Jenny, I'm glad you didn't delete your post. It was interesting to me.
Now I will say something that is truly uninteresting. The region of the USA I live in has a significant number of people of German ancestry. My mother's family traces its roots back to Pommern, which was part of Prussia at the time (around 1860), and now is part of Poland.
http://pomeranianews.com/pomerania_map.html