Stolp Family History Society and its Holdings

Presented by Uwe Kerntopf to the Sacramento German Genealogy Society on April 27, 2021.

Stolp is the German name for a city and district in Poland and was historically an administrative district (Kreis) in Pomerania. The Society has been very actively collecting, preserving and researching this former German district and its neighboring district. Inhabitants from this area were expelled in 1945, often after having been expelled from regions even further east.. The descendants have collected much vital information since then, and recently made connections with current inhabitants of the region to work together in collecting and preserving more material. The society has rescued and collected church books, civil registration office records, tax records, and much more. Only a few records for this area are held by the Family History Library, but most are not. Mr. Kerntopf will present the findings of the society, and how to access their immense database.