Current Events, Ancient Ancestors, Key Ancestors, and access to everything else.

Includes: access to related sites, a log of updates to the site, interesting E-mail queries, & conversion tables for Measures used by our ancestors.

Current Activities, Family Reunions, and Obituaries.

Includes photos and articles for each of the family reunions past (2000 & 2005) and plans for the future (2010).

2010: Mar/Arpr. in Bariloche.

Our Origins and some ancient (c.1800) German ancestors in Endingen, who they were, how they lived.

Link to Endingen, Baden.

References to Bz from:

  = Freiberg

Brief bios of emigrants from Endingen 1830-1850 to:

  = Texas / California

  = Pennsylvania / Ohio

  = Venezuela (El Tovar)

Fly tree 1600-1850

Letters 1850-1860.

Bios. 1815-1876

Married: Josephine Kolmer

Family tree,  brief bios. of children, his letters, photos, & vital records.

(Needs review and reorg.)

Individual pages for:

Endingen, Texas army, Fort Ross, Rancho New Breisgau, Rancho Herman, Oakland, & more.

Excerpts from books, etc. at California parks and libraries.

Michael & Josefa: Bios., 1845 wagon train, family trees, vital records, published references.

Bios. of children: Josephine (m. WBz.), John, & Caroline (m. "Dutch Bill" Howard).

Brief bios., their early years in Argentina.

Access to: detailed bio. pages & fly. trees, veterans, photos, & diaries.

WB served in the Texas War of Independence.  His descendants volunteered for WW-I & WW-II.

Organised by decade, provides access to most of the photos inlcuded on the site (excluding reunions).

His children Josephine, Alfred, & John all kept diaries.  Also included are the estancia "La California" diaries.

...more to come.

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Brief bio. 1850-1881

Brief bio. 1852-1919

Married: John Schreiber

Family tree, photos & docs.

Diary of Europe Tour 1900

Brief bio. 1854-1911

Married: Clara E. Allyn

Account of Clara as a teacher.

Family tree

Diaries of 1888, 1890

...more to come

Photos, names of people & places, glossary of terms.

Brief Bio. 1859-1937

Married: Olga B. Horner

Family tree.

1874 - California to Arg.

1920's - 3 trips

...more to come

John Todd's recollections (fellow traveller & hunter).

Bio. 1861-1916

Married: Marjorie Macintosh

Family tree, photos of Ea. "Los Algarrobos", links to Monte Buey (Cba) town & library.

(In development)

Brief bio.1803-1858

Photos and notes about descendants.

Brief bio.1813-1865

Colonia Tovar, Venezuela.

Vital records, photos.

Bio. 1816-1880

Photos & pictures, fly.tree & vital records, records of Colonia California (with links to Colonia Alejandra & San Javier (S.Fe, Arg.))