DEAR FRIENDS:

First, I must apologize for being so late with this issue of Die Huckere that should have been out in June. I hope never to be this late again.

The next issue of the AHSGR JOURNAL will tell of the interesting sessions held at the Wichita convention. Very heart warming was the memorial service to John Denver (Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr.) and attended by his mother and other relatives. He was a German/Russian. The slide picture we saw of his Deutschendorf grandparents was as familiar to us as looking at our own grandparents early pictures. (see page 2)

Don't forget Wyoming will need our help next year. So, if you can spare one afternoon, a few hours, a day, please volunteer some of your time for this convention.

The morning session with the Village Coordinators was interesting but mostly pertained to computer use.

I'm pleased to tell you that the AHSGR publications mentioned in the March issue of Die Huckere were all mailed to one individual couple who wanted all of them. I was happy to pack them up and send them to J.B. and Marlene (Sack) Coats. I know they will enjoy them.

Are there any of you who are researching the HIXT surname that would be willing to share with me the cost of ordering this genealogy chart from Dr. Pleve? Please let me know.

THIS ISSUE OF DIE HUCKERE

Starting on page 3 is a description of Huck which I obtained from the International office of AHSGR several years ago.

Pages 5,6, and 7 is a sad letter written to Conrad Frick in Montrose, Colorado from his brother Jacob Frick in Russia and the grandfather of Adam Kindsvater, who now lives in Germany. The letter was written in the year 1932.

Some of you were at the convention in Lincoln at Village Night when I presented the pictures and story of Sue Kottswitz and her 1993 trip to Russia and the village of Huck. Pages 9 thru 12 are the story and pictures. Sue now lives in Gretna, VA and is the editor of Jeruslan Nachrichten, a quarterly newsletter for descendants of the Wiesenseite daughter colonies along the southern Jeruslan River and comprised the Gradenthau Evangelical Lutheran Church Parish: Wiesenmuller, Friedenberg, Blumenfeldt, Morgentau, Kana, Strassburg, Frankreich, Weimar & Neu Galka.

SEND INFORMATION TO:
Dolores Schwartz * 1000 Butler Ave. * Lincoln, NE 68521*402-435-3636

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