Dobberphul, Pyritz in June 2019 (Photos)
One of our readers sent in photos from her visit to her ancestral village of Dobberphul in Kreis Pyritz. It’s known today as Dobropole in Poland.
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Glasow, Randow in June 2019 (Photos)
One of our readers returned from Pomerania this summer and wanted to share some photos from her ancestral village of Glasow. One of her ancestors was baptized in the church in 1762. Inside the church, one can read a list of the people from the community who died in World War I.
Read More →Lapidarium in Bartin, Kolberg-Körlin
While visiting the church in Klaptow, I inquired with two of the locals about the cemetery. The older man thought I was a German and the boy tried to tell me he didn’t speak German, or “Niemicki.” I tried to tell him I was an American who was looking for “stare groby,” or the old […]
Read More →Lübchow, Kolberg-Körlin in July 2019
I decided to visit Lübchow because of its proximity to Klaptow. There were enough family names I had previously seen from this village, and I knew a few people who were also researching families from this area. The village is only a five-minute drive from Körlin. Coming in from the south, the surroundings are a […]
Read More →Schivelbein’s Market Day
Sights in a Queer Little Pomeranian Town Where All Are Happy. OLD SCHLOSS AND TOWN GATE Church Architecture in the Baltic Ports–The Sankt Marien Church of Schivelbein and That of the Same Name at Stargard Originally published in The New York Times on September 5, 1897. Now in the public domain. SCHIVELBEIN, Pomerania, Aug. 17–It […]
Read More →Podewils Manor House Falls into Severe Disrepair
The charming neo-Gothic palace in Podewils is literally disappearing before our eyes. The following article was translated with permission from Zwiadowca Historii concerning the dilapidation of a once-beautiful former manor house in Pommern. It chronicles its history in Belgard to modern times as Podwilcze in Zachodniopomorskie. Unfortunately, this is not the only historical structure to […]
Read More →List of Owners in Rützow, Kolberg-Körlin
We have just updated our Pommern Database with entries from the Archiv für Innere Kolonisation from Rützow in Kreis Kolberg-Körlin. This list gives the names of early owners of the colony in Rützow in 1911 and the amount of land they owned on their Rentengüter (the word “Güter” here denotes large farms). Currently, the Archiv für […]
Read More →Are Your Ancestors from Pommern, Cochem-Zell or From Pomerania (Pommern)?
When looking for my family on online genealogy web sites, I often find that people are listing that my Pomeranian ancestors are from the village of Pommern, Cochem-Zell, Rheinland-Pfalz. I have copies of the church books from the town where my Pomeranians came from and they are NOT from Pommern, Cochem-Zell, Rheinland-Pfalz. The lesson to […]
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