Peg, I totally agree. I just wanted people to know the other have of the story. Kevin Rupp volgagerman@ruraltel.net krupp@ruraltel.net www.volgagerman.net _____ From: Peg Goodrich [mailto:goodrichpr@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 3:20 PM To: Bill Pickelhaupt Cc: volgagerman@ruraltel.net; ger-volga@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [GV] Response Could you both please take this argument to a different forum? I really don't think this is the place. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Bill Pickelhaupt <billpick11@gmail.com> wrote: How do you know what I said or thought unless you had someone pose and gather my emails and take it to you folks? The conscription project was not going to fruitful, so I went to projects that were. Answer my questions. BP Sent from my HTC Inspire(tm) 4G on AT&T ----- Reply message ----- From: "Kevin Rupp" <volgagerman@ruraltel.net> To: "Bill Pickelhaupt" <billpick11@gmail.com>, "ger-volga@rootsweb.com" <ger-volga@rootsweb.com> Subject: [GV] Response Date: Fri, Feb 21, 2014 4:04 pm Mr. Pickelhaupt, You were hardly on there long enough to learn anything. Once you found out that we were not going to totally bankroll your project, you ditched the board and have been bad-mouthing us ever sense. Mr. Pickelhaupt, I suggest that you get over it and get on with your life and stop boring these people with you whining. Kevin Rupp volgagerman@ruraltel.net krupp@ruraltel.net www.volgagerman.net -----Original Message----- From: ger-volga-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ger-volga-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Bill Pickelhaupt Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 2:53 PM To: GER-VOLGA-L Subject: [GV] Response I served for one meeting of the board. It was obvious I could accomplish more outside the board than on the board, so I left. A bill was paid by AHSGR for translation services - Rick Rye was going to accompany me, but health issues prevented his travel. This was five years ago. I was out the cost of his airline ticket, which was not a problem. It was necessary to employ a translator, however, in the attempt to find conscription records related to Germans from the Volga, since I can not read handwritten Russian. Talk about a Faustian bargain! No records were found, and I moved on to other projects after my departure from the board: translation of VG histories of Protestant villages, research in *Mittheilungen und Nachrichten, *translation of Pastor Frederich Dsirne's history of the Volga-German colonies in Russia, etc. Those items have nothing to do with LDS. BTW, the 1850 and 1857 census data which I did find in Salt Lake City was given by me to Brent Mai. I understand he has translated some of these census records (I am told some census records he gets are directly from Russian archives), and those village census records are available for purchase in the AHSGR bookstore. That is fine with me. Let's see, I paid for my trip from Los Angeles, where I lived at the time, to Salt Lake City, my hotel room and meals in Salt Lake City and gave away the fruits of my discovery. And AHSGR makes some money. Fine with me, because it benefits a large number of researchers. And I do not hold copyright on any of that material. As I said, the annotated Kontora cases are available online. Only the titles and an internal numbering system seem to have survived. I am not fine with my copyrighted work being stolen. As webmaster, Mr. Rupp, it seems you would be in an excellent position to have posted my work to the AHSGR website. Is that the case? A question, not an accusation. There has been collection of my emails by an individual posing as someone disgruntled with AHSGR, gathering my words and running to the board to pass my emails around. Did you coordinate that effort? I would like to know who did coordinate that. Diane did tell me this was going on. People have to be very insecure to worry about what I think. The move to give SOAR obituaries to LDS' familysearch.org website is a positive move. Bill Pickelhaupt ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GER-VOLGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GER-VOLGA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message