Website Back Online
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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Historic Cemetery in Greifenhagen to be Destroyed
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 […]
Read More →Saving Family Photos for the Next Generation
There’s no question that family photos fade with time. They show signs of aging like dust, scratches, and stains. Before digital photography, memories may have been saved on film negatives or far worse: single prints. Not only do the effects of aging take a toll on the photo’s quality, having only single prints means that […]
Read More →Sageritz, Stolp – Land Records (Grundbücher)
Unfortunately for researchers, the church records for Sageritz and several of the civil registry offices that served the parish’s villages were lost in World War II. For many, this has created an insurmountable roadblock that has been difficult to overcome. Luckily a very large number of land registers have survived. These secondary sources can be […]
Read More →Kussow, Papritzfelde, and Schmaatz Land Records (Grundbücher)
The Hypothekenbücher and Grundbücher from the following regions have been uploaded for viewing: Kussow Grundbuch Vol. 1 (Entries 1-14) Papritzfelde Grundbuch Vol. 4 (Entries 9-13) Schmaatz Grundbuch Vol. 1 (1-8) Schmaatz Grundbuch Vol. 2 (Entries 9-26) Schmaatz Grundbuch Vol. 3 (Entries 26-56) These books come from the region of Stolp in the former Eastern Prussian province of Pomerania, […]
Read More →Alt and Neu Damerow, Stolp – Land Records (Grundbücher)
It is with great pleasure that I am able to share for the first time the land register books of Alt Damerow in Kreis Stolp. These mortgage and land deeds go back to the early 1800s and chronicle the history of the and and its owners, also occasionally bringing to light any inheritance matters, and […]
Read More →Landsberg an der Warthe Bürgerrolle (1822)
I was in receipt of the citizen’s register from Landsberg an der Warthe this week. It’s a very small document in comparison to most records, but it contains hundreds of entries with birth dates and civil information such as birth dates, professions, and places of origin. While the register was completed in 1822, it contains […]
Read More →Kolberg-Körlin Cities and Villages Online
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 […]
Read More →Searching and Indexing the Polish Archives
Having trouble finding your ancestors from Pomerania? You might want to look at Metryki.Genbaza.pl and the PTG’s website. Easy to follow directions for registration are found on this site here. Metryki.Genbaza.pl is where scans from the Koszalin and Gdansk archives are uploaded for genealogist access. According to new Polish rules at the archives, each book […]
Read More →Kerntopf Website for Stolp, Bütow, Lauenburg, and West Prussia
http://pom-wpru.kerntopf.com/index.htm I can’t believe I forgot to include one of the most relevant databases for family research in the areas surrounding Danzig. Click on the link above to find place names and which registry offices they were a part of. It is a great resource. Go check it out!
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