January 8, 1999
Roberta Greeenway
bobefg@sprintmail.com
Rt. 1 Box 1020
Cement, OK73017
I compliment you on this website. I enjoy reading about your family. It also confirmed alot of my research on history and so forth. Though I still have to make a connection through Yagodnaya Polyana I feel I am on the right track. A beautiful job.
http://home.sprintmail.com~bobefg/Index.html

January 8, 1999
Kris Ball
krisball@dodgecity.org
Wow!! WOW!! You have done a fantastic job on your web site! It is a wonderful resource, and technically well-done. Love the waving wheat! You should be very proud of your hard work!
http://users/pld/com/skmug1

January 8, 1999
Ken Stugart
iamken@worldnet.att.net
Patrice,
As always, you have done an outstanding job. What a good idea and I just love those old photos. You can just tell in the faces the hard life they had. I hope this type of site catches on.
Kenny

February 6, 1999
Jim Lautenslager
JIMLAUTS@aol.com
17848 267th Pl.
Covington, WA 98042
I am just starting to research my family name and this site is fantastic. It has been a wonderful source of help. Thank you so much for the work you have done. I found that my great grandfather came from Yagodnaya Polayana also. Makes me feel so connected.
Thanks again

February 12, 1999
John Goerlitz
johngoer@essex1.com
222 N. Jones
Amboy, IL 61310
My Grandfather Johannes G. Gorlitz came from Yagodnaya. Born there in 1866 & came to the USA in 1893-94. Researching more. Looks as if there may have been a Goerlitz in your line! Very nice site!

May 4, 1999
Michael James Befus
michaelbefus@hotmail.com
4067 Stockdale Drive
Vadnais Heights, MN 55127-7521
Was referred to your site by Sandra Kobs of Oshkosh, WI who is my first cousin.

July 6, 1999
Larry Konschuh
konlr@attbi.com
Calgary, Canada T1Y 1N3
Great website. Helpful in my search for ancestors.

July 10, 1999
Gary Lamar Weitz
glweitz@msn.com
Modesto, CA 95350
Oustanding site!!! Will be submitting information on our Weitz family in Central California.

August 2, 1999
Patti Stange
lilmissy@afes.com
2988 Rumsey Canyon Road
Rumsey, CA 95679
I am new at this sort of thing but love this web site. Gary Weitz is my first cousin. Have much more info regarding family of Charles T. and Mary Schmidt Weitz

August 19, 1999
Philip Freimann
pfreimann@mindspring.com
Montgomery, AL
Patrice - thanks so much for your note in GER-VOLGA about 'GR Naming Patterns' and your link to your page - and the link to Kerchner's further explanation. This has always been a mystery to me. By the way, your web site gets better every time I visit. Thanks for sharing your info with the GR community. Phil

August 25, 1999
Ruth (Morasch) Williams
F26ruth@aol.com
Portland, OR 97230
What a great service you have done to share all of your wonderful work with the rest of us. I think you should put it in a book form so others who are not computer literate could gain from this work and labor of love.

August 25, 1999
Winifred R. Price
winiprice@msn.com
14351 26th Avenue NE
Seattle, WA 98125
I read your website with great interest. My grandfather, John Gottleib Price was the husband of Anna Marie (Emma) Weitz. She was the second wife and I am a descendant from his first wife.

August 31, 1999
Victoria Osier-Mixon
gotheca@yahoo.com
Felton, CA
I got the name of the NDSU website from a PBS program on the Germans from Russia. I found my grandfather's father, Philip "JP" Weitz, on your website only hours after my grandfather gave me JP's name and his own birthplace. My grandfather spoke German as a first language, but he didn't know what part of Russia his father had come from, when they immigrated, or where they landed. I called him to tell him that I'd found his family and to get information on his sisters and brother for the site. He was so very pleased to know that such records exist! He had just been telling me that he regretted that information like this has not been handed down within our family. All five of the siblings in his family are alive and well in California, and my great-uncle still works in the fields sometimes, at the age of 91. Although my grandfather is in perfect health, at the age of 89 he is slowly fading from the grief of my grandmother's death, and nothing makes him happy the way that family does. Knowing about your website has given him joy and made him feel that his roots and life history do matter in the greater scheme of things. Thank you *so much* for that!

Nov 29, 1999
Connie M. Day nee Weitz
norcon@willapabay.org
1405 107th Lane
Long Beach, WA, 98631
God Bless you! I've known so much of my family history and so little. When the Iron Curtain fell in 1949 my father, Conrad, declared all potentially dead to us. Until that time he had continued to correspond with his sisters. We had a full month of nightly wakes. People from all over came to our home, there were relatives from Endicott, Walla Walla, Calgary and everywhere else. I was in the eighth grade at the time and this left a lasting impression in my mind and heart. The stories I heard and the prayers.....oh, my! I've left all contacts alone until now. All of a sudden as I grow older I ache and reach out to find some of the people I heard about. I was raised by my grandparents so I was pampered by all the "old ones" and they were truly wonderful. Your website is absolutely outstanding.....as I read through it I have chuckled, nodded with recognition so many of the names, and, yes, I have even cried. I will be getting in touch with you again after the first of the year. I was raised in Colfax, Washington and I knew almost all the "old ones" that came from Yagodna. These people formed their own church for their private worship. We had prayer meetings Saturday night, Sunday afternoons, Sunday evenings and Wednesday nights. Oh, the things I could tell you. I won't continue to rattle on.....just, thank you, Thank You, THANK YOU!

Dec 11, 1999
Amy Beth Weitz
weitza@wsd73.wednet.edu
206 Desert Aire Dr. N.
Mattawa, WA 99349
To start with, I would like to say, "I love this site!" It is so exciting to find information about my family. As I was reading, I found that my grandfather's name wasn't with his family. So, I would like to help correct the information. My grandfather is the third child of Alexander C. Weitz. His name is Victor Weitz and he was born in 1911. The information read that he was "male" and born about 1908. Please let me know if there is any more information I could help you with. Thank you for the wonderful site.
Amy Weitz

Benjamin Cook (Koch)
bccook@telusplanet.net
Alberta, Canada
Both of my grandparents came from Yagodanaya, their names were Philip Koch and Johann Leinweber. I would like to hear from anyone who would know of the whereabouts of any family members left in Russia. I must compliment you on your website. It is extremely well done and I hope others will follow your initiative in keeping our history alive for future generations.

February 16, 2000
William Weitz Jr.
omar@vbe.com
1306 Snowdon Drive
Oshkosh, WI 54904
Hi Patrice,
Read your great work. Printed it all and showed my Mom and Dad. By the way, Alvina is my Aunt. Please E-Mail me your phone number I would like a conversation with you. Sorry I missed you last summer. Bill

March 12, 2000
Ian Weitz
ibweitz@telusplanet.net
Calgary
Alta, Canada
The site is beautifully and informatively set up. It was fabulous to see so much work on the history of the Weitz family acheived. It has excited me to find out more about my heritage and where I have come from. Thank you very much. My family is one of the unconnected, Adam Weitz b. approx 1886 in Yagodnaya and emigrated to Calgary, Canada in approx. 1909-1915 and as of yet we have not been able to get his father or mothers name. His wife was Mary (Marie) Morasch and they had 6 children. Adam died in approx. 1952 in Calgary. Any further help would be apprecciated in connecting this branch to the tree. Thank you very much. Ian.

March 18, 2000
Ernest Weitz Brown
ewbrowndsm@juno.com
4519 Grand Ave. #4
Des Moines, Iowa 50312-2430
Excellent site! Thank you and greetings from another Weitz researcher. "My" Weitz was Karl Heinrich / Charles Henry, a journeyman carpenter b. 1826 who imm. from Schotten, not far from Nidda, in 1850 and came to Iowa in 1855 to establish the Weitz Company, now a large and well-known construction firm. There is some Schotten material here which I would gladly share with those interested.

April 16, 2000
Judy Miller
judy.miller@telusplanet.net
Box 41
Bowden Alberta, Canada T0M 0K0
Trying to locate info on a great-aunt from Yagodnaya Polyana, but unfortunately do not know her name. Her parents were Conrad and Marie Elis. Merkel,and she had a brother & sister-in-law, Johann and Elizabeth (Poffenroth) Merkel. Conrad, Marie Elis., Johann and Elizabeth all immigrated to Calgary, Alberta in 1911, but my aunt stayed behind with her husband and children. The name Merkel is in your family tree, as is Poffenroth, some of whom are my cousins. Any idea on how I could find the missing information? Johann last heard from his sister by letter around 1935 or 1936.

April 28, 2000
David R. Weitz Jr.
davewjr@davlan.com
4273 Flora Place
St. Louis, MO 63110
Wow, what a well laid out site. Thanks to all who put this together. I am an only son of David R. Weitz Sr. My grandfather was an only son as well and passed away when I was only five. There is very little knowledge of our history. My grandfather was Elmer Weitz and his father was Julius Valentine Weitz. This is as far as we go back. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank You David R. Weitz Jr.

July 12, 2000
Gary Warner
glwarner@narrowgate.net
2920 Clydebank Circle
Birmingham, AL 35242
Patrice!
What a beautiful page! My own family is the SCHOESSLER family from Walter, Russia. I was interested to see the Schiessler and Schoessler mentions in your tree, and wondered if you had more information. My own family took the spelling SCHISSLER, and I have a mailing list by that name: SCHISSLER-L@rootsweb.com.
Good luck in your research!

July 24, 2000
Kathy Weitz
library@beaufortco.com
Chocowinity, NC
My father in law was David Weitz, 8th son of Phillip and Anna Marie Wilhelm Weitz, born in Saskatoon, Sasasquawan, Canada, April 13, 1917. He moved to Oshkosh with his family where his father worked at Paine Lumber Co. David died in North Carolina in November, 1995.

September 9, 2000
Brad Jones
brad.jones@bljis.com
8030 Tallon Way
Antelope, CA 95843
Thank you for all the time and effort you've invested in this website and for the personal information you provided me. With your help I was able to discover 10 direct ancestors and several hundred "cousins". I've also learned so much about the Russian-German's and their incredible struggles. Thank you.

October 21, 2000
Catherine Schmick
nimuesprite@yahoo.com
6621 delfern
San Diego, CA 92120
I loved your website! I especially liked the photo of Katherine Schmick! My family is from Yagadoya (oops), also, and I can't help wondering if my family married into yours. There appears to be several Schmicks who have married with yours; do you have any information on Katherine? My grandfather's name was Alexander Schmick and he was the eldest of 10 children. I also found the picture of Marie Elisabeth fascinating--that was my grandmother's name.I also know that my family went over on the Elbe in the 1890's. Any information you might have on the Schmick side would be wonderful.
Auf wiedersehn, Caterina Schmick

November 9, 2000
Johannes Weitz
Pretoria, South Africa 0149
Wonderfull site!So much effort deserves credit. Nice to learn about the farmers in our family and the rest of our history.Enjoyed the pictures very much!

November 18, 2000
Mark R. Leinweber
mleinweb@ecentral.com
Frederick, CO/USA 80504
I am just begining resarch on the Leinweber family. My Grandfather's name is Henry Leinweber. He lived in the Longmont, CO area for the majority of his life. His wife's name was Molly. Any information on where the Leinweber's originated from and descendent information would be appreciated.

December 1, 2000
Phyllis Mabrito
pmabrito@msn.com
111 Swamp Fox Tr
Greer, SC 29650
My mother and her family came from Yagodnaya and we are now doing our geneaology on them- Fisher & Gorr. So interesting to chat with others. Thank you.

December 4, 2000
Darryl Paffenroth
dpaffen@pobox.com
2500 Deer Valley Rd. #1412
San Rafael, CA 94903
I have just recently been discovering my Paffenroth family history. I have learned that the Pfaffenroths also came from Kidda and were original founders of Yagodyana Polyana. My grandmother was a Lautenschlager. My aunt Mary was born in Russia and married a Luft. My aunt Elizabeth married a Daubert. I found all of these names in the list of village founders and also in your family tree. The Weitz name is new to me but it appears to have been closely intertwined with my family name(s) for at least 200 years.

January 7, 2001
Please, read my homepage about the Weitz-family in Wassenberg (Germany) and Bergen op Zoom (Netherlands)
http://home.westbrabant.net/~jweijts
jweijts@westbrabant.net

January 14, 2001
Herbert R. & Joan Morasch Jr
hrmorasch@mstg.net
13143 So. Omaha Street
Pine, CO 80470
What a great source of information. We started reseaching this due to a school project for our daughter, Emily.Thank you Patrice Miller. Herbert R. Morasch Jr. son of Herbert Morasch b:Mar 31, 1922 & Mary Spencer b:Jul 23, 1924

January 21, 2001
Linda Muir
linda.muir@sympatico.ca
15, chemin du Fleuve
Pointe-des-Cascades, Quebec, Canada J0P 1M0
You have done a fantastic job on the WEITZ family. My grandfather's name was VEATS and he was from England, but it seems that the name was originally WEITZ. I have gone back as far as Peter Veats whose wife was Mary. He would have immigrated to England from Germany. They had 3 sons who were all christened in 1832 in England. Peter would probably have been born around 1788. Maybe you or one of your readers could be of assistance. Thank you.

January 27, 2001
Doug Weitz
dougweitz@attbi.com
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
My Grandfather, Max Weitz, (of Christian faith) entered Canada from Germany in 1928. He was born and raised just east of Berlin. Most of his family were killed during WWII by the Russians. He married Emma Winter of Burstall, Sask., then settled in Stettler, Alberta until his death in 1971. His children and grandchildren live in Edmonton, AB, Calgary, Ab and Carmen Manitoba.

February 10, 2001
Gerry Weitz
Weitz-Shaw1@attbi.com
14440 Trailwind Rd.
Poway, CA 92064
I was born on Nov. 2, 1954, in Cleveland, Ohio. I have a sister, Rose, born in 1951. My father was born in the Bronx, NY, Dec. 30, 1922. I have 2 sons, Barry and Jonathan. My grandfather is Louis Weitz. He was born in the area around the Russian-Polish border, eventually made his way to Germany and immigrated to the US approximately 1915, during his teens. We do have a family tree that could be shared.

May 5, 2001
William Kent Weitz
sleepyweasel72@hotmail.com
5208 Ward Road
Plant City, Florida 33567
GREAT SITE!!! I am just starting out on my quest to trace the Paternal side of my ancestry (I've already concluded my Maternal trace...whew!). I was born in Findlay, Ohio as well as my father, Wm. James Weitz and I am pretty sure that my grandfather, Francis Joseph Weitz was also. I do love your site and I'll stop back again.
Sincerely,
Wm. Kent Weitz

July 4, 2001
Edward A. Weitz, Jr.
eweitz@satx.rr.com
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Most of my predecessors are from the same area. None of which entered the country through Ellis island.

August 31, 2001
Cheryl Tracy
thetracyfami@earthlink.net
410 Bell Ave
Henderson, NV 89015
Maybe you can help. All I know about my maternal grandparents is that they came from a german colony in Russia.
My grandfather was Julius Weitz
My Grandmother was Mary Elizabeth Schmick
They lived in Portland, OR and Walla Walla, WA areas.
My mother was Charlotte Lorraine Weitz and was born in 1927 in Portland, OR She had 1 brother: August Julius Weitz and sisters Matilda, Ann, Laina.
Thanks for any help you can give me.

September 29, 2001
Jason Wayne Helm
Slices@aibn.on.com
Researching my family name with the little I know of our history. Thank you for concise information that has provided me with more leads. The best to you and yours. Safe travel and good fortune.

November 6, 2003
Sheila Weitz
sweitz@rmisp.com
P.O. Box 218
Jackson, Wyoming 83001
I am grateful to Patrice Miller for her research on the Weitz Family, and for taking the time to prepare this site. It is only because of Patrice, and this site, that I learned of my heritage two years ago. It has made a huge difference in my life. Thanks.

November 19, 2003
Ed Weitz Jr
eweitz@satx.rr.com
San Antonio,Texas, USA
I am searching for ancestors from Europe that emigrated circa 1948 with child named Adam Weitz born May 22, 1840 in the Hesse Darmstadt area or Germany.

November 20, 2003
Donna Richards
memagma@yahoo.com
1206 11th Ave
Kearney, NE 68845
What a wonderful site. So many of the family names are also part of my family. However, I did not see my grandfathers family, "Lahnert", they also came from yagonda, Russia. Conrad Lahnert b.June 5,1883, married Mary Catherine Koch b. July 28, 1882. Marriage date was Nov 14, 1902, I do have a photo of them. Kris Ball and I are related, not sure how? Would like to visit with anyone about these families. Information would be appreciated and I will be glad to send on what I have. Thank you for the wonderful information your site has provided.
Sincerly, Donna

December 28, 2003
Jo Ann (Weitz) Wesenberg
rickboe@core.com
3552 Hwy 116
Omro, WI 54963
What a great site. Just started to look through it. My dad is Raymond Weitz born in Oshkosh WI. My dad is the son of John and Katherine(Kromm)Weitz of Oshkosh, WI If you would like to contact me for any information please feel free to do so.

January 8, 2004
Donna Richards
1206 11th Ave
Kearney, NE 68845
While viewing your wonderful web site, I find that I have family somewhere in the Weitz line. It would be my Great Great Grandmother, Katherine Marie (Mary) Weitz born 1845 in Yagodnaya Polyana, Saratov, Russia. She died Feb 14, 1924 in Scott City, Kansas. She married Johann Heinrich (Henry Koch) About 1870 in Yagodnaya. I don't know her parents and looking throught the lineage I haven't found the connection. I hope you can help me fill in the gaps. I throughly enjoyed the photos. Hope to hear from you.
Sincerely
Donna Richards
308-237-5593

Janaury 12, 2004
Lindsey Weitz
Maryland 20657
Hi,
I know little to nothing about my background. All I truley know is that I carry the name. Thought it would be interested to get some info of past ancestors, what enthics I am.
Thanks

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