These came from Rootsweb Review which may be obtained at RWR-on@rootsweb.com http://www.army.mil/cmh/Moh1.htm Medal of Honor winners. http://www.members.dca.net/fbl/ 19th century British and Indian Armies Bette

Here is the New York Times obituary of ARTHUR LITHGOW, an immensely talented man. He was a descendent of Hannah Mitchell Bunker (N 108-VI) and Alexander Bartlett Robinson. Thanks to his niece, Pamela Briggs for this obituary. Arthur Lithgow, 88, Stage Actor Who Led Regional Companies, Dies By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT Published: March 25, 2004 Arthur Lithgow, a producer and director who was a pioneer in American regional theater, specializing in Shakespeare, died on Tuesday at his home in Amherst, Mass. He was 88. The cause was congestive heart failure, said his son, the actor John Lithgow. Mr. Lithgow (pronounced LITH-go) first appeared onstage in December 1920 at age 5 as a cherub in a Christmas pageant at the Unitarian Church in Melrose, Mass. He made his New York City debut in November 1938, as a soldier in Jacques Deval's anti-Nazi drama, "Lorelei." But his long-lasting theatrical achievements came through his work in regional theater around the country, in creating new theater programs or taking charge of older ones. He established the Antioch Shakespeare Festival, eventually known as Shakespeare Under the Stars, at his alma mater, Antioch College, in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 1952; he was artistic director until 1957. By the early 1960's it had moved and had grown into the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival in Lakewood, Ohio. He was the artistic director of the McCarter Theater in Princeton, where he staged classic and original plays, from 1963 to 1971. He later worked at the Brattleboro Center for the Performing Arts in Vermont, at the University of South Florida at Tampa, and in Ithaca, N.Y., where he was co-founder of the Ithaca Theater Guild. At Antioch, Mr. Lithgow eventually put on productions of every play in the canon, sometimes running as many as seven in a season. Directing and acting in many of these productions, he played Petruchio in "The Taming of the Shrew" opposite Nancy Marchand's Kate, and also played Stephano, Peter Quince, Dr. Caius and Henry IV. The festival drew the praise of major reviewers of the day. Arthur Washington Lithgow III was born on Sept. 9, 1915, in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, the third child of Arthur Washington Lithgow II, an entrepreneur, and Ina Berenice Robinson Lithgow, a nurse. He graduated from public school in Melrose. At Antioch, Mr. Lithgow acted in student productions and received his B.A. in 1938. He took an M.A. in playwriting at Cornell in 1948. In 1939, he married Sarah Jane Price, an actress whom he had met at Antioch. She survives him, as do their four children, John and Robin, both of Los Angeles, David, of New York, and Sarah Jane Bokaer of Ithaca; two sisters, Marion James of Melrose and Jeannette Peverly of Milton, Mass.; and 13 grandchildren.

From a recent newsgroup posting: -------------------------------- Subject: NYC death index, 1891-1911, now online (free) From: <snip> Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 22:48:15 -0500 Our colleagues at Long Island's Italian Genealogical Group have done it again. Led by IGG's John Martino, volunteers from several Long Island genealogy groups have created a new database that is, well, "to die for." Folks, they've created a free online index to New York City deaths, 1891-1911! The index, which covers 1,400,000 records, allows Soundex and wildcard searches for last names and first initial searches for first names. Reflecting the historical boundaries of the city of the city, the index includes only Manhattan deaths for the years 1891 to 1894 and Brooklyn and Manhattan deaths for 1895 to 1897. From 1898 to 1911 all five Boroughs (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island) are covered. Microfilmed NYC death indexes for this period are particularly tedious to work with, because they are subdivided by borough and month. Hence a researcher who has no idea of date or place of death needs to look for a name in January, February, March, etc. in Manhattan, then in the Bronx, etc. Caveats: - The index was created by scanning the original index books, then proofreading the results. Many spelling errors present in the original index were carried forward. - The system currently has some glitches. For example, when I searched for "H Wolf," results were 22 pages of Wolfs -- all Wolfs with first names containing the letter H, beginning with Abraham. The IGG website www.italiangen.org also offers indexes to naturalizations in - Southern District Court, Manhattan, 1906-1959 - Nassau County, NY, 1899-1986 - Suffolk County, NY, 1853-1990 - Bronx County, NY, 1914-1952 and to - military naturalizations in the New York area during the two world wars and the Korean Was John's next project: NYC marriage records! ===== ===== Best regards H.A. Kippenhan. Jr.

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Your 1600s American Ancestors Update Resent-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:10:07 -0700 Resent-From: PAGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:15:02 -0800 From: First Families <firstfamilies@linkline.com> To: PAGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com Hello Everyone: Those of you who are working on your lines back to your 1600s American Ancestors will find the1600s Ancestors Data Base to be of great help. I have recently posted over 1,500 new Ancestors to the Data Base bringing the total to just over 28,000 entries. Also listed are several National Societies who have proven many of these Ancestors. There are a few new respected Reference works that contain thousands of sources All the entries are coded to indicate to which reference work or which National Society has at least one of their proven lines. Several of the National Societies have over 20 different lines from a single Ancestor. When you enter the 1600s Ancestor Data Base be sure to look at the top of each data page for the link that takes you to the "Data Base Information Page" Here you will find the codes and references listed and how to use them. This is MUST reading to understand the Data Base. We are constantly updating the Data Base with additional Ancestors added as time permits. You will find the 1600s Ancestor Data Base at: http://www.firstfamilies.org/db/ For those of you who are AOL members you may have trouble connecting to many pages that may come up with a message such as "Page Does Not Exist" and you can cure that by using your browser feature of Copy and Paste the URL to your browser and then enter from there. Everyone has FREE access to all our web site and the reports contained there. Enjoy and Happy Hunting Ryan Jackson Data Base Manager America's First Families

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Hello cousins, I will be off line later tonight, for a few days. Will be on Cape Cod for the funeral of my cousin Edgar S Bunker Jr :-( Edgar Sr was my father's brother On a lighter note, the Military Bunker file has reached 88 pages. I still need additions, mostly from WW I forward. Remember, it's a surname compilation. Tks for ur help gil

Rootsweb cemetery list has some new records from a Kansas cemetery that those of you searching in Kansas might find useful. http://userdb.rootsweb.com/cemeteries/ I have not checked for Bunkers yet from this new cemetery but there are many Bunkers on this list from various cemeteries in different places. Sometimes when you can't find the person you are looking for you can try looking for a relative like a brother-in-law or other in-law. You might find the one you want that way. Last night I was having fun in the WI census records looking at the many different spellings of my kids' dad's name. Haumschild can really be massacred. However, even one like Bunker might get a lot of different spellings. A few are Bonker, Buncker, Banker, Binker, Benker and more. My husband's last name was Richards and you need to know it is French to know that it is frequently spelled Reshaw. Think about how the name sounded and also who was listening. A Swede would hear it differently from a Frenchman or Englishman. Also, do not rely totally on Soundex. Soundex would miss Reshaw for Richards for sure. And what about Ricardo? Same name, different languages. There are many other names that are missed by the Soundex system. Some common names have different spellings in different languages. John is also Jan, Johan, Johannes, Ian, Ivan, Jon, Juan and probably more. Your ancestor may have been English but the listener/recorder may have been German, French, Italian, Spanish, etc. Bette

Good morning cousins, It's 8am here in New Jersey. Spring is just 18 hours away and it is beautiful outside. Except, right now is snowing like a @#%* gil

This was e-mailed to me............. We all need to know about this kind of Genealogy info too. HR3261 has been amended somewhat while in committee. Here is the current wording of interest to us as genealogists. If you wish to make your voice heard on the legislation find your legislator on this listing http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html /SEC. 4. PERMITTED ACTS./ / (a) INDEPENDENTLY GENERATED OR GATHERED INFORMATION- This Act shall not restrict any person from--/ / (1) independently generating or gathering information obtained by means other than extracting it from a database generated, gathered, or maintained by another person; and/ / (2) making that information available in commerce./ / (b) ACTS OF MAKING AVAILABLE IN COMMERCE BY NONPROFIT SCIENTIFIC OR RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS- Subject to section 9, the making available in commerce of a substantial part of a database by a nonprofit scientific or research institution, including an employee or agent of such institution acting within the scope of such employment or agency, for nonprofit scientific or research purposes shall not be prohibited by section 3 if the court determines that the making available in commerce of the information in the database is reasonable under the circumstances, taking into consideration the customary practices associated with such uses of such database by nonprofit scientific or research institutions and other factors that the court determines relevant./ / (c) HYPERLINKING- Nothing in this Act shall restrict the act of hyperlinking of one online location to another or the providing of a reference or pointer (including such reference or pointer in a directory or index) to a database./ / (d) NEWS REPORTING- Nothing in this Act shall restrict any person from making available in commerce information for the primary purpose of news reporting, including news and sports gathering, dissemination, and comment, unless the information is time sensitive and has been gathered by a news reporting entity, and making available in commerce the information is part of a consistent pattern engaged in for the purpose of direct competition. /

> Proposed Legislation Would Wreak Havoc for Genealogists and others, of course! > > A new bill before the U.S. Congress proposes to overturn one of the most fundamental concepts of the present copyright laws. If passed, facts would become copyrighted for the first time in U.S. history. > > The Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act (HR3261) would make it a crime for anyone to copy and redistribute a substantial portion of data collected by commercial database companies and list > publishers. At first, that sounds like a good idea. However, a bit more thought shows that nobody would be able to republish stock quotes, historical health data, sports scores, or voter lists. In fact, a lot of genealogy information could not be republished. > > If passed, Google and all the other search engines would be crippled, probably driven out of business. These are online databases that collect information, or facts, from other online sites so that the user can quickly find the information they seek. If Google and the others are not allowed to collect facts that are now copyrighted, how will they be able to index the Web for you? > > Art Brodsky, spokesman for public advocacy group Public Knowledge, says the bill would let anyone drop a fact into a database or a collection of materials and claim monopoly rights to it. This would contradict the core principle of the Copyright Act, which states that mere information and > ideas cannot be protected works. > > Let's say that a commercial genealogy service such as Ancestry.com or OneGreatFamily.com publishes the fact that your great-great-grandparents had a child named John. Once that "fact" has been published by any commercial service, that original publisher would hold the copyright on the > fact, and no one else would be allowed to publish it again. The Family History Library, the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Genealogical Publishing Company, and others would be prohibited from publishing that information again in any of their online or printed works. > In fact, private individuals would similarly be barred from publishing the information in their own derivative works. If a commercial site publishes a fact about your ancestors, you would not be able to place that fact on your own Web site or in any book or report that you give to others. > > The language in this proposed legislation contradicts the core principle of the present copyright acts, which state that mere information and ideas cannot be protected works. > > You can read more about this proposed legislation in Wired News at > http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,62500,00.html > >

The RI records also list Daniel Bunker of Beverly, MA who died on board the Ship Asia at sea 9 Oct 1822. Does anybody know who this Daniel was? Bette

The Rhode Island records show a marriage between Peleg Bunker and Eliza Cook of Newport, RI on 11 Mar 1758. We have several Pelegs but none that I can find married to Eliza or Elizabeth Cook. Does anybody know about this couple? Bette

Who is working on Jonathan Bunker in Royalton, OH? I promised myself I would devise a system so I could remember these things and of course, it went out the window with my wandering and totally lost mind. 1870 census shows Orman Smith and Lois Bunker, Jonathan's sister, living next door to Jonathan and Freeman in Royalton, OH. Our records indicated that Lois was born in 1839. Two different census records now, 1850 and 1870 indicate that she must have been born in 1831 and was the oldest of the siblings. Also, the 1860 census that showed Clarinda living with Freeman. Clarinda was Jonathan's first wife and in 1860 Jonathan and Clarinda were living with his father, Freeman. I had thought that possibly Clarinda might be another daughter of Freeman and Chloe, but she was their daughter-in-law. One of these days I will get a memory. I hope. Bette

I am a great-grandmother again. My grandson Nicholas Dykeman (son of Amy) and his girlfriend, Tina became parents of a little girl Feb 15 who they have named Natalie Niomi. This makes the fourth great-granddaughter for me, the oldest will be 9 years old in a few days. I am 66 years old and have 3 girls and 1 boy, 6 grandsons and 3 granddaughters and 4 great-granddaughters. Whew! Hard work. Isn't that wonderful? Bette

N-23-II; RN 4117 (1965 BunGen p.35) Deborah (5th generation) b 30th 11 mo 1736; d 13 (or 14) Mch 1827; m(1) 4 Dec 1755 Barzillai Luce b prob 1726, Revolutionary Service; m(2) 16 Sep 1780 as second wife Reuben Clark, b 14 Oct 1735, he m(1) Mary Whippey who d 31 Jan 1778, he d 13 Nov 1790, widow admrx his estate 1791. gil Bette, FR has only 1 marr for Deborah, BunGen has 2 gb ----- Original Message ----- From: <LIZASOHMA@aol.com> To: <BUNKER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 10:44 PM Subject: Who does this Bunker belong to? > > Deborah Bunker > B: ABT. 1730 > WFT Est. 1760-1827 > > Married: > December 04, 1755 > Barzillai Luce > B: ABT. 1728 : Tisbury, Dukes Co., MA > WFT Est. 1760-1819 > > Barzillai Luce > Father is: > Thomas Luce, Sr. > B: 1679 :Tisbury, New York: > D: April 01, 1727,: Tisbury, New York: > Mother Is: > Hannah Butler: > Born: ABT. 1684: Tisbury, Dukes Co., MA > D:1754 > Marriage: 1707: Tisbury, Dukes Co., MA > > > Baptism (LDS) June 21, 1935 > Endowment (LDS) March 22, 1936/37 > Sealed to parents (LDS) July 15, 1943 > ALBER > > > ==== 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. > >

Deborah Bunker B: ABT. 1730 WFT Est. 1760-1827 Married: December 04, 1755 Barzillai Luce B: ABT. 1728 : Tisbury, Dukes Co., MA WFT Est. 1760-1819 Barzillai Luce Father is: Thomas Luce, Sr. B: 1679 :Tisbury, New York: D: April 01, 1727,: Tisbury, New York: Mother Is: Hannah Butler: Born: ABT. 1684: Tisbury, Dukes Co., MA D:1754 Marriage: 1707: Tisbury, Dukes Co., MA Baptism (LDS) June 21, 1935 Endowment (LDS) March 22, 1936/37 Sealed to parents (LDS) July 15, 1943 ALBER

She is the daughter of Reuben Bunker b. 1710 and Mary Chase, Nantucket Bunkers. Bette -----Original Message----- From: LIZASOHMA@aol.com [mailto:LIZASOHMA@aol.com] Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 8:45 PM To: BUNKER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Who does this Bunker belong to? Deborah Bunker B: ABT. 1730 WFT Est. 1760-1827 Married: December 04, 1755 Barzillai Luce B: ABT. 1728 : Tisbury, Dukes Co., MA WFT Est. 1760-1819 Barzillai Luce Father is: Thomas Luce, Sr. B: 1679 :Tisbury, New York: D: April 01, 1727,: Tisbury, New York: Mother Is: Hannah Butler: Born: ABT. 1684: Tisbury, Dukes Co., MA D:1754 Marriage: 1707: Tisbury, Dukes Co., MA Baptism (LDS) June 21, 1935 Endowment (LDS) March 22, 1936/37 Sealed to parents (LDS) July 15, 1943 ALBER ==== 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.

Here is another from Dick Eastman's newsletter. This is the URL where you can order copies of military records online. https://eservices.archives.gov/orderonline/start.swe?SWECmd=Start This one has New Hampshire deeds online. http://www.nhdeeds.com including Belknap and Strafford counties. It takes awhile to load parts of this. Be patient. You can view but not copy the deeds. To copy you have to pay. Those interested in DNA and its many uses for identifying people may also be interested in the links in Dick's newsletter this week. Go to http://www.eogn.com The new edition is not online as yet when I write this message but it should be by tomorrow. I highly recommend this newsletter and the free edition gives a lot of information useful to genealogical researchers. Bette

Dick Eastman's newsletter for this week contains several links for Irish research. You can read the standard edition at http://www.eogn.com I just clicked this and found last week's newsletter there. The new one should be up shortly or you can always order one of your own at this link. Bette

I am pleased to say that my granddaughter Emily Martin, daughter of LiAnn Pennington and Ric Martin, was married today. Many of you met LiAnn, Jonathan and Jon at the reunion. Emily married Brian M. Waltz and they live in Utah. Bette