It seems some of my ancestors might have come to the United States from Prussia. Some of Prussia, it seems, was once Pomerania; so am I not part Pomeranian?
I've been trying to gather some understanding of the background of the Prussian people. Some people say that a Prussia people never existed.
Still there is evidence of people on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, at least, as far back as 15,000 BCE.
Here are some Prussian background notes I have begun to gather.
Kashubians(Cassubians)were Lechtic language speakers on the Baltic Sea between the Vistula and Oder rivers. The Cassubian language may have come from Pomerania. I read that Pomeranian is a Lechtic language which is a west Slavic language which has been called Old Prussian.
I'm not very sure of any of this yet. Still, when, as a child, I thought I heard someone calling me a slob, perhaps they were in truth calling me a Slav.
I think that some of my ancestors were in Ireland before the arrival of any Celts, but they stayed long enough to pick up some Celtic genes. And not all the Celts headed to Ireland got there by way of the Iberian Peninsula. Some of those Celts got there via the Baltic.
I also have some Norwegian ancestors who may have sailed the Vistula and Oder on their way to Byzantium.
It's an interesting area. Before the arrival of Christianity, there may have been Norsemen selling Pomerania amber to Romans.
Pomeranians are cute.
Not everyone would call Prussians cute, but they seem attractive enough to me so that I expect to bring more notes about them to these pages.
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