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Category Archives: history
2019 Post R1 Administrative Divisions of East Prussia
East Prussia: 1807-1818-1923 This is the shape of East Prussia that most family historians are familiar with. The above map and others below are from Lands of the German Empire. These borders were stable until after WWI when the northeast … Continue reading
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Post HF NF 1: East Prussia in Historical Fiction and Non-Fiction
East Prussia from the Novelist’s Point of View Description of East Prussia in February 1804 Michael Gregorio’s Intent of Criminal Reason The setting is French-occupied East Prussia during the winter of 1804. The 19th century brings out the clash of … Continue reading
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2019 Post PH 4 1815 to Present East Prussia after Napoleon
East Prussia after Napoleon: 1815 to Present The capital of East Prussia remained in Konigsberg in the Konigsberg Administrative District. The northeastern border with Lithuania, known as Memelland, remained in East Prussia until 1923. Memelland lay north of the Nemanus … Continue reading
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2019 Post PH 3 1803–1807 Napoleonic Era to Congress of Vienna 1815
1803 to 1807: Lands Prussia Lost Napoleon Bonaparte started his campaign to rule Europe and continued his conquest eastward toward Prussia. In 1806 the Napoleonic army defeated Prussia. Prussia lost areas to the west, south, and north. In 1807 Prussia … Continue reading
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Post PH 2 The Rise of Prussia 1772 to 1803
The First Partition of Poland Prussia acquired the first of many additional lands. In 1772, the First Partition of Poland, Prussia acquired the part of Poland that became the province of West Prussia. Following the establishment of two administrative districts … Continue reading
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THE RISE OF PRUSSIA to 1772: Changing Borders I
Post PH 1 Political History The political history of Prussia is divided into the next four posts with an emphasis on how this history probably affected those Germans who lived in Suwalki Province in the Russian Empire. Post PH 1: … Continue reading
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The Peoples of East Prussia
Early East Prussian Peoples The province most family researchers know as East Prussia was the originally a duchy and a kingdom. In the 19th century the original land that was Prussia became a province known as East Prussia. The first … Continue reading
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2019 Post 1 East Prussia
INTRODUCTION: This series of posts presents one researcher’s study of East Prussia specifically for those researching ancestors in what is now Lithuania and whose origins probably lie in East Prussia. At least one family story suggests that movement in the … Continue reading
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Bilder Post 5 A Few Images
In addition to the four images below, many chapters feature parishioners and exterior and interior views of the remaining churches on interest of individual researchers. Translation: The defeated Napoleonic Army on their retreat from Russia to France, marched through Wilna. … Continue reading
Bilder Post 4 Final Post from Keeping Track of the Lithuanians from the Past
One sees that it was a commanding number of Germans who, about the middle of the 17th century, lived in Wilna and there held citizenship rights (meant they could vote, hold offices—an important right and had to be earned. That … Continue reading
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Genealogy for German Lutherans In Suwalki Province 