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The Spring issue, 2009 of Die Pommerschen Leute will be mailed the first week in April. Each issue of DPL includes Die Vorfahren where those of Pomeranian descent can list their heritage and search for others who have similar surnames or locations.
The Pomeranian Special Interest Group will continue to combine its meetings with those of the Immigrant Geneological Society in 2009. January 11, 2009 - Brad Witt will describe what he learned as he researched his family's trek "From the Pomeranian Field to the Chicago Factory: The Journey of an itinerant day laborer to America." Among his topics are what their life was like in Pomerania, why they left, the journey to America and the life they found there. April 5, 2009 - Elsa Nottrott Peetz will tell us about life in Pomerania in the 1930s and 1940s. Elsa was born 1936 in Stettin. She along with her mother two brothers were evacuated to Natelfitz, Kreis Regenwalde in 1942. Her family was part of the expulsion of the German population from lands east of the Oder River in early 1945. Her family spent several years in a Schleswig-Holstein refugee camp before moving to Rheinland. Elsa came to America in 1963 to marry Carl W. Peetz. July 12, 2009 - Carolyn Casperson, our Publicity Chairwoman, will discuss her recent trip to Poland with the Pomeranian Heritage Tour sponsored by Pommischer Verein Freistadt. October 11, 2009 - George Unrine, our "Die Vorfahren" Editor, will tell us about, "The Slavic Peoples Who Settled Pomerania." The talk will include the archeological and historical accounts of the slavic peoples who appeared in eastern Europe during the middle ages. Meetings are held at 2:00 PM in the Immigrant Genealogical Society library, 1310 West Magnolia, Burbank, California.
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