For many, waiting for the digitizing process to be completed can seem agonizing. When will documents for my family’s village be placed online? Are there any plans to make electronic copies of the books I need? For most, the process never moves forward fast enough, especially for the elderly seeking final answers while they can. […]
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Every year, the Pommerscher Verein Freistadt in Mequon, Wisconsin puts on its annual Pommerntag. Last year was no different. The 42nd Pommerntag was held on June 25, 2017, at Rotary Park in its usual fashion. The North Reuter Pavilion housed a plethora of genealogy resources, everything from photographic displays to family name indexes. Several booths […]
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A New Answer to a Decades-Old Search For most, the journey to connect their family trees in Pomerania has been a struggle due to archival restrictions, privacy laws, and decades of the Cold War. More recently, with the expansion of high-speed internet and the renewed interest in family history, records from Pomerania are slowly being […]
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The Pommernchronik, or Pomeranian Chronicle, had been lost for more than 70 years. This 600-page manuscript, nearly 400 years-old, was recently discovered by the Blochman family from Marl, Germany in the attic of a multi-family residential house. At the end of 2017, the document was handed over honorably to Andreas Roloff, a specialist in digitization […]
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After a new update, maps will now zoom when you hover over the picture. This should help our readers see more of the image, as the light box doesn’t always do the best job with zooming in. One can still click on the image to make it fullscreen; however, now there are more options. Kreis […]
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After a brief mishap this weekend, My Pomerania was offline. As of today at 8 p.m. CST, the website is back online.
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The inhabitants of Kobylanka in West Pomerania/Poland (German: Kublank in the former district of Greifenhagen) are protesting against the plans of the community to dismantle the former German cemetery, which still contains many cast-iron-crosses and grave borders, exhuming the Polish dead, and changing the area to a public park. As a resting place of our […]
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The Kreis page for Kolberg-Körlin has been updated and now contains a list of all of the major locations for cities and most (if not all) smaller communities. Please feel free to navigate to it through the place list and find quick conversions between the German and Polish place names. If you are aware of […]
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Belgard cities and villages and their respective churches and government offices are now online.
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