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

[Gene Markiewicz]

All I can add to the many kind comments regarding  of Al is that he has left
a legacy of knowledge, hope, approach and confidence to so many of us!...
Pretty wonderful I think.

Gene Markiewicz

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Behalf Of Wilma Schultz
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 10:25 AM
To: Rachael Patterson
Cc: ger-poland-volhynia at sggee.org
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Ger-Poland-Volhynia Digest, Vol 122,
Issue 19

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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wilmaschultz at hotmail.com


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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