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Family of Benigni

Sainte-Catherine Bethléem, 1686-1693

Eponym: Benigni (first mentioned 1686, 2 generations below) Named after Benigni, a forebear named in his descendants’ acts, with no record page of his own yet.Identity: demonstrated (Explicitly attested by the source.)View the record naming him

2 generations · 4 people · 4 records

Tree of 4 people across 2 generations, 4 filiation links attested by a record.

Thomas1686
Catharina1686
Anna1686
Elisabeth1689
1689

✓ Demonstrated≈ Probable? PlausibleNo published level

MembersLife and eventsSources and method

Members

Family members

4 members, 4 of them with a page

Generation 1

  • ThomasIdentity: demonstrated (Explicitly attested by the source.)

    spelling in the record: Thoma · father, record of 1686 · 2 recordsSee the record

  • CatharinaIdentity: demonstrated (Explicitly attested by the source.)

    mother, record of 1686 · 2 recordsSee the record

Generation 2

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Life and events

Parishes

  • Sainte-Catherine Bethléem4 records · 8 mentions

Contemporary context

  • This family is documented in Bethlehem during the attested period of The 1693 plague: Bethlehem and Jerusalem. This overlap of dates and places is given as context: it establishes no individual impact. See the event

    2 members of this family carry a documented link to this event: see their pages. Anna, Elisabeth

Records per decade

Records per decade from 1680s to 1690s, 4 dated records in total.

  • 1680s: 2 records
  • 1690s: 2 records

Band: attested period of The 1693 plague: Bethlehem and Jerusalem.

Sources and method

Starting point

Probable starting point

The identity of the person opening this family is established as probable, not as demonstrated: the filiations shown depend on it.

CatharinaLLP-0441

mother, record of 1686 · See their mention in the 1686 record.

Identity: probable : Starting point (Inferred with high confidence, not attested verbatim.)What this level means

Verification in progress

A verification point is open on a record of the family.

Provenance of the reconstruction

Founding decision and fingerprint, shown here: verifiable, reversible.

Two matched mentions open the lineage, each with its page:

Fingerprint: 4e970660What this is

A record counts once even if it names several members (8 mentions).

The generations shown are deduced from the filiations stated in the records, never read as-is from a single source. Each "Child of" link carries its certainty level and links back to the record that establishes it.

What this level means

  • ✓ Demonstrated, attested by a record
  • ≈ Probable, converging evidence
  • ? Plausible, open hypothesis

Thin line, no marker: attested by a record, no confidence published for this pair.

Ottoman Holy Land Christian Communities Project, "Family of Benigni," accessed 17 August 2026, https://levantinelives.org/en/familles/F117/. Version cited: snapshot from 17 August 2026, hash b13bd7cd21c8.

Cite this record.

Reference (Chicago style).

Ottoman Holy Land Christian Communities Project, "Family of Benigni," accessed 17 August 2026, https://levantinelives.org/en/familles/F117/. Version cited: snapshot from 17 August 2026, hash b13bd7cd21c8.

See the BibTeX and RIS formats
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  title        = {Family of Benigni},
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  year         = {2026},
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  note         = {Snapshot 2026-08-17, hash b13bd7cd21c8, id F117},
  urldate      = {2026-08-17}
}
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