More information: In 1840 the census lists Jonathan and a female 60-70 (presumably Polly) in Harrison, Champaign Co., OH. Gorham (listed as Goram Bunker) is also there. By 1850, Jonathan is 83, a widower and in the poorhouse in Urbana Twp., Champaign Co, OH. He is also there in 1851. He is listed as insane so was undoubtedly senile and unable to care for himself at that time. Gorham is listed in 1850 in E. Troy, Walworth Co., WI but eventually ended up in Indiana. This is a different Gorham, the son of Francis Bunker and Eunice Macy. I cannot find Jonathan's son Gorham in the 1850 census. The only one listed is the son of Francis and Eunice Macy. Bette -----Original Message----- From: Nancy Porter [mailto:njporter@tdstelme.net] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 4:26 AM To: BUNKER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Nantucket Bunkers Jonathan Bunker, likely from Nantucket, moved to District of Maine - now State of Maine - early enough so he marries Polly Smith in Farmington in 1795. He shows up on the 1800 Census of Farmington, the 1810 Census of Industry, an adjacent town, then disappears. Very early records of both towns show nothing for information on either him or Polly, or any children. Does anyone know anything about Jonathan Bunker? Nancy ==== 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.

Hi Nancy: This Jonathan was born 14 May 1772 in Nantucket, son of Simeon and Mary Swain. He moved to Maine in 1794. Polly and Jonathan had 10 children. Our records state they moved to New York state in 1813. They show up in Royalton, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio in the 1920 and 1930 census. He is listed in the 1965 Bunker Genealogy, p. 59, along with the sources for several deeds. Last known mention was a transfer of land in Ohio in 1842. Polly's name is given in the records as both Polly and Mary. We do not have her birth info or her parent's names. What do you need? There is a lot of information in the database and in the 1965 Bunker Genealogy. Bette -----Original Message----- From: Nancy Porter [mailto:njporter@tdstelme.net] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 4:26 AM To: BUNKER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Nantucket Bunkers Jonathan Bunker, likely from Nantucket, moved to District of Maine - now State of Maine - early enough so he marries Polly Smith in Farmington in 1795. He shows up on the 1800 Census of Farmington, the 1810 Census of Industry, an adjacent town, then disappears. Very early records of both towns show nothing for information on either him or Polly, or any children. Does anyone know anything about Jonathan Bunker? Nancy ==== 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.

Jonathan Bunker, likely from Nantucket, moved to District of Maine - now State of Maine - early enough so he marries Polly Smith in Farmington in 1795. He shows up on the 1800 Census of Farmington, the 1810 Census of Industry, an adjacent town, then disappears. Very early records of both towns show nothing for information on either him or Polly, or any children. Does anyone know anything about Jonathan Bunker? Nancy

Amazon.com has this book for sale: SETTLERS AND SPOILERS, a novel by Raymond Charles Bunker, historical fiction about the settlement of Adelaide, Australia. Sounds interesting. Does anyone know who Raymond is? Bette

You Nantucket Bunkers might like this site. Doug we should definitely have a link to this one. http://www.cranberryisles.com/bunker.html The Bunker cemetery on Cranberry Isles, pictures and all. Bette

http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc has WWII casualty records. You have to click on the state before you can look for a specific name. This site also has the Guion-Miller Cherokee rolls of 1909 and the final Dawes Roll Index. The Dawes roll is a goody to search but with diligence you can use it to find your people. These are all difficult to search as you can't do a global search. In other words, I cannot type in Bunker and have it search the entire database for that name. I have to try each separate state for the WWII records and the Dawes roll I have to click on each until I find the right part of the alphabet. Bette

So you have a Cherokee grandmother? A Susan Bunker was listed on the 1909 Guion-Miller Roll Index for the Eastern Cherokees. #25267 NC. Bette

I have done quite a bit of research on Eber BUNKER in my quest to find the origins on my ancestor Elizabeth BUNKER. Willing to share. Murray Reid Auckland NZ

For information on burning CD's here is an excellent site http://www.cdsleeves.com/7fatalmistakes.html This one has hints for making that family history CD including autorun and other good things http://www.AncestralAuthor.com/support/makecd.htm I burn backups for my files on CD's. It is really simple. I send one out of state so just in case my house burns down or we get blown up because they make the smart bombs 2 miles from here, someone else will have the BFA database. Bette

Looking at the newspaper collection on Ancestry has been fun but a bit strange too. My great-grandfather's name was Willis Martin Bunker. I found references to him as Wm, W.M., Bill, and William. His brother's name was Sylvester Orville Bunker. He appeared as S.O. but much more frequently as Vet Bunker. Another brother was named for their father Hollis. Only the brother's name was Charles Hollis Bunker. He constantly appears as Hollis and I had to try to sort him out from their father. The fun one is my father. His name is Martin Alfred Bunker. Fortunately, I know he has always been called Freddy. So he is Fred, Freddy, and when he married my mother he was Frederick! When I do searches I try to always look first for the full name. But then when I find someone in a particular place that I feel is the target person, I also do a surname search in that area because he may just be called by another name. Who would ever think that Martin Alfred would turn out to be Freddy? Or Sylvester, Vet? I have never heard the nickname Vet for Sylvester but that is evidently what my uncle was always called. When you do a surname search you may find a lot of surprises. My family lived for a long time in Iowa. They were there starting about 1870 or so. There are not a lot of Bunkers even today and you would not think there would be too many unrelated Bunkers in the small towns of Iowa in the mid to late 1800's. Imagine my surprise to find a lot of Bunkers and to find that they were from several different families, including the German Bunkers with an s families. When doing research pay attention to anyone who might even remotely be related to the ones you are looking for. If you keep track of all of them and try all the different possible spellings, some day you may find that you have the record you have spent years searching for but it has a different name on it, like Vet! Bette

Here is a good site sent to me by Doug Andrews. It has information about Eber Bunker. http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/ Scroll down on the left side of the page to Search this site and then when the box comes up put in whole site and type in Bunker for 29 records containing the word Bunker, 9 of which are about Eber Bunker. Bette

Portraits of Edwin W. Bunker 1863-1923; William Gardner Bunker 1834-1919; and Theodore Bunker b. 1860 and living in Wisconsin in 1902, can be found at http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wni and obituaries for Edwin W., George Bunker 1823-1902, George H. Bunker 1820-1910, Gilbert Hathaway Bunker 1820-1924, Gilbert's wife, Thomas Henry Bunker 1820-1908, William Gardner Bunker 1834-1919, if anyone is interested. Bette

Who is it that is researching Dodavah Bunker? Are you the one that sent me http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wni? There is a biographical sketch for Homer Bunker mentioned on this site. It is in Memorial and genealogical record of dodge and Jefferson counties, Wisconsin, pgs. 436-437. You can get a copy of it from them. Homer had a son Dodipher b. 1851. Do you know about this? Bette

For records in New South Wales (the original eastern part of Australia) try http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au and go to indexes. Lois was good enough to send this one to us. Bette

It seems we have another genealogy scam out there. http://www.genealogygiants.com is just another scam to sell you links to sites that are already available elsewhere free. Bette

For those of you in the north especially, I want you to know that the high yesterday was 84 with a low of 48. The citrus and wildflowers are blooming. The baby hummingbirds are flying around and the birds are migrating up from Mexico. The Colorado Rockies, Chicago White Sox and Arizona Diamondbacks are in spring training in Tucson and it costs $3-8 for a ticket. Why am I telling you this? Because next year at this time the BFA will be meeting in Tucson. As you sit all wrapped up in your snugglies after slipping and sliding around in the snow and slush, just think about being in Tucson. One guy left Minneapolis when it was 10 below zero. When he got to Tucson it was 82. A 92 degree change within a few hours. Doesn't that sound nice? Bette

Dick Eastman's newsletter is out this week http://RootsForum.com. A couple sites he mentioned look interesting. http://www.burkes-peerage.net/sites/common/sitepages/reindex.asp has both free and pay for data. http://www.angelfire.com/tx/carolynegenealogy has some very good information for people searching for Native American ancestors. Speaking of Native Americans, did you know that it is the only race in the world defined by membership in a political entity? The U.S. recognizes only those who are enrolled in federally recognized tribes. That can be very difficult. Every other race if you had an ancestor of that race you are a recognized person of that race. With the Africans in America you can be only very remotely descended from an African and recognized as such (discriminated against because of it too). Not Native American. You can get the discrimination all right by no recognition legally without that membership. I am often asked what the blood quantum is for being recognized by the government. Actually, the feds honor whatever quantum that the tribes choose to use. In some tribes it is 1/4 and in some tribes it is only people born or living on the reservation, others only the children of the mother enrolled in the tribe may be enrolled, some only the children of the father. Canada is even more ridiculous. If you live on the Reserve you are considered to be a full-blood. If you move off the Reserve you change into a half-blood. If a white woman marries an Indian she becomes an Indian and her children are considered full-bloods if they live on the Reserve. If an Indian woman marries a white man she ceases to be an Indian and her children are not considered Indians either. Some system. Only your DNA will tell for sure if you are not enrolled in a tribe or living on the Reserve but the government will not recognize that either. Great fun trying to figure this out legally. When I was a lawyer on the reservation, every case started out with defining if a party was Indian and if the area where the action took place was on the reservation. After that was settled we could determine which court had jurisdiction. Made for interesting law and legal arguments. Bette

Hi all: I apologize for the diversion from genealogy discussions to computer software issues. I was doing some routine clean-up on my hard drive and decided to run a program (freeware) to detect the presence of spyware on my PC. I learned that sometime in the past couple of months a copy of Gator had been installed on my system. I won't bore you with the tech. details. If you're interested, you can read this article ... http://www.flowsoft.com/computer101/Gator_Spyware.htm You may want to download a copy of Lavasoft's Ad-aware (version 6) and run it on your PC now and again. I'm not endorsing Lavasoft's product, but it helps eliminate spyware (like Gator) from PC's. I really hate these little extras (like Gator) that come along with some freeware applications you download. Best regards H.A. Kippenhan, Jr. _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus

For some interesting old court records from England http://www.oldbaileyonline.org Mary Gene sent this one. If you get several entries with the same date be sure to read them all as they are all different. Thanks M-G. Bette

For a nice family tree form http://genealogy.about.com/library/free_charts/bl_family_tree.htm This one requires Adobe 5.0 or later to use if you are going to fill it out on screen. If you do not have that but an earlier Adobe Reader, you can still print it and fill it out by hand or typewriter. This is a very interesting all purpose site if you can't figure out what do next or need info you can't find about occupations, illnesses, etc. http://www.helpimlost.com/ Here is a worldwide database http://genealogy.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gene anet.org I found over 3,000 Bunkers here and you may find lots of others in your family. A list of the Officers and men on board the Ship Defense on 19 Sept. 1776 http://www.genealogy-quest.com/collections/1776Defence.html Use your browser to search this document as it is not in alphabetical order. To do that go to the top toolbar and click on Edit. You should then see find on this page. Click on that and a box should come up in which you can type the name you are searching for and then click on search. Not all programs are the same as mine of course, so there may be some differences between these instructions and what you actually see on your screen. http://www.Sources2Go.com may interest you. It has government records of various kinds. Again you need to use your browser. You also need JAVA script but most programs have that. Here are some spreadsheets to help organize your census records. It is free but the author asks for a $10 donation on the honor system. http://www.censustools.com/ St. Helena medal database lists 390,000 soldiers that served with Napoleon http://www.stehelene.org/php/accueil.php?lang=en It took me awhile but I did find a name common to my family. The information descriptions are in French but easy to figure out and if you can't, just copy and paste and then check them out on one of the translation services online. Here are some Swedish ones http://www.home.sol.se/hemsida/indexe.htm in English And finally some immigrants from the Netherlands, the year they arrived and where they settled http://home.planet.nl/~ploe0063/Subpaginas/Emigrants1/AmelanderJong.html We get land records and they have a property description but we have no clue where the land is. This site is under construction so does not have everywhere in the country yet but give it a try. http://www.geocommunicator.gov/lsi/ There are some people producing family history videos now so there are programs available. http://www.photodex.com/products/proshow/ http://www.Syntrillium.com I haven't tried either program and there are probably more out there but these and the sites listed above are being featured by the AZ Genealogical Society this month. Bette