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For Stolp, Pomerania, Germany
Stolp 1) Pommern, Köslin, Pommern, Preussen
Child Gross Gansen already historical in Slupsk county.
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For Pyritz, Pommen, Prussia
Pyritz, Stettin, Pommern, Preussen — 53.1462, 14.8926
Exact unique match, 0 km from the stored pin.
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For Lauenburg, Pommerania, Prussia
Meyers 'Lauenburg 1) Pomm.' (Köslin, Preussen); Wikidata Q497148 Lębork alias 'Lauenburg in Pommern', 54.55/17.75
Child 5986 Laben, Lauenburg, Pommerania.
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For Dantzia, West Prussia
Danzig, Danzig, Danzig, Westpreussen — Fortified or established capital city of the Province of Westprussia and of the RB Danzig (myLatLng 54.35205/18.64637)
Wikidata Q1792 Gdansk, de label Danzig.
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For Leba, Prussia
Meyers 1912: Leba, Lauenburg, Köslin, Pommern, Preussen (54.7651, 17.5744)
Identifies the stored place with Łeba.
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For Stolp, Pommerania, Germany
Stolp 1) Pommern, Köslin, Pommern, Preussen
Child Danno is a Kreis Stolp village.
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For Neustettin, Pommern, Germany
Neustettin, Köslin, Pommern, Preussen 53.7079/16.6994
Unique exact Neustettin; #22612 Szczecinek (Q848999) at the same point.
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For Mohrungen, Prussia, Germany
Mohrungen (Ostpreussen, Preussen) = Morag, Q139725, 53.9153,19.9272
Child 6330 Gorken, Mohrungen, East Prussia. Merge into 4391 deferred.
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For Briesen, Templin, Germany
Briesen 6), Templin, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Preussen
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For Tilsit, Prussia
Meyers 1912: Tilsit, Gumbinnen, Ostpreussen, Preussen 55.0839, 21.8785
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For Kreis Lauenburg, Pommern, Prussia
Lauenburg 1) Pomm. (Köslin, Preussen) = Lębork, Q497148, 54.55,17.75
Landkreis Lauenburg i. Pom.; children Sterbenin, Ossecken, Bebbow all lie north of Lębork.
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For Mohrungen, East, Germany
Mohrungen (Ostpreussen, Preussen) = Morag, Q139725, 53.9153,19.9272
'East' is a garbled 'East [Prussia]'. Child 7355 Klein Munsterberg, Mohrungen. Merge into 4391 deferred.
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For Posen, Germany
Posen 1) Posen, Posen, Posen, Preussen
The provincial capital, unique as a city (the second Posen entry is a Truppenubungsplatz). The stored pin 50.6435/11.6905 was in Thuringia. Today Poznan, Poland.
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For Silesia
Type StKr. Extra Desc a/d Oder*; Hptst. of the Prov. Schles. and the RB Breslau
Row #11052 'Silesia' was geocoded to Silesia, Montana, USA (45.5565/-108.8413). Meyers puts the Hauptstadt of the province of Schlesien at Breslau, 51.1120/17.0358, and the tree's sibling rows #10008 'Silesia, Germany' and #3936 'Silesia, Prussia' already sit at 51.1035/17.0396, 1.5 km away. Pinning the province at its own capital removes the false US location. #11052 is reported as a merge candidate into #10008; the guidance is to fix a mis-geocoded canonical before merging into it, which is what this does.
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For Liegnitz, Silesia, Germany
Liegnitz Liegnitz, Schlesien, Preussen
Unique in the empire. The stored pin 50.9777/6.9516 was in Cologne, 643 km west. Today Legnica, Poland - the tree already holds a modern row for it (#8533), so this row is a candidate for status historical / modernRelation renamed once someone has op room.
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For Freistadt, Silesia, Germany
Freystadt 2) NdSchles. Freystadt, Liegnitz, Schlesien, Preussen
There is no 'Freistadt' anywhere in Schlesien in 1912; the Kreisstadt is spelled Freystadt, in Niederschlesien, Regierungsbezirk Liegnitz. The row says 'Silesia, Germany', which excludes the Austrian-Silesian Freistadt (Frystat), and the tree's other Freistadt rows (#8339, #8389, #8742) name villages of that Kreis. Stored pin 49.4370/9.0535 was in Baden-Wurttemberg. Today Kozuchow, Poland.
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For Rosen, Preuben, Germany
Meyers 'Gross Rosen, Striegau, Breslau, Schlesien, Preussen' corroborates 3 name segments, UNIQUE, 51.0110,16.2903. Nominatim Rogoźnica village point 51.0104092,16.2912096 is 0.1km away.
Quoted from modern place #22590's own stored note (fetched this session via get_place), which documents the Meyers+Nominatim identification already used to link this parent's only child historically.
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For Rosen, Preuben, Germany
Gross Rosen, Striegau, Breslau, Schlesien, Preussen
Identification rests on this row being the GEDCOM split fragment of 'Grob Rosen, Preuben' (#8573, already linked to #22590 Rogoznica); bare 'Rosen' alone is ambiguous in Meyers.
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For Parish of Gross Rohdau, West Prussia
Gross Rohdau, Rosenberg, Marienwerder, Westpreussen, Preussen; Wikidata Q7357273 Rodowo, aliases Gross Rohdau
#5442 Rodowo already carries Q7357273 and the matching pin.
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For Liegnitz, Silesia
Meyers 'Liegnitz' (Schlesien, Preussen), unique; Wikidata Q106274 Legnica 51.2,16.2
Nominatim pin 51.2048,16.1747 = Legnica. Merge into 11056 deferred. Item 101704 on 11056 (country_mismatch) is a false positive to dismiss.
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For Kries, Zullichau, Germany
Meyers 1912 has no 'Kries'; read as Kreis Züllichau-Schwiebus, Brandenburg; seat Sulechów Q457865 52.083333,15.616667
Old pin 49.9538,7.8683 (Rhineland-Palatinate) is outside the Züllichau its name and parent 8346 assert; review item 152702 is a true positive. Child Kutschlau 8781 is already historical (Chociule). Later merge candidate 11197.
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For Grunberg, Silesia, Prussia
Grünberg 7) Schles. | , Liegnitz, Schlesien, Preussen | KrSt. (County Seat)
Only Silesian Grünberg among 29 in Meyers. Merge into 8733 deferred.
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For Blickwedel, Lower Saxony, Germany
Blickwedel, Isenhagen, Lüneburg, Hannover, Preussen 52.7622, 10.4311
Meyers 1912 identifies the Kreis; 0 km from the pin.
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For Blindow, Brandenburg, Germany
Blindow, Prenzlau, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Preussen 53.3594, 13.8872
Only one Blindow in the 1912 Empire.
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For Brüsenwalde, Brandenburg, Germany
Brüsenwalde ... Prov Brandbg. ... RB Potsdam ... Kr Templin ... AG Lychen — myLatLng 53.25178, 13.47257
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For Celle, Lower Saxony, Germany
Celle ... Preussen. Prov Hann. ... RB Lüneburg ... AG Celle [self] — myLatLng 52.62264, 10.08047
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For Christianenhof, Brandenburg, Germany
Christianenhof 1), Prenzlau, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Preussen
Three Christianenhofs in Meyers; only 1) fits a Prussian Uckermark row.
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For Hammelstall, Brandenburg, Germany
Hammelstall 10), Prenzlau, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Preussen — Type Vw. Kr Prenzlau, See Brüssow. de.wikipedia 'Hammelstall': 'Hammelstall (Brüssow), Gemeindeteil von Brüssow, Landkreis Uckermark, Brandenburg'
Coordinate is the OSM/Nominatim point for the locality (53.3788, 14.1174); no Wikidata item exists.
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For Bad Colberg, Thuringia, Germany
Colberg 1), Hildburghausen, Sachsen-Meiningen
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For Cortnitz, Saxony, Germany
Cortnitz, Bautzen, Bautzen, Sachsen
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For Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Crefeld, Düsseldorf, Rheinland, Preussen
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For Nietkowice, Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland
Deutsch Nettkow, Crossen, Frankfurt, Brandenburg, Preussen
Meyers point 52.06715, 15.36017; unique in the empire.
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For Samborsko, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Zamborst, Neustettin, Köslin, Pommern, Preussen; lat 53.41823 lon 16.7193
Wikidata Q744452 53.418056, 16.7225 and Nominatim 53.41862, 16.71802 agree within 250 m; en.wikipedia Samborsko (German: Zamborst).
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For Gniewinko, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Gniewinko (kaszb. Gniewinkò, niem. Gnewinke) – wieś kaszubska w Polsce położona w województwie pomorskim, w powiecie wejherowskim, w gminie Gniewino.
Meyers 1912 Gnewinke, Lauenburg, Köslin (10583065); Wikidata Q2615171 54.71528, 17.98083.