Red Reclining Griffin



Dear Subscribers,

It has been a long journey for the Pomeranian Special Interest Group (PSIG) as it worked to preserve the memory and heritage of the Pomeranian people. We published our first issue of Die Pommerschen Leute in the spring of 2000, over twenty-four years ago. Myron Gruenwald along with his wife Norma began the periodical in July of 1982, a bit over forty-two years ago. His family would help with reproducing and mailing the periodical and his daughter, Gayle, is our current treasurer.

We have faced two challenges during the last twenty-four years. One was a steadily declining subscriber base and the other was finding editors for the DPL as each left after many years of service. We tried many ways of attracting new subscribers. The latest idea being to increase our area of interest from just Pomerania to the Germanic lands to the south of the Baltic Sea. We do not know if that would have worked. A majority of our subscribers are only interested in Pomerania even though adjacent provinces were similar. The other challenge was attracting new DPL editors. Over the years, one person has been responsible for writing articles, soliciting articles from others and putting it all together into a periodical which is a huge amount of work. We tried forming a small publishing group to distribute the effort but finding articles or writing them was still up to one person.

We are sad to say that the Pomeranian Special Interest Group is now ending its journey and is dissolving our society. The Winter Issue of Die Pommerschen Leute that you will receive shortly will be our last and we have no more webinars on the calendar. Our thanks to all of the subscribers, past and present, who have supported Die Pommerschen Leute the last forty-two years. If you have any remaining value in your subscription, if you paid by check, a check will be sent to you in the next few weeks. If you paid via PayPal, a refund will be made to your PayPal account.

Best wishes in your pursuit of your ancestorial roots.

All of us at the Pomeranian Special Interest Group.

2024 Winter Issue

Focus on Pomeranian church records and planning a virtural or real trip to areas of former Pomerania.

Sample 2015 Summer Issue

If you are interested in seeing an example of the articles in our publication, click here to view the partial Summer 2015 issue of the Die Pommerschen Leute.

Pomerania Was Small

It was only about a fourth the size of Wisconsin. It seems much bigger when looking at a a map of northern Europe. This map was made and published by Myron Gruenwald in the Die Pommerschen Leute. Click on the map to visit our map room.