Could someone please tell me if there is a place called "Grimwald", "Grumwald", Pommern in Prussia? I am reading this off a birth certificate which was registered in 1884, and the letters are very smudged. Thanks, Gloria.

Pommern is now part of the state (lander) of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern which was at one time part of Prussia.It lies to the east of S-H. The only Grunwald listed in the Red Guide of Micheline for Germany is in Bavaria very near Munich., there is a Grunwalde near Dresden in the Lander of Saxony. There is a city called Grimmen in M-Vorpommern on highway 194 considerably east of Rostock. For the most rlaibale source of information on places in Germany I suggest you get an interlibrary loan of a gazeteer published by the US Department of Geography, 3 volumes which covers both E and W Germany in extremely fine detail. I have yet to find an automap/atlas of guide which has sufficient detail to locate many plaes in Germany.The USDG (probably CIA) books list brooks, large fams and all places of any concentrated inhabitation as well as mountains hill, lakes, etc. etc. The map coordinants are given in degrees and minutes. For those wishing precise mapping information you can purchase CD Rom disks of the various lander through shop@lverma.dvs/nrw.dbp.de .They also sell maps The people there can handle English requests but the CDs do not come with English directions although the downloading protocols are straight forward and MS OS systems compatible. It just takes a little bit of bravery and a small dictionary to know what the boxes you have to click upon correspond to in English. I managed it on the first try and mein Deutsch ist schrecklich. Gloria Mattingley wrote: >Could someone please tell me if there is a place called "Grimwald", "Grumwald", Pommern in Prussia? I am reading this off a birth certificate which was registered in 1884, and the letters are very smudged. > >Thanks, > >Gloria. > > >==== SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-ROOTS Mailing List ==== >Eine Erklaerung von Fachbegriffen und die Regeln der SH-ROOTS finden Sie hier: >http://www.genealogy-sh.com/faq-sh-roots/regeln.htm > > >. > > >