[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Albert Muth - Obituary

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I was just going over some old emails from 3 years ago. What a huge help he was. I think we were even related. 

RIP 



Thomas Jess 

Hillsborough NJ 



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From: "T M Schoenky" <spaghettitree at aol.com> 
To: jpekrul at chartermi.net, franklyspeaking at shaw.ca, ger-poland-volhynia at sggee.org 
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 10:48:34 PM 
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Albert Muth - Obituary 


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 


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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 

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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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