windows XP-compatible version of MrSID (now called ExpressView). To download and install the MrSID viewer (now called ExpressView) from Lizardtech.com, please do the following: 1. Go to http://www.lizardtech.com 2. In the lower left corner of the page, click on the MrSID Plug-in icon 3. Near the bottom of the following page, click on the "ExpressView Browser Plugin 3.0" olive-colored link 4. On the following page, read through the License Agreement and then click the "Yes, I Agree" button 5. On the following page, click on the silver-blue button labeled "Install" 6. When prompted, simply follow the default settings by click the Next button at each step (you will need to click Yes when prompted again about accepting the license agreement) You are now ready to use the MrSID/ExpressView plug-in you have installed. If you find this is not recognized by our site, simply click the "Already have the plug-in? Click here!" link in the bottom center of the page where the Census Image appears. Once you have installed ExpressView, please follow these steps when viewing a census image from the 1830-1860 and 1890-1920 Census Images Online: 1. When you receive the "Error decoding image" or "Error downloading image" error message, click OK on the message box 2. Click "Switch to Detail Mode" and you will see the image. 3. If you wish to view it in Full Screen Mode, you may do so. You may still receive some errors while you are doing this. When you return to the previous screen, Ancestry.com's image window displays a portion of whatever was displayed on the previous screen. You should be able to reaccess the same image without any further difficulties unless you empty your temporary internet files. If there is anything else we can assist you with, please let us know. Matt Customer Solutions Ancestry.com "Connecting and Strengthening Families through the World Wide Web" Ancestry.com Technical Support: <http://ancestry.custhelp.com> Original message follows: ------------------------- Excuse me. Did you actually read the message? It said that I get a downloading error on everything EXCEPT the 1930 census. I tried again this morning. I get this message "Error decoding image" "Error downloading data from server" on EVERY image I try to access for the 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1900, and 1920 census. I am using Windows XP. Internet Explorer 6.0. I have the Mr. Sid plug-in installed. ____________________________________________ Check out the Bunker Family Association. http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. If your name is Bunker and you are a male, consider joining our surname DNA project.

If so, let me know and will send a four-page article I found. Sally ======================== Some people in America describe themselves as Black Dutch or Black German. These terms mean the same thing, Dutch is the English form of Deutsch in German or Duits in Dutch (Nederlands). It has come to mean the people of the Netherlands only in English recently, but it originally meant all speakers of German in the broadest sense. This includes the entire German sub-branch of the Germanic Branch of the Indo-European Language Family. The other sub-branches are the Anglo-Friesian (English, Scots and Friesian) and the Nordic (Swedish, Dano-Norwegian [Danish, Rigsmal and Landsmal], Icelandic, and Faeroese [Faroese]). There are many dialects and languages in the German sub-branch, divided into High German and Low German. The forms of High German are German [High Saxon, Alemanni, High Frankish, Swabian, Bavarian, Austrian, Luxembougese, Alsatian, Styrian], Swiss German, and Yiddish. Low German includes Dutch, Flemish, Afrikaans [South African Dutch], Hanoverian [Low Frankish], Hessian, Low Saxon [Brandenburgian], Holsteiner, Pomeranian and Prussian. The Frankish area includes Rheinland-Pfalz and Hanover, with the area south of Aachen [Charlemagne's capital], centered on Frankfurt, speaking a High German dialect, and the area from Aachen north, centered on Essen, speaking a Low German dialect. The Pennsylvania Dutch are Low Germans from Germany, not Dutch from Netherlands. The Dutch called themselves Nederduitser (Nether German) until recently, when they switched to Nederlander. Belgium is trilingual, the northern part speaks Flemish (Vlaams a dialect of Dutch), the southern part speaks Waloon (Valone, a dialect of French), and the eastern edge speaks German (Luxembougese). There are at least six quite different groups of people described as "Black Dutch". If you have been told you are Black Dutch or part Black Dutch, you must find out what the name of the German, Dutch or Flemish immigrant was (if there was one), where he or she came from, what their religion was, if any, etc., before you can figure out to which group they belonged. Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ sallypavia2001@yahoo.com “We will not be remembered by our words, but by our kind deeds." List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"

The only birth date I have is 1751 from the Nantucket Quaker records. She married Peleg Bunker 7 Jan 1768. Children: Josiah b. 8 Nov 1768, Keziah Christina b. 22 Sep 1770. Keziah, the mom, died 29 Sep 1770 probably from complications of child birth. Bette ____________________________________________ Check out the Bunker Family Association. http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. If your name is Bunker and you are a male, consider joining our surname DNA project. -----Original Message----- From: katieibond@earthlink.net [mailto:katieibond@earthlink.net] Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 10:40 AM To: BUNKER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Keziah Bunker When was Keziah Bunker born? Daughter of Peter Bunker and Judith Gardner; she died 29 Sep 1770, Nantucket shortly after she married on the 7th day 1 mo 1768 in Nantucket to Peleg Bunker (born 17 Dec 1748), son of Jonathan Bunker and Judith Macy. Ancestry charged my account for Newspapers (causing multiple problems to my bank account) I did not order and I angrily yanked my membership. I still am not over their business practices...my ancesters might be proud but I cannot get the information I want...anyone suggest something other than Ancestry? What do you use? Katie Bond Portland, Oregon <--cloudy, to rain any minute...Winter is almost here and I need wood for the fireplace! ==== BUNKER Mailing List ==== Douglas G. Detling (list coordinator) e-mail: doug.detling@greencity.org

Opps! marriage 7th day 1 mo 1748 per Nantucket Marriages, p. 152 ----- Original Message ----- From: <katieibond@earthlink.net> To: <BUNKER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 10:40 AM Subject: Keziah Bunker > When was Keziah Bunker born? Daughter of Peter Bunker and Judith Gardner; she died 29 Sep 1770, Nantucket shortly after she married on the 7th day 1 mo 1768 in Nantucket to Peleg Bunker (born 17 Dec 1748), son of Jonathan Bunker and Judith Macy. > > Ancestry charged my account for Newspapers (causing multiple problems to my bank account) I did not order and I angrily yanked my membership. I still am not over their business practices...my ancesters might be proud but I cannot get the information I want...anyone suggest something other than Ancestry? What do you use? > > Katie Bond > Portland, Oregon <--cloudy, to rain any minute...Winter is almost here and I need wood for the fireplace! > > > > ==== BUNKER Mailing List ==== > Douglas G. Detling (list coordinator) > e-mail: doug.detling@greencity.org >

When was Keziah Bunker born? Daughter of Peter Bunker and Judith Gardner; she died 29 Sep 1770, Nantucket shortly after she married on the 7th day 1 mo 1768 in Nantucket to Peleg Bunker (born 17 Dec 1748), son of Jonathan Bunker and Judith Macy. Ancestry charged my account for Newspapers (causing multiple problems to my bank account) I did not order and I angrily yanked my membership. I still am not over their business practices...my ancesters might be proud but I cannot get the information I want...anyone suggest something other than Ancestry? What do you use? Katie Bond Portland, Oregon <--cloudy, to rain any minute...Winter is almost here and I need wood for the fireplace!

Katie, According to Eliza Starbuck Barney's Genealogical Records available to all online at http://www.nha.org/ (Nantucket Historical Society), Lydia S. Bunker was the dau of George F. Bunker and Mary Starbuck. She was b. according to above record Nov. 3, 1820 and as you said m. Charles R. Paddack. There were two children of this marriage: Mary F. Paddack b. 1842 and George B. Paddack b. 1845. katieibond@earthlink.net wrote: I know there are so many Lydia BUNKERs...I am interested in the Lydia Bunker who was born 18 Nov 1821 and married Charles Rand Paddack/Paddock, son of Jonathan and Nancy Rand. Nantucket Marriages, p. 148 but having trouble figuring out who her parents are... Can anyone help? Thanks! Katie Bond Portland, Oregon (winter must be close -- it is raining again! I miss the Falls of the midwest) ==== BUNKER Mailing List ==== Post your information and queries. We love it. No BUNKER rock left untouched. Spelling variations ok - we don't "know" the original. Pamela (Penny)Lithgow Briggs

Katie, I do not have an answer in my database. Possibly the historians may have a clue. Lydia Starbuck Bunker Paddock, N-152-II; RN 17653; 1965 BunGen p.76 gil ----- Original Message ----- From: <katieibond@earthlink.net> To: <BUNKER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 1:22 PM Subject: Lydia Bunker > I know there are so many Lydia BUNKERs...I am interested in the Lydia Bunker who was born 18 Nov 1821 and married Charles Rand Paddack/Paddock, son of Jonathan and Nancy Rand. Nantucket Marriages, p. 148 but having trouble figuring out who her parents are... > > Can anyone help? > > Thanks! > > Katie Bond > Portland, Oregon (winter must be close -- it is raining again! I miss the Falls of the midwest) > > > ==== BUNKER Mailing List ==== > Post your information and queries. We love it. No BUNKER rock left untouched. Spelling variations ok - we don't "know" the original. > > >

I know there are so many Lydia BUNKERs...I am interested in the Lydia Bunker who was born 18 Nov 1821 and married Charles Rand Paddack/Paddock, son of Jonathan and Nancy Rand. Nantucket Marriages, p. 148 but having trouble figuring out who her parents are... Can anyone help? Thanks! Katie Bond Portland, Oregon (winter must be close -- it is raining again! I miss the Falls of the midwest)

Might find someone on the below list that should be a branch on your family tree. Sally In other news from the Lone Star State: The Texas State Library and Archives Commission recently added a free, searchable online database of digitized military records on about 25,000 individuals to its Adjutant General Service Records collection. The 17,000-image database contains official service record files from the Adjutant General's Office and service-related files from other government agencies. The records, dating from the 1830s to the 1930s, represent 15 military organizations. See http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/arc/service/list.html for a list. Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ sallypavia2001@yahoo.com “We will not be remembered by our words, but by our kind deeds." List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"

These came from this week's Rootsweb Review. This one on research tools is especially good and has scads of info about many different things on it. RESEARCH TOOLS: Stumped on meanings of initials and symbols on tombstones, strange initials in obituaries or abbreviations found in public records? Need a perpetual calendar or birthdate calculator? Find these tools and more at: http://www.genealogybuff.com/research.htm This one is so full of history tidbits. It will help you add interesting items to your family "history" and to understand what their lives were like. WHAT WAS HAPPENING? American Cultural History (19th Century, 1880-1889). Andrew Carnegie opened his first public library, the Oklahoma land rush began in 1899, and in January 1888 the "Schoolchildren Blizzard" hit the Dakota and Montana territories and the states of Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas. Within 24 hours, in some places, the mercury fell from 74 degrees to 28 degrees below zero. See what else might have been happening to your ancestors in that decade. http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/19thcentury1880.htm ____________________________________________ Check out the Bunker Family Association. http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. If your name is Bunker and you are a male, consider joining our surname DNA project.

List of independent cities: (partial, add as known) http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Independent_city Anchorage, Alaska Baltimore, Maryland (separate from Baltimore County, Maryland) Carson City, Nevada (formerly seat of Ormsby County, Nevada) Saint Louis, Missouri (separate from Saint Louis County, Missouri) In the Commonwealth of Virginia, all municipalities incorporated as cities are by law (since 1871) independent cities. Other Virginia municipalities, even though they may be more populous than some existing independent cities, are incorporated as towns, which are always located within a county. All municipalities incorporated as cities in Virginia are independent, even if they are the seat of a county: Alexandria, Virginia Bedford, Virginia Bristol, Virginia Buena Vista, Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia Chesapeake, Virginia Colonial Heights, Virginia Covington, Virginia Danville, Virginia Emporia, Virginia Fairfax, Virginia Falls Church, Virginia Franklin, Virginia Fredericksburg, Virginia Galax, Virginia Hampton, Virginia Harrisonburg, Virginia Hopewell, Virginia Lexington, Virginia Lynchburg, Virginia Manassas, Virginia Manassas Park, Virginia Martinsville, Virginia Newport News, Virginia Norfolk, Virginia Norton, Virginia Petersburg, Virginia Poquoson, Virginia Portsmouth, Virginia Radford, Virginia Richmond, Virginia Roanoke, Virginia Salem, Virginia Staunton, Virginia Suffolk, Virginia Virginia Beach, Virginia Waynesboro, Virginia Williamsburg, Virginia Winchester, Virginia Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ sallypavia2001@yahoo.com “We will not be remembered by our words, but by our kind deeds." List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"

A book containing the taxed people in Middlesex Co., MA in 1798 has just been found. You can read about it at http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=77230. It is likely that it contains information about Bunkers so I am looking forward to what happens to it in the future. Does anyone belong to the MA Historical Soc? You might keep an eye on any information you receive about it and keep the rest of us informed. Bette ____________________________________________ Check out the Bunker Family Association. http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org. If your name is Bunker and you are a male, consider joining our surname DNA project.

The following article was published in the daily edition of this newsletter at http://blog.eogn.com on September 6, 2004. Pam Fox, author of "Farm Town to Suburb: The History and Architecture of Weston, Massachusetts, 1830-1980" has discovered a dusty old book at the Weston Town Hall. Apparently it has been there since 1798 but nobody paid much attention to it. The volume is labeled "District #5, Fifth Division Mass.," and covers the towns of Weston, Newton and Waltham. Any genealogist with ancestors in those towns in 1798 will be interested in this book. The book probably had been stored in the basement of Town Hall in a space that used to be a jail. "It was very dark and cramped and hard to work there " according to Fox. Earlier this year, however, when Fox was helping to unpack the municipal documents that had been put in storage during the renovation of the Town Hall, she saw the book and brought it to the attention of both the Weston and the Massachusetts Historical commissions. The book lists all the farms and houses in the towns, including the name of the occupant, the name of the owner, square footage of the house, number of stories and windows, square feet of glass, materials and valuation of each property. The numbers and sizes of windows were important because they were among the criteria used to determine the amount of tax. The Massachusetts Historical Commission released a statement, "This really provides an opportunity to have a good look at Middlesex County in 1798." You can read more at http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/localRegional/view bg?articleid=77230. Sally Rolls Pavia Sun City, AZ sallypavia2001@yahoo.com “We will not be remembered by our words, but by our kind deeds." List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"