Related Sites
Interesting Links About the Miersch Family and Surname:
Waldheim Cemetery in Chicago
- Organized in 1873 by German Masonic Lodges
Miersch Family Tree - Downloadable Information Other Miersch
Genealogy in Germany - Gerhard Bork's Webpage
Interesting Links About the Fuchs Family and Surname:
Fuchs in Pommern and Prussia - Some Individuals Researched by Karin Schoepke
Another Fuchs Family Which Emigrated to U.S.
Interesting Links on Emigration/Immigration:
The Ships List - Information on Immigrant Ships
Immigrant Ship Transcribers Guild - Passenger Lists
Palmer List of Merchant Vessels - Listing of Immigrant Ships
The German Americans - An Ethnic Experience - How German Immigrants Became Americans
A Day in Castle Garden - Article from Harper's Monthly June-November 1870 (.pdf file)
An Extract in English from the 1893 publication with an author's résumé as pdf-file of Dr. Theodor Freiherr von der Goltz (1836-1905), Die ländliche Arbeiterklasse und der preußische Staat ("The Class of Agricultural Laborers and the Prussian State"), Jena: 1893. "This book is the publication of a study about the situation of agricultural workers everywhere in Germany after the instruction of the Congress deutscher Landwirthe [Congress of German Farmers]. It declares the economical situation as one possible reason for emigration."
"The Impact of Bismarck’s Social Legislation on German Emigration Before World War I" by David Khoudour-Casteras - A Scholarly Research Study in a pdf-file.
The Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies - Scholarly Research
Organization
Interesting Links About Germans in Chicago: "Education
and Working Class Culture: German Workers' Clubs in Nineteenth Century Chicago"
- Solid Research Study
Interesting Links About Prussia, Pommern, and Germany:
Handbook of German Research - Great Guide
History of Germany Lectures - Excellent Overview of German Origins to the
Present Prepared by Professor Gerhard Rempel
of Western New England College
Germanisches National Museum of Art and Culture -
Interesting Introductions to the Material Culture of Germany, in English
Historical-Geographical Encyclopedia of the World (1880-1898) (in German)
- Also CD
Prussia in 1848 - Overview of the Revolutionary Year
German Genealogy: Pommern / Pomerania
- Lots of Useful Information
Pommern / Pomerania - A Province of
Prussia
- Another Handy Site
by the
Federation of East European Family History Societies Pomeranian
Home Page by Die Pommerschen Leute (DPL)
- Good Research Helps
Die pommerschen Kreise Ende 1913 - Interactive Pomeranian Map from
Pre-World War I with Link to
Landkreis Bublitz
(1872-1932)
Short History of
Pomerania - Much Data The History of
Pomerania - Very Short Overview
History of Pomerania
and Mecklenburg - Another Helpful Summary
History of Prussia - An Encyclopedic Overview with Maps
Pommern - A Very Personal Page Worth Visiting
Pommern, das Land am Meer
(in German)
Pommerscher Verein Freistadt
(in German)
Pommerndatenbank
(in German)
Pomerania - A Polish Historical and Geographical Interpretation
Pomorze Pomerania Pommern!
- Independent Site Based in Poland Presenting Historical Information
about Pomerania in English, German and Polish
Polish History in Brief - Excellent Illustrated Overview of the Region
from a Polish National Perspective
Historical Geography of Poland - Good information Index of
German-Polish and Polish-German Names of the Localities in Poland & Russia
-
German
Gazetteers - Dictionaries and Maps of Places, with Information about Towns
and Regions Kartenmeister - A
Village Locator for Old Germany (pre-1918) Kreis
Websites for Pomerania
Pomeranian Archives - Handy Research Tips
The Evangelical Central Archive in
Berlin - "Contains records for the Prussian church
provinces beyond the Oder-Neisse border (Eastern Prussia, Western Prussia,
East Pomerania, Posen, eastern territories of Mark Brandenburg and Silesia)
and some Protestant military church registers. They do not possess any general
registers on baptism, marriages and funerals."
Society for
German Genealogy in Eastern Europe - Good Site, but Mostly Further East
than Pomerania
Interesting Links About Bublitz and Nearby Communities:
Bublitz Genealogical Records - Very
Useful Bublitz
Photos - Contemporary Pictures by Paul Sternberg Bobolice
History - Best Online Source in English for Local History
Heimatgruppe Bublitz Stadt und Land (Homelands Group for Bublitz City and
Country) - Great Site Linking to Others with Bublitz Ancestry
Bublitz in Pommernland
- Wonderful Personal Site with Many
Photos (in German) Historia Bobolic
- History of Bublitz/Bobolice with Timeline and Photos (in Polish)
Interactive Map of Germany/Pomerania, Highlighting Hölkewiese
Area (including Bublitz), about 300 Kilometers Northeast of Berlin
(in German)
History of
Grünewald, a Village Near Bublitz - Gives a
Feeling for Locality
Unke Families from Province
of Pomerania - Another Site With Nearby Families Information on the
narrow gauge railway that came to Bublitz (Die
Köslin, Bublitz Belgarder Kleinbahn)
Interesting Links About Dresden, Sachsen (Saxony): Dresden Guidebook
by Dr. Uwe Miersch
Pommernkontakte! - Largest and Most Up-to-Date Database for Family
Researchers in Pommern
Pomerania / Pommern-
Interesting
and Helpful Genealogical Web Sites
Heimatkreis Köslin - Bublitz (in German)
- A CD Also Available
Dresdner Verein für Genealogie e.V. (DVG) - The Dresden Association for Genealogy
Other
Dresden Links for Genealogists (in German)
Interesting Links About Occupations Such as Woodworkers (Tischler/Joiner, Stellmacher/Wheelwright
etc.) and Their Guilds in Germany:
Old German
Professions, Occupations and Illnesses - Translated from
German into English Language
Craftsmen Guilds of Early Modern Augsburg - Interesting Social History
Craftsmen and Trade Development: Merchant Guilds from the 15th to 19th Century German Guild
Insignia - Beautiful Images Available for Download
Metternich and the New Social Order, 1815-1848 - Has Interesting Section
on Changes in the Guilds A German Radical
Emigrates to America in 1885 - Story of a Young Joiner Who Left for
America as a Teenager Kleines
Werkzeugmuseum - (in German)
Historische Werkstätten: Stellmacherwerkstatt - (in German)
Tischler-Bruderschaft-Münster - (in German)
Tischlerei-Museum Bremen
- The Museum of the Bremen Joiners Guild Includes Displays of Tools, a
Workshop, and Antique Steam-Powered Machinery (in German)
Deutsches Werkzeugmuseum - German Tool Museum (in German)
Hobelmuseum -
Pictures of Many of 15,000 Woodworking Tools, Mostly
Planes (in German)
Family History Basics:
Behind the Name - Has the Meaning and History of Many Surnames
Free German-English, English-German Language and Webpage Translation Links Include an Introduction to the Topic from About.com, plus Babel Fish, Google, 1-800-Translate, Online Translator, Systran and WorldLingo
