Our own Bette Bunker Richards has been selected for a distinguished service award by the Federation of Genealogical Societies. The award will be presented September 5 at the FGS annual banquet in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Here’s an excerpt from the award message by FGS Awards Committee Chair Sue Kaufman:
“The Federation of Genealogical Societies is proud to award [...]

Maralyn Anderson has sent along her photos from the BFA Reunion in Portland.
They’ve been added to the web photo album at:
http://albums.phanfare.com/greencity/2148967

10 of our newly published CDs on the Devon Bunkers appear to be defective due to a corrupt file. We have accounted for all and they have been replaced.
Many thanks for the quick responses so we could replace these.

Steve Bunker’s presentation at the Maine reunion dinner was so very interesting. Steve and Sharon run the China Sea Trading Co. shop in Portland, Maine (http://www.chinaseatrading.com) and have some very interesting things in it.
Some are made by Steve. He collects all kinds of “stuff” and looks for more all the time. [...]

The picture below is St. Nicholas Church at Tingrith, Bedfordshire, England. The date on the church is the year 1300, and it was was remodeled in the 1500s.
This photo, taken in 1983, will be the cover art for Bette Richards’ Bedford Bunkers CD, currently in process. The Bunker Family Association hopes to have this [...]

Doug Detling, BFA website coordinator, has posted photographs from the Bunker Family Association’s 95th reunion, held June 11-14 in Portland, Maine. The photos are on the web at the following location:
http://albums.phanfare.com/greencity/2148967
Also included is a section on the Great Cranberry Isle trip, with photos by Bette Bunker Richards.
Feel free to visit any of the other photo [...]

Nathaniel Winslow, husband of Elizabeth Williams (daughter of Sobriety Bunker), was age 74 in the 1850 Census, listed as living in household of son Stephen Winslow, along with wife “Betsey” at age 63. Nathaniel died in 1852, and was buried on a small hill in Letter E township (originally called Letter E Plantation), Franklin County, [...]

At the Bunker Family Association’s business meeting Saturday (June 14), the group tentatively settled on sites for upcoming reunions.
The 2009 reunion will be held in Omaha, Nebraska in late June 2009.
San Diego was the site tentatively chosen for 2010, followed by Philadelphia for 2011.
2012 site remains unidentified, but the group will return for its 100th [...]

The online photo management site used by Bunker Family Association web master Doug Detling has changed policies and once again is allowing access to photo albums through the following: http://albums.phanfare.com/greencity. The change restores a feature of Phanfare that was changed when version 2.0 was released.
We have posted a few photographs from previous Bunker Family [...]

Recently, many states have helped in the cause of genealogical research by making their vital records available online.  Our website coordinator, Doug Detling, received an e-mail earlier today about an effort to have Pennsylvania records more accessible. Doug who has trolled the Pennsylvania records in search of Samuel and Sobriety Bunker Williams descendants. Making these [...]