[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Ger-Poland-Volhynia Digest, Vol 122, Issue 19

[Wilma Schultz]

I am shocked and saddened by this news. Al was at one time a wonderful help with my genealogy research. It is a sad day indeed .

Wilma.

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On 2013-07-19, at 1:03 AM, Rachael Patterson <patterson.rachael at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sad news indeed. Al Muth was a valuable, knowledgeable & generous
> genealogist. He will be missed. ~ Rachael
> 
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>>   1. Re: Albert Muth - Obituary (Jack Milner)
>>   2. Re: Albert Muth - Obituary (Paul Rakow)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 11:53:34 -0600
>> From: Jack Milner <wjmilner at shaw.ca>
>> To: ger-poland-volhynia at sggee.org
>> Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Albert Muth - Obituary
>> Message-ID: <51E82B9E.3040502 at shaw.ca>
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>> /*" When an older person dies, it is like a library burning."*/
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>> Alex Haley
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>> On 2013-07-17 6:44 PM, Jerry Frank wrote:
>>> 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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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 20:42:21 +0200 (CEST)
>> From: Paul Rakow <paul.edward.luther.rakow at desy.de>
>> To: ger-poland-volhynia at sggee.org
>> Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Albert Muth - Obituary
>> Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.02.1307182033180.19415 at pub3.ifh.de>
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>> 
>>     Like everyone else, I was very shocked to hear this sudden
>>  and unexpected news. Al really had done an amazing amount of
>>  indexing, was really knowledgeable, and had done an excellent
>>  job in the past year or two keeping us aware of all the new
>>  on-line resources.
>> 
>>        We really will feel his absence here,
>> 
>>                  Paul Rakow
>> 
>>  Jerry Frank wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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/
>> 
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