POMMERN GROUP HAS MEETING The Pommern Special...

POMMERN GROUP HAS MEETING

The Pommern Special Interest Group of the Immigrant Genealogical

Society is presenting a Pomeranian meeting from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

on Oct. 25 at Magnolia Park United Methodist Church, 2828 W. Magnolia

Blvd., Burbank.

The featured speakers are Martha and Les Riggle, who have

traveled, researched and translated important Pomeranian materials.

Prior to Oct. 1, the cost is $12.50 per person and $15 after, and $5 for lunch. For a registration form, go to the Web site at

www.pomeranianews.com, and click on Calendar of Events. For more

information, call (909) 696-1756.

The Immigrant Library, 1310 W. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank also will

be open that day from 3:30 to 6 p.m. For information, call 848-3122.

For those who may be Pomeranian and not know it, this area was

considered part of Prussia/Germany until the end of World War II. The

Northeast part of Germany along the Baltic Sea coast was given to

Poland. Now the towns and counties use both their German and Polish

names.

DAUGHTERS DONATE BOOKS TO LIBRARY

The United Daughters of the Confederacy, Capt. Sally Tompkins

Chapter, will meet at 10:30 a.m. on Oct. 4 at the Southern California

Genealogical Society, 417 Irving Drive, Burbank.

The chapter will donate to the society’s library 125 books

relating to the Civil War and Southern history. After the meeting,

attendees may use the library research facilities or participate in a

Master Genealogist group.

Guests are invited to bring their own lunch. For more

information, call 843-5288 or e-mail mrhistory@earthlink.net.

AUTISM ALLIANCE PLANS SUPPORT MEETING

The Foothill Autism Alliance Inc. will have its monthly resource

meeting at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 8 at the Burbank Center for the Retarded,

230 Amherst Drive, Burbank.

Speakers will describe the diagnosis and treatment of children

with vision problems related to autism.

For more information, call 662-8847 or go online to

www.foothillautism.org.

Compiled by Joyce Rudolph