"Some aspects of the St Hubert Spendbuch and museum"
Dave Dreyer Dreyer is devoted to family history research with an emphasis on ethnic Germans in the Hungarian province of the Banat. His research has been published as the Banat Family History Series. Dave has been recognized for his contributions to Banat family history research by the AKdFF. Dave will give us an outline of the events leading to the establishment of the St Hubert/Banat Heimat museum based on published sources and the museum Spendbuch will be presented. Dave lives in California.
"Mt. Angel roots and it’s Oktoberfest"
Ray Borshowa lives with his lovely wife Diane in Mt. Angel itself and both of them were Mt. Angel Danube Swabian conference organizers from day one. Without their on-the-spot preparations our Treffen just would not be the sam
"Post WWI Hungary"
Henry A. Fischer Fischer is active as a genealogical researcher and writer focusing on the Danube Swabians. He is the author of Children of the Danube and a trilogy Remember to Tell the Children. The last book of the trilogy, Emigrants and Exiles, is due later this year. Henry lives in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. .
"VOLKSHYMNE DER DEUTSCHEN IN UNGARN"
Marcia Fay Cobb just loves singing. This year again she will teach us a new Danube Swabian song. In high school Marcia did several musicals --singing Fiona in Brigadoon, the Countess Louisa in Song of Norway, and Josephine in HMS Pinafore. Later she sang and did solo work with the Sacramento Symphony Chorus and the Chorus's Classical Chorale. Through the years she sang in several churches, local concerts, and another musical --as Laurie in Oklahoma. Marcia lives with her family in Newberg, OR
"After the disbanding of death camps"
John M. Michels John M. Michels has traveled to many reunions, forums and Worlwide meetings in Yugoslavia, Romania, Germany and the U.S. He has worked extensively editing and translating the work of others and has published a book, Josefalva, recording conversations collected in Romania. John is a generous contributer to Mt. Angel Danube Swabian conference. John lives in Spokane.
"Gasko Research"
Jerry Jacobs Jerry Jacobs an engineering graduate of Wayne State University in Detroit worked for 35 years, primarily in the automotive area in product design, quality and consumer research. He has been a life-long resident of the metro-Detroit area.
Jerry will talk about his complicated Gasko Family research.
"Danube Swabian Lost Children"
Rosina Schmidt
is contributing to many Donauschwaben Forums; published a family book on her grandfather’s village of Hrastovac in Slavonia, developed a Webpage on the same village and followed its first settlers roots back to their migration from the Germanic lands, and co-wrote scripts on diverse documentaries on that topic. Rosina lives on Vancouver Island, Canada.
"Banat slide presentation"
Glen Schwartz
retired from a 35-year career in Air Traffic Control in 2005. He started researching his family tree in the early 1980s by asking his Grandmother questions. By the early 1990s, he had written a draft family history that remains in draft form today. Glen was a founding member of the Zichydorf Village Association in 1996 and has been its president almost since the beginning. Glenn is married with three married children and two grandchildren and lives in Regina, SK, Canada.
"The Forgotten Genocide" documentary film
Produced by St. Louis Community College with Ann Morrison.
Memories of a painful secret held for over fifty years are now finally being brought to life. This is the first English film examining the suffering put upon 15 million ethnic Germans living behind the Iron Curtain after WWII.