Research & Study Aid: Prussian Poland
This is the first in our series of Brief Research-Study aids. Each is designed to help you get started with your genealogical (historical) research.
Please do NOT consider this an exhaustive set of materials.
What was/is Prussian-Poland?
The following articles/ links should provide you with a reasonable historical perspective on those former regions. These regions have been completely rearranged and reconstituted at least three times since 1918. The populations living in these geographic regions today may NOT be related to those who lived there before World War I (1914).
- The Prussian Partition (of Poland)- Wikipedia. As with most Wikipedia articles, pay special attention to the bibliography at the end, to identify additional information sources and more detailed study materials.
- Prussian Poland 1815 to 1900 by Goeppner, Annetta Paula (1935).
- A Brief Outline of Polish History by Konopczyński, Władysław (1919). Translated by Benett, Francis. Geneva: Imprimierie Atar
- Frederick the Great: A Historical Profile by Ritter, Gerhard (1974) [1936]. Translated by Peter Peret. Berkeley: University of California Press
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