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2010 Apr 12 : Announcing the DVHH 2009 Board of Directors
 · Jody McKim, President, GA-USA
 · Mike Polsinelli, Vice President, MI-USA
 · Karen Preston, Secretary, NV- USA
 · Nancy Wyman, Treasurer, FL-USA
 · John J. Kornfeind, Director, AZ-USA
 · Jane E Moore, Director, UT-USA
 · Henry Fischer, Director, Ontario-CAN

Beth Tolfree, DVHH Secretary since 2007, retires from the Board of Directors.  John Kornfeind, DVHH Treasurer since 2007, retires but remains on the board.  Taking their places is Karen Preston as Secretary and Nancy Wyman as Treasurer.  We look forward to their contributions and thank them for assuming these roles.  Our deepest appreciation goes to Beth and John for their service to the DVHH and for doing such a great job as Secretary and Treasurer, both vital jobs to our organization!

2010 Jan 15: DVHH.org celebrates its 7th year online!

2009 Aug 18: New village site for Obresch & new webmaster - I am very proud to announce that we have a home page for the village of Obresch. Thanks to Ludwig Keck (web master) and support from many of you. www.dvhh.org/obresch  Grüße, Eve Brown

2009 May 12:  Ludwig Keck, our new Village Coordinator for Schowe - It is with much enthusiasm that we announce the addition of a new addition in the Batschka corner!
www.dvhh.org/schowe.  Ludwig Keck has produced a website to be proud of, and we hope you will take the time to view it and congratulate him for a job well done.  If you have roots in the Schowe area, please contact Ludwig to share info. Thank you, Ludwig, for making a major contribution to the DVHH community. With kind regards, Nancy Fredenberg & Dennis Bauer, Batschka Coordinators

2009 Apr 15: Announcing the DVHH 2009 Board of Directors
 · Jody McKim, President, GA-USA
 · Mike Polsinelli, Vice President, MI-USA
 · Beth Tolfree, Secretary, CA-USA
 · John J. Kornfeind, Treasurer, AZ-USA
 · Jane E Moore, Director, Ut - USA
 · Henry Fischer, Director, Ontario - CAN
 · Karen Preston, Director, NV- USA
Retiring Directors: Alex Leeb, Nick Tullius, Hans Martini; thank you all for your service to the DVHH!
Noted appreciation goes to Beth Tolfree, as DVHH Secretary, John Kornfeind as DVHH Treasurer, and Mike Polsinelli for handling our legal matters --all are time consuming jobs!  We welcome Karen Preston, long time List subscriber, Lookups Guide and DVHH Member to our board of Directors!  Here's to another great year of discovery!  Best Regards to all, Jody McKim, President.

2009 Mar 17: Boris Masic, of Apatin, Serbia joins Beth Tolfree as Apatin Village Coordinator.  (German correspondence only, please)

2009 Jan 16: DVHH Mailing List ~ DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES-L [DVHH], List Administrator Alex Leeb retires.  Hats off to Alex for the years of hard work maintaining our mail list and his dedication to serve our subscribers with their needs.  Alex is still with us, so we look forward to his continued comments and advice.  Thank you Alex!

2009 Jan 16: DVHH Mailing List ~ DONAUSCHWABEN-VILLAGES-L [DVHH], New List Administrators, Roy Engel and Eve Brown team up to keep our list maintained.  Thanks to both of you for assuming the roles.

2009 Jan 01: DVHH joins the affiliate program of Footnote.com, where you can view the most exciting original source documents available for the first time on the internet. When you enter their web site from a link at DVHH.org and purchase a subscription, we earn commissions. Thank you for your support.

2009 Jan 01: DVHH joins the affiliate program of NewspaperArchive.com.  Discover Your Family History In The World's Largest Newspaper Archive! They have an easy and intuitive interface and a lot of content. If you are looking for birth notices, marriage records, death notices, or any family news that might have been printed in a newspaper. When you enter their web site from a link at DVHH.org and purchase a subscription, we earn commissions. Thank you for your support.

2008 Dec 23: The Editorial Committee initiated our latest addition "Destination: The Americas"

2008 Nov 12: Peter Knapp of PA, volunteers as the Village Coordinator for Kleinbetschkerek. Peter first heard of the DVHH at the 2008 Cleveland event.  Welcome aboard Peter!    

2008 Nov 1: Henry Fischer assumes the roll of DVHH Editorial Chair.

2008 Nov 30: Dennis Bauer assumes the role of Membership Drive Chair.

2008 Sep 14: New Slavonia Regional Coordinators - Robin Grube, of California, USA & Zeljko Lekšić of Dakovo, Croatia.  Welcome aboard Robin & Zeljko!

2008 Aug 08: [DVHH] Announcement - DVHH Members Update by Jane E. Moore. Membership Registrar: The Donauschwaben Villages Helping Hands (DVHH.org) membership continues to grow. In eight months, 57 people have joined us, and we now have members from Austria, 3 provinces in Canada, and 19 states in the USA. Read more

2008 Apr 25: Announcement - Donauschwaben Villages Helping Hands (DVHH) Non-Profit Corporation 2008 Board of Directors are as follows: Jody McKim (President), Michael Polsinelli (Vice President), Beth Tolfree (Secretary), John Kornfeind (Treasurer), Nick Tullius - Director, Alex Leeb - Director, Henry Fischer - Director, Hans Martini- Director, and Jane E. Moore - Director.  We’ve made some great strides in 2007 pursuing our goals for the DVHH, particularly forming a 501c3.  I especially would like to express my gratitude to Mike Polsinelli for handling our legal matters; Beth for being a great Secretary and John Kornfeind for the Treasurer position.  These jobs are VERY time consuming and each one deserves applause!   I also appreciate them continuing these positions into 2008.   We extend our appreciation to the 2007 Board for their time and involvement this past year; departing Directors are John Busch, Gabi Bugaisky & Tina Leto.  Here is to a great 2008!  Jody McKim

2008 Mar 24: Membership Update - 37 Members

2008 Jan 31: Franz Bohn of Sellersville, PA initiates the Displaced Persons Camps section at the DVHH & he and and Anne Dreer of Guelph, Ontario, Canada are the new Coordinators.

2007 Nov 4: First DVHH Membership Announcement

2007 Oct 27: David Kemle, WA volunteers as the Village Coordinator for Mramorak

2007 Oct 26: DVHH, Inc. received its tax exemption under 501(c)(3) from the IRS. 

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