Anne Wähner

Daughter of Anna Wahner. Sister of Siegfried Wahner.

[unnamed Schwaneke relative]

Max Heilner to Sigmund Heilner and Seligmann Heilner, November 4, 1856

Letter from Max Heilner to his brothers Sigmund Heilner and Seligmann Heilner in America, November 4, 1856.

Heilner family to Sigmund Heilner and Seligmann Heilner, July 4, 1856

Letter from the Heilner family to Sigmund and Seligmann Heilner. The family expresses their concern over the Southern Oregon Indian Wars.

Heilner family to Sigmund Heilner and Seligmann Heilner, April 22, 1856

Letter from Heilner family to Sigmund Heilner and Seligmann Heilner. Aron anxiously awaits the "Ansassingmachung" (right of residency) which Feifer Guitmann, Regina's fiance, needs to take Regina to Karbach. This permit was only required...

Heilner family to Sigmund Heilner and Seligmann Heilner, March 26, 1856

Letter from the Heilner family to Sigmund Heilner and Seligmann Heilner. Aron receives more money from his sons. He pleads for them to return to Germany after they have earned from 30,000 to 40,000 francs. Aron will not allow Max to come to California.

Anna Wahner

Mother of Siegfried and Anne Wahner.

Minna Schwaneke

Sister of Heinrich Schwaneke, cousin of Frieda Baarfs.

Frieda Baarfs

Cousin of Minna Schwaneke and Heinrich Schwaneke, mother-in-law of Margarete "Gretel" Baarfs. Grandmother of Gertrud "Trudel" and Erika. Frieda and Gretel and two children of the latter, Gertrud and Erika, live together in one...

Max Heilner to Seligmann Heilner, March 23, 1856

Letter from Max Heilner to his brother Seligmann Heilner, March 23, 1856, refusing Seligmann's invitation to join his brothers in California.

Max Heilner to Sigmund Heilner and Seligmann Heilner, August 18, 1855

Letter from Max Heilner to Seligmann Heilner and Sigmund Heilner. Max writes of his business life in Würzburg, Germany. Funds received from his two California brothers have allowed Max to establish a business.

Heilner family to Seligmann Heilner and Sigmund Heilner, August 17, 1855

Letter from the Heilner family to Sigmund Heilner and Seligmann Heilner. Aron extols the virtues of Regina's fiance. Aron has received a gold nugget from his California sons - often the means by which Seligmann and Sigmund sent funds homeward...

Heilner family to Sigmund Heilner and Seligmann Heilner, July 9, 1855

Letter from the Heilner family to sons Sigmund Heilner and Seligmann Heilner. Aron writes his sons that he has found a husband for Regina through an agreeable dowry. Nanni, Regina, Caroline and David write additional notes in this letter.

John Yungmeyer

Yungmeyer was a friend of William Weinhardt, whom Hans (John) Weinhardt had contacted by letter two months earlier in an effort to restore contact between the two branches of the Weinhardt family.

Johanna Weinhardt

Carrie Weinhardt

Heinrich Schlee

Heinrich Schlee is a friend of John V. Weinhardt, the latter was born under the name of Hans V. Weinhardt.

Adam Rank

Christiana Schulz

A relative of immigrant John L. Schulz.

Johann Schulz