to where Pommerania is now (about AD 1300), which explain red hair where Germans don't. There was a large scale migration from Scotland to Pommerania (Pommern) which is now split between Germany and Poland. W. David Samuelsen Bearacuda1@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 8/5/99 6:29:55 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > TRIER-ROOTS-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > > << Subject: [TRIER-ROOTS-L] NEIFING/WARKMAN; DEU > DFS,SCT; 1600- > > Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 19:25:51 -0700 > > From: angel@adcomsys.net >> > > I remember reading in a book (can't think of it right now) about about 1600, > 5,000 Scotsmen (no females) moved to Poland. I do know that most of the > trees in Scotland had been cut down c. 1000, so most of the top soil washed > away, the configuration of the Scots' farms led to pilferage (cattle > rustling?), times were very hard. > Helen Hewitt >