PSIG Index Page

Internet Sites:
A comprehensive listing of Internet sites dealing with Pomerania

Newsletters:

Die Pommerschen Leute (DPL) - Subscription Form
Folha Pomerania Express - facebook.com/Folha-Pomerana-Express-101930367988907
Rundschreiben - pommerscher.org/fileDownload.php?sid=4
Sedina Archive - pommerscher-greif.de/sedina_archiv.html

Locating A Surname Origin:

Name Distribution Map for Germany - http://geogen.stoepel.net
Older Version of Geogen - http://legacy.stoepel.net/en
List of Name Distribution Maps from FamilySearch - www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Surname_Distribution_Maps
Name Distribution Maps for 1890 and 1996 - nvk.genealogy.net/map
Another Name Distribution Map for Germany - www.kartezumnamen.eu/en/index.php?sur=bauer&s=Search

Websites that support communication between Pomeranian researchers:

A database of researchers - http://www.pommernkontakte.de
A Pomeranian mailing list - list.genealogy.net/mailman/listinfo/pommern-l/
Stolp L for Kr Stolp: http://list.geneology.net/mm/listinfo/stolp-l
Genealogy.net: genealogienetz.de/index_en.html
Association for family research in East and West Prussia: list.genealogy.net/mm/listinfo/vffow-L
Family research in East and West Prussia: ggsmn.org/cpage.php?pt=24

Libraries with Large Pomeranian Collections:

Concordia University Library, St. Paul MN: prgmn.org/libraryRecords.php
Immigrant Genealogical Society Library, Burbank, CA: immigrantgensoc.org
Lindenwood Community Center, Mequon, WI: hpommerscher.org/cpage.php?pt=22

General websites:

Pomeranian Genealogy: Genealoger
Eastern Pomerania: hinterpommern.de
Federation of East European Family History Societies: http://feefhs.org
International German Genealogical Partnership: iggp.org
Pommerscher Greif eV, Association for Pomeranian Family and Local History: www.pommerscher-greif.de/quellensuche.html
This site lists a contact person for each Kreis. They may be able to serve as speakers or provide articles: www.pommerscher-greif.de/ANSPRECHPARTNER.HTML
Provides the old and new names for areas now in Poland as well a map and any places they know of with links or addresses: http://www.pommerscher-greif.de/quellensuche.htm

Finding a Place Name Location:

A place name database for Eastern Pomerania that includes researcher contacts - www.kartenmeister.com
This site brings up the old and new names for German areas that are now in Poland as well as a map, and any records they know of with locations, links, etc. -
pommerscher-greif.de/quellensuche.html
Meyers Gazetteer: meyersgaz.org

German Phone Books:

White Pages: DasTelefonbuch.de
Provides a distribution map for a surname in Germany: Surname Distribution

Kreis Websites:

Arnswald: heimatkreis-arnswalde.de
Belgard: belgard.org
Cammin: cammin-pommern.de
Greifenhagen: heimatkreis-greifenhagen.de
Greifswald: kirchenkreis-greifswald.de
Naugard: naugard.de
Rummelsburg: rummelsburg.de
Saatzig: saatzig.de/index.html
Schlawe: schlawe.de
Stolp: stolp.de
Uckermark: heimatland-um.eu/?p=7624
Familiengeschte-VorPommern

Pomeranian Groups in the Americas:

Pommeran Special Interest Group - Publisher of Die Pommerschen Leute: www.pomeranianews.org
Pommeran Regional Group from Minnesota: www.prgmn.org
Pommerscher Verein Freistadt from Wisconsin: http://www.pommerscher.org
Pommerscher Verein Freistadt from Central Wisconsin: http://www.pvcw.org
Genealogia RS from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: www.genealogiars.com

Online Databases:

Christenings, marriages, deaths and more: Pomeranian Genealogical Association Databases
FamilySearch (requires free registration): Germany, Prussia, Pomerania Church Records, 1544-1945
Ancestry (requires payment): Pomerania, Germany, Parish Register Transcripts, 1544-1883
Database with genealogy records for the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Province: Genealogy in Archives - sources for the history of the inhabitants of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship
Address books and some church records: pommerndatenbank
Indexes for some parish registers in Pomerania: Geneteka
Includes some civil registration records for former German villages now in Poland: State Archives in Koszalin - Online Resources

Pomeranian church books, civil records, and genealogical family history research. Search links for Germany, Prussia, and Poland: MyPomerania website.

Over 100,000 names input by the members of the Pommerscher Verein Freistadt (Pomeranian Society of Freistadt): Pomeranian Pedigree Database

Index of over 130,000 full names that have apppeared the Die Vorfahren section of Die Pommerschen Leute (German Pomeranian Newsletter) from 1982-2016: Die Vorfahren Surname Database of Pomerania & Surrounding Regions

Indexes some Pomeranian church and civil registers; from the Pommerscher Greif eV, Association for Pomeranian Family and Local History: Greif-Index (personal database

Surname Databases for Pomerania & Surrounding Areas: West Pomeranian Genealogical Society

Facebook Pages:

Die Pommerschen Leute - facebook.com/PommernPeople
Verein Kolberger Lande Genealogy Kolberg Pomerania - facebook.com/groups/251230035661855/
Ahnenforschung im ehemaligen Kreis Belgard-Schivelbein - facebook.com/groups/178495952908589/
Die Kreis Lauenburg in Pommern - facebook.com/groups/909641999080196/
Kreis Stolp - facebook.com/Stolper.Heimatkreise.eV
Ahnenforschung im ehemaligen Kreis Regenwalde (Pomerania) - facebook.com/groups/166699380595349/
Erinnerungen an den Kreis Butow in Pommern - facebook.com/groups/601499263340034/
Ahnenforschung in und um Arnswalde - facebook.com/groups/1167310046715084/

Saatziger - Freunde - facebook.com/groups/saatzigz/

Stolpmunde - facebook.com/groups/791653540867064/

Familienforschung I'm ehemaligen Pommern / Genealogy in Pomerania - facebook.com/groups/1579227138958488/

Die Pommern in Deutschland und in Brasilien - facebook.com/groups/diepommern/

Pommern / American Genealogy - facebook.com/groups/1464465510512566/

Ostpreussen/Westpreussen, Pommern und Schlesien - facebook.com/groups/404680879642654/

Genealogy East and West Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia - facebook.com/groups/327850620697083/

GenealogiaRS (Brazil) - facebook.com/groups/GenealogiaRS/

This is a brief listing of Internet sites from Die Pommerschen Leute (The Pomeranian People), a quarterly newsletter designed for people who have an interest in Pomeranian ancestry. Click here for more information.