Benitz Site Map
(Last updated: Saturday January 28, 2012)
Click on the Title to each menu and it will open on the left side of your screen.
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"Current Events", "People" (Ancestors of the 1800's & early 1900's), & "Other Pages". Other Pages: log of updates, relevant links, interesting E-mail queries, measures used by our ancestors, and a Glossary of Spanglish terminology. |
Current Activities, Family Reunions, Family tree (with initials for those still with us), and Obituaries. Includes photos and articles for each of the family reunions past (2000, 2005, & 2010) and plans for the future (Canada - 2015). |
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 = Zemmin |
Brief bios of emigrants from Endingen 1830-1850 to: = Texas / California = Pennsylvania / Ohio = Venezuela (El Tovar) Fly tree 1600-1850 Letters 1850-1860. |
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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. Newspaper articles: California, New York, Buenos Aires |
Michael & Josefa: Bios., 1845 wagon train, family trees, vital records, published references. Bios. of children: Josephine (m. WBz.), John, & Caroline (m. "Dutch Bill" Howard). |
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[View in NEW format] Brief bios., their early years in Argentina. Access to: detailed bio. pages & fly. trees, 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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[View in NEW format] Biography (1850-1881) including diaries, letters, & maps.
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[View in NEW format] Brief bio. 1852-1919 Married: John Schreiber Family tree, photos & docs. Diary of Europe Tour 1900
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[View in NEW format] Brief bio. 1854-1911 Married: Clara E. Allyn Account of Clara as a teacher. Family tree (Incomplete) |
Diaries of 1888, 1890 ...more to come
Photos, names of people & places, glossary of terms. |
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[View in NEW format] Brief Bio. 1859-1937 Married: Olga B. Horner Family tree. Biography:Pioneer, Sportsman and Gentleman, (pub.1952). |
[View in NEW format] Many, many diaries from 1873 in California, voyage to Argentina, settling in, living in the Chaco, hunting in the Yukon & Africa, trips to Europe in the 1920's. ...more to come
John Todd's recollections (fellow traveller & hunter). |
[View in NEW format] Bio. 1861-1916 Married: Marjorie Macintosh Family tree, photos of Ea. "Los Algarrobos", links to Monte Buey (Cba) town & library. (In development) |
[View in NEW format] Covers 1904-1911. Includes notes, glossary of terms, & Maps.
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Brief bio.1803-1858 Photos and notes about descendants. (In development) |
Brief bio.1813-1865 Colonia Tovar, Venezuela. Vital records, photos. (In development) |
Bio. 1816-1880 Photos & pictures, fly.tree & vital records, records of Colonia California (with links to Colonia Alejandra & San Javier (S.Fe, Arg.)) |
