My uncle, Glenn Edward Wells, a fourth great-grandchild of Samuel and Sobriety BUNKER Williams, died June 5, 2007 in Bakersfield, Kern Co., California. He was the only son of Frank and Verna WINSLOW Wells, born March 5, 1925 in Traver, Tulare Co., California.
His family moved to Bakersfield when he was just a toddler. He attended [...]

Thanks to Denise Foley Ford, I have updated the family data base to trace the descendants of Melzar Winslow and Mary Octavia Picraux (along with her ancestors). This allowed me to update information previously shared by another descendant, Murllin Howetter, who shared data on this family in 2002. There had been some uncertainty about Mary’s [...]

Colorado is famous for mining and madams, and hostess LiAnn Pennington has arranged a gold rush of events at part of the 94th annual meeting of the Bunker Family Association. June 14-17. Walk where they did–the miners and madams that is. The reunion will include a tour of the red light district in downtown [...]

I’m in the process of a complete overall of the Greencity web site. Since Microsoft is abandoning Front Page2003 in favor of a new web page design program, and since its new program doesn’t work very well with MySQL data bases (I store my family history data in one, and this web log in another), [...]

For some time now, I have been maintaining a comprehensive data base on the descendants of Sobriety Bunker, designated by the Bunker Family Association as D15-II in the Dover branch. Originally, a number of Bunker descendants shared information to produce a comprehensive report in 1996, and the report was updated in March 1997. Since [...]

The Bunker Family Association’s e-mail address directory on the web site has been updated. For the latest information, visit http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org/email.html.

Today I completed a major update of the family tree data base stored on the greencity website. The data now contains information on more than 9,800 individuals in more than 3,600 families. Notes and source information are also included. You can view the data base using this link: www.greencity.org/TNG. If you haven’t registered for a [...]

All of the five surname mailing lists I manage at Rootsweb have been successfully migrated to the new mailing list software: BRADT, BROTT, BUNKER, DETLING and ROBLEE. Any subscriber who has trouble with receiving messages from Rootsweb should feel free to contact me at doug.detling@gmail.com.

My searchable family tree data base has just been updated. This data base includes details on more than 8,300 individuals and 3,000 plus families. Because the server software-the Next Generation Genealogy-has been updated to version 5.1.3, users should re-register. The old registration data base was deleted. During the upgrading process as it was corrupted in [...]