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    2. Bette Richards
    3. We have purchased a subscription to Ancestry's newspaper database. I have been having a great time messing around in it trying to see how to best search it. The best way is by using a first name to go with Bunker. That way we do not get Bunker Hills all over the place and I haven't gotten a reference to a war bunker yet or golf bunker either. Keeping in mind that most of these papers were published in the 1900's, I will be happy to look up anyone you would like me to. I looked up my grandfather and found 153 entries. He was a perfectly ordinary man. The biggest share of the entries had to do with him being visited or visiting someone. Still, in the process I have also found several obituaries, references to accidents, jobs and businesses, weddings and births. It is easier if you know the place to look. Even the state will narrow down the hits some. Let me know if you want me to look up someone. Bette

    02/17/2003 10:57:58