Happy New Year!
I want to take a moment before 2018 gets underway to express my gratitude, my personal and heartfelt thank you to all those who have made contributions to this project, large and small. To those who supported it, followed its progress, and enthusiastically encouraged its continuation, my deepest appreciation for your kind words.
This site and in the Google maps associated with this site is a result of thousands of hours of research, calculations, validation, writing, editing, and a lot of that good old German determination. Now, subsets of the data are beginning to be used in all sorts of ways that go beyond genealogical research. This means your contributions – be it a link to an article, the family story you shared with me while we searched for your village, a correction to something published, an alternate village name or spelling, or a location of a village or group of villages – have added value to not only to this project but also to future projects and analysis of the data. It's gratifying to see it begin to mature in such a short time.
So thank you all! Couldn't have done it without you.
May the New Year bring you peace and happiness.
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