The Standesamt for Wurow covers the villages of Christinenhof, Prütznow, Rienow, Tarnow and Wurow. While the vast majority of civil registers for Stettin have been digitized and placed on the archive’s website, the Standesamt for Wurow remains to be completely digitized. The church book, “Die Kirchenbuchsduplicate von der Parochie Wurow, Prütznow, Grabow, Tarnow und […]
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A large part of visiting the archives was to discover what information each type of record contains. The video below shows what can be found in church reparation documents. The book shown in the video is “Bauten und Reparaturen an den Kirchen-, Pfarr- und Schulgebäuden zu Belgard Vol I.” The pages inventory what is needed […]
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Lands records for Semerow, formerly of Kreis Schivelbein, begin in the Grundbücher starting in 1855 and go through 1944. A quick look shows that these surnames appear in these book are: Becker, Borchard, Böttcher, Braasch, Braun, Bugs, Colberg, Dallmann, Damerow, Dreblow, Friedrich, Gruchow, Haese, Hanke, Hohenstein, Jagow, Krause, Lilge, Meyer, Neumann, Plautz, Ponath, Rabenhorst, Roggenbuch, […]
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These book cover the Concordienkirche (Konkordienkirche) in Landsberg an der Warthe, for births and marriages. The books in the archives begin in 1812 and continue through 1874. They were obtained in person and with permission of the archives in Gorzów Wielkopolski. Due to the regulations concerning daily limits, I was only able to photograph the […]
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These book cover the church of St. Marien, the Hauptkirche in Landsberg an der Warthe, for births, marriages, and deaths. The books in the archives begin in 1814 and continue through 1874. They were obtained in person and with permission of the archives in Gorzów Wielkopolski. The kind staff were incredibly helpful. It does appear […]
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Agricultural Laborers Rising Against the Heads of Big Estates. SOLDIERS ENFORCE WORK Military Repression Leads to a Wave of Protest Throughout the Nation TENSION IN POMERANIA Socialist Factions Join in Denouncing Course of Landed Proprietors. By George Renwick Special cable to the New York Times Originally published in The New York Times on July 18, […]
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These documents were sent in by one of our readers, and further exemplifies why ship manifests alone do not paint a complete picture of our ancestors. The documentation provided here can help us learn more about ancestor professions, social standing and wealth, and potentially where they came from. While these documents might be fragmentary or […]
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The current lineage I have so far….. N.N. Rohr, my 6th great grandfather, was born in approximately 1691. I extrapolated this estimated birth year from the time Martin Rohr was born in 1716 assuming N.N. Rohr had Martin at about the age when he was 25 years old. There are assumptions that this is our […]
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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 […]
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“How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver.” Proverbs 16:16 A few weeks ago, I traveled to Concordia University in St. Paul, Minnesota to do some family history research. Unknown to some is that Concordia is home to the Germanic Genealogy Society’s library. Driving up, one can’t miss the […]
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