Peter Mock:

I got interested in genealogy a couple of years ago when I borrowed a book about family research from our public library. I read through it and it really sounded like this could be an interesting hobby.

Since then I have gathered have numerous files of old documents and also hundreds of letters from people all over the world. One of these people is Mrs. Dickenson. She helped me a lot in my research and eventually we became a really good team. One day we decided that all the information about Kleinliebental that we collected over the years, should be made available for the public.The result of this idea is the Kleinliebental Homepage.

My grandparents are Elisabeth Moser Mock and Peter Mock. They both were born in the village of Kleinliebental in 1920 and 1918 respectively. My mother's parents are also German Russians, they are from the small daughter colony of Krasna/Beresan.

I hope the Kleinliebental Homepage will wake up your interest for this beautiful village and will help you with your research. Thanks to everybody who made this homepage possible!



PS: I dedicate this homepage to my grandparents, because they are the most admirable people I know and because I love them above all.

Doris Malsam Dickenson:

After my retirement as an elementary school teacher, I began to seriously research my German Russian history. My father, Alphonse Malsam, was born in Kleinliebental in 1884 and arrived in America in 1900. My research was a voyage of discovery because he never talked about his family or his German Russian origins.

I have been interested not only in my own family origins, but life in Kleinliebental in general, and in the other families who lived there with my ancestors. Two of the highest points in my life were the two visits I made to the ancestral village in Ukraine, one in 1991 and the other in 1993.

I write articles occasionally for German Russian journals. I am anxious to help others learn about the ancestral village and to help them make contact with other Kleinliebental researchers. There are so many projects I want to share with others. I was delighted when Peter, then living in his native Germany, put me in touch with a Malsam cousin none of us in America even knew about. Later, I was especially pleased when he decided to use his considerable computer skills to put a Kleinliebental Homepage on the Internet.

I contribute some of my own material to the homepage and help with the English translations.

I live in a semi-rural area of Northern California, I have four children, only one of whom is interested in genealogy, three grandchildren, and one great-grandson.