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The Benitz Bull is undergoing major reconstructive surgery. We are replacing the blue menus at left with 2 rows of buttons at the top of each page. Try each button - eventually they will all work. Click here for All Second Generation. (We began with the second generation.)	Please e-mail us your suggetions to our addresses in “About Us”. We are particularly interested to know if the new menus are easier to follow (i.e. did you get lost?)
Alfred's diaries - NEW & in the works: Teenager in Oakland: 1873-74, in Argentina: 1877, 20's in the Chaco: 1884 & 1885, 1889, & 30's 1891-1899. Hunt the Yukon (1908) & Africa (1910). Travel Europe, ride across the Andes: 1920/22/25.
Frank J. Benitz (1850-1881) Full Menu or Just Biography	Alfred's adventures... 100 years ago! African safari - 1910
ĄĄ Benitz Family !! September 2012 - Fort Ross will commemorate the bicentennial of the founding of the Ross Colony. They plan to highlight the Ranch Era - begun by: William Benitz ĄĄ The family must be represented !! Please volunteer! E-mail us here or contact: Robin Joy - at Fort Ross 707-847-4777 - www.fortrossstatepark.org	Alfred or Johnnie, with baby Herman Fort Ross, c.1866
Tribute to unsung heroes Gainsborough Target April 29, 2011 Frank A. Benitz (1893-1918) Click here for more about Frank.	Kolmer Graves, Timber Cove, California coast (July 2010 - by Helen Plummer) Our ancestors crossed the plains by wagon-train in 1845.
Benitz-2010 Bariloche, Arg. Click here to see it all.	La California Photos c.1888 Click here to see
William & Josephine Benitz Generation #1 for ALL with Argentine-born Benitz ancestors Wilhelm Böniz (1815-1876) and Josefa Kolmerer (1830-1912) are the original ancestors of all Benitz born in Argentina. Both emigrated from Endingen, in Baden, WB to Texas (1832) then California (1842), JK to North Carolina (1833) then California (1845). They married (1846) and lived at Fort Ross and later in Oakland (1867); in 1874 the entire family emigrated to Argentina, establishing estancia "La California", in Santa Fé. Click here for their family tree.
Estancia "La California" 1890 diary We have recently rescued the Cali diaries from oblivion (the Piquete attic) and can now show the first diary that did not become a rat snack. [Click here for more La California diaries]	Josephine Benitz de Schreiber 1900 diary Travel with Josephine, John & Bertha on their grand tour of Europe, staying at fine hotels, shopping, and seeing the sights. [Click here for more about Josephine]
And don't forget to see these as well...
Alfred A. Benitz's 1874 diary His record of the family's journey from Oakland to Rosario via Panama, New York, Southampton, and Buenos Aires. [Click here for more about Alfred]	Estancia "La California" 1888 diary Most of it... rats got to it before we did. We used as the background to the text the lithograph of La California, drawn by John Schreiber in 1878. [Click here for more La California diaries]
John E. Benitz's diary 1904-1911 The only personal diary of his that has come down to us. [Click here for more about John]	Alfred A. Benitz's biography "This book gives the story of the life of Don Alfredo Benitz, or Uncle Alfred, ... compiled directly from his own diaries, and from information given by those fortunate enough to have heard of some of his adventures from him personally."

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*Since July, 1999*	*Saturday, 04 February 2012*