Born in California

This is probably a correction of the last post from someone that has studied the family a lot longer than I have. I don't know how well my mother knew her father or if he shared much of his life with her. I only remember Alpharetta's second husband so little talk of the Bunkers.

"But the census records say George was born in California and his father, Robert Fosdick Bunker, was in San Francisco by the 1860 census. Grandfather Cromwell was whaling out there in 1840 and thereafter so that is most likely why the family ended up in San Francisco. We will never know for sure unless we can find more records."

Great Register of San Francisco 1867
Bunker, Robert Fosdick Age 29 From Massachusetts is living at Jackson, n. Leavenworth June 11, 1866

Starting a Sparks Genealogy Blog

Going public with my Genealogy is a new thing for me.  I got most of my info from my grandmother on one side and my dad on the other.  I made a little progress years ago but not really enough to continue the interest.  Lately I ran into a book on the Internet Archives that documents the ventures of a number of family members in the Alaska gold rush around 1900.   So, with a little more to go with I'll post what I've found and possibly run into others that can fill a few gaps or extend the history.

Most of the history is California and Alaska based except for the Parks family and a short stint with the Pony Express.   Enough of the opening and on to creating a few articles