Pomeranian Fall Seminar
Saturday, September 16th 1 p.m. EST (U.S and Canada)
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in English
featuring

Practical Advice for Pomeranian Research
with Dr. Klaus D. Kohrt

Learn the following in this presentation:

• Suggestions for locating your ancestor's place of origin in Pomerania
• Contacting churches and archives
• Tracking down descendants living in Germany today

Dr. Kohrt was born and raised in Flensburg, Germany. He received his high school diploma in Great Britain and was a temporary soldier in the German Navy. After studying mathematics and computer science in Kiel, Germany, he worked at Siemens for 25 years in Munich. An avid traveler, he worked abroad both in the U.S. and the U.K.

Residing in Eckernförde, Germany since 2009, he has been an active family researcher for 14 years. He is a member of the following organizations:

• Schleswig-Holsteinische Familienforschung e.V. - chairman
• Pommerscher Greif e.V. - past chairman and current contact person for the district of Greifenberg
• Association for Computer Genealogy - active member
• Heimatgemeinschaft Eckernförde - initiator/organizer of the family research working group - "IGeFF"

Postwar in No Man's Land
with Dr. Katharina Matro

Dr. Matro is a German native and spent countless hours in German and Polish archives, historical institutions, museums and universities in Bayreuth, Sczcezin and Warsaw doing research for her Postwar in No Man's Land PhD dissertation. She consulted numerous sources from the Kreise Greifenberg and Regenwalde because they were readily available. Other Hinterpommern areas are often cited. Her dissertation won the prestigious 2016 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize from the George Washington Institute in Washington, D.C, for the best doctoral dissertation on a topic in German history written at a North American university.

Dr. Matro graduated summa cum laude from Amherst College, holds an MA from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced Studies, and a PhD in central European history from Stanford University. Currently, Dr. Matro is a history and sociology teacher at a Montgomery County Maryland public high school. She is fluent in 3 languages.

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