Hello, Becky, I have so little on the Benesch family that I can't say for sure ... but I won't say no for now anyway! :-) Our Benesch family is in Cleveland, OH as of late 1880's at least. It may turn out to have been sooner than that. At some point I'll have better information, and I'll certainly pass along anything I uncover. Our Albert BENESCH was the brother of Elsie who married our Uncle Arnold WEIL in the early 1900's. I haven't an exact birth date for any of them yet, only knowledge that they were related to my husband's mother Edith WEIL - DAVIS. Bob (my husband) says Uncle Al Benesch was a "mover and shaker" in Cleveland in his prime and we should uncover something more about him on our next trip to Western reserve Historical Society or the CSU Library's Memories section . Hopefully that'll happen sometime this spring. We have such a good group of Gen-People in this area! Will keep your address on file ... in case of a super find! Thanks for "checking in". Maybe we'll both "get lucky". Jo ----- Original Message ----- From: <Becky.Champion@equifax.com> To: <scenmkr106@wowway.com> Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 11:28 AM Subject: Re: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Aida's link to Roll Map, re Galicia Settlements > Jo: > > I see you are also looking for BENESCH - I am looking for Josef Benes > (could have been BENESCH), who immigrated from Bohemia to St. Louis, MO. > My > Josef Benes married Johanna Pinker, who immigrated in 1892. I'm not sure > when Josef came over - but it would have been before 1892. He was already > here, and the marriage was pre-arranged. Josef's sister, Catherine, > married > Johanna's brother, Anton. Could this be any part of your history? > > Thanks, > > Becky > .................................................................. > "Jo Davis" > <scenmkr106@wowway.com > > To GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-L@rootsweb.com > 03/13/2006 10:44 AM > > Subject Re: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Aida's link > Please respond to Roll Map, re Galicia Settlements > > Laurence ... > Thank you so much for your contribution to my search for ancestors in that > part of Europe you are so familiar with! Sharing info with all of us is a > sure-fire way to "climb fences" no matter what generation of descendants > we > are, or where we find ourselves on planet Earth at this moment, in this > century! > > Your links are so useful to me ... in many more ways than I had imagined. > > Keep up the good work ... > > Jo DAVIS > also looking for WEIL, WEISKOPF, and BENESCH ... "over there" > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Laurence Krupnak" <LKrupnak@erols.com> > To: <GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 4:12 PM > Subject: Re: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Aida's link to Roll Map, re Galicia > Settlements > > >> >> Hello Jo, >> >> The Roll map has "Galacia", but there is no "Galacia," nor is >> Galicia spelled "Galacia" and "Galacia" is not where Galicia was >> located. >> >> Galicia is a former territory whose areal extent now lies in the >> nation-states of Poland and Ukraine - about 3/5 of Galicia is in >> west-central Ukraine (the L'viv, Ternopil, and Ivano-Frankivsk oblasts >> of Ukraine) and 2/5ths is in southeastern Poland. The Roll map has no >> indication that there were German settlements in that area. Halychyna >> (in Ukrainian) (Galicja in Polish), was called Galizien by the Austrians >> who invited Germans to colonize Galicia in the late 1700s. >> >> A group called Galizien German Descendants has excellent maps which >> show the location of former German colonies in Galicia. Germans >> comprised about 2.5 percent of the population of Galicia. >> >> Jews comprised about 10 percent of the Galician population: >> >> >> http://www.halgal.com/1907popbyrel.html >> >> Jews resided in Galicia long before Germans were invited to colonize >> in the 1700s. Jews were invited in by former Polish landowners, etc. >> during the 14-17th C. >> >> _______ >> >> Lavrentiy Krupniak >> ............................................ >> >> Jo Davis wrote: >>> >>> What's missing or wrong with this 1700 - 1800 German-Russian Settlement >>> map, Lavrentiy? << http://www.rollintl.com/roll/grsettle.htm >> >>> >>> Would you, then, know anything about 'Jewish'-German local settlers in >>> this time frame? Were they part of this "settlement" movement back >>> then? >>> How about the early 1900's? >>> >>> I appreciate any comments. >>> >>> Jo Davis