Literature And Research Resources
Family History Books
1985 - Our People One Century after the arrival of Friedrich and Katharina Meidinger. Published by the Friedrich and Katharina (Thurn) Meidinger Book Committee, William E. Meidinger, Chairman, Wishek, North Dakota
Bitz, Luella and Halverson, Carol 1978. Just Heritage 1838-1978. 141 p. Published by Luella Bitz and Carol Halvorson, Lodi, California
Harrington, Pauline 1999. The Story of My Life - Things That Happened in My Life (self published) 68+ p. Casa Grande, Arizona
Holt, Nellie Beardsley 1951. Beardsley Genealogy - The Family of William Beardsley - One of the first settlers of Stratford, Connecticut.
Maas, Gene and Norma (eds.) 1989. Descendants of Carl, Julius, and Johanna Maass. 272+ p. CompuType Business Services, Riverside, California
Maas, Gene and Norma 1997. Descendants of Carl, Julius, and Johanna Maass - Addendum. 56+ p. CompuType Business Services, Riverside, California
Maas, Lydia 2005. My Life - As I Remember It (self published) 90+ p. Jamestown, North Dakota
Maaß, Carl 1963. Fünfter Ostfriesenband Genealogisches Handbuch bürgerlicher Familien. Deutsches Geschlechterbuch Band 134: 381-478. Herausgeber: Regierungs-Vizepräsident a. D. Dr. jur. Edmund Sturtz. Verlag von C.A. Starke /Limburg an der Lahn.
Williams, Deward C. 1969. The Blackwelder Family of Germany and America 1556-1969. Mt. Carmel, Illinois
Germans from Russia
Aberle, George P. 1963. From the Steppes to the Prairies. The Story of the Germans Settling in Russia on the Volga and Ukraine: Also Germans Settling in the Banat, and the Bohemians in Crimea; Their Resettlement in the America - North and South America and in Canada. Bismarck Tribune, Bismarck, North Dakota, 213 p.
Ehrman, Harold Gluckstal Colonies, Births, and Marriages, 1833-1900 Germans from Russian Heritage Collection, North Dakota State University Libraries, ISBN 0962977799
Ehrman, Harold Gluckstal Colonies Deaths, 1833-1900 Germans from Russian Heritage Collection, North Dakota State University Libraries, ISBN 1891193007
Rudolf, Homer (ed) 2004. The Glückstalers in New Russia and North America: A Bicentennial Collection of History, Genealogy & Folklore Glückstal Colonies Research Association, Redondo Beach, California, 790 p.
Stumpp, Karl 1982. Emigration from Germany to Russia in the Years 1763 to 1862. (translated by Joseph S. Height and others) American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2 volumes, 1018 p.
St. Andrews Lutheran Church 1893-1993. Published by the Book Committee of St. Andrews Lutheran Church, Zeeland, North Dakota for the centennial celebration June 12-13, 1993. 35 p.
Pomerania
Biewer, Ludwig 1997. Kleine Geschichte Pommerns (Taschenbuch). Bund der Vertriebenen - Vereinigte Landsmannschaften und Landesverbände e.V. [An English translation titled "Short History of Pomerania" appears on Heinz Radde's site.
Borcke, Rüdiger von 1970. Heimatbuch Kreis Regenwalde.
Engel, Dr. 1874. Die Gemeinden und Gutsberzirke der Provinz Pommern und ihre Bevölkerung. Nach den Urmaterialien allgemeinen Volkszählung vom 1 December 1871. bearbeitet und zusammengestellt vom Königlichen Statistischen Bureau. Verlag des Königlichen Statistischen Bureaus Berlin.
Gädtke, Horst 1997. Pommersche Reminiszenzen. Teil II - Pommersche Dorfgeschichte - Lassehne, Timmenhagen, Strippow-Herst.: Druckerei Heinen, 53902 Bad Münstereifel. ISBN 3-924383-07-3 - Brosch.. 218 Seiten.
Granzow, Klaus 1986. Pommern in 1440 Bildern. (Pomerania in 1440 Pictures) Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg.
Gruenwald, Myron E. 1985. Two Worlds for our Children. 36+ p. Die Pommerschen Leute, Oshkosh, WI
Gruenwald, Myron E. 1985. One Cubit of Stature. 79+ p. Die Pommerschen Leute, Oshkosh, WI
Gruenwald, Myron E. 1985. Bridge to Another World. 44+ p. Die Pommerschen Leute, Oshkosh, WI
Gruenwald, Myron E. 1986. By the Content of their Character. 77+ p. Die Pommerschen Leute, Oshkosh, WI
Gruenwald, Myron E. 1987. Odin's Inheritors - The Pomeranians and Other Teutons. Die Pommerschen Leute, Oshkosh, WI
Gruenwald, Myron E. 1987. Pomeranians - The Persistent Pioneers. 99+ p. Die Pommerschen Leute, Oshkosh, WI
Gruenwald, Myron E. 1987. The Essays: Odin's Inheritors - The Pomeranians and Other Teutons. 88+ p. Die Pommerschen Leute, Oshkosh, WI
Gruenwald, Myron E. 1988. Baltic Teutons: Pioneers of America's Frontier. 89+ p. Die Pommerschen Leute, Oshkosh, WI
Gruenwald, Myron E. 1994. Don't Get Me Confused with That Other Person. 97 p. Die Pommerschen Leute, Oshkosh, WI
Neuschäffer, Hubertus c1994. Schlösser und Herrenhäuser in Hinterpommern : ein Handbuch über Häuser und Güter mit Bildern / Hubertus Neuschäffer. Leer [Germany] : G. Rautenberg.
Saysse-Tobiczyk, Kazimierz . 1963. In Western Pomerania. Polonia Publishing House. Warsaw. 168 p.
Sieber, Helmut. Schlösser und Herrensitze in Pommern. Nach alten Stichen und Vorlagen. Frankfurt am Main, W. Weidlich, 1959
Sternberg, Paul; Savage, Janice and Savage, Jerry 2007. Pomeranian Genealogy, Culture and History. 263+ p. Pommern Regional Group of Minnesota, Golden Valley, Minnesota.
Sternberg, Paul; Savage, Janice and Savage, Jerry 2009. Pommern Revisited. 408 p. Pommern Regional Group of Minnesota, Golden Valley, Minnesota.
Sternberg, Paul; Savage, Janice; Savage, Jerry; Larsen, Lana; and Gardner, Joyce 2009. Kreis Regenwalde. 363 p. Pommern Regional Group of Minnesota, Golden Valley, Minnesota.
Vollack, Manfred 1999 Das Kolberger Land. Seine Städte und Dörfer. Ein pommersches Heimatbuch.
Bearb. u. hrsg. im Auftr. d. Heimatkreises Kolberg-Körlin.
Prussian History
Bartlett, Robert 1993. The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950 - 1350. Penguin Books, London, England 432+ p.
Blum, Jerome (ed.) 1982. Our Forgotten Past: Seven Centuries of Life on the Land: Thames and Hudson, London, England. 240+ p.
Blum, Jerome 1982. The village and the family. p. 9-32. In Our Forgotten Past. Jerome Blum (ed.) Thames and Hudson, England
Carsten, F.L 1954. The Origins of Prussia. 309 p. fold. map. Oxford Univ. Press, London.
Carsten, F.L 1989. A History of the Prussian Junkers. Scolar Press, Aldershot, Hants, England; Brookfield, Vermont, USA : Gower Pub. Co., viii, 215 p.
Koch, H.W. 1978. A History of Prussia. Longman. London. 326 p.
Roy, James Charles 1999. The Vanished Kingdom - Travels Through the History of Prussia. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado. 398+ p.
Personal Accounts of Flight & Expulsion during & after WWII
Chinnow, Heinz 2004. Pomerania: 1945 Echoes of the Past: A Teenager's Diary of Peace, War, Flight and Expulsion. 155+ p. iUniverse, Inc., Lincoln, Nebraska.
de Zayas, Alfred-Maurice 1994. A Terrible Revenge - The ethnic cleansing of the East European Germans 1944-1950. St. Martin's Press, New York. 179+ p.
Falkenhagen, Rose A Village in Pomerania (self published)
Goos, Betty Sellnies 1996. Fleeing Home - From Memelland to Canada. self published. Ridgeway, Ontario, Canada. 164+ p.
Knittel, Marjorie 1984. The Last Bridge: Elvera Ziebart Reuer, Her Own True Story. (As told by Elvera Ziebart Reuer) Midstates Printing, Inc., Aberdeen, South Dakota, 167 p.
Krutein, Eva 1990. Eva's War - A True Story of Survival. Amador Pub. Albuquerque, New Mexico. 253+ p.
Pejsa, Jane 1991 Matriarch of Conspiracy: Ruth Von Kleist, 1867-1945 Kenwood Publishing, Minneapolis, MN 408 +xx p.
Samuel, Wolfgang W. E. 2000 German Boy. University Press of Mississippi. 424+ p.
Stabins, Ingrid 2012 Give Me Tomorrow: A young girl's ordeals during the WWII Russian invasion of eastern Germany. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. 296 p.
von Krockow, Christian 1991. Hour of the Women - A Young Mother's flight to Survive at the Close of World War II. (translation by Krishna Winston). HarperCollins, New York. 214 p.
Walter, Elizabeth B. 1997. Barefoot in the Rubble. Pannonia Press, Palantine, Illinois. 266+ p.
Immigrants, Ships and Passenger Lists
Anuta, Michael J. 1983. Ships of Our Ancestors. Ships of Our Ancestors, Inc., Menomoniee, Michigan. 380 p.
Bonsor, N.R.P. 1975- . North Atlantic Seaway : an illustrated history of the passenger services linking the Old World with the New in four volumes. Newton Abbot [Eng.] : David & Charles
Glazier, Ira A. and Filby, P. William (eds.) 1988-2001. Germans to America: Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports 1850-1897. Vols. 1-67. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources.
Heaps, Willard A. 1967. The Story of Ellis Island. Seabury Press, New York.
Lloyd's Register. Steamers 1897-1898.
Smith, Eugene W. 1978. Passenger Ships of the World - Past and Present. George H. Dean Co. Boston, Mass.
Reference aids and guides for genealogical research
Bahlow, Hans 2002. Dictionary of German Names. 2nd. edition. German-American Cultural Society for the Max Kade Institute. 656 p. [an English-language reference for more than 15,000 German family names]
Bentz, Edna M. 1982 (rev. 1987) . If I Can, You Can Decipher Germanic Records. 78 pp. Edna M. Bentz, San Diego, California [A useful handbook of Germanic script; Latin, English, German and Danish terminology; and glossaries of occupations and illnesses]
Brandt, E.R., Bellingham, M., Cutkomp, K., Frye, K., and Lowe, P.A. 1995. Germanic Genealogy - A Guide to Worldwide Sources and Migration Patterns. 370 pp. Germanic Genealogy Society, St. Paul, Minnesota. [An invaluable guide for beginning and advanced genealogists who are searching for their Germanic ancestors.]
Eakle, Arlene and Cerny, Johni. (eds.) 1984. The Source - A Guidebook of American Genealogy. Ancestry Publishing Co. Salt Lake City, Utah. 786 pp.
Jensen, Larry O. A Genealogical Handbook of German Research. Vol. 1 (1980) 209 p.; Vol. 2 (1983) 210 p.; Vol. 3 (1986) Jensen Publications, Pleasant Grove, Utah.
Smith, Clifford N. and Smith, A. P. 1976. Encyclopedia of German-American Genealogical Research. R. R. Bowker Co. New York. 273 p.
Szucs, Loretto Dennis and Luebking, Sandra Hargreaves (eds.) 2006. The Source - A Guidebook of American Genealogy. Ancestry, a div. of MyFamily.com, Inc. Provo, Utah. (3rd rev. ed.) 965 p. [The most complete reference book available today for genealogical research]
Thode, Ernest 1992. German - English Genealogical Dictionary. 286+ pp. Genealogical Pub. Co. Inc. Baltimore, Maryland [An invaluable dictionary for word-by-word translations of Germanic genealogical terms and documents. Contains at least 30,000 entries and is an excellent supplement to a standard German - English dictionary]
Maps and Gazeteers
Historischer Atlas von Pommern, Karte 3, Karte der Historischen Dorfformen, 18 Jahrh, Vol. 3, 1963. Published by Franz Engel [An 18th century map of Western Pomerania]
Karte des Deutschen Reiches, Reichsamt fur Landesaufnahme, Berlin. [This collection of historic 1:100,000 scale topographic maps of Germany (674 sheets) is available on microfiche from the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. These 19th century maps are so detailed that churches, windmills, guts, and other buildings are depicted.]
Strassen - 1999 Auto-Atlas - Deutschland + Europa. 252 pp. Ravenstein Verlag GMBH, Bad Soden/TS Germany. [Maps of Germany and Switzerland (1:250,000), Austria (1:400,000), and Europe (1:4,000,000)]
Rev. 13 May 2016