Years ago I came across some information on the surname Fromke. I had lost my notes if I made any at the time and had a hard time finding the material again, until 2006. I wrote about it back then, thankfully links included, in a message to the Fromke mailing list at RootsWeb. The name Fromke [...]
Archive for the ‘Pomerania’ Category
Interested in all things Pomeranian — not the dog — I typed the word Pomerania into a literature database at the library. An item of note not about dogs came back from the Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages. It’s a good brief overview of the region. It was written by Jerzy Kloczowski of the Catholic University of Lublin. [...]
Pictures in Books, George Burns, Professor Lewis & Bonhoeffer
Posted: December 5, 2011 in Books, Germany, Hitler, Pomerania, Pop Culture, World War III love skimming through books at bookstores and libraries. My favorite sections are those with photographs. While at the library in Issaquah I picked up a book by George Burns. The photographs were just terrific. There was a lot of Jack Benny. There is one of him in drag standing next to Burns. He looked [...]
On Saturday I got a note from a woman named Sheila who’d been reading through some of my blog posts. She’s a distant cousin, going back to the days when the various family lines were in Pomerania. Hello, Great information on your blog about Butow and the Thun lineage. Loved the Stagecoach route map. I [...]
Stagecoaches in Pomerania in 1811
Posted: October 5, 2011 in BELOW, FROMKE, Germany, LENTZ, Pomerania, RADDE, SCHARNOFSKE, THUN, ZURRHeinz Radde, a man of German descent born in Pomerania who now lives in Switzerland, has just sent information on a map he recently discovered. The map is of the stagecoach (postkutschen) network in Pomerania in 1811, during the Napoleonic era. Heinz is likely a distant cousin of mine. We are both subscribers to a [...]
The SV Dar Pomorza (The Gift of Pomerania) is a tall ship based in Gdynia, Poland. The ship was built in 1909 in Hamburg as a training vessel for the German merchant maritime school. Construction on the port in Gdynia began in 1921. ajh
This ‘photo of the day’ and accompanying brief story from a blog post by the editor of New Scientist magazine are great any day, particularly the beginning of fall. Another added benefit is that the focus is on the homeland of my maternal grandfather’s ancestors: Pomerania. Pomerania in Poland is famous for its forests, which are dotted with lakes [...]
Ice Flows in the North Atlantic — in 1887
Posted: September 24, 2011 in Germany, Pomerania, United StatesYears ago I somehow wound up on a site of maps and data about icebergs. Since then, I’ve repeatedly made a mental note to search for the site again, only to forget, until yesterday. I started poking around using Google, specifically the Image feature. That wasn’t working too well, so I tried a few other [...]
In the forests of eastern Germany, wolves have re-entered the fray. Spiegel International has the story. ajh
Yesterday I discovered a site dedicated to promoting Berlin to visitors. Included was an article on western Pomerania, the only part of that region still within Germany. For hundreds of years, thousands of Germans would descend on the area for summer vacation. With its beautiful Baltic beaches and small forested lakes, it was popular to [...]
