Pomerania - Villages and Maps by Margaret Ott
The history of Pomerania is a history full of changes. Various changes
Most people from Pomerania who went to the United States emigrated between 1840 and 1890, so I will restrict my advice to resources featuring this period. ...
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of boarders and political affiliations sometimes make genealogy very hard. Over the years, sections of Pomerania have been ruled by several Pomeranian dukes, Sweden, Denmark, Brandenburg and Prussia. After World War II eastern Pomerania became a part of Poland and western Pomerania belonged to the German Democratic Republic (GDR), which was commonly known as East Germany in the United States. Following the reunification of Germany, the western (west of the Oder River) part of the former Pomerania is located in the German states Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Brandenburg. The rest of Pomerania (east of the Oder River) is located in the Polish voivodeships of Westpommern(województwo zachodniopomorskie), Pommern, (województwo pomorskie) and Kujawien-Pommern (województwo kujawsko-pomorskie).
