Genealogical Guide to Pomerania, Poznania (Posen), East Brandenburg, Silesia, and Related Areas

by Edward R. Brandt, Ph.D., and Adalbert Goertz, Ph.D.

Companion volume for the Genealogical Guide to East and West Prussia

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• Chapters will generally be parallel to those in the Genealogical Guide to East and West Prussia, with appropriate modifications such as the peripheral relevance of the Teutonic Order and the greater relevance of Sweden.
• Many chapters will be shorter, with fewer examples of publications illustrating the use of different kinds of records. On the other hand, all foreign titles, including those in the appendices, will be translated.
• “Related areas” refers to areas which (1) were formerly (or are presently) part of the same jurisdiction (Great Poland, South Prussia, the Grand Duchy of Warsaw, contemporary Brandenburg, the eastern tip of Saxony) or (2) to which residents (chiefly Germans) from the eastern areas migrated (Bessarabia, the Odessa area, Mennonites in the Russian Empire) before their descendants migrated overseas.
• A deliberate effort will be made to include more Polish-oriented and English-language material than in the Genealogical Guide to East and West Prussia.

The appendices that are already completed (or partially completed) include:

• Localities in Brandenburg, Pomerania, Poznania and Silesia for Which the Family History Library Has Film
• Prussian Military Parish Registers Filmed by the Family History Society (all of Prussia)
• Military Garrisons and Garrison Parish Registers for the Former (Six) Eastern Prussian Provinces, with supplementary information
• Archival Losses in Poland (Civil Registers and Other Records)
• Great Poland, the Netze District and South Prussia: Jurisdictions and Population Data, 1772-1799
• Lineages in gthe Post-1945 Volumes (New Series) of the Deutsche Geschlechterbücher (DGB) for Brandenburg, Pomerania, Poznania (Posen) and Silesia
• Lineages and Related Articles in the Archiv ostdeutscher Familienforscher (AoFF, AOFF) for Brandenburg, East Prussia, Pomerania, Poznania (Posen), Silesia (including the eastern tip of Saxony) and West Prussia (but excluding those for East and West Prussia already listed in the Genealogical Guide to East and West Prussia); largest appendix
• Articles on East Brandenburg, Silesia Pomerania, Poznania (Posen as of 1815-1918) and South Prussia (1793/95-1806) in the Ostdeutsche Familienkunde
• Articles and Supplementary Information in the Sedina-Archiv: Familiengeschichtliche Mitteilungen Pommerns Devoted Specifically to Items on Genealogically Relevant Subjects and Sources
• Articles and Reviews of Other Books in the Altpreussische Geschlechterkunde Which Are of Genealogical Value for Areas Other Than East and West Prussia
• Emigrants from the Eastern Provinces
• Examples of Migrant Rural Workers in Poznania, by County, Nature of Work, Origin, and Migration to Saxony, with General Notes and Comments
• Items in the Mitteilungsblatt of the Anglo-German Family History Society Which May be of Interest in Researching Ancestors from the Former Prussian Eastern Areas
• Articles on the Former Prussian East in the Periodicals of the Polish Genealogical Society of America
• Articles on the Prussian East (1815-1918), Mostly for Poznania and West Prussia, in the Periodical of the Polish Genealogical Society of Michigan
• Articles on the Prussian East (1815-1918) Published in the Bulletin of the Polish Genealogical Society of California
• Ämter-Sachen or District Records (Mill Usage Registers, Lease Remission Records and District Farm Lease Records) for the Netze District, with an Addendum on East Prussia
• Avotaynu Articles on Germany and Poland Which Are, or May Be, Relevant for the immigration-Era Prussian East
• Articles Published in the Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota Newsletter
• Emigration of “Old Lutherans,” including Sorbs (Wends), to America, Australia and Russia, 1835-1854, and Related Migration in Later Decades to South Africa
• Bessarabian and Other Black Sea Germans Who Arrived Mostly from or via the Territory of Prussia, later the Grand Duchy of Warsaw

Neither the title nor the order of these appendices is final. Additional planned appendices include:

• The Huguenots in the East, Mostly in Brandenburg
• The Scots (and possibly English) in the East, Mostly in Pomerania and Poznania
• Russian Mennonite Genealogy
• Articles in Key German-American Genealogical Periodicals (and some others which cover the same area)

© 2005 Edward R. Brandt.

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