I have just received copies of records pertaining to Bunkers from the Bedfordshire, England archives. They are copies of microfilm copies of the original records. Their quality is very good considering that they are 400-500 years old. No one unfamiliar with old style handwriting would be able to decipher them. However, they are a valuable addition to the files of the Bunker Family Association. I will scan them in and put them in with the Bunker records. I found it very interesting that the wills of Roger Bunker, 1516, and William Bunker, 1558, are written in English and I can read parts of them. With practice I will be able to read the vast majority of the information written. However, the will of Oliver Bunker, 1616 is very interesting. I seems to be a "form" will. It is carefully written out in what I think is Latin with blanks at various places. In those blanks with different ink, are the names and dates. In one case the preprinted words have been crossed out. Brian Bunker's various researchers in England have transcribed these records for the BFA and if you could see the originals you would realize that we are definitely getting our money's worth with their transcriptions. I will be putting the copies of the originals along with the transcriptions on the CD of Roger Bunker's descendants. This will be in pdf form so that anyone who wants to copy them for their own records will be able to do so. I wish we could get the same records for James of Dover. If we can ever be certain who his parents were and then find the records, we will certainly get copies for the BFA. Unfortunately, we may never get those records as James came from Devon and the records there were mostly destroyed. I have a book by Kip Sperry called READING EARLY AMERICAN HANDWRITING. Since American handwriting in 1600's was not much different from English handwriting for the same period, I am sure Kip's book will help me a lot. I found in less than an hour in a class at the FGS conference that Kip could get just about anybody reading most of what they were seeing that had been written in the 1600's. I highly recommend Kip's book if you are trying to decipher early American records. Or English ones for that matter. Bette