11May 21, 2010
Administrative Districts of Prussian Poland Kingdom of Prussia after the Second Partition of Poland (1793-1794) During the years of 1788-1792, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth congress held what is commonly referred to as the Four-Year Sejm. The congress would meet to reform the commonwealth and its laws. The King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Stanisław Poniatowski, supported the political […]
May 19, 2010
Administrative Districts of Prussian PolandKingdom of Prussia after the First Partition of Poland (1773-1792) Due to the deteriorating political and military functions within the Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth, along with other factors, the Kingdom of Prussia, the Russian Empire, and the Austrian Empire divided portions of Poland. On August 5, 1772, an agreement was met between the […]
May 7, 2010
Hello, I’d like to share an excellent series of posts that were written by Steve Danko, of Steve’s Genealogy Blog. In this series, Steve wrote about the proper naming conventions of the administrative districts throughout the years (1569-1915) in the Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Russian owned Congress Kingdom of Poland. Overall, Steve published eight posts […]
May 6, 2009
Hello, On July 24 and 25, 2009, FEEFHS and the Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe are presenting a joint genealogy conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The announcement can be found on this site: http://www.feefhs.org/ The program is listed below: FEEFHS/SGGEE Joint Conference 2009 Milwaukee We will offer two concurrent sessions for most of the […]
Jan 11, 2009
Hello, I have found another helpful website that lists both the German and Polish names of places within Poland. There’s information and links for each town, village, city, county…… The website is in German and is called Genealogy.net, the link is as follows: http://gov.genealogy.net/ Best Regards,Al
Jan 10, 2009
Hello, Today, I found a pretty cool Polish website that has many maps of Pomorze (Pomorskie). While I was searching through the Stężyca Parish records, I noticed that I was going to need a map of the Prussian kreis of Karthaus (Kartuzy). This will help me determine the German-Polish town names. Below is one of […]
