[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Albert Muth - Obituary

[Mauricio Norenberg]

Very sad news, he helped so much and was still so active.
RIP Al. You will be missed.


On 18 July 2013 23:29, Bronwyn Klimach <bronklimach at gmail.com> wrote:

> I can only echo Maureen's sentiments.  Al had a huge depth of knowledge,
> especially when it came to genealogy of Evangelicals  in Poland.
> Al helped so many of us in many different ways, and will certainly be
> greatly missed.
> Bron.
>
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 3:48 AM, T M Schoenky <spaghettitree at aol.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Al Muth touched many more lives - and families - than he probably ever
> > realized.  What a magnificent legacy his generosity of spirit has left -
> > but gone way, way too soon.    I've saved many of his comments over the
> > years, and just thought he would always be there when I got around to
> > asking specific questions.   A huge loss for all of us, a part of all our
> > families.
> >
> > With tears in my eyes - thank you, Al Muth!
> >
> > Maureen Schoenky, Santa Susana, California
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jim Pekrul <jpekrul at chartermi.net>
> > To: 'Jerry Frank' <franklyspeaking at shaw.ca>; ger-poland-volhynia <
> > ger-poland-volhynia at sggee.org>
> > Sent: Wed, Jul 17, 2013 7:35 pm
> > Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Albert Muth - Obituary
> >
> >
> > Very sad news about Al. I met him in Dec 2000 at the FHC in Grand Rapids,
> > MI. He set me in the right direction the first night,  he had seen  my
> > surname in the films he was indexing. I sat next to him at the FHC every
> > Wednesday night looking at films for a number of years until he moved to
> > Detroit.  Just two weeks ago he answered a question about a Lithuania
> > surname that I was working on for my wife's line.  I was so inspired by
> him
> > to find my family roots that in 2007 my wife and I went to Poland to
> visit
> > a
> > cousin that I had met on line.
> >
> > Jim Pekrul
> > Big Rapids, MI
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ger-Poland-Volhynia [mailto:ger-poland-volhynia-bounces at sggee.org]
> > On
> > Behalf Of Jerry Frank
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 8:44 PM
> > To: ger-poland-volhynia at sggee.org
> > Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Albert Muth - Obituary
> >
> > I was stunned when I came home from work to hear this news.  It is my sad
> > duty to report that Albert (Al) Muth passed away from pulmonary embolism
> > (blood clots) at his home, Sunday July 15.  A brief obituary can be found
> > on
> > this site http://www.mccabefuneralhome.com/Publishsite/
> >
> > Al was only 55 but he crammed a whole lot of genealogical research into
> > those few years.  I was first introduced to him in the mid 1990s when he
> > did
> > some genealogical research for Wandering Volhynians magazine.  It was
> later
> > in the founding years of SGGEE that he became extremely active through
> his
> > extraction of literally hundreds of thousands of names from Russian
> Poland
> > Lutheran records.  SGGEE, its members, and those who have passed this way
> > as
> > friends owe him a huge debt for helping us to do our research.  He did
> this
> > through his general extractions, through his historical and language
> > research and especially through personal messages in direct
> correspondence
> > with us.  He did not keep his research to himself but shared it with us
> and
> > many others around the world.  He seldom did the specific family research
> > for us but allowed us to make our own discoveries by pointing us to
> people,
> > places, and records.
> >
> > As several people have already indicated in private messages I received,
> Al
> > is irreplaceable and will be sorely missed.  Please join us in extending
> > our
> > prayers and thoughts of condolences to his surviving family.
> >
> >
> > Jerry Frank
> >
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