Old Guest Book Entries
14  Date: 2007-09-13 19:34:37
Mary Regan ( marylrgn@aol.com / http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/r/e/g/Mary-Regan-NY/) wrote:

What a great website! I found it through your messageboard message on Ancestry.com

I too have ancestors from the Banat -- in fact some are Martins from Lenauheim (actually Csatad-Lenauheim is the way I've found it written.) My great-great grandfather was Filip Martin, born 22 Dec. 1833 in Csadat-Lenauheim. He then moved to Kleinbetschkerek/Banat, where he married twice and had a total of fourteen children, only three of whom lived to marry and have children of their own. I found them in the family listings at the Kleinbetschkerek website: www.kleinbetschkerek.de.

Congratulations to you -- this is a wonderful resource for your relatives and fascinating even to those of us who are not related.

 
13  Date: 2007-04-26 12:27:04
Hans Kopp ( hans_kopp@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote:

Such a wonderful story I could cry. I am happy for you to find so many interesting things still in existence.
If my children would visit our hometown in the Batschka, they could not find any cemetery, nor church. Our houses still stand.
I can understand that you want to visit the places your ancestors walked.
Just wrote you a letter and it was returned since you changed your address.

 
12  Date: 2007-04-26 12:25:10
Hans Kopp ( hans_kopp@hotmail.com / no homepage) wrote:

Such a wonderful story I could cry. I am happy for you to find so many interesting things still in existence.
If my children would visit our hometown in the Batschka, they could not find any cemetery, nor church. Our houses still stand.
I can understand that you want to visit the places your ancestors walked.
Just wrote you a letter and it was returned since you changed your address.

 
11  Date: 2007-03-14 11:33:08
Hermine Linz ( hermine_linz@alliancecable.net / no homepage) wrote:

Jody,
I like your website, and am very impressed that you take the time to do this. I'm a fellow Donauschawben and learned about this site from links on DVHH. Congratulations on a life well lived! Hermine Linz

 
10  Date: 2007-03-14 08:53:54
Alin Brindusescu ( alinoz77@yahoo.com / http://www.brindusescu.org/) wrote:

Your words about romania are not very nice, I can understand this, but I want to tell you something, I visit USA (for 2 months, not only couple of days) and I was very dissapointed (very cold people, reserved and many of them racist with ideas like "USA should close the border and not allow anybody to come in" and no friends). I visit many countrys, but the only country in the world where a person tried to attack me in the middle of the day in down town it was USA (Dallas), and belive me I'm not a small guy. The USA was the dream of every romanian before 1989, my one also, but after visiting USA I start beeing pround that I have been born and grow up in Banat (Romania).
What I hope is taht people who are searching for them ancestors will understand something from what they will see and will try to stop people like Bush killing inocent peoples in country like Yugoslavia, Irak and any other places in the world. I'm still afraid that in the place of Irak or ex-Yugoslavia, suner or later USA will chose Romania as a public enemy. :(

 
9  Date: 2007-01-08 14:29:46
Susan Witzman ( witzmans@hotmail.com / http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/i/t/Susan-Witzman-MI/index.html) wrote:

What a GREAT site! I wasn't going to look at it but I am glad I did. My husband's grandmother/father although from Apatin in the Batchka came to America around the same time as your Martin. Peter Witzman also came on the Slavonia. How interesting. I am new to the DVHH site. I love it already. Ellis Island File Witzemann, Peter Hungary December 01, 1905 32 yr Gender:M Marital status: M Ship: Slavonia Port of departure: Carnaro, Triest, Austria
My site is related to my ancestors.

 
8  Date: 2007-01-03 19:37:43
Donald Southerland ( donalddman@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote:

Thanks for putting this on the web....When I was a boy I looked forward to visiting Aunt Minnie and Uncle Cleve in their store you mentioned on the first page. Aunt Minnie was one of my mother's sisters and we came down from Chattanooga every summer. I remember Virginia Voss Pope when she was very young; glad the old store is still being taken care of. Thanks for bringing back fond memories of the 1940s.

 
7  Date: 2006-09-14 18:24:03
Daniel Knutson ( knutsons@new.rr.com / no homepage) wrote:

Thank you for the information on the Ingrisch family. I am the son of Marie Ann Ingrisch of Manitowoc, WI. She is the daughter of Elmer Herman Ingrisch who was the son of Vincent Ingrisch. If you have any information about this family line I would very much apreciate hearing from you. Best regards, Daniel Knutson

 
6  Date: 2006-05-11 15:33:46
ethan unterweger ( rommeluu@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote:

I was just looking on the web and i found your site. My mother is Karen and My father is Peter. My name is Ethan James and i am 31. Just wanted to let you know i really apreciate the work you've done. The site is great! My mum has also done quite a bit of work to. Take care and if there is anything i can do please ask.

 
5  Date: 2006-04-29 14:04:41
Dorothy & Bobby Stephens ( dstephens@numail.org / no homepage) wrote:

To all the Ingrisch/Mormon relatives: We thoroughly enjoyed the 2006 reunion, since we missed 2005....It was wonderful to meet all our German family. Margaret Engrisch Stephens (Bobby's mother) actually lost her connection with the Mormon side of the family when her mother died after giving birth to her. She was raised by her oldest sister, Lizzie Engrisch Ogle, and leaned more towards the Engrisch side of the family....It was so good to see the Mormon side of the family!

 
4  Date: 2006-04-05 18:37:58
Laura Kellerstrass ( llrlkeller@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote:

Hi,
My relatives are Johann Pimpl, Katharina Wudinger/Fuschoven. Most of my relatives live in Colorado, some in Arizona. My Grandma Lucille resided in Tucson, Az. Her daughter Donna married a Patterson. I now live in IL. and have been drawn to farming communities since I was a child living in the desert. I love your website!

 
3  Date: 2006-03-25 01:30:21
Anne Allen ( Annelallen5@msn.com / no homepage) wrote:

First time I have visited your Guestbook and signed.
You have done a "great" Job!!!
You have a zest for digging up imformation.

 
2  Date: 2005-12-26 02:48:51
William Martin (Marty) Alexander ( brave1@comcast.net / no homepage) wrote:

Hi Jody! Thought I would look at your site since you posted it. I like it!
Marty

 
1  Date: 2005-12-10 02:31:59
Jason Kauten ( JasonKauten@yahoo.com / no homepage) wrote:

I was reading your web site and I see my family name came up. My father is from Timosara Romania I still have relatives living there. I was interested in finding out if this was our family of Kautens that you have listed I will also speak to my father I know that we had a rather large family there. Some of them immagrated here some stayed some went back to Germany. Please let me know what info you need.