Sorry about all the messages but I am confined to the house with a sprained ankle so there is not much I can do. Besides you got a week off while I was in NH. :-) Suzanne Bunkers shared with me quite a bit of research done on German Bunkers. I am still trying to decipher it. One thing that intrigues me is that Gerd Hesemann evidently moved onto a farm called Bünnecker and eventually the name evolved into Bunker. I have been trying to figure out what Bünnecker translates into in English. Anybody with German out there that can help me? We have numerous different Bunker families in the United States. It appears that there may be many unrelated Bunkers from German ancestors. Also, there are the descendants of the Verboncouers who later became Bunkers. There were actually several men who took the name Verboncouer and they were not related. Then we know that the English Bunkers are at least two distinct unrelated families with one family from Devon and one from Bedfordshire. And of course, we have the descendants of the Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng Bunker. In our DNA research we are hoping to get participants from each of these different family groups. In that way, we will eventually be able to tell those people who do not know their ancestry which branch of Bunkers they belong to. I am always looking for more information and really appreciate all the information that people on this list send to me. Slowly but surely, it all gets recorded in the database and I share it with others. Thanks for your efforts and sharing. Bette