<head><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style></head><body id="compText"><font color="#ff0000"><font size="4"><font face="arial, sans-serif">A lot of what we already find on SGGEE is thanks to Mr. Muth and other dedicated SGGEE member genealogists. I give thanks for these wonderful people quite often. Never have I seen a more dedicated group of researchers who are willing to drop everything to answer our genealogy questions. </font></font></font><div><font color="#ff0000"><font size="4"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#ff0000"><font size="4"><font face="arial, sans-serif">What I admired most abut Mr. Muth was that he understood (and agreed) when I said that I didn't want him to give me answers to my questions....I just wanted enough information to point me in the right direction. As I told him, I wanted to find my own pot at the end of the rainbow.</font></font></font></div><div><font color="#ff0000"><font size="4"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#ff0000"><font size="4"><font face="arial, sans-serif">I never met him, other than through emails, and would like to see what he looked like. If anyone has a photograph, please post it so I can say thanks in person....or as close as I'll ever get to it being in person.</font></font></font></div><div><font color="#ff0000"><font size="4"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></font></font></div><div><font color="#ff0000"><font size="4"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Beth Burke</font></font></font></div><div><font color="#ff0000"><font size="4"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Verona, WI<br><br><br></font></font></font>-----Original Message-----<br>>From: Alex paulsen <acp1956@att.net><br>>Sent: Jul 19, 2013 5:29 PM<br>>To: Jerry Frank <franklyspeaking@shaw.ca>, "SGGEE.org" <ger-poland-volhynia@eclipse.sggee.org><br>>Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Albert Muth - Obituary<br>><br>>I sure hope his family donates his genealogical research, so others will be able to use his research to help them. It sounds like he was a walking book of knowledge from the comments I've read.<br>>Prayers for his family during this difficult time of loss.<br>>Connie Paulsen<br>>researching Golnik, Semrau, Krampitz in Lipno area of Poland.<br>><br>><br>>________________________________<br>>From: Jerry Frank <franklyspeaking@shaw.ca><br>>To: ger-poland-volhynia@sggee.org <br>>Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 7:44 PM<br>>Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Albert Muth - Obituary<br>><br>><br>>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/<br>><br>>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.<br>><br>>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.<br>><br>><br>>Jerry Frank<br>>_______________________________________________<br>>Ger-Poland-Volhynia site list<br>>Ger-Poland-Volhynia@sggee.org<br>>https://www.sggee.org/mailman/listinfo/ger-poland-volhynia<br>>_______________________________________________<br>>Ger-Poland-Volhynia site list<br>>Ger-Poland-Volhynia@sggee.org<br>>https://www.sggee.org/mailman/listinfo/ger-poland-volhynia<br></franklyspeaking@shaw.ca></ger-poland-volhynia@eclipse.sggee.org></franklyspeaking@shaw.ca></acp1956@att.net></div></body>