---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bill Pickelhaupt <billpick11@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 3:13 PM Subject: Re: [GV] GER-VOLGA Digest, Vol 9, Issue 37 To: Kevin Rupp <krupp@ruraltel.net> 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 On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Kevin Rupp <krupp@ruraltel.net> wrote: > Once again Mr. Pickelhaupt distorts the facts about the Society. The > only dispute to his comments about the Kontora Lost Case Files is > that Mr. Pickelhaupt got all his facts wrong in order to continue his > drumbeat against AHSGR. Mr. Pickelhaupt also goes on to say that > this board member, which is myself, "launched into a personal attack > against him". He fails to mention his personal attacks on myself and > the Society. If anyone would like to know more about the facts on > the Annotated List you may contact me at my email, krupp@ruraltel.net > and I am happy to share with you what is current and correct. Mr. > Pickelhaupt also seems to forget how AHSGR funded a part of his > project to Utah for searching out the LDS Microfilms to prepare a > list of what is available. Once he didn't find what HE wanted he > left the board, only serving for barely two board meetings. > > > > Kevin Rupp > krupp@ruraltel.net > www.ahsgr.org > www.volgagerman.net > www.sunfowerchapterofahsgr.net > > > > > On Feb 21, 2014, at 2:00 AM, ger-volga-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > > > > > Today's Topics: > > > > 1. Obit, Edna Wilmetta Foos (Henry Schmick) > > 2. Kontora lost cases (Bill Pickelhaupt) > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 08:57:57 -0700 > > From: "Henry Schmick" <hschmick@bresnan.net> > > Subject: [GV] Obit, Edna Wilmetta Foos > > To: "Ger-Volga List, " <GER-VOLGA-L@rootsweb.com>, "GR-GENEALOGY, " > > <GR-GENEALOGY@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU> > > Message-ID: <web-3756819@be-5.cluster1.bresnan.net> > > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1; format="flowed" > > > > > > > > > > Foos, Edna Wilmetta, Sept. 14, 1925-Jan. 20, 2014 > > > > The Tribune > > Greeley, Colorado > > 20 Feb 2014 > > > > Age: 89 > > > > Residence: Dallas, Texas, formerly of Denver > > > > Edna Wilmetta Foos, 89, of Dallas, Texas, passed away on Monday, > > Jan. 20, > > 2014, in Dallas. She was born on Sept. 14, 1925, in Windsor, to > > George and > > Marie Schnell. > > Wilmetta graduated from Windsor High School. On Sept. 4, 1946, she > > married > > Victor Foos of Windsor. They lived in Denver until her husband > > retired. They > > then traveled full time in their RV. Victor passed away on June 1, > > 1987. > > Wilmetta is survived by her two daughters, Cindy (Gary) Thomason of > > Dallas, > > and Vickie Monroe of Centennial; three sisters, Isabell Lancaster > > and Nadine > > Hunter of Greeley, and Mildred (Robert) Thomas of Lakewood; and > > sister-in-law, > > Ann Schnell of Broomfield; five grandchildren; and 10 great- > > grandchildren. > > She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; brother, Marvin > > Schnell of > > Broomfield; and sister, Doris Stroman of Greeley. > > A memorial service will be held at 11:15 p.m. Monday, Feb. 24, > > 2014, at the > > Fort Logan Cemetery in Denver. > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 2 > > Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 10:08:54 -0800 > > From: Bill Pickelhaupt <billpick11@gmail.com> > > Subject: [GV] Kontora lost cases > > To: "GER-VOLGA-L@rootsweb.com" <GER-VOLGA-L@rootsweb.com> > > Message-ID: <868172743964601220@unknownmsgid> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > > It appears there is some dispute as to the facts in the situation > > of the > > aborted publication of the lost Kontora cases in English. A board > > member > > contacted me to say what I stated was not right, but then launched > > into a > > nasty personal attack on me. Subsequent information disclosed there > > may > > well be coordinated action against me, but this goes into the legal > > realm. > > > > Bottomline on the Kontora cases, there is a dispute on the facts of > > the > > English publication, and I may not have had all the facts. But the > > Russian > > volumes are available online, as pointed out about a month ago. > > > > Bill Pickelhaupt > > > > Sent from my HTC Inspire(tm) 4G on AT&T > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > To contact the GER-VOLGA list administrator, send an email to > > GER-VOLGA-admin@rootsweb.com. > > > > To post a message to the GER-VOLGA mailing list, send an email to > > GER-VOLGA@rootsweb.com. > > > > __________________________________________________________ > > 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 > > email with no additional text. > > > > > > End of GER-VOLGA Digest, Vol 9, Issue 37 > > **************************************** > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >