A Christmas Gift For You!

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Santa has brought you a special gift this morning! Please enjoy a free eBook of “Karl Crosses the Atlantic” (written by Josiah Schmidt), a richly illustrated children’s book telling the story of Georg Karl Schmidt, the first of the West Bend Schmidts to come to America in 1881. Click here to view your free eBook! (file type: […]

The Yo-Yo Immigrant Who Helped the Schmidts Get to America

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The vast majority of we Americans who trace our ancestry back to the Schmidt family of Machtlos, Germany have an unlikely character to thank for us being where we are today. Her name was Anna Martha (Schmidt) Rimbach. She was born in Germany and she died in Germany, yet without her we would not be Americans today. […]