I rarely send out anything about viruses. However, my virus protection just stopped and deleted two different messages supposedly from Microsoft Support and Support Services for a new patch that should be installed immediately. Both were infected with a virus. Norton caught it and deleted it but if you get a message like this it is a good idea to delete it and go to the Microsoft website to check for any needed updates or patches. If you go to the website to get any needed patches or updates you should be okay but when they come as an attachment to an email message be very careful. Also be sure to update your virus protection regularly. If you do not have an automatic update feature on your virus protection, check for an update every time you turn on your computer. 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

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 sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. >Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but >the wrod as a wlohe. >Amzanig huh? > >Bette > > > >==== 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 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 sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? Bette

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

Thanks to everyone who was concerned for my kids. They left the Cape last night and were going to Rocky Mount which is about 100 miles inland. I can't get ahold of them now but I think they are in a dead spot for the cell phone is all. They should get rained on a lot but are off the island and far enough inland that the wind should not be much. Whew! Maybe now I can think straight for a few days. Bette

BLUFFTON - Byron K. Bunker, 74, Geneva, died Thursday morning at Bluffton Regional Medical Clinic. He was born June 23, 1929, in Pennville, to Frank and Lucy (Hartley) Bunker. He married Daisy Twigg on Aug. 28, 1949. She survives. Mr. Bunker was a mathematics teacher at Community Christian School, Bluffton. He had served as principal of Berne High School from 1964 to 1965, and as assistant principal of Southwood High School from 1965 to 1968. He was superintendent of Caston School Corporation, Fulton, from 1968 to 1976, until he became of South Adams School Corp. until 1993. A 1947 graduate of Pennville High School, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Purdue University in 1951. In 1956, he earned his master's degree from Ball State Teachers College and in 1965, received a Superintendent's Degree. Mr. Bunker attended Vineyard Church, Fort Wayne, where he served as an elder and was a teacher of Bible study groups. He was a member of the Indiana State Teachers Association and the Indiana Superintendent's Association. Also surviving are a son, Wayne Bunker, Fort Wayne; three daughters, Mrs. Steve (Kim) Powell, Zion, Ill., Mrs. Ray (Sharon) Butcher, Peru, Mrs. Steve (Diane) Cochran, Decatur; a sister, Mrs. Floyd (Erna Gay) Troth, Lebanon; 11 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Her brother Thomas is deceased. Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at West Missionary Church, Berne, with the Rev. Tom Foster officiating. Burial will be in IOOF Twin Hills Cemetery, Pennville. Friends may call from 2 to 8 p.m. today at West Missionary Church. Preferred memorials are to Samaritan's House, Inc. or Vineyard Church, 1518 Gardendale Ave., Fort Wayne, Ind. 46816, or to Christian Community School, 1225 W. Washington St., Bluffton, Ind. 46714. Williamson & Spencer Funeral Home of Portland is handling arrangements. Taken from the Plain Dealer in Wabash, Indiana ...... Saturday, September 13, 2003

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 having real problems with them driving the thing across the bridge to the mainland. I don't know how high the bridge is but the waves are now 9 feet high and the hurricane is still over 700 miles away. At sea level, 9 feet of water is pretty awesome. There are times I really am glad that I live in the desert. Actually, most of the time. The whole east coast looks like it is in for some real storms here. Hang on to your hats guys. I hope all of you do ok. Bette

Here is a site with names of Civil War veterans from NC and links to a lot of other NC sites http://www.censusdiggins.com/nc_civilwar.html It is hard to find information about Confederate soldiers but more is coming online all the time. Bette

Lots of new passenger lists have been put on line this past month. http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/search_ships.shtml. Scroll down past the Ancestry search box to get to the one for ships passenger lists. http://www.saxonyroots.com/ships http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships And for naturalization records http://www.naturalizationrecords.com. This one ends up at Ancestry but offers a free search and if you find the name you want, a free 14 day membership. Get organized with all the names you want to search first and then try this for the 14 day free search. If you do it right you will have found all your are going to find within that 14 day period and then you don't have to buy the membership. Bette

Hi all: We've all witnessed various state legislatures tighten access controls on vital records. Ostensibly, they do this to curb identity theft. In truth, it's a knee-jerk reaction to a problem about which the know very little; moreover, they can't be bothered to take the time to learn anyhting about the problem. They simply must do something, even if the "something" is wrong, wrong, wrong. At any rate, here's an article from the OpEd section of USA Today that also appears in today's issue of Yahoo News ... http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20030912/cm_usatoday/11848448 Best regards - Kipp - _________________________________________________________________ Try MSN Messenger 6.0 with integrated webcam functionality! http://www.msnmessenger-download.com/tracking/reach_webcam

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------000405040004050708030007 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -------- Original Message -------- Subject: ILLEE-D Digest V03 #18 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:01:27 -0600 From: ILLEE-D-request@rootsweb.com Reply-To: ILLEE-L@rootsweb.com To: ILLEE-D@rootsweb.com Content-Type: text/plain ILLEE-D Digest Volume 03 : Issue 18 Today's Topics: #1 Primitive Baptist Library [Robert L Webb <bwebb9@juno.com>] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from ILLEE-D, send a message to ILLEE-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ --------------000405040004050708030007 Content-Type: text/plain; name="file:///C|/WINDOWS/TEMP/nsmail-1.tmp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="file:///C|/WINDOWS/TEMP/nsmail-1.tmp" X-Message: #1 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:41:02 -0500 From: Robert L Webb <bwebb9@juno.com> To: ILLEE-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20030911.164105.-388593.11.bwebb9@juno.com> Subject: Primitive Baptist Library Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Ladies and Gentlemen: In case it might be of any help to anyone with Baptist ancestors, I submit the website of the Primitive Baptist Library, in Carthage, Illinois, which has done research on churches of that faith in over 80 counties of Illinois, and in over 30 states across the northern part of our country. The Library has a collection of church and association records, and periodicals, with obituaries, and membership lists have been extracted and entered into a database which now has about 44,000 names, about half of which are for Illinois. The website is: http://www.carthage.lib.il.us/community/churches/primbap/pbl.html Sincerely, Elder Robert Webb --------------000405040004050708030007--

Are you trying to find cousins or old friends? If you know the state where they might be living go to msn.com and click on the white pages. This should be located down on the left side of your screen. When the search box comes up put in their name and the state and you may find them. If the name is not too common, you can leave it to search all states and you will get all the people of that name with phone numbers listed in the country. If you want to check out the people in the state just put in the last name and you will get all those with that last name. This does not work too well with a common last name but with Bunker for instance, in Arizona there are 74 including 2 Bunkers with an s. Some of these people have more than one phone number. This is one way to find people to help you look for lost relatives. Calling them or writing to them may get a response that helps you solve your genealogical questions. If you want to see how much privacy you or anyone else has, click on the line that says new instant background check and see what comes up. A satellite photo of their property, a credit check, their birthdate. It costs to get additional information but you can see how easy it is to get information about anyone. Then go into any search site including msn.com and type a name like "Bette Richards" in quotes in the search box and see what you get. Bette

I rec'd notice that former BFA member Marie Klute of San Gabriel CA passed away in Feb. Anybody have an obit or additional info on Marie? tks gil

I found Albert Bunker age 36, b. ME with Lillie age 36 b. TX and Laura age 11, b. Woodbury Co, IA, with Frank Bunker age 17, b. WI, living at 113 Wall in Sioux City, Woodbury Co, Iowa in the 1885 census. Does anyone know who they are? Bette

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 everybody that uses any of the above Windows Operating System variants to use the Windows Update capability of Internet Explorer to download and install the patch. It's much easier to install it now and prevent your home PC from being infected than it is to clean up the mess *after* your PC has been infected by one of these worms. If this security hole is akin to the last one, your PC can be infected at any time it is connected to the Internet. You don't have to read an e-mail message that contains the virus payload. Best regards H.A. Kippenhan, Jr. _________________________________________________________________ Use custom emotions -- try MSN Messenger 6.0! http://www.msnmessenger-download.com/tracking/reach_emoticon

This is a good website for records from Essex and Kent Co., Ontario. This came from the Rootsweb Review this week. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~essexandkentcountytranscripts/ Here's one from England http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wbritonad/ West Briton and Cornwall newspaper extracts. Bette

Kentucky has put an index of its oral histories on line. http://205.204.246.206/oh/browse.aspx You can search this by name of the subject, the name of the interviewee, etc. A surname search can be done in the search all repositories box. Bunkers not appearing often in KY, I did not pick up any of them so I tried a common name, Clark, and got a lot of hits. It looks like a good KY source. Bette

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

From Roots list a good site for searching your New England ancestors http://rays-place.com/index.html Bette