his lifes work which he
pursued doggedly over a period of sixty years was to compile
church oriented genealogies he not only collected names for his
clients but also put them in appropriate order for temple work
671n in addition billiter built a magnificent personal file of genealogical material which he willingly placed at the disposal of the church mission office
in switzerland in 1946 in salt lake city meantime the board of directors of the
genealogical society authorized the preparation of a typed transcript of his
records to be housed in salt lake city the file was so voluminous that after two
typists had worked for two years they still had covered only about 20 percent
of the material it was estimated that it would take a total of ten years to complete
the project so the society decided in 1949 to have the records sent to salt lake
city for microfilming microfilming
In September 1951, Emilie Wilker Billeter died in St. Gallen. With the support of Rosa Holzer (1897-1979), who had been his secretary for more than 25 years,