Group Will Visit Ancestral Homelands

In late May and early June 2007, a small group who are descendants of Joseph John Merck and Katherine Cecilia Eberle will visit the birthplaces of those ancestors. After a few days in London, the group will travel to the Odessa area of the Ukraine where they will visit the Kutschurgan villages of Elsass and Mannheim. Their itinerary will also include a stopover in the Alsace region of France where the Mercks lived before they went to South Russia (now Ukraine). More details later.