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.
UPDATE: The publishers of Die Pommerschen Leute are making electronic versions of all DPL issues available to download for personal use. Issues published by the Pomeranian Special Interest Group are available now. Issues published by Myron Gruenwald will become available in the next few months. Issues can be downloaded using the Past Articles List webpage. A link appears in the box at the left.
