Hi Eric: The villages you are talking about are now in Poland I believe
and if so they probably used the port of Stettin to leave Pommern for this
country. The village was in East Prussia and not west Prussia I believe. In
1945 the Russians drove all the German people from East Prussia and those
that tried to stay would be killed. Most church records that are left were
brought to Germany by the church members to churches they went to after
they were in what is now Germany. Civil records are still in Poland yet as
are a few Church records that did not get removed by church members. I
think if you tried Pommern-L@genealogy.net mailing list you may get more
answers to your questions. Also you can use
http://www.Kartenmeister.com When the page opens go near the bottom and
put in the surname you are looking for it will bring up anyone else looking
for the same surname and their e-mail address
Good Luck in your search.
Yours in Genealogical Research, George E. Soergel Milton Wisconsin
[Original Message]
From: <Truhnmtruhn@aol.com>
To: <hannover-l@genealogy.net>
Date: 5/11/2003 1:51:00 AM
Subject: [HN] Border ChangesMy family came from Westpreussen, Postelau now Gdanskie, Postolowo around
1850. I am still working on where they departed from when. They were
farmers
and settled in Brighton, Michigan. They were part of the first settlers
of
the town. I was wondering if the records were transfered from Poland to
Germany after the border changed? How many different countries on this
list?