THANKYOU!
For your donations to the Vassel Family
Organization Fund
Because of
the kindness of your donations to the Vassel Family Organization Genealogy
Fund, you have also been donating, behind the scene, to the mission of Bruno
and Cari Vassel in Germany. Your donations have been sufficient so that I have
not had to ask for any additional money from Bruno and Cari this past year.
Thank you so very much!
The family
history effort continues to move forward. I have scanned and attached many
family pictures on www.familysearch.org
on the Vassel, Elmer, Edwards, Kessinger, Hill and Davies family lines. You can
log in for free, and see the pictures in Memories
as well as under each person that has photos attached. Such fun!
I marvel at
the genealogy records that are becoming more and more on the Internet. A really
great discovery was the church records of the town of Gröben just south of
Berlin, Germany which has provided information back into the 1500s on our 4th
– 7th Dreeke-Drewike great grandparents and their families. Ordinances for 116
people from this town and surrounding villages have been turned into the
temple. See
the records at: http://kirchenbuch-groeben.de/
Another link gave me information about 232 descendants of our Vassel
line that went to Turkey during the French Revolution. These names have also been
processed through the temple system.
I have
worked with Bruno and Cari to identify the correct Kessinger family line ln Karlsruhe,
Germany and we are pleased to nail that down. I am also working through the
information Bruno, Cari and I found on our 7 week research trip in 2013.
I just keep
praying the Lord will give me a few more years of health and wisdom to keep
this great work moving forward! It has been fun to communicate with Elizabeth
Smithson and Cayr about helping with the research work. My sister Elisabeth Vassel
Anderson and I really enjoy Skyping and working together on the hundreds of
names in the two Greiner books we have from Germany. Bruno and Cari were able to
attend a couple of Greiner family reunions in Germany this year, and in the
process met family members who gave us new information on the Greiner families
who moved to Brussels, Belgium and Hungary. I also found Vassel families in
Slovakia from records that have been indexed and are online in www.familysearch.org.
I have been
sorting hundreds of letters and photos in preparation for writing the Bruno
Vassel – Mary Elmer book with will be a companion book to the Vassel-Kipke of Brazil book Vera kindly
encouraged me to write with her help. Onward and upward.
Thank you so
much for keeping the bank account with sufficient funds so that I can cover the
various costs associated with genealogy research!
MERRY CHRISTMAS
