The family group page is a quick and  “social way” to introduce your family to visitors.  “My parents are”, “There are so many kids in this order”, and “Here are brief comments on that. ” Pictures and words. 

Family Tree genealogical details are fascinating but often are too dense, confusing, challenging to navigate, and so forth. Genealogy charts are not always a quick introduction to a family.  Therefore we offer a more informal way — the genealogical detail is always somewhere for those who are interested.

You, as Family Contact, generally decides what is in this page since you provide the pictures, descriptions, and an idea of how to present those.  Arranging, deciding, and providing material on the Family Page is a obvious task for you.  (At present you send the pictures and text to us and we fill in the blanks.  However, if you are comfortable with editing the page we can make you an EDITOR so you can do the work instead of us! — Oh the power to screw things up –)

Some families are easy to describe while others get complex,  Try clearly and simply explaining my Grandfather, Joseph Schutz, with his six consecutive wives — one with several kids from a previous marriage.  Luckily figuring previous generations may be left to the “Ancestors Group”.   Individuals can address how to present their parents, if they wish.

Deciding how to present a quick graphic overview of a particular family may be challenging because families today are often merged groups with varying organization.  We suggest you work on your own family and delegate related individual pages to another contact, someone very close to that related family.   Parents are a good choice since they have opinions and thoughts, they probably have pictures, and it promotes more sharing by spreading out “the load”.

The Ivon & Evelyn Huntzinger group (above) is easy to describe since it is a simple marriage with kids.  Irene Barton’s group is a little more complex with one marriage, divorce, two kids, and then a second marriage with no attached kids.  HGH had a marriage with one son, then a marriage with eight children.  Hubert Gilead Huntzinger had one marriage with three children, another marriage with two children, and a third with no children; the spouses remarried and “step children” connected to this extended group increases.  My own case is a modern example, a marriage and divorce with no children and a life commitment with a divorcee with one child and two grandchildren.  The complexities of describing the possible arrangements is what makes this exciting and challenging.  And this may be more interesting if there was or still is conflict and/or confusion about different events.  How do you explain your extended family  “clearly” to a new friend?  (As builders of this website, we will not decide for you — the content decisions rest with you, the Family Contact.)

Th suggested basic structure follows a guideline of:

1. name of the group,
2. a group picture with
3. description,
4. the parents with  pictures and
5. names and
6. dates and 
7. description,  then
8. kids with
9. picture and
10. name and
11. dates and
12. description leading to their individual pages, and
13. a  button that links to that page. 

Figuring how to do this is actually rather simple: sit down jotting ideas with a pencil on paper while you pretend you are describing your family to someone.

Robert Huntzinger decided to present the Ivon & Evelyn Huntzinger family with pictures of the children taken when they were growing up; the parent’s pictures are as grandparents (Ivon and Evelyn are deceased so you would not meet them today).  He followed the same idea on his own family page, Robert and ej Huntzinger group — his and ej’s pictures show them as you would meet them today (his teenage picture was “up a page”on his parent’s family page).

How do you send the pictures and details to us so we can put them in your family group? 

It’s rather easy.  Call us (206-356-3649 Ralph Huntzinger) and we’ll talk through the process.  Find the pictures, copy them so you can send them.  Compose the email with details.  Then attach  pictures to the email that has the details and send that to us.  (There is probably a very generic page with a password that you can look at and check the progress.)

As I get an idea of how you would like the page to look, I’ll change the look of the generic page and fill in with what you send me.  Then we’ll talk back and forth so the page looks the way you want — when you agree, we’ll remove the password and publish it.  The way the page looks and what is included on the page is up to the Family Contact!

a simple email link




Close button text

This quick link pulls up a form that at the bottom has a “browse” button which allows you to attach up to five pictures to the message.

On the left is a metal disc that resides on a patio in Salt Lake City.  When flipped to the “back side” it becomes an antique from the end of the 19th century.  Not too interesting unless its inner character is filled with life.  It is, of course, a “cover” or “plate” for a hole in a wood burning kitchen stove that cooked meals for a family.  But what stove, what family? 

What peaks our interest is that it was picked up in Arizona at [add GPS location] in the later part of the 20th century seventy years after its significant use.  It had laid ignored and rusting in a simple  “shack” in a desolate valley about twelve miles southwest from Bowie AZ.  (Nine and half  miles in straight line on map, eight and half miles down freeway and then 12 miles on “ranch road”, or following an adventure of “local ranch road connections” which cuts out the “highway” it is only 12 miles.  Journal entries from the beginning of the 20th century describe “the ranch” as about “eleven and half miles from Bowie by wagon.”

On the right is the stove in Jan 1969 ten years before the stove “cover/plate” was picked up.  “Looking in the north door at stove and out west window.” The stove is on the other side of this falling down west facing wall.  It’s located in a little “shack” in a desolate valley about eleven miles southwest from Bowie AZ.

Placer claims were staked on this land and later when it opened for homesteading 30 acres we claimed for farming and 290 for grazing.  [family of four lived in covered wagon, until house built about 1910.]  [land cleared of stumps

January 1969 trip

rounded corners on print — note on back of (#73, no back for #72 & no image for #73) says: “Jan 1969 Huntzinger Homestead  Looking northwest from side of Maveric Mt. behind homestead.  Light area was orchard  Present sagebrush area was the plowed field with house in it.”  processing stamp on back has May69PA

“well and water trough to the southwest of house.”

North  Southwest corner of house.  Jan ’69 and Kodak May69PA

“East side of the house  I think this was the front or approach to the house.  Flower garden would have been on these sides.”

“west side of house”

North Southwest corner of house.”

Aan ’69 “Looking south into POlecat Canyon where the Huntzinger homestead is located.  Dos Cabezas Mts in the background.

“looking northwest across old orchard and plowed field toward the house.”

“Remains of bee hives in edge of orchard.”

“Southeast corner of house (few minutes before a rain storm)”

“looking east across the dry creek bed.”

“Looking northwest from side of Maveric Mt. behind homestead.  Light area was orchard  Present sagebrush area was the pllowed field with house in it.”

“corral to the south of the house”

May 1972 trip

Ron Huntzinger (probably Carol Huntzinger at left, same clothes as photo with Randal)

back has note of “May 1972”, looks like the back of Ron, printed with square corners

Ron has same outfit as May 1972 photo with date.  Ivon, Randal, Ron Huntzinger.

probably May 1972 trip (Randal & Carol in picture)

edge of photo has May 72 processing/printing date]  “Carol Huntzinger, Randal Hess”

Ivon, Evelyn, Craig

back labeled “May 1972  cornfields” [however – rounded corners and lack of black stripe on edge (looks like dirt instead of stripe).