ANTON
Betty
Muradian
This
village
doesn't
have
a
large
group
of
interested
people.
I
would
appreciate
any
information
on
any
trips
taken
through
the
Anton
area
and
also,
any
photos
that
people
would
be
willing
to
share.
I
all
ready
have
collected
information
and
pictures
on
Anton
from
recent
visitors
there.
I
have
been
following
up
on
the
histories
of
Alexanderdorf
in
the
S.
Caucus,
Baku,
Gnadendorf,
and
Tashkent,
as
these
areas
were
either
settled
or
visited
by
workers
from
Anton
in
the
past
century.
A
genealogy
database
on
Anton
has
been
started,
but
it
hasn't
been
completed
at
this
time.
Anyone
with
any
questions
or
information
on
Anton
may
contact
me.
BALZER
Balzer
Web
Site
Wayne
Bonner
The
Balzer
group
is
alive
and
well.
We
maintain
a
subscription
of
30+
to
the
Balzer
Newsletter.
At
this
time,
the
future
of
the
newsletter
seems
secure.
Just
have
to
get
people
to
submit
articles
and
other
tidbits.
In
the
past
year
we
have
obtained
more
pieces
of
the
1850
and
1857
census
for
Balzer.
We
now
have
about
half
of
1857.
Have
also
been
requesting
abstracts
of
baptismal
and
marriage
records.
Next
May
the
California
District
Council
will
be
having
their
annual
summer
meeting
at
the
LDS
Family
History
Center
in
Los
Angeles.
In
conjunction
with
this
meeting,
I
am
proposing
that
ALL
Balzer
and
Moor
researchers
and
anyone
else
interested
have
a
meeting
where
we
can
discuss
the
newsletter,
future
goals,
and
get
a
chance
to
meet.
As
May
approaches,
the
details
will
be
finalized.
Herb
Femling
is
still
doing
a
great
job
with
the
Balzer
web
Page.
Dr.
Darrell
Weber
continues
to
maintain
the
Balzer
data
base.
He
filled
in
for
me
at
the
Convention,
then
in
August
went
to
Budingen
for
research.
The
following
is
his
report:
During
the
past
year
we
have
obtained
from
AHSGR
the
family
history
records
of
people
becoming
members
of
AHSGR
from
Balzer.
I
have
been
entering
them
into
PAF
to
organize
them
into
family
groups.
We
are
trying
to
tie
groups
together
where
a
daughter
marries
a
son
from
another
family.
At
the
convention,
We
had
a
number
of
people
stop
by
and
we
used
a
portable
computer
to
look
up
information
on
their
families.
In
August
I
traveled
to
Budingen,
Germany
and
visited
the
records
department.
They
suggested
visiting
a
man
named
Heuston
in
Budingen.
When
I
visited
him,
I
learned
that
20
years
ago
he
went
to
the
churches
in
the
different
villages
near
Budingen
and
copied
the
church
records.
He
is
a
great
resource
for
checking
ancestors
that
left
the
villages
near
Budingen
to
go
to
Russia.
He
is
older
but
the
records
are
in
good
handwriting.
I
also
visited
the
village
of
Rohrbach
where
several
of
my
ancestors
left
to
go
to
Russia.
They
have
a
new
young
minister
that
was
cooperative
but
was
not
interested
in
the
old
records.
He
did
let
us
look
and
photograph
from
the
1700
church
records.
The
ink
is
faded
by
we
could
still
read
the
names
of
our
ancestors.
The
records
have
not
been
microfilmed.
We
learned
something
else
about
cemeteries
in
Germany.
About
15
years
ago
I
photographed
some
of
the
headstones
in
the
cemetery
near
the
church.
This
time
I
could
not
even
find
the
old
headstones.
Apparently
one
rents
a
grave
plot
for
about
25
years
and
then
they
sell
the
same
spot
to
another
family
and
bury
their
dead
in
the
same
grave.
So
one
will
not
have
much
luck
looking
for
old
headstones
of
your
ancestors
in
cemeteries
in
Germany.
BRUNNENTAL
(Kriwojar)
Brunnental
Web
Site
Sherrie
(Gettman)
Stahl
This
year
we
did
not
have
a
newsletter,
but
I
have
continued
to
collect
data
from
descendants
of
the
village
for
our
database.
Currently
we
have
over
25,000
names
and
are
adding
information
daily.
We
are
still
in
contact
with
descendants
living
in
Germany
thanks
to
the
work
of
Arlene
Rolfs,
from
Kansas.
She
is
planning
another
trip
to
Germany
in
2000.
We
have
received
the
1850
&
1857
census
information
(17
pages)
for
those
people
going
to
Brunnental
(Settlement
Lists)
from
the
villages
of
Norka,
Kolb,
&
Walter.
We
are
still
looking
for
information
on
those
families
from
Frank.
Those
lists
are
$10
each.
DOBRINKA
Web
site
has
Ebenezer
Lutheran
of
Sheboygan,
WI
deaths
primarily
and
is
in
reformatted
version
and
a
little
strange
to
read;
but
it
works
for
a
researcher
to
find
an
unknown
GR
family
and
they
were
here
as
I
have
helped
others
find
MORE
unknown
family.
Web
site
above:
also
has
Citizenship
Data
for
Sheboygan,
Wisconsin
done
by
Ertel.
My
grandparents
did
not
get
naturalized
and
you
will
find
their
two
sons
on
Ertel's
work
and
the
girls
are
married
and
appear
later.
Will
try
to
get
more
Ebenezer
Lutheran
names
translated
and
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