Other Stuff
The Other Stuff contains reference and general information
pages that apply across the web-site. They include:
- Updates
- A log of additions and changes to the web-site. If you haven't visited the site in a long time,
you may wish to see what has changed since your last visit.
- E-Mail Queries
- E-mails of interest received over the years that provide background material.
It is dedicated to those brave souls who have dared to question us about the Benitz family!
- More Sites
- A table listing some relevant web-sites you may wish be visit regarding the family.
The table is organised by country: Argentina, Germany, USA, and Venezuela.
The following are Reference Pages, they will open in a new tab, thereby making
them available in parallel to the Benitz web-site pages.
- Spanglish Glossary
- Our ancestors in the Argentine spoke Spanglish, a mixture of English
interspersed with words and phrases derived from the Spanish they used in
their everyday activities. We attempt to explain the terms.
- Measures
- Our ancestors used the currencies and measures of Argentina, Germany, Mexico, UK, USA, and Venezuela.
This page provides conversion tables and explains how we arrive at modern equivalents for past measures and monetary values of the 19th century
when each country, state, province, or even city had its own systems.
- People & Place Names
- Several pages, each contains background material (such as: maps & lists of People and Place Names)
relevant to a particular locale and set of diaries, letters, etc.:
- (1) Los Algarrobos — John‘s notes & diaries — plus
an intro to his diaries.
- (2) La California — Frank & Alfred diaries, estancia day-books
- (3) North Santa Fé — Frank’s letters,
Laguna Yacaré & Los Palmares day-books, Alfred’s notes of his hunts
PBz
