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May 07, 2010
Added link to homepage www.mein-bessarabien.de
March 28, 2010
Added birth age-group 1921 to the transcription of the church book (in German)
Made corrections in the family list (in German), resulting from the transcription
March 06, 2010
Photo of Jakob Layh.
January 23, 2010
Photo of Samuel Layh and his family.
January 01, 2010
New video of our Scholtoi trip in the springtime 2009, see videos page
December 27, 2009
Added birth age-group 1922 to the transcription of the church book (in German)
Made corrections in the family list (in German), resulting from the transcription
December 10, 2009
Update of coordinates of Freudenfeld on the Villages page
November 07, 2009
Added birth age-group 1923 to the transcription of the church book (in German)
Made corrections in the family list (in German), resulting from the transcription
October 10, 2009
New recipe Grumbiera Stück und Knöpf. Thanks to Alexander Layh for the recipe and the photo.
August 15, 2009
Last part ouf our 2009 travel report.
August 13, 2009
Next part ouf our 2009 travel report. More pictures.
August 11, 2009
Next part ouf our 2009 travel report. More pictures.
August 07, 2009
New page: The first part ouf our 2009 travel report. You may use the Translate button.
July 17, 2009
Link to a journey report from America, visit of villages Neu Strymba, Scholtoi and Strymbeni:
http://library.ndsu.edu/grhc/outreach/journey/photographs/journey09/jrny09_16.html

July 12, 2009
Interesting German documetary about the village of Rischkanowka (available on DVD):
www.sichtplatz.de/Sichtplatz-Dokumentarfilm.htm
www.sichtplatz.de/Sichtplatz-Rischkanowka.htm

June 08, 2009
Added the former village Neu Scholtoi to the links on the villages page (at the bottom).
May 17, 2009
New link to the homepage www.sangerovka.de (in progress).
May 01, 2009
Photo of Philipp Frick and his wife Elisabeth. Philipp Frick died in Scholtoi in 1938.
April 05, 2009
Added birth age-group 1924 to the transcription of the church book (in German)
Made corrections in the family list (in German), resulting from the transcription
February 19, 2009
New link to the homepage of the Horst family with ancestors from Scholtoi and Falesti.
February 14, 2009
New personal names on the resettlement photo, taken in the camp in Ybbs/Austria.
January 31, 2009
Correction: The photo from Brazil does not show the family of Jakob and Juliana Groß, but the
family of Anton and Philippine Jung (nee Groß). Philippine was a daughter of Jakob and Juliana.
December 31, 2008
Added birth age-group 1925 to the transcription of the church book (in German)
December 23, 2008
New page about our journey to Scholtoi in May 2008 (in German).
Included is a panororama photo of Scholtoi.
November 30, 2008
Resettlement photo, taken in the camp in Ybbs/Austria.
November 23, 2008
Photo of the families of Andreas and Philipp Mann. Philipp Mann was sexton-teacher in Scholtoi.
November 22, 2008
New pictures of the Scholtoi homeland meeting in June. Thanks to Ute and Stephan Marbach.
November 20, 2008
Added birth age-group 1926 to the transcription of the church book (in German)
Made corrections in the family list (in German), resulting from the transcription
October 31, 2008
Photo of Philipp Mann and his family taken in 1915.
October 26, 2008
The aerial photo of Scholtoi is available on Google Maps now.
October 25, 2008
Family origin list on German family page.
October 18, 2008
Google Earth aerial photo of Scholtoi in higher resolution (see Geography page).
Google Earth must be installed on the computer to open the image.
October 03, 2008
Photo of Rudolf Baron and his family during their stay in Austria.
July 31, 2008
New page about the Scholtoi homeland meeting in June (in German).
July 30, 2008
The links on the villages page include photos now (if available in this specific region). If you can't see any photos, choose a larger area of the arial photo.
July 11, 2008
The videos of Scholtoi and of the meeting are available on DVD now. You can get the details on obtaining a DVD if you send me an E-Mail (see here).
June 15, 2008
New video of the Scholtoi meeting on June, 7 in Jena, see videos
June 14, 2008
New page with videos (at first one movie of our journey to Scholtoi in May).
June 8, 2008
Due to intensive preparations for the Scholtoi meeting which was held with huge success on
June 7, 2008 in Jena, there was a lack of time for the homepage. But this will change soon. I will report on a journey to Scholtoi in May and of course there will be a page about the meeting which was attended by 128 people. I ask for your patience, there will be news soon.
April 9, 2008
Added link to an Italian Bessarabia web page
February 17, 2008
The Scholtoi home meeting will take place on June 7, 2008 at 14 o'clock in the motel Jembo-Park in Jena/Thuringia.
January 28, 2008
Added link to the homepage of Buron family from Neu Strymba
January 13, 2008
Added link to pictures on www.panoramio.com (Geography page)
December 28, 2007
Added birth age-group 1927 to the transcription of the church book (in German)
Made corrections in the family list (in German), resulting from the transcription
December 21, 2007
Added a new page Visit 1993 (in German) with many photos taken by Wilhelm Baron.
December 11, 2007
Added the family of Georg Heinrich Layh (born in 1900) to the family list (in German)
November 10, 2007
Update of Soltoaia map link to www.multimap.com (Geography page)
November 9, 2007
Added more resettlement photos: camp Galatz, Danube ship and camp Prahovo
November 3, 2007
Added families Rudolf Baron II and Heinrich Weber to the family list (in German)
Both families lived in Glueckstal at the time of the resettlement.
November 2, 2007
Added birth age-group 1928 to the transcription of the church book (in German)
Made corrections in the family list (in German), resulting from the transcription
September 8, 2007
Added birth age-group 1929 to the transcription of the church book (in German)
Made corrections in the family list (in German), resulting from the transcription
July 22, 2007
Resettlement identity card of my grandmother Annette Hollinger
July 20, 2007
Photo of the youth home in Waidhofen (Austria)
June 21, 2007
Photo of my uncle Johann Hollinger (1915 - 1938).
June 11, 2007
Corrected the founding year: Scholtoi already existed in 1864.
May 28, 2007
Article about the church books from the society's newsletter (in German)
May 19, 2007
Added this News page as a summary of changes
May 18, 2007
Added birth age-group 1930 to the transcription of the church book (in German)
Made corrections in the family list (in German), resulting from the transcription
May 9, 2007
Villages page: Revised coordinates of Principesa Elena (located near Strymbeni)
Villages page: Added Gudias (place of birth of Horst Koehler's father)
May 5, 2007
Added a new page for family photos (in German). Many new pictures:
Old soldier photo of Johann Frick (born in 1888)
Samuel Mueller (born in 1892) and his daughter Katharina Elisabeth
Family of Peter Frick (born in 1853) and Dorothea Frick (nee Mattheis)
Family of my grandparents Jakob Hollinger and Annette Hollinger (nee Schaefer)
Georg Heinrich and Philippine Layh, Philipp, Philippine and Emil Hargesheimer
Marriage of Johann Mueller and Maria Göres in 1941
Elisabeth Mattheis, Philipp and Maria Hollinger in 1944
Wilhelm and Margarethe Baron (nee Erhardt)
Many thanks to Tine Heichert, Maria Mueller, Maria Hoegele and to my parents as well as to Ute Marbach for providing and forwarding the photos.
March 26, 2007
Family of Karl Baron (born in 1903) and Elisabeth Baron (nee Frick)
Thanks to Ute Marbach and Wilhelm Baron.
March 9, 2007
Added birth age-group 1931 to the transcription of the church book (in German)
. Made corrections in the family list (in German), resulting from the transcription