I have been doing genealogy for about 27 years and over that time have made many friends. Some of those friends have managed to arrange vacations to meet me personally at my home. A major part of the collection of data was far before there was email. There was a lot of letter writing and waiting for responses. Many of the people that I have worked with in those old days of snail mail were nice enough to share copies of their Pleve charts with me so that I could input the data and then print them a word like document that could easily be shared with their other family members. I just checked all the copies of about 20 charts that Pleve has done that I have and there is nothing written on any of the charts that they were done by him nor do they have any dates as to when they were prepared. The only documentation to validate the date of the chart is the cover letter and accompanying copies of records that Pleve sends with the chart. I have the Weber chart for the village of Reinwald. No I have not given my chart to AHSGR since I would like to know who is asking for it and how are they connected. AHSGR knows I have the chart and if someone were to contact me that is family I am more than willing to share copies at no cost to those people. The charts are very expensive and many people feel that if someone wants the chart then payment is requested to try to recoup some of the original cost of the chart. The original Weber chart as well as a copy of the Veller chart for my grandmothers family are now framed (thanks to my husband) and mounted on the wall in my room. If anyone is interested, my data base is over 80,000 people and I have tons of information for many of the volga villages. Susie Weber Hess VC Krasnojar and Reinwald