tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14286802688793806662024-02-20T09:23:55.452-08:00The Pommern Special Interest GroupThe Pomeranian Special Interest Group sponsored by the Immigrant Genealogy Society, is located in the Burbank, California. Die Pommerschen Leute is a quarterly newsletter highlighting research tips and information for researchers searching for ancestors in the Baltic Duchy of Pomerania.Pomeranian Special Interest Grouphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11846783960931519258noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428680268879380666.post-89087781767438721192017-09-19T17:54:00.000-07:002017-09-19T17:54:01.124-07:00Resources for Pomerania Ancestry Found at the Immigrant Genealogical Society Library<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Zimmers from Natelfitz, Pommern, and Kirchhayn Wisconsin</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. By Gordon Ziemer and Sherrill Cloud </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Village in Pomerania – A World War II Odyssey, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a true story</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Rose Hertel Falkenhagen, copyright 2015</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pomerania Atlantic Bridge to Germany</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Linda M. Herrick and Wendy K. Uncapher (place names, maps, geography, history and border changes) Copyright 2005</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stӓdte=Atlas Pommern </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Fritz R. Baran, Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg.Leer, copyright 1989</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stӓdte=Atlas – Ostbtandenburg.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Fritz R. Barran mit den Früher Brandenburggischen Landkreis Arnswalde und Friedeberg Nm. (Early Brandenburg District Arnswalde and Friedeberg Nm.)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pomeranian Studies</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (3 volumes) History, Maps, Locating the ancestral home, German Terminology, Pommern and its records and much more. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pomerania Place Name Indexes</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> – Identifying place names using alphabetical and reverse alphabetical indexes by Roger P. Minert, Ph.D.,A.G. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pommern (Pomerania)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Information from maps purchased from Pommersche Verein (Heimatkarte von Pommern 1940; Pommern 1945-55 with Alphabetical Index to town names) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pommern Wegweiser Durch ein Unvergessenes Land</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Johannes Hinz (Guide to the Villages/Places in Pomerania)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Das Kolbergerland</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> its Cities and Villages (index) </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ein Pommersches Heimatbuch, (A Pommern Home book),</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Published by Manfred Vollack, 1999 (lists heads of households in villages in 1937) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pommersche Familiennamen Ihr Geschichts und Heimatwert </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Dr. Hans Bahlow, Printed with the support of the Pommern Foundation, Verlag Degener &Co., Inh. Gerhard Gessner, Neustadt/Aisch, 1982</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ortsnamenverzeichnis der Ortsschaften \Jenseits von Odor und Neisse.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.by M. Kaemmerer. Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg, Leer, 1988. (Site directory of the localities beyond Odor and Neisse)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gemeindeverzeichnis für Mittel und Ostdeutchland und Sie Früheren Deutschen Siedlungsgebiete im Ausland in Verbindung mit dem Statischen Bunesamd.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Praesidenten des Bundesausgleichsamters Verlag für Standsamtswesen GMBH, Frankfurt am Main, 1970. (List of municipalities for central and eastern Germany and former German settlements in the country in connection with the static bunesamd (federal Bureau). President of the Federation)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Die Gemeinde und Wohnplӓtze Pommerns nach dem Stand von 1932</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">mit Ergӓnzungen 1919-1945</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, edited by Brigitte and Klaus Dieter Kreplin, Teil A, 1994, (The municipalities and residential areas of Pommern according to the status of 1932 with additions 1919-1945)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pommeriches Heimatbuch 1984 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">given out by the Pommerschen Landsmannschaft Kulturabteilung 2400 Lübeck</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pomerania – Geographical and Historical Outline - </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tracing Pomeranian Roots- Regenwalde- Plate- Schivelbein- Kammin- Reetz, Neuwedell, Stettin, Poland 1995</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">copyright 2009</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pommern Revisited </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Paul Sternberg, Janice Savage, and Jerry Savage</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Der Kreis Schlawe</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - Ein Pommersches Heimatbuch Band I </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Der Kreis als Ganzes</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Band II – </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Der Stӓund Landgemeinden</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The cities and rural communities), Published by Manfred Vollack with co-operation of Ernst H. v. Michaelis and the co-operation of many landlords, Husum, 1989</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Erlebted Preussenland Station einer Bemerkenswerten Reise Durch Pommern, die Neumark, West=und Ostpreussen</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Manfred Vollack. Pommernsche Landmannschaft, Schleswig Holstein</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kreis Regenwald</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> compiled, translated and edited by Paul Sternberg, Janice Savage, Jerry Savage, Lana Larsen and Joyce Gardner for the Pommern Regional Group of Minnesota, copyright 2009</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Geschtchte der Stadt Labes in Pommern von der Gründung bis zur Mitte des 19 Jahrhunderts -</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> History of the Town of Labes in Pomerania from the founding to the middle of the 19</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 6.6pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">th</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> century)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Published by Ernst Zernickov, Labes, 1922</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Schivelbein </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">donated by Albert Dean , Workingham, Berkshire England , Includes pictures of Schivelbein, map, trade directory of Schivelbein 1929, excerpts from Der Kreis Belgard book in English </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Usedom </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Hans-Christof Wӓchter/Heinz Teufel, Ellert & Richter Verlag, (History and Pictures) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gross Schoenfeld – Kreis Pyritz/Pommern</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Willi Mittendorf (1896-1985) Lehrer a.d. in 1964, Translated by Leslie and Martha Riggle with permission of Karl Ernst Mittendorf, 1993.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Von Greifswald nach Usedom </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Maike Bruhns (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Person register</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and history)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Greifswald Stralsunder Jahrbuch </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1972-1973, band 11- 1977, band 12 -1979, band 13- 1982</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1637 Census Kreis Bütow District of Kӧslin Providence of Pommern</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(also called the West Prussian Empire of Germany) it shows how the people were taxed, lived, and worked with landlords, Kings, dukes, barens etc. owning the land by Walter Cole, Jane Manick, John Milton Hingst, Hedwig Isolde Liesel, Herchenroethen Hingst and Carolyn Alyce Kasischke</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The People of the Lands Lauenburg and Bütow</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. by Baron Jesco von Puttkamer. Translated by John Milton Hingst. Der Gesellschaft für Pommersche Geschichte und Alterumsfunde, Monatsblatter, 47 Jahrgang 1933. Stettin, (The Society for Pomeranian History)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Verzeichnis Familienkundlichen Sammlung des Kreise Greifenberg Pommern</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Hildegard Brehmer, 1980. (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Contains a list of family names and towns</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Das Rügenwalder Amt</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> – Geschichte – Bewohner, Materialien zur Pommerschen Familien und Ortsgeschichte, Sonderheft des Sedina Archives (N.F.) Heft I, (History - residents, materials for Pomeranian families and local history, special edition of the Sedina Archives)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rügenwald District Kreis Schlawe</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Residents </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">–</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lists of residents paying land taxes and mill fees between 1731-1803. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pommern Unvergessene </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Unforgettable home) Heimat by Hans Ulrich Engel, 2000</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Das Kolberger Land; Seine Stӓdte und Dӧrfer, Ein Pommersches Heimatbuch</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Max Vollack in Auftrage des Heimatkreis Kolberg-Kӧrlin, Husum, 1999.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rostock und seine Umgebung, der Darss und das Fischland </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Maike Bruhns (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">person register, place register,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> culture and history)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stralsund, Rügen und Hiddensee </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Maike Bruhns (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">person register, place register</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, culture and history)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pomeranian Customs and Culture</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> published by Pommerscher Verein Freistadt Gloria Blank, Richard and Katherina Heidtke, Edgar and Ruth Lange, LeRoy Boehlke, copyright 1986</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pomerania its People and its History</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by LeRoy Boehlke copyright 1983 (includes culture and customs) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Germany 2000 years of History and Culture</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by LeRoy Boehlke copyright 1983</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Geschichte von Pommern</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> – (History of Pomerania) by Martin Wehrmann, First Volume. Until the Reformation (1523) German landesgeschichten edited by Urmin Tlile. Copyright 1982</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pommern Lexikon</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Geografie, Geschichte, Kultur 225 illustrations and 105 drawings by Johannes Hinz, 1996</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A short History of the Teutonic Order</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Francis M.S. Muller. Together with </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marienburg of the Teutonic Knights and Heraldry of the Teutonic Order.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The Augustan: XVII: 2 1974; XVII: 3 1975, XVIII: 1 1776; XVIII: 2 1976. The Augustan Society </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Don’t Get me Confused With That Other Person </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Myron E. Gruenwald</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">published by Gayle Gruenwald O’Connell,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">copyright 1994, (Essays and quotations about the integration of the Baltic Teutons into American Society = testing weather multiculturalism is good or bad or America)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Baltic Teutons: Pioneers of America’s Frontier </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Myron E. Gruenwald</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> published by Gayle Gruenwald O’Connell,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">copyright 1988, (continues from </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pomeranians Persistent Pioneers</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> into the migration to America) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Essays Odin’s Inheritors</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (The Pomeranians and other Teutons) by Myron F. Gruenwald</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> published by Gayle Gruenwald O’Connell,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">copyright 1987</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Odin’s Inheritors</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (The Pomeranians and other Teutons) by Myron F. Gruenwald</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">published by Gayle Gruenwald O’Connell, copyright 1987</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pomeranians The Persistent Pioneers</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Pommern die Beharrlichen Pioniere) by Myron E. Gruenwald</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">published by Gayle Gruenwald O’Connell, copyright 1987</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bridge to Another World</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Myron E. Gruenwald</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">published by Gayle Gruenwald O’Connell, copyright 1985 ( A bridge from Pommern to Bohemia by the marriage of a Pomeranian Princess to the Holy Roman Emperor, Karl IV, and how it affected Poland and Germany</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One Cubit of Stature</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (the story of the Order of Teutonic Knights) by Myron E. Gruenwald</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Drawings by</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mark E. Gruenwald),</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">published by Gayle Gruenwald O’Connell, copyright 1985</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Two Worlds for Our Children</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Myron E. Gruenwald</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(2</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 6.6pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">nd</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Edition revised),</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Drawings by Mark E.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gruenwald), published by Gayle Gruenwald O’Connell, copyright 1985 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By the Content of Their Character</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Myron E. Gruenwald</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> published by Gayle Gruenwald O’Connell,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">copyright 1986, (An identification of the cultural traits brought by the Baltic Teutons to America)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kreis Regenwald, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Municipality Directory, 1908.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Municipality Dictionary for Kreis Regenwalde Pommern Prussia</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1932</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Rebel L. Kreklow, 2000</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Landwirtschaftliches Adressbuch der Province Pommern </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Agricultural Directory of Pomerania 1839, 3 volumes – has lists of property holders in both Hinterpommern and Vorpommern. (For each village is listed the property holder, value of the property, uses of the land, number and kinds of livestock, and farm equipment owned) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Encyclopedia of Communes Kingdom of Prussia Pommern Province Kreis Regenwalde </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stettin Administrative Area Naugard Military District Stargard Regional Court Published 1908 (contains a list of Inhabitants and dwellings) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Materialien zur Bevӧlkerungskunde Pommerns Stadt Stolp I Einwohner und Bürger 1600-1850</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">edited by Klaus-Dieter Kreplin, 1999</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Die Einwohnerlisten des Rügenwalder Amtes 1731-1803 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Dr. Ulrich Neitzel and Mathias Sielaff Band I der Family Genealogical Writings for East-Pomeranians of the Labor Area Local and Family Research Schlawe, 2001</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jacobsdorf Baptismal Records</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> – Jakobsdorf (poln. Danowo), Kreis Naugard, Pommern</span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Church and Civil Records in Pommern</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Laraine G. Ferguson (Lists various church and civil records types which existed in a certain community – Evangelical, Catholic, Jewish, Reformed, LDS, and Standesamt) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EV L Kirchenbuch Parochie Zarben, Synode Treptow, Kresis Greifenberg, Pommern, Preussen</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Tauf=und Sterberegister 1810-1834 (Evangelical Lutheran Church Book Zarben Parish, Treptow Synod, Greifenberg District, Pomerania, Prussia - Baptismal and death Registers 1810-1834) (Inhabitants organized alphabetically by surname) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aus der Geschichte der Parochie Isinger</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (from the history of the Isinger Parish) by Pastor Johannes Brunner (Pyritz, Pomeranina 1907) – from Material Collected by Pastor Wilhelm Bülow- (The churches of Isinger, Leine, and Repenow in Kreis Pyritz/Pomerania)- translated by Leslie and Martha Riggle </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirchen im Kreise Regenwalde</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 1990 edited by Heimatkreisausschuss des Kreise Regenwalde Text by Siegfried Hannemann from Gross Raddow. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Verzeichnis der Pommerschen Kirchenbücher im Vorpommerschen Landesarchiv Greifswald </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">edited by Andreas Rӧpcke and Martin Schoebel Band I (processed by Uwe Rodig) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Verzeichnis der Kirchenbücher im Evangelischen Zentralarchiv in Berlin </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Teil I - Die</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ōstlichen Kitchenprovinzen der Evangelischen Kirche der Altpreussischen Union. Christa Stache.Im Evangelischen Zentralarchiv, Berlin, 1987. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Protokolle der Pommerschen Kirchenvisitationen</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Protocols of the Pomeranian Church Visits) (church register) processed by Hellmuth Heyden, Bӧhlau Verlag Kӧln Graz, 1964, (Includes the debt register of St. Marientiden from Kӧslin, the place and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">person register</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> from 1535-1555)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Churches of County Schlochau</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Paul Sternberg, copyright 2009</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lutheran Parish Records from Upper Ottawa Valley 1861-1890</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with information on searching your family history. Daniel J. Faber, Franz Kapeler, and Jean Ringhofer. National Capital Genealogy Club 33006, Ottawa Canada</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chronik </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the Church s in Hohen-Selchow, Pinnow and Friedrichsthal in the synod Gartz in the government-districts of Stettin from the oldest times up to the present,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By C.G.F. Schenk, 1878</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Landeskirchliches Archiv </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Schnellüberblick Kirchenbuchbestand</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, (Quick Overview Church Book Collection) Greifswald, 1995 </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Municipality Dictionary</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Based on Material from the 1905 census Published in 1908 by the Royal Prussian National Statistical Office Berlin SW, (includes the location of the Evangelical Church, location of the Catholic Church vital statistics for each town included as well as the location of the local and district courts) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Baltische Studien</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Stettin 1890-1892, Church books for Pommern recorded by Dr. Wehrmann</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marriage Abstracts Kreis Naugard</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 1820 -1876 (included name of the groom and bride, the fathers name, occupation, residence, ages, and parish where the marriages occurred) Compiled by Franz Schubert (includes towns of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Luebzin and Roerchen u.a.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Parochien Barfussdorf, Gross Benz, Breitenfelde, Daber, Falkenberg und Friedrichswalde , </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1d2129; font-family: inherit; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stadt Gollnow, mit Militärgemeinde, Hakenwalde und Kattenhof</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Land Kavel und Minten 1795-1876</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pedigree Charts of Milwaukee County Genealogical Society, Inc</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. 1995. Milwaukee County Genealogical Society, Inc.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eheschliessungen in den Schlesischen Provinzialblattern 1785-1849</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Uwe Kambach. Marriage contracts from Silesian Provincial News. About 40,000 Silesians with name of spouse, location of marriage, occupation of groom, marriage date and volume/ issue of articl</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deutsche Einwanderer in Sao Leopoldo</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Brazil 1824-1937</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Palatine Migrations to Brandenburg and Pomerania</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> from Frederick the Great’s Palatine Colonies in Brandenburg and Pomerania, By Otto Gebhard, Compiled by Ernest Thode, edited by Becky Thornton. Copyright 2009</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Family Names from Pommern </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(lists of family names who immigrated to Wisconsin - taken from old records and the year of Immigration as well as the home towns) edited by the Pommersche Tanzdeel Freistadt, Dan Boehlke</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Prussian Peasants Seek The American Dream</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> – understanding the migration of millions of peasants from Eastern Prussia during the last half of the 19</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 6.6pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">th</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> century by Robert Joseph Bublitz</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Die Auswanderug der Pommerschen Altlutheraner in die USA </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ablaut und Motivation 1839-1843</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">English Translation of Die Altlutherische Auswanderung um die Mitte des 19, Jahrhunderts</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Wilhelm Iwan edited by Johann Hess- Institut, Breslau 1943</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Auswanderlisten der Altlutheraner</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 1837 - 1853 - Vollstandige Personenliste – (full list of persons) (list indexed by Kreis and Stadt) compiled by Dennis Wehrmann (List people some with age, occupation and relationship when immigrated) 41 pages</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Freistadt and the Lutheran Immigration</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> – by the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church of Freistadt, 1989. (Includes leaders and development of communities in both Buffalo NY and Mequon Wisconsin. Available letters written by the settlers and all written records preserved have been included)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Die Altlutherische Auswanderug um die Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Wilhelm Iwan edited by Johann Hess – Institut, Breslau 1943. Chapter XX Name List of Old Lutheran Emigration of the mid19</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 6.6pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">th</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Century from Eastern Germany (mainly Pommern and lower Silesia to Australia, Canada and the United States) Copyright 2002. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Freistadt and the Lutheran Immigration </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church of Freistadt Mequon Wisconsin, copyright 1989, Freistadt Historical Society</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Die Wappen des Adels in Pommern und Mecklenburg , </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">J Siebmachers grosses Wappenbuch, Band 18, 1978 Bauer & Raspe, Inhaber Gerhard Gessner, Neustadt an der Aisch</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dorf Sippenbuch Gross Upahl</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Für die Dӧrfer Gross Upahl, Korcheez, und Hӧgerfelde landkreis Güstrow Mecklenburg. Publisher and editor Verein für Bӓuerliche Sippenkunde und bӓuerliches Wappenweisen, 1939</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Polish View of Pommern</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Polish View of Pomarze</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> a presentation to the Pommern Special Interest Group July 22, 2001 by Paul R. Lipinski</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pomerania, Pommern, Pomorze</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Robert Kreklow includes Geography and borders, Geology, Topography, climate, cultural, Linguistic, religious and political divisions</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HinterPommern Von der Ostsee zur Grenzmark</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> with 96 large colored photos and 62 drawings, by Manfred Vollack</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stettin in 144 Bildern </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">edited by Georg Vollbrecht, Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg, Leer 1957 (contains many pictures of Stettin) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stettin und Mittelpommern Land an Oder und Ostsee </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">with 96 large colored photos, by Manfred Vollack</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Die Reise nach Pommern in Bildern</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Christian Graf von Krockow and Dirk Reinartz (pictures and history of Pommern) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pommern im Bild 1958 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(many pictures of Pommern included)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pommern Ein Bilband der Heimat</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> mit 159 Fotografien – Kulture und Kunstgeschichtliche Einleitung by Klaus Granzow, Verlag Weidlich Frankfurt (Cultural and Artistic Introduction of Pommern) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pommern in Alten Ansichtskarten – </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">edited by Klaus Granzow, Fleschsig Verlag Frankkfurt am Main – (Pictures of Pommern)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Weizackerkreis Pyritz ein Bildband uber den Kreis Pyritz in Pommern</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (a picture book about the district Pyritz in Pomerania) Compiled and described by Hubert Topp, 1982</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bytow I Okolice na Dawnych Pocztowkach </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">many post cards are in this book</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SGGEE Journal Society of German Genealogy in Eastern Europe</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Quarterly Journal of Polish and Volhynian Genealogy Group in Calgary Canada.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sedina Archiv Familiengeschichtliche Mitteilunden Pommerns</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Quarterly Periodical </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pommerscher Verein Freistadt Rundschreiben </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– Pomerian Society of Freistadt Wisconsin Newsletters</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">German Genealogical Digest </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vol. II. Number 4, 1986 Pommern in Print,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Part II by Larry Jensen (Church and Civil Records in Pommern) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">German Genealogical Digest - </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vol. II. Number 3, 1986 Pommern in Print,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Part II by Larry Jensen (Writing to Poland for German Genealogical Records) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Monatsblӓtteredited </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">from Gesellschaft für Pommersche Geschichte und Altertumsfunde # 47, Jahrgang 1933.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pommern Zeitschrift für Kulture und Geschichte </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(periodical) we have copies for the years 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ostdeutscher Familianforscher e.V</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">., Ostdeutsche Familienkunde Society Periodicals</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blӓtter und Mitteilungen des Vereins zur Fӧorderung der Zentralstelle für Personen – und Familiengeschichete e.V. und der Stiftung Zentralstelle zu Berlin</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Periodical Founded 1904, Berlin </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Miscellaneous</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pommern Familien in Drucken und Handschriften</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Herbert Spruth Published by the Zantralstelle für Deuteches Personen und Familiengeschichte edited by Heinz F. Friederichs, Band 2a , 1963 , (lists for names found in different manuscripts and where to find them) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Katalog der Bibliothek</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> II. Systematischer Katalog, Stiftung (Foundation) Pommern, Kiel, 1982</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wegweiser für Forschungen nach Vorfahren aus den Ostdeutschen und Sudetendeutschen Gebieten sowie aus den deutschen Siedlungesrӓumen in mittel-, Ost- und Südosteuropa (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AgoFF-Wegweiser). Herbert Sylvester and Marianne Stanke. Verlag Degener & Co. Inh. Manfred Dreiss, Neustadt a.d. Aisch, 2000. (A Guide for research on ancestry from the East German and South German regions as well as from the German settlement areas in Central, East and South East Europe)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">German Genealogy- Research in Pomerania: with Specific Examples of Kreis Schlawe Research. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By Donna Schilling, (includes Specific Guidelines and aides for researching Kreis Schlawe records, Kreis Schlawe’s cities, towns, churches and historic sites, Culture and Customs of Pommern, History of Pommern) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mecklenburg Marriage Abstracts</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 1705-1750, 1751-1800, 1801-1826 taken from old Mecklenburg church books includes about 110,000 marriages. (Includes name of the Groom and bride, the fathers name, occupation, residence, ages, and parish where the marriages occurred) The </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">western edge of the Hinterpommern is included</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Franz Schubert, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1705</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vorpommern Census 1692 to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Surnames in the Assessment Rolls of the Swedish Survey Registration, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The western edge of the Hinterpommern is included</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. (The following districts are included – Anklam, Cammin, Demmin, Franzburg/Barth, Greifswald, Grimmen, Naugard, Randow, Rügen, Stralsund, Usedom/Wollin, Ueckermünde) Compiled By Franz Schubert</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mecklenburg – Schwerin Census Index 1819</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> includes each person’s location , sex, his/her given and surname, date of birth, birthplace, parish to which the birth place belonged, family relationship, occupation, property owned, how long they lived there, married or single, religion, and general comments. Every person in the household is listed.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mecklenburg Census Index 1751</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">shows occupation, names of all individuals in the household 14-15 years of age or older and their relationship to the family. These records were taken from the Pastors registers </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mecklenburg Emigrants Database </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(about 170,000 people emigrated from Mecklenburg Vorpommern during the 19</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 6.6pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">th</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-20</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 6.6pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">th</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> centuries to the USA. Canada, Chile, Brazil, Australia and Argentina). Data on each person includes name, maiden name, date of birth, sex, residence, occupation, marital status related persons, destination, year o emigration, and source of information)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Die Colonieliste von 1699 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By Richard Beringuier, Berlin, 1888, ( Excerpts pertaining to West Pomerania and Uckermark Region from the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">book Extraits Appartenants a la Pomeranie de l’Ouest et a la Region d’ Uckermark Trouves dans Livre) </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Royal Subjects in Swedish Vorpommern in 1799 (Amts and districts include Bergen (Wittow, Jasmund, Rügen), Barth (Darsser), Franzburg, Loitz, Tribsees, Grimmen and Wolgast) </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Compiled by Franz Schubert</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mecklenburg – Vorpommern </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">water, meadows and boundless skies</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Kirchen in Stӓten, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eine Kulturgeschichtliche Wanderung vom 13. Bis ins 20. Jahrhundert, (42 recordings by Thomas Helms with text from Sabine Bock) edited by Thomas Helms, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mecklennurgisches Namenbüchlein </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mecklenburg Family names</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Dr. Hans Bahlow 1932</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vortrӓge zur Mecklenburgischen Familienforschung </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Issue 3 Meeting of the Mecklenburg family researcher in Ludwigslust 1993</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vortrӓge zur Mecklenburgischen Familienforschung </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Issue 4 Meeting of the Mecklenburg Family researcher in Bützow</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Steuerlisten Meddenburgischer Bauerndӧrfer des 15 und 16 Jahrhunderts Amt Gadebusch mit Kloster Rehna </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">teil 1 Bearbeitter von Carl August Endler, (History and Culture) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mecklenburgische Seenplatte Von Güstrow nach Neubrandenburg, Neustrelitz and Waren </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Maike Bruhns (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">person register</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, culture and history)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">German Genealogical Diegest </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 6.6pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">st</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> quarter 1991, Mecklenburg the land and its history by Daniel Schlyter </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Verzeichnis der Pommerschen Kirchenbücher im Vorpommerschen.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Landesarchive Greifswald, Edition Temmenü</span></div>
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<br />Elysehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15483136317329166274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428680268879380666.post-44425649411067258032017-07-19T12:05:00.000-07:002017-07-19T12:05:06.454-07:00Anita Springer's Story of Finding Her Pommeranian AncestorsThe text below was sent in by Anita Springer and is her story of finding her Pommeranian ancestors. Enjoy!<br />
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<i>My name is Anita Springer, my mother's name is Elizabeth GRÜNBERG Springer and she was born in 1922 in the small town of Nipperwiese (today Ognica) on the east side of the Oder River. It was part of Kreis Greifenhagen, south of Stettin (Szcecin.) She lived through the horrors of WWII in Germany, in which her brother was killed on the Russian Front, and was the only one from her family to emigrate to the US, in 1951 where she was able to make a new life after her family lost their home and everything they had when the Russian troops took over that part of Germany to give to Poland in 1945. <u></u><u></u></i></div>
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<i>In Nipperwiese her family leased fields and did farming, growing vegetables and tobacco. She described her childhood as very happy. My mother had an excellent memory and knew a lot about her family, including the names, birth and death dates of her great-grandparents. I later found out that her grandmother Louise KÜHNKE's family was descended from Huguenots who were invited by the Prussian royal family to settle in Brandenburg in the late 1600s. They settled first in Schwedt, just over the river Oder in Brandenburg and moved to Nipperwiese in 1800. There is a Huguenot church in Schwedt that has all of their church records.<u></u><u></u></i></div>
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<i>I posted my family information on German websites and the Pommern mailing list and over time, received responses from people related to me in Germany. I made contact with a fifth cousin who is a professional archivist in Germany and he told me about our Huguenot ancestors and gave me huge amounts of historical information about my family.<u></u><u></u></i></div>
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<i>Nipperwiese has been very difficult to research because it was heavily bombed during the war and no church records remain. There are some civil records which I found in the LDS microfilm library and hired a Polish researcher to look through in the Stettin archives. The breakthrough came when I was contacted by a third cousin, a GRÜNBERG who found my postings on line, and by another man in Germany who is compiling an Ortsfamilienbuch of Nipperwiese. They told me that the name of my 3rd great-grandfather was Christian GRÜNBERG, born 1805, and that he was originally from the town of Nahausen, just a short distance south of Nipperwiese but over the provincial border in Brandenburg. This was a huge stroke of luck because the Nahausen evangelical church records have survived and are on line. I am in the process of tracing my GRÜNBERG and related families from that area back to the 1600s.<u></u><u></u></i></div>
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<i>Through my DNA test, I found out that I am related to a family from North Tonowanda NY who are descended from a founder of their Lutheran church in Martinsville NY, named Maria Elisabeth <u>Henriette</u> GRÜNBERG who was born in 1793 in Fiddichow, a small town right next to Nipperwiese. She and her husband Michael KUBE emigrated to the US in 1843 along with a large group of religious dissidents called "Old Lutherans" who left in protest of changes being made in the German churches. <u></u><u></u></i></div>
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<i>In researching the story of the Old Lutherans I found out that the emigrants included 80 people from the town of Nipperwiese. Interestingly, this provided a clue about my 2nd great-grandmother Bertha (Albertine) SCHULZ who I had come to believe was not originally from Nipperwiese. Included in the people who left Nipperwiese in 1843 were several shoemakers.<u></u><u></u></i></div>
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<i>A shoemaker who later came to Nipperwiese named Albert Heinrich SCHULZ was born in Gross Tychow, Kreis Belgard, in 1843 and is listed in surviving address books as living in Nipperwiese in 1875. Perhaps not coincidentally, Bertha's son Karl GRÜNBERG b 1860, is listed in that address book as apprenticed to a shoemaker in Nipperwiese in 1875 when he was 15 years old. Did my great-great-grandmother apprentice her son to a family relative?<u></u><u></u></i></div>
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<i>There are other linkages (intermarriages) between Nipperwiese and Gross Tychow involving the SCHULZ family. I found this very interesting since Gross Tychow is not very near Nipperwiese. It is south of Kolberg near the Baltic Sea. Another interesting fact is that my mother told me that her father had relatives near Tilsit and that he would visit them and bring home Tilsiter cheese. My DNA always turns up a lot of matches with Lithuanians and Russians too. So I now think that my SCHULZ family was originally from those far northern reaches on the Baltic, possibly as far east as Königsberg.<u></u><u></u></i></div>
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<i>I am still researching the GRÜNBERG and SCHULZ families, have not exhausted the possible resources although they are getting harder to find. Other surnames possibly associated with my SCHULZ family are JAHN and ROTTSOLK.<u></u><u></u></i></div>
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Elysehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15483136317329166274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428680268879380666.post-18201813046500996122016-02-02T09:42:00.001-08:002016-02-02T09:42:04.968-08:00Looking for a Periodical? The Pommern Special Interest Group May Have It!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Pommern Special Interest Group has access to a lot of periodicals that can be hard to find anywhere else. You can search the list of periodicals <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/qqqwzuyebg9dtwc/DPL%20Table%20of%20Contents.xlsx?dl=0">here</a>.<br /><br />Ordering a copy from the periodical is easy! Simply send out a check for $5 made out to the Immigrant Genealogy Society to:</span><br />
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I am excited to share that Pommern Germany passengers lists for the years 1869-1901 are now on Ancestry.com. You can find the collection <a href="http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2452">here</a>. While the document types in the collection vary, you can generally expect to find the name, gender, place of origin, departure date, departure place, ship name, and age at departure.<br />
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If you make any discoveries within this collection, we would love for you to share them with us!Elysehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15483136317329166274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428680268879380666.post-8832876649560417262015-07-08T12:39:00.000-07:002015-07-08T12:39:08.670-07:00Stolper Heimatkreise e.V Global Index Now Online!Hello Researchers!<br />
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We are excited to tell you that the Stolper Heimatkreise e. V. Global Index is now online. This index is searchable by first or last name and by place. This is great news for all who are searching in Kreis Stolp, Schlawe, Lauenburg, and Butow. <br />
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You can learn more on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Stolper.Heimatkreise.eV/timeline">Stolper Heimatkreise e. V. Facebook page</a>.Elysehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15483136317329166274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428680268879380666.post-11207021323486293952014-09-09T20:36:00.005-07:002014-09-09T20:36:50.660-07:00Links for the Fall Issue of the Newsletter<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: nowrap;"><b>Civil records online </b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: nowrap;">http://pommerscher-greif.de/standesamt-online.html</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: nowrap;">http://pommerscher-greif.de/kirchenbuch-online.html</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: nowrap;"><b>Polish digital libraries </b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: nowrap;">http://fbc.pionier.net.pl/owoc</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: nowrap;">http://bibliotekacyfrowa.eu/dlibra </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: nowrap;">http://www.szczecin.ap.gov.pl/iCmsModuleArchPublic/showDocuments/</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: nowrap;">http://www.archiwa.gov.pl/en/data-bases.html </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">http://pommerscher-greif.de/standesamt-online.html</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">http://bibliotekacyfrowa.eu/dlibra </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">http://www.szczecin.ap.gov.pl/iCmsModuleArchPublic/showDocuments/</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><b>Database of the holdings of the Polish archives (only part of these </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><b>Civil records online </b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">http://pommerscher-greif.de/standesamt-online.html</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><b>Church Books online </b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">http://pommerscher-greif.de/kirchenbuch-online.html</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><b>Polish digital libraries </b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">http://fbc.pionier.net.pl/owoc</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><b>Library in Stolp/Slupsk</b> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">http://bibliotekacyfrowa.eu/dlibra </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><b>State Archives</b> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">State Archive in Stettin/Szczecin (point of entry for digitized documents) </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">http://www.szczecin.ap.gov.pl/iCmsModuleArchPublic/showDocuments/</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><b>Database of the holdings of the Polish archives (only part of these </b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><b>holdings are online) </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">http://www.archiwa.gov.pl/en/data-bases.html </span></span>Elysehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15483136317329166274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428680268879380666.post-54454245915536644072014-08-14T14:09:00.006-07:002014-08-14T14:09:52.427-07:00David G. Marks' Story of Pommern Ancestry<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[<b>Editor's Note: </b>This post was written by David G. Marks. If you would like to submit a story about your Pommern ancestry, please email <span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">tperrone2@verizon.net with your story.]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I started my researching my family tree in 2006. My Mom’s English and Irish side wasn’t too difficult. There was documentation on my Dad’s maternal side that lead me to the right village in Germany, but nobody had any idea where the Marks’ had come from in Germany.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I finally found a reference to Pomerania in the 1920 Census where my Great Grandmother referred to it as her place of birth. All other references had just been Prussia or Germany. I found the website for the IGS/DPL and found that there was a submission for my Great Great Grandfather, Friedrich Wilhelm MARKS. I filled out the form and sent it in with my donation and had an answer within a week.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The submitter of this information believed that Friedrich Wilhelm had been born in Lankwitz, Kreis Stolp. I found the Stolpmailing list in the fall of 2008 and seeing that it was mostly in German spent a week composing the best German email I could from my high school and college German. I sent it and didn’t get an answer.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thanksgiving morning of 2008 and there was my answer from Uwe Kerntopf – in English. Could the spelling of the last name actually be MARTZ or MARZ? Every bit of information received in this email was right on in terms of dates. I had never found the ship record for the families immigration. I had always searched using the name MARKS. I plugged MARZ in and the exact ship record popped up. Nobody knew that the family name had been changed back in 1857.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I made a trip to Pomerania sponsored by the Wisconsin Vereinstadt in 2009. After the tour portion was finished I wanted to go a meet with the Stolp Group at their office in Bonn. I was very warmly greeted AND given a memory stick with copies of the church books where my family came from – allowing me to expand my tree back to the year 1700.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As a result of all of this I have met cousins in Germany (and many in the US) and became a member of the Stolp Group. I help them in transcribing church records into a database and help with inquiries from people whose family came from the same parish as mine (Groß Garde). I have attended the Stolp Family Research Meeting in Kassel the last two years. Finding them to be such a great help and with wonderful people, I purchased my plane ticket for the October, 2014 meeting this last December.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I never would have found my family without the help of the IGS/DPL.</span></div>
Elysehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15483136317329166274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428680268879380666.post-22969610942502152862014-07-06T19:03:00.000-07:002014-07-06T19:03:00.107-07:00Benefits of a subscription to Die Pommerschen Leute<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -63.0pt; mso-outline-level: 1; tab-stops: .25in;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wondering what the benefits are of getting a subscription to the Die Pommerschen Leute? Read all about society president Toni Perrone's research success using the Die Pommerschen Leute as a resource!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Research Methods:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1)<u> </u>Interview of family
members;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2) American record research;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3) View of Hamburg Passenger list (which
stated the family left from Zarrenthin, Kreis Demmin, Vor Pommern);<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4) Placed known
family material in the Die Vorfahren section to the Die Pommerschen Leute (DPL)
Periodical;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5) Received an E mail from another DPL subscriber that he was going
to that area of Vor Pommern and would be willing to look at the church records in Jarmen. Kreis Demmin, Vor-Pommern) since it
was very near Zarrenthin and he had the same surname in his family there. (The
church records were never microfilmed and remain in the church there);</span></div>
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received the following information from him<b>:
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jarmen Church
book. Vol. V. page 201 entry # 46 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bertha Johanne
Wilhelmine Behrendt born July 19, 1863 at 10:30 in the morning baptized on September 9, 1863 in
Klein-Toitin, Kreis Demmin, Vor-Pommern; Father; The shepherd Johann Behrendt,
Mother: Wilehimine Blietz.<u> </u></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Witnesses</span><sup><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">: </span></sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Johann Heitmann, day
laborer; Wilhelm Schroeder, shepherd from Daberkow and Johanne Wilke.</span><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jarmen Church
book. Vol. V. page 167 entry # 29</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wilhelmine August
Frederike Behrendt, born on March 20, 1861 at 3 0”clock, baptized on April 8,
1861 in Klein Toitin. Father; the shepherd Johann Behrendt, Mother: Wilehimine
Blietz.<u> </u></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Witnesses: Wilhelm Heyden,
day laborer; Friederike Behning, wife of the day laborer Heitman; Auguste
Ewald, wife of the day laborer Zell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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book. Vol. VI. page 11 entry # 61<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wilhelm Friedrich
Carl Behrendt, born on July 22, 1865 in Klein Toitin, Baptized on July 30, 1865
(this was an emergency baptism as he died the same day he was baptized. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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book. Vol. VI. Page 29 entry # 51<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Johann Behrendt, born on July 1, 1866 in Klein Toitin, Baptized on July 15,
1866 <u><o:p></o:p></u></span></div>
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book. Vol. G. page 12 entry # 29<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Johann Behrendt ,
shepherd in Klein Toitin, died on September 25, 1866 1AM from Cholera; Age 35
years 11 months, 30 days. Survivors: the
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Johann Carl
Martin Droberg and Wilhelmine Christine Dorothea Blietz from Klein Toitin were
married April 8, 1868 in Jarmen. Johann Carl Martin Droberg was born April 10,
1844 and Wilhelmine Christine Dorothea
Blietz Behrendt was born October 29,
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<i><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>If I had not
subscribed to Die Pommerschen Leute Periodical and placed my information in the
Die Vorfharen section I would never have received this material!</b></span></i></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">BERTHA JOHANNA <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Wilhelmina</span> <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">BEhReNDT</span></span></u><sup><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></sup><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> was born on July
19, 1863 in Germany.<sup><o:p></o:p></sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When Bertha was a
very little girl in Kreis Demmin she, along with other little girls in her
village, went to the home of the Baron and Baroness for instructions in crafts,
sewing, darning, and weaving. There were several spinning wheels in the home.
She, being the smallest at that time, learned on the littlest spinning wheel,
how to spin flax into fiber and sheep's wool into yarn. She was very intent on
learning to weave, and as she worked at it, the spinning wheel would move
forward a few inches. She would pull her chair to it again and get close to it.
Before she knew it everyone would start to laugh because she was moved clear
across the room and hadn't even noticed. She told her grandchildren later that
she was embarrassed but she soon learned how to spin very well.</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to darn wool socks to perfection. Her granddaughter said she had never seen
such close and even stitches as her grandmothers. Her
grandchildren tried very hard to do it the way Bertha did, but never
really succeeded. Of course no one darns stockings anymore, but Bertha
certainly perfected the art.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Life in the
Vor-Pommern for Bertha and her family and all the people in the village were
very hard. While the little girls were learning crafts the little boys were
taught to work in the fields at a very early age. Later the girls had to work
in the fields too. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They were very
poor. The only toys Bertha ever had were handmade ones. For Christmas they
usually got something in the clothing line and perhaps an orange or an apple.
The one big happy time in the year for all of the villagers was the Octoberfest
- the celebration of the harvest. At this time there would be dancing and
games. Otherwise, it was mostly work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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years old when she immigrated to the United States on the ship "SS
Gellert," under the direction of Captain Kueshlewein, from Hamburg leaving
March 4,1882 and arriving in New York April 19, 1882 with her Johann Droberg,
her mother Wilhelmina Bleitz, her natural
sister Minnie and step sister and step
brothers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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arrived in the United States she thought life was very beautiful here. The
family settled in Chicago and immediately joined the Social Turner Verein, (a
German social and athletic club). To think that she could go to a dance every
Saturday and dance until three in the morning and no one stopped her or made
her get back to work - that was to her, shear heaven.<sup> </sup><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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marriage on June 25, 1884 by Rev. William
Bertling, minister of the Gospel at the Evangelical Lutheran Church, 18 W.
Fremont Street, Chicago Illinois. Heinrich was the
son of Johann Hinrich Claussen<span style="color: red; font-variant: small-caps;"> </span>and<span style="color: red;">
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October 26, 1853 in Dörpling, Kreis Dithmarschen, Schleswig Holstein, Germany.
He learned to be a joiner, (a skilled workman who finishes inside woodwork for
houses), a trade he pursued throughout his life. Henry immigrated to the United
States from Hamburg, Schleswig Holstein, arriving in
New York, May 23, 1881. He came with his
brother Peter<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">, </span>sister Catharina
Dorothea (Dora) Claussen<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">, </span>and
his cousin's<span style="color: red; font-variant: small-caps;"> </span>Katharine Claussen<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">, </span>Claus Boe<span style="font-variant: small-caps;"> , </span>and Angenetha Catharina
(Antje) Boe. They traveled across the ocean on the ship "SS
Vandalia".<sup> </sup>The ship made one stop on the way in La Havre. They
continued on to Chicago, Illinois where Henry<span style="color: red;"> </span>and Peter decided to
make their home while the rest of the family moved on to Iowa. Henry and Peter<span style="font-variant: small-caps;"> </span>started
their own construction business in Chicago in 1893. The name of the business was Claussen Brothers Carpenters and Contractors<span style="color: red;"> </span>and was located at 1025 Roscoe Street, Chicago,
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active member in the Schleswig Holstein Verein and the Social Turner Verein in
Chicago, Illinois. The Social Turner Verein was a society that had the
philosophy of a sound mind and body that was practiced through physical
fitness. They had gymnastic classes for the children and adults alike. The
Social Turners were well known for passing down German heritage by offering
German Theater, meeting places, and supporting German libraries as well as
other cultural programs. Heinrich and Bertha attended several social functions
at the Social Turner Verein in Chicago after their marriage. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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two of their marriage Henry and Bertha borrowed enough money to buy their own
house. After a few years they were able to add on two stories so that they
could rent out a flat. He later built his dream home at 2015 Addison Street,
Chicago Illinois after having saved lumber and extra doors and trim from some
of his contracting jobs. The house was one of the first houses on that block at
that time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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much schooling Bertha had in Klein-Toitin, but she had a wide vocabulary,
mostly in German and was an avid reader. Bertha was always reading her
Abendpost in the evenings and keeping up with what was going on in the news.
She also loved to read romantic novels. Nothing pleased her more than to have a
German novel to read in the evenings. She never learned to read much English.
Her speech was mostly a mixture of German and English. Usually she spoke to her
grandchildren in German and they answered her in English, although her daughter
Frieda and son in law Albert were fluent in German and
often spoke German with her. Bertha was good in mathematics also and no one
could fool her in making change or in figuring the cost of anything.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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at the age of 571/2 on February 7, 1911 in Chicago Illinois. He is buried in
the Social Turner Verein Section of Forest Home (Waldheim) Cemetery 863 S. Des
Plaines Avenue Forest Park, Illinois, 60130.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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left alone to face debts that she had not known about. She had no income what
so ever nor any insurance. It was then that her son in law sold a lot that had
been given to him as a wedding gift by his father. He took the money to buy the
house on Addison Street from Bertha. She then lived with her daughter and her
family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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great deal about farm work, all of it learned in Vor Pommern. She was the chief
gardener in the family. No one else could do it good enough to suit her. She
grew beautiful flowers as well as some vegetables. She worked hard outdoors,
even insisting upon mowing the lawn until the summer before her death. Her grand-daughter, remembers Bertha cleaning the
wallpaper even though she had a broken wrist. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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never returned to her homeland in Vor-Pommern. She did receive a visit from her
cousin Ernst Behrendt and his wife Emma who came from Germany to visit her
sometime between 1920-1925. Bertha's granddaughter remembers the visit. She
said he was a very stern man. He returned to Germany and was never heard from
again as far as we know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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December 21, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois from a cerebral hemorrhage and carcinoma
of the right cervix. She was buried in December of 1944 in Graceland Cemetery,
Bellview Section, Lot 614, Chicago Illinois.</span></span></div>
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Elysehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15483136317329166274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428680268879380666.post-80754230148522771312014-06-29T19:54:00.002-07:002014-06-29T19:54:37.958-07:00July 2014 Meeting with Linda E. Serna<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The next meeting for the Pommern Special Interest Group will be <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_272805854" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">July 13, 2014</span></span> at the Immigrant Library (1310 Magnolia Ave, Burbank California) at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_272805855" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">2 p.m.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Our guest speaker is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Linda E Serna. She has been involved with genealogy in researching and writing family stories for 30 years. In addition, she was privileged to work as a genealogist for the PBS Genealogy Roadshow program. Currently, she is a</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">member of the Southern California Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists (SCCAPG), the Genealogical Speakers Guild (GSG), the California State Genealogical Alliance (CSGA), the Polish Genealogical Society (PGS-CA), and the Genealogical Society of Hispanic America (GSHA-CA) as well as being Vice President of Programs for the Orange County California Genealogical Society (OCCGS). Over the last 5 years, she wrote and gave several presentations on various topics for different groups in California and New Mexico, as well as teaching the Intermediate/Advanced class at her home group about twice a year. Linda is always in the process of writing new presentations. Her loves, in addition to public speaking, include history, writing, and traveling. She especially likes seeing how individual family stories fit in and make up the fabric of history.<br /><br />Her topic will be "Genealogy as Detective Work."<br /><br />Everyone is welcome and we hope to see you there.</span>Elysehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15483136317329166274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428680268879380666.post-16549826867097004622014-05-04T19:09:00.000-07:002014-05-04T19:09:00.282-07:00Pomeranian State Museum: Greifswald<div style="text-align: center;">
<b>By: Anna Mareike Schonle</b></div>
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On the Pomeranian coastline of the Baltic Sea you can find the university town and Hanseatic city of Greifswald. It is located between the islands of Rügen and Usedom. Greifswald is a beautiful town with many well-restored, pretty old buildings and medieval cobblestone streets. Its historic harbor with old fishing boats lies sheltered some miles away from the open sea. Visitors to Greifswald find the State Museum of Pomerania very close to the pretty market square.<br />
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After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the German reunification, the University of Greifswald and the City Council showed great commitment to the vision of establishing a new State Museum on the Baltic coast. Both institutions actively supported the project, and the German Government and the Federal State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania also provided funding for the project. Everybody was aware that a Pomeranian State Museum was only feasible in cooperation with Poland and Sweden. This is due to the eventful and close history which connects the three countries. An advisory council with professional representatives from Poland, Sweden and Denmark was established because the museum sees itself not only as an exhibition of Pomeranian history and culture, but also as a forum in the Baltic Sea region for trans-national work, especially for international youth work. The Director of the Museum Dr. Uwe Schröder orga-<br />
nized the setting up of the museum from the very beginning.<br />
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The museum is located on the grounds of a former Franciscan Monastery, and the former library, which is the only preserved part of the monastery, is integrated into the museum. Today’s picture gallery used to be the town school, built by Johann Friedrich Quistorp, the teacher of Caspar David Friedrich, one of the great sons of Greifswald. In 2000, the picture gallery opened to the public. The quality of our art collection is shown by the masterpieces of Caspar David Friedrich, which reflect the Nordic landscape. We own seven of his paintings, among them the famous “Eldena Ruins in the Sudeten mountains”.<br />
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We also feature Vincent van Gogh and his “A Lane near Arles”. The painting was purchased by the Pomer-<br />
anian picture gallery of Szczecin in 1911. To protect it against attacks in World War II, it was taken to Kiel<br />
(Schleswig-Holstein) via Coburg (Bavaria), and after the foundation of the State Museum in Greifswald it<br />
came back to Pomerania. For this reason the painting is today known as the “Pomeranian van Gogh”.<br />
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Besides these, there are many paintings from the baroque era, such as works by the famous artist Frans<br />
Hals. The collection also comprises works by Max Liebermann, one of the most famous German impres-<br />
sionists, and works by expressionists like Max Pechstein, who worked in Pomerania.<br />
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In our history exhibition, which opened in 2005, we show 14,000 years, starting with natural history. You can follow the journey of amber, 50 million years after its formation. Core samples show fossils one million<br />
years old, mineralized ammonites, seashells or sponges.<br />
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You can also find our first “guest” from Sweden, a huge boulder, pushed to Pomerania via the ice. It whispers myths about the “giant stones” to children.<br />
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The exhibition also refers to the legend of Vineta: Off the shore of the Pomeranian coast there was supposed<br />
to be a wealthy town. People lived there in luxury and abundance. This annoyed a mermaid so much that she made the town sink to the bottom of the sea. The legend says that on quiet days you can still hear the bells<br />
of Vineta chiming from the bottom of the sea.<br />
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Our medieval section shows the installation of the castle of Arkona on the island of Rügen, the original pil-<br />
lars from a Cistercian monastery, the Reformation and medieval lifestyle and the Slavic craftsmanship and the rich culture of the Hanseatic cities. <br />
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Walking on through the museum, events follow chronologically. During the Thirty Years’ War the Swedish<br />
King came to the island of Rügen in 1630, and 200 years of Swedish reign in Pomerania started. Therefore a detailed section of the exhibition refers to the Swedish times. The Swedish were able to occupy Pomera-<br />
nia because the last Duke of Pomerania died in 1637.<br />
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The University of Greifswald inherited a large tapestry from the Duke’s Family which we are allowed to ex-<br />
hibit. The “Croy Tapestry”, as it is called after the Duke’s sister’s married name, shows the Pomeranian commitment to the Protestant denomination. At the time this represented a very important testimony of Reformation, and today it is one of the major artifacts of Pomeranian culture. <br />
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After the Congress of Vienna [1815] Pomerania became Prussian. There is a most detailed miniature mod-<br />
el of the Harbor of Stettin and another of the huge ship Kaiser Wilhelm I., which took many Pomeranians<br />
abroad. Our last exhibition room deals with the life of Pomeranians who emigrated to the USA, Brazil, Aus-<br />
tralia and other countries in the nineteenth century.<br />
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Currently, we are working on an exhibition of the twentieth century, which we hope to inaugurate in 2015. In our museum you have the opportunity not only to watch but also to listen and even to touch history. Au-<br />
dio guides are available in German, English, Polish and Swedish. After the tour inside you can visit our monastery garden, with herbs and traditional plants. There are guided garden tours regularly. We try hard to make sure that everybody feels comfortable in the museum.<br />
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The whole complex is barrier-free, and we want to give children an adventurous time.<br />
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Our educational department is very committed. The staff create many programs for ages four and up. They organize special summer and winter programs, adventures during the holidays and interesting guided tours or<br />
rallies through the exhibition suitable for every age.<br />
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Right next to the museum, also inside the medieval abbey walls, is a renowned gourmet restaurant named Le<br />
Croy. Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden dined here when she visited the University of Greifswald on the<br />
occasion of its 550th anniversary in 2006.<br />
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Tickets for the museum are valid all day, so you can take a break during your visit, maybe in the Le Croy or in any other of the restaurants on the market square, which is only a three minutes’ walk.<br />
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We look forward to welcoming you in our museum in the center of the beautiful City of Greifswald! For more information about the State Museum of Pomerania or the Promotion Society visit our website at<br />
www.pommersches-landesmuseum.de/.Elysehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15483136317329166274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428680268879380666.post-26320287252193197142014-03-16T07:30:00.000-07:002014-03-16T18:50:17.375-07:00Upcoming Meetings & Speakers<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Gena Philibert Ortega holds a Master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies (Psychology and Women’s Studies) and a Master’s degree in Religion. Presenting on various subjects involving genealogy, Gena has spoken to groups throughout <u></u><u></u>California<u></u> and in <u></u>Utah<u></u> as well as virtually to audiences in the <u></u>United States<u></u> and <u></u>Europe<u></u>. Gena is the author of over 100 articles published in genealogy newsletters and magazines. Her writings can also be found on her blogs, Gena’s Genealogy and Food.Family.Ephemera. She is also the author of the books, "Putting the Pieces Together" and the "Cemeteries of the Eastern Sierra" (Arcadia Publishing, 2007). Gena serves as Vice-President for the Southern California Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists.</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">I have been involved with genealogy in researching and writing family stories for 30 years. In addition, I was privileged to work as a genealogist for the PBS Genealogy Roadshow program. Currently, I am a member of the Southern California Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists (SCCAPG), the Genealogical Speakers Guild (GSG), the California State Genealogical Alliance (CSGA), the Polish Genealogical Society (PGS-CA), and the Genealogical Society of Hispanic America (GSHA-CA) as well as being Vice President of Programs for the Orange County California Genealogical Society (OCCGS). Over the last 5 years, I've written and given several presentations on various topics for different groups in <u></u>California<u></u> and <u></u><u></u>New Mexico<u></u><u></u>, as well as teaching the Intermediate/Advanced class at my home group about twice a year. I am always in the process of writing new presentations. My loves, in addition to public speaking, include history, writing, and traveling. I especially like seeing how individual family stories fit in and make up the fabric of history.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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Elysehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15483136317329166274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428680268879380666.post-27057590467451322902014-02-25T18:48:00.000-08:002014-02-25T18:48:16.719-08:00A Brief History of Pomerania<div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
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The earliest inhabitants of Pomerania were Germanic tribes that migrated
southwards from Scandinavia prior to 100 B.C. By the fifth century A.D.,
these tribes, known as the Goths, Vandals, Germanii, and Teutoni, had migrated
westward and the area was settled by Slavic tribes that entered from the
east. The Slavic tribes included the Pomerani and Polani, who settled in
the areas that became Pomerania and Poland. The German name <i>Pommern</i>
comes from the Slavonic word, <i>Po more</i>, meaning "along the
sea". The Pomeranian Slavs were later referred to as the
Wends. In about 995, Pomerania was conquered by Boleslaus I, the first
King of Poland. However, wars between the Poles, Danes, and Germans for
possession of the area were fought with varying results for more than a
century. In 1122 the Poles were victorious over the pagan Wends and Duke
Boleslaw III introduced Christianity to Pomerania. He also invited the
first German settlers into the area.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Pomerania became a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire in 1181 when Bogislaw I
swore his allegiance to Frederick I (Barbarosa), the German King and Roman
Emperor. Thus began a Greif dynasty that continued for the next four
centuries, with the crown passed down from generation to generation through
inheritance. The last Pomeranian Duke was Bogislaw XIV who reigned until
his death in 1637. With no one to inherit the crown, the electors of
Brandenburg assumed control of Pomerania. During the 13th century,
surnames began appearing and by 1400 they were in fairly common use throughout
Germany.<o:p></o:p><br />
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In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, tens of thousands of immigrants
from the Rhineland, Westfalen, Niedersachsen, Holstein, Mecklenburg and Holland
colonized Pomerania, establishing German villages among the Wend inhabitants
and introducing trade. The immigrants, who were welcomed by the
Pomeranian Dukes, provided the necessary skills and tools needed to clear the
forests, drain the marshes, build dikes and roads, and farm the
land. They introduced the iron plow and the 3-field rotation system
of farming. Eventually, the German language and culture dominated
the country and by the 1400's the Wends of Pomerania disappeared completely as
a result of intermarriage.<o:p></o:p><br />
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The Church figured prominently in the early colonization with various
ecclesiastical institutions receiving or buying vast areas. The
Cistercians, the most prominent monastic order, established monasteries as
early as the 1170's in Pomerania. One, the monastery of Kolbatz, acquired
huge land holdings in Hinterpommern and by 1313, owned 53 villages.
Intermixed among these possessions were the large estates of the princes and
nobles, including both the native Slavs and the German knights who began
arriving about 1235. <o:p></o:p><br />
Pomerania, like the other German states, was greatly affected by the
Reformation. Lutheranism took root in Pomerania in 1525 when Stralsund
adopted Martin Luther's teaching. Nine years later, the Lutheran Church
of Pomerania was established when the Diet at Treptow on the Rega prepared the
basis for its formation. A plattdeutsch (low German) version of the bible
was printed the same year and in 1536, the dukes of Pommern accepted the
Lutheran faith. However, the hostility between the Catholics and the
Protestants continued unabated despite the Peace of Augsburg in 1555 which was
intended to settle the religious issue in Germany. In 1618, the Thirty
Years War began primarily as a civil war between the two religious
factions. In the summer of 1630, the war took on a political objective
when Sweden entered the war. King Gustavus Adolphus, a Protestant, was
concerned about the growing power of the Roman Emperor Ferdinand. The war
continued for another 18 years until 1648 when the Treaty of Westphalia was
signed. As compensation for its role in the war, Sweden was awarded
control over Stettin and Vorpommern. Brandenburg retained control of
Hinterpommern. <o:p></o:p><br />
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The Thirty Years War took a heavy toll in Pomerania with possibly one-third
of its people killed and whole villages and farms completely destroyed.
In the early 1700's, Pomerania again became the battleground for conflicts
between Russia and Sweden. It ended in 1720 with the Treaty of Stockholm,
which ceded part of Hither Pomerania as far as the Peene River to
Brandenburg-Prussia. Following the defeat of Napoleon, the Congress of
Vienna gave the remaining part of Swedish Pomerania to Prussia in 1815.<o:p></o:p><br />
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When King Wilhelm I became the first emperor of a united Germany in 1871,
Prussia had become a powerful military nation that occupied the northern two
thirds of Germany. It extended from the Netherlands and Belgium on the west to
Russia on the east. In 1945, after World War II, Prussia ceased to exist
as a German state and Pomerania was partitioned again at the Oder River.
Hinterpommern and Stettin (now called <i>Szczecin</i>) became part of Poland
and all of the Germans fled or were expelled from their country.
Vorpommern, the area west of the Oder-Neisse Rivers, became part of East
Germany. In 1990, Vorpommern became part of the reunified Germany and was
included in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. <o:p></o:p><br />
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<b>Sources: <o:p></o:p></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">This
brief history of Pomerania was originally published by Gene Maas on his family
genealogical website, </span><a href="http://www.genemaas.net/Pommern.htm"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">http://www.genemaas.net/Pommern.htm</span></a><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">. Two books by F.L Carsten,
"The Origins of Prussia" (1954) and "A History of the Prussian
Junkers" (1989); and one by H. W.
Koch, "A History of Prussia" (1978) served as primary
references in preparing this article. A
more extensive history can be found in article by Dr. Ludwig Biewer entitled, “</span><i>Kleine Geschichte
Pommerns</i>”<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">. </span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">the translated
which appears on Heinz Radde’s site at http://grosstuchen.cwsurf.de/HistoryPomerania.html.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Elysehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15483136317329166274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428680268879380666.post-66572943660586633292014-01-17T12:42:00.001-08:002014-01-17T12:42:24.708-08:00Attention: We Need a New Editor!<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: purple; font-size: 9pt;">The editor of Die Pommerschen Leute has notified the Pomeranian Special Interest Group (PSIG) of the Immigrant Genealogical Society that she will be resigning after the publication of the Summer 2014 issue of DPL. Consequently, the PSIG is looking for a volunteer who would be willing to accept the position of editor beginning with the Fall 2014 issue. The editor solicits and </span><span style="color: purple; font-size: 9pt;">...</span><span style="color: purple; font-size: 9pt;">edits publishable articles and stories that deal with the history of <u></u>Pomerania<u></u> and the culture, traditions and way of life of its people. The editor completes the layout and design of approximately 10 pages of content for each of the 4 yearly issues. The "Die Vorfahren" section of DPL has its own editor who oversees its content and submissions. </span></div>
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Elysehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15483136317329166274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428680268879380666.post-11532553251972834072013-12-11T08:24:00.000-08:002013-12-11T08:24:00.189-08:00January Speaker & Meeting<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our January meeting will take place on January 12, 2014 at 2pm at the Immigrant Genealogical Society Library at 1310-B W. Magnolia Blvd, Burbank, CA. Parking is available in the back of the building.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Our speaker for January will be Butch Hibben. <span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">Butch Hibben serves as assistant director of the Corona Family History Center. He has a life long interest in genealogy that began when he helped his grandmother typing the family Group Sheets and Pedigree Charts for the family's Book of Remembrance. He was introduced to the Living Legacy Project in 2011 and now assists others in preserving their family heritage. His topic is "Living Legacy Project - Creating Your Life's Story."<br /><br />Everyone is welcome!</span></span><br />
Elysehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15483136317329166274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428680268879380666.post-75967379993656888112013-12-10T20:18:00.004-08:002013-12-10T20:18:55.354-08:00What is your Pomeranian Identity (Part 2)<h3 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal;">In August 0f</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal;">2013 Anne Mareike Schönle the Historian at the Pommersches Landesmuseum in <u></u><u></u><u></u>Greifswald<u></u><u></u> asked our members</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal;">the question -</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://pommerschen.blogspot.com/2013/08/what-is-your-pomeranian-identity.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">What is your Pomeranian Identity?</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal;">Seven people from our face book page answered and their answers were sent back to Mareike. She has sent us a second request which I have posted below:<u></u></span></h3>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Dear Ladies and Gentlemen<br /><br />I have already contacted you to get information about your Pomeranian<br />ancestors and to learn where descendants of Pomeranian settlers live today.<br />As I am preparing a media-project on the Pomeranians' culture (for our<br />new permanent exhibition) I am interested in photographs of your<br />ancestors and yourselves. I know that this is a great request to make of<br />you and a great responsibility. If you send me some photos, we will keep<br />and safe them in our archive, in case they are printed.<br /></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">It would be a pleasure to hear from you.<br />Yours siuncerely<br />Mareike Schönle<br /><br />Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,<br /><br />Ich kontaktierte sie bereits, um Informationen über Sie und Ihre<br />pommerschen Vorfahren zu erhalten. Da ich ein Medienprojekt über die<br />Kultur der Pommern vorbereite (für unsere neue Dauerausstellung),<br />interessiere ich mich für Fotografien von Ihren Vorfahren und Ihnen<br />selbst. Ich weiß, das ist eine große Bitte und Verantwortung. Wenn Sie<br />mir Fotos zusenden, werden wir sie in unserem Archiv aufbewahren, wenn<br />sie gedruckt werden.<br /><br />Ich würde mich freuen, von ihnen zu hören!<br />Mit freundlichem Gruß<br />Mareike Schönle<br /><br />Anne Mareike Schönle<br />Historikerin<br />Pommersches Landesmuseum<br />17489 Greifswald<br />Rakower Straße 9<br /><br />Tel.: <a href="tel:%2B49%203834%208312%2023" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" value="+493834831223">+49 3834 8312 23</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://www.pommersches-landesmuseum.de/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span lang="DE"><span style="color: purple;">http://www.pommersches-<wbr></wbr>landesmuseum.de</span></span></a></span></i></div>
Elysehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15483136317329166274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428680268879380666.post-1151374262576885532013-09-25T17:52:00.000-07:002013-09-25T17:52:24.086-07:00October Pommern Special Interest Group Meeting - October 13, 2013.<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Pommern Special Interest Group will be having the October meeting on October 13, 2013 at 2 p.m. at the Immigrant Library (1310 Magnolia Blvd, Burbank, CA). Parking is available behind the library.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Our speaker will be Alice Colby Volkert. The topic will be "Through Their Eyes". <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">After using all the tried-and-true research strategies known, there are still some individuals that just can not be found! As far as researching individuals, we keep narrowing our field of vision until we have little hope of “seeing” anything new. But, if we stop and think about it and no longer try to use our own eyes, but turn around and use the eyes of the person we areinvestigating; we may “see” the solution. What did your mystery person see?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b>About Alice Colby Volkert:</b> </span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Alice Colby Volkert is a professional genealogist who is involved in many aspects of genealogy. She can research in any part of the United States. Alice enjoys being a coach, helping people make their own discoveries and organizing their data. She guides and assists people who want to 'do-it-themselves' or can do as much for anyone as they require. Alice was one of the researchers for the PBS television show "Genealogy Roadshow" airing September 23, 2013 on PBS. She speaks at UGA, Expo and Jamboree Genealogy Conferences as well as local Family History Fairs and genealogy societies' meetings. Alice is on the board of the Southern California Chapter of the Association for Professional Genealogists. Alice is President of the Colby Family Association, the descendants of Anthon</span><span style="font-family: Arial;">y & Susannah Colby who arrived with the Winthrop Fleet. </span></span>Elysehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15483136317329166274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428680268879380666.post-49690846209583881262013-08-21T19:49:00.004-07:002013-08-21T19:49:40.817-07:00Clickable Links or Summer Issue<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;">The Summer issue of the periodical Die Pommerschen Leute was mailed yesterday (August 14, 2013) to those that subscribe to it. Margret Ott, contributed the following article “<u>Pomerania – Villages and Maps</u>”</span> <span style="font-size: small;">that appears on</span> <span style="font-size: small;">pages 8-9. It has a list of internet pages. For your convenience, this list appears with clickable links on our Facebook page and here on our blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> Villages in Polish Pomerania:<u><span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://kartenmeister.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">kartenmeister.com</a></span></u><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> Villages in German <u></u><u></u><u><span style="color: blue;">Pomerania</span></u><u></u><u><span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://gov.genealogy.net/search/index" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">gov.genealogy.net/search/index</a></span></u><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> Village encyclopedias <u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://pommerscher-greif.de/geographie.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">pommerscher-greif.de/<wbr></wbr>geographie.html</a><u></u><u></u></span></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> Preussische Provinz Pommern1856 <u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~24746~950010:Preussische-Provinz-Pommern,-reduci" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.davidrumsey.com/luna/<wbr></wbr>servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~<wbr></wbr>24746~950010:Preussische-<wbr></wbr>Provinz-Pommern,-reduci</a><u></u><u></u></span></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> Pommern 1905: <u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Provinz_Pommern_1905.png" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://upload.wikimedia.org/<wbr></wbr>wikipedia/commons/0/0a/<wbr></wbr>Provinz_Pommern_1905.png</a><u></u><u></u></span></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> Mapster (downloadable Maps) 1890-1952 <u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://igrek.amzp.pl/index.php" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://igrek.amzp.pl/index.php</a></span></u><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> Topographic maps from some German locations <u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://igrek.amzp.pl/mapindex.php?cat=TK25GER" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://igrek.amzp.pl/mapindex.<wbr></wbr>php?cat=TK25GER</a><u></u><u></u></span></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> Topographic maps from all Polish locations <u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://igrek.amzp.pl/mapindex.php?cat=TK25" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://igrek.amzp.pl/mapindex.<wbr></wbr>php?cat=TK25</a><u></u><u></u></span></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> Maps of Poland today with even better aerial Pho-tos than Google <u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://mapy.geoportal.gov.pl/imap/?locale=en" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://mapy.geoportal.gov.pl/<wbr></wbr>imap/?locale=en</a><u></u><u></u></span></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> Map that combines both Google maps and historic maps (click into the square at top left corner), ex-cellent for preparing a trip, because you can see both German and Polish village names <u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://en.zamki.pl/?dzial=mapa" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://en.zamki.pl/?dzial=mapa</a></span></u><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> Deutsche Fotothek, German topographic maps <u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.deutschefotothek.de/db/apsisa.dll/ete?action=viewPage&page=kartenforum-sachsen-messtischblaetter.xml" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.deutschefotothek.<wbr></wbr>de/db/apsisa.dll/ete?action=<wbr></wbr>viewPage&page=kartenforum-<wbr></wbr>sachsen-messtischblaetter.xml</a><u></u><u></u></span></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> Lovely and detailed maps from 1692-1709 from Swedish Pomerania at <u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.svea-pommern.de/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.svea-pommern.de/</a></span></u><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> More Maps at <u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://pommerscher-greif.de/geographie/articles/kartographie.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://pommerscher-greif.de/<wbr></wbr>geographie/articles/<wbr></wbr>kartographie.html</a></span></u> and <u><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://pommerscher-greif.de/linkliste.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://pommerscher-greif.de/<wbr></wbr>linkliste.html</a><u></u><u></u></span></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Margret Ott lives in <u></u><u></u>Germany<u></u><u></u> and maintains the following websites (in German): <a href="http://www.schlawe.de/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.schlawe.de</a> and <a href="http://pommerscher-greif.de/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">pommerscher-greif.de</a>. Her e-mail address is </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><a href="mailto:ott@schlawe.de" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">ott@schlawe.de</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Thank you for your contribution Margaret!</span></div>
Elysehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15483136317329166274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428680268879380666.post-49055508699005102482013-08-04T21:14:00.004-07:002013-08-04T21:14:33.705-07:00What is your Pomeranian Identity?The Pommern Special Interest Group was recently contacted by a researcher from the Pomeranian State Museum and is conducting research about individuals with ancestors from Pomerania that moved to other countries during the 19th century. So the researcher has sent us some questions and if you have ancestors that immigrated to the United States (or other countries) during the 19th century, would you take a few minutes to answer the questions in the comments section?<br />
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1.) Prior to getting interested in genealogy and family history, were you aware of your Pomeranian identity?<br />
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2.) Do you still practice/preserve Pomeranian traditions and if so, how?<br />
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3.) Do you speak Low German? Did you learn it in school or through family?<br />
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Thanks!Elysehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15483136317329166274noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428680268879380666.post-24088252443689502292013-07-20T08:00:00.000-07:002013-07-20T08:00:01.802-07:00Pomeranian Wedding Customs<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">"Das Aufgebot" refers to the posting of the banns prior to a marriage. Banns were posted on three consecutive Sundays before the marriage by both the bride's and the groom's pastors. The purpose for these banns was to bring attention to the congregation in order to elicit possible reasons as to why the marriage should not take place. It also was to encourage prayers from the congregation on behalf of the couple to be married.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">A few weeks before every Pomeranian peasant wedding the Hochzeitbitter, (bridal boy) was on his way to invite the many guests to the wedding. He was usually the younger, unmarried brother of the bride. He was dressed in Pommerscher Trachten (a Pommern folk costume) or a dark suit. His hat was decorated with a bouquet of flowers and colorful ribbons. He wore a little bunch of flowers in his buttonhole. In addition, green and white ribbons fluttered from the staff that he carried. He was welcomed in every house. He would stand in the living room and recite the invitation in verse form, either in High or Low German. Usually he ended with "You have accepted the invitation and will certainly attend the wedding." As payment for the invitation he would receive drink of Schnapps. A sign that the invitation was accepted a colorful handkerchief would be pinned on the back of his jacket. He wore these handkerchiefs on the day of the wedding, where he was the one to receive the guests or he helped to serve them.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">On the evening before the wedding the young people made much noise as possible in order to frighten the evil spirits.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Neighbors and children could be depended upon to show up unannounced. Sometimes they brought chickens as gifts. These were then prepared for the wedding dinner. Children would recite Polterabend verses and present the bride and the groom with small presents.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Tricks were often played on the bridal couple. A common one was to put a baby buggy on the top of the roof. It was not always easy for the groom to get it down again. Many times the guests would break pottery as a simple of a peaceful marriage for the bridal couple. The couple was expected to clean up all the broken pottery shards before sunrise and to bury them behind the house. This would be a sign of a peaceful marriage.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">The Pomeranian weddings usually took place on Friday. The first guest would arrive about <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1171685946" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">10 A.</span></span>M. At the gate to the barnyard there would be a band to welcome them. Most guests came by coach. This custom was called the " Zur Hochzeit Einspielen". Each arriving party was expected to give a tip to the musicians.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">The groom was not allowed to see the bride before the church door was reached. Her mother and her sisters helped the bride to dress. The bride wore black as seen in all the wedding pictures of the immigrants in the Claussen family. This custom was also followed in Schleswig <u></u><u></u>Holstein<u></u>.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">The bride arrived at the church in a wagon decked with flowers. After the ceremony the bride and the groom would walk around a breiten stein (a huge field stone). In some places these were old graves. These were places to ask for a blessing from their ancestors. The bride would climb to the top of the stone and call out: " Here I stand all alone on a field stone whoever loves me, brings me down." Then the bridegroom would have to climb up and the two would begin a bridal dance.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">After wards, the entire party returned home to a generous holiday type meal. There are a large number of chickens which had been killed so that "Das Glueck Gackern" ("happiness would cackle").<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">" Kuekschengeld" (tip). Their verse would end with the words: " I want to thank you for the gift, but you should remember that the blessing comes from above". Then there would be dancing until <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1171685947" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">midnight</span></span>. The bride was expected to dance with every male attending. The groom would dance with every female guest. Every couple would tip the musicians again, so that they would continue to play until morning.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">At the end, the wreath dance takes place. Every bachelor would try to get the bride's wreath away from her and her groom would do his best to prevent this from happening. In some parts of Pommern the young unmarried girls would try to catch the bride's wreath and veil. Whoever succeeded was expected to be the next bride.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">The last dance of the morning was the broom dance. The young men and women would stand facing each other. A young man would ride the broom between the couples, let it fall and find himself a partner. Whoever was left over would dance with the broom.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">On the Sunday after the wedding, there was a party. The young couple would have to serve their guests in order to demonstrate that they could be generous hosts. This was an opportunity to see the gifts and the bride's trousseau.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">On Tuesday after the wedding these gifts would be loaded onto a farm wagon and driven to the groom's farm. Sometimes a rooster was stolen from the bride's farm and would be let loose in the groom's barnyard. Everyone would watch the gift rooster fight with the rooster on the groom's farm.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">It was a belief that depending upon which rooster won signified which of the bridal couple would rule the marriage in the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">In Vor Pommern, death was not something to fear, but it was seen as something inevitable. So to assist the dying to bridge the path to the other world, the Pastor was called to administer the last sacrament. When the final hour was near, the members of the immediate family would gather around the deathbed. All the windows were opened so there would be no obstacle to prevent the soul from going directly to heaven. A prayer was said and an appropriate song was sung. When death came, all the clocks in the house were stopped and the mirrors were covered. A mirror was an object of earthly vanity and was no longer needed. Covering the mirrors with a black cloth was believed to ban satanic powers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">The deceased was always laid out in the living room of the house in the morning. The coffin had to be placed so that the foot end was towards the door. It also had to be carried out that way, feet first, so that the deceased could not drag any of the mourners with him. The deceased shoes many times were laid outside near the entrance of the house. Often a hymnal was laid in the coffin so that the dead could immediately sing the praises of the Lord at judgment day.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">A fishing net was placed in the coffin of a fisherman. A toy was placed in the coffin of a child. A candle was placed in the hands of an older person so that their souls would find their way to heaven. When an estate owner or farmer died, it was the custom that all the livestock is taken to the barnyard as soon as the body was taken out of the house. This was the way that the animals would know that their owner had passed away. The coffin was transported to the cemetery on a horse drawn wagon.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Everybody watched the horses. If the horses turned their heads in the direction of the farmstead, they believed this was a sign that someone in that house would be the next to die. If the horses stopped for a short time to rest in front of a house, death would come soon to someone living there.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">The Pomeranian culture and traditions lasted several generations but were lost during World War II when animosity toward Germans kept the culture in the closet for fear of persecution. Today some families are bringing these traditions back to their children. Harry Claussen </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(See:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">58 </span><i>ii.</i></span><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></i><i><sub><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">43</span></sub></i><span style="font-size: x-small;">)</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"> the grandfather of Annette Perrone </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(See: i. </span><sub><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">59</span></sub><span style="font-size: x-small;">)</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;"> always sang "O Tannenbaum" to his children and grandchildren at Christmas. These were special times and fondly remembered by all of us. It is hoped the older generations in the Claussen family will teach some of these traditions to their children and their grandchildren.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Martha and Les Riggle, <u></u><u></u><u></u>Witchita<u></u>, <u></u>Kansas<u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">The Christmas Keeping Germans by Neita Oviatt Friend, Eagles Nest Publications Hartland Wisconsin 53029</span></i></div>
Elysehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15483136317329166274noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428680268879380666.post-7249253492713963442013-06-22T08:00:00.000-07:002013-06-22T08:00:04.136-07:00Christmas in Vor Pommern<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">Der Weihnachtsmann, the "Christmas Man" would come knocking on the doors the first Sunday of Advent. He was usually a tall thin man with brown hair and a short beard, wearing a long tan coat with big bulging pockets. One of the pockets was filled with sweets, the other with note pads and pencils for the children to write on. He also wore a huntsman's hat with a sprig of green around the crown. He asked if the children wanted anything special for Christmas. They would hand him little notes with their requests. In some of the households the children would invite the Christmas man in and sing their wishes to him. They believed that he would deliver the gifts himself, to save the Christ Child work and they included all of the family in the last verse.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">The families sang Christmas songs such as "Away in the Manger " or "Joy to the World" every evening. At dusk on Christmas Eve the family would sit down for a candlelight meal. They would have hot spiced cider, appetizers such as Kock Käse mit Schwartzbrot (cooked cheese spread with dark bread), Heringe Nach Hausfrauenart (pickled creamed herring) and Rugenwald tea sausage. After they ate the mother of the family would herd all the children into one area of the house and told them to close their eyes. The parents would sing "O Come Little Children." When the children turned around they were told to open their eyes to see the firtree on the table with candles glowing on it. The tips of each branch had a small cross ornament, gilded nuts and colored glass ornaments. Everyone sang "O Tannenbaum" and the father would sing "From Heaven High" (Martin Luther's Children's Hymn). The mother many times would play the harpsichord.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">On Christmas morning there were crocheted and knitted gifts under the tree. They consisted of mittens or socks and fruit. Choirboys from the church were caroling in the streets. Bells rang from the church. The family then attended church services and after arriving home ate a Christmas dinner. The meal consisted of Kirschsuppe (warm cherry soup with dumplings), Pommerscher Gansebraten with stuffing (roast goose), Rotkohl mit Apfeln (red cabbage with apples) and Sulz were Christmas Specialties. Sulz was made from diced veal, carrots, celery, root and onion seasoned to taste and molded in its own liquid, sometimes thick enough to slice and always-served cold. There was dark rye bread filled with caraway seed, an assortment of smoked fish and meat sliced thin and various kinds of sausages. Dinner ended with sweets such as Kuchen, Schokolade pudding (steamed chocolate pudding with hard sauce), Klötternüsse cookies and candy.</span></div>
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Elysehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15483136317329166274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428680268879380666.post-81676974362978933942013-06-20T21:43:00.002-07:002013-06-21T16:33:51.216-07:00Hank Jones will be Guest Speaker at July 14, 2013 Meeting<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Pommern Special Interest Group is pleased to announce that Hank Jones will be the guest speaker for the July 14, 2013 meeting at 2 p.m. at the Immigrant Genealogy Library located at 1310 Magnolia Avenue, Burbank, CA. The topic is <i>How 'Psychic Roots' Became An 'Unsolved Mystery</i>. <b>All are welcome.</b></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Henry Z ("Hank") Jones, Jr. has been actively climbing family trees since the age of eig</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">...</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">ht, and, since his graduation from Stanford, has specialized in tracing 18th century German emigrants. His books on the subject include The Palatine Families of Ireland, the two-volume The Palatine Families of New York - 1710 (winner of the Donald Lines Jacobus Award as "Best Genealogical Work of the Year"), More Palatine Families, Westerwald To America, and his brand new three volume set Even More Palatine Families. Hank has written many articles over the years that have appeared in The American Genealogist, The National Genealogical Society Quarterly, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, The New York Genealogical & Biographical Record and other major publications. He recently received the NGS Award of Merit for "Distinguished Work in Genealogy" and has been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists, of whom there are only fifty in the world. Hank has served on the national board of the Genealogical Speaker's Guild, as a Trustee of the Association of Professional Genealogists, and as a consultant on the popular NBC-TV program Who Do You Think You Are?<br><br>As to his "other life" apart from genealogical research (and being a 3-day JEOPARDY! champion), Hank Jones was a film actor for twenty-five years. He appeared in many movies, among them eight films for Walt Disney studios (such as "Blackbeard's Ghost," costarring with Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, & Suzanne Pleshette) and the Academy Award winning “Tora-Tora-Tora.” He was a familiar face on nearly 500 national tv commercials and has been featured on over 300 network tv shows such as "My Three Sons," "Family Affair," "Petticoat Junction, " "Mod Squad," "The Patty Duke Show," "Mork & Mindy," "The Jeffersons," and "Love Boat" which still come back to haunt him on cable tv today. His new book Memories – The Show-Biz Part Of My Life tells of some of his off-the-wall experiences working with major stars such as Henry Fonda, Fred MacMurray, Ron Howard, Robin Williams, Patsy Cline, Bob Hope, Minnie Pearl, Ringo Starr, and Elvis Presley. Hank also was active as a singer and songwriter, co-starring on ABC-TV's Tennessee Ernie Ford Show, writing Mel Tormé’s hit song “<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1880601169" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Midnight</span></span> Swinger,” and recording albums and singles on RCA and Capitol Records. In Fred Astaire’s biography Puttin’ On The Ritz, Hank was named as one of Mr. Astaire’s very favorite recording artists. Hank’s newest CDs are currently released on Epitomé Records.<br><br>Hank's bestseller, Psychic Roots: Serendipity & Intuition in Genealogy and its sequel More Psychic Roots, studies of how intuitive nudges and serendipitous events sometimes influence our genealogical searches, are now in their 9th printings. They were dramatized on NBC's "Unsolved Mysteries" program to good response from inside and outside the genealogical community.<br><br>TIME Magazine recently had a cover story devoted to genealogy and chose to close the article and tie things together with a quote from - Hank Jones.</span></span>Elysehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15483136317329166274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428680268879380666.post-17940529032987772672013-06-08T08:00:00.000-07:002013-06-08T08:00:02.203-07:00Easter in Vor Pommern<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">It was important that the child be baptized as quickly as possible after his birth, especially when a baby was born at the same time and in the same village where there had been a death and the body was not yet buried. The baptism had to take place before the burial because it was feared that the spirit of the dead who had not been buried could cause the child to grow up to be an evil person, or even to die. The people connected this belief to certain Bible passages in which the spirits are mentioned.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 9pt;">The Christmas Keeping Germans by Neita Oviatt Friend, Eagles Nest Publications Hartland Wisconsin 53029<b><u></u><u></u></b></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Photo: Used via Creative Commons License from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cabmanstu/7358881344/">Flickr user Stuart Williams</a></span></i></div>
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Elysehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15483136317329166274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1428680268879380666.post-39073600524811883962013-01-11T15:47:00.000-08:002013-01-18T23:41:06.332-08:00Welcome!Welcome to the Pommern Special Interest Group Blog!<br />
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For those of you who don't know, the Pommern Special Interest Group is a group sponsored by the Immigrant Genealogy Society in Burbank, California. The group specializes in Pomeranian genealogy, culture, and history.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Never heard of Pomerania? </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Pomerania is a historical region</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><span style="color: #222222;">bordered on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea in what is now north eastern Germany (Mecklenberg Vor Pommern) and most of Western Poland</span> </span>Below is a map that shows The German Empire from 1871 - 1918, a time period where many Pomeranians were immigrating to America.<br />
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The Pommern Special Interest Group publishes <i>Die Pommerschen Leute</i> (The Pommern People), a quarterly newsletter. The newsletter features articles with tips for researching Pomeranian ancestors, as well as genealogical information submitted by subscribers. You can subscribe to the<i> Die Pommerschen Leute</i> <a href="http://pomeranianews.com/pomeranian_subscription.html" target="_blank">here</a>. <br />
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This blog will feature research success stories, research hints and tips for Pommern research, and group announcements.<br />
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You can visit the Pommern Special Interest Group at the Immigrant Genealogy Society Library:<br />
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Burbank, California 91506</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Office hours for the library are: </span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;">Wednesday 12 - 5 p.m.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Meeting This Sunday, January 13, 2013 at 2 p.m. All are welcome to attend!</span></div>
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