Aug 2017   Group Tour: The Pomeranian Heritage Tour with Don Zamsow        13 Days, 38 people 

The coach log of Werner, retired driver of the Oldenburg police president and now on the wheel for us, lists 1.100 miles on the coach from Bremen airport via the Baltic coast into Poland and to Berlin,150 gallons of diesel, the rivercrossings at Weser, Elbe, Oder and Netze, 90 bottles of still water, 3 of bubble water and 105 bottles of beer. Don Zamsow of the Pommerscher Verein Wausaw WI started this initiative to visit Pomeranian ancestral places and 38 fellow travelers enjoyed a super tour from the ports of farewell to the homelands. As a logistic masterpiece for three days 16 individual taxi excursions were organized starting from Greifswald in Germany and from Mistroy and Pila in Poland. That was doable not only because we could organize enough cars and (English speaking) drivers but mainly because people had identified their families ancestral towns in successful prepwork. Many by using the repositories in the Berlin WI heritage society and archives. A great help was Dr. Beata Lakeberg, colleague of Wolfgang, native Polish and waiting for us at the Mistroy pier as we entered Poland by sea. Unusual genealogical discoveries for some of us at Greifswald: their family names in the student's jail at one of Germany's oldest University.