Cindy & Mike Galles are 100th Household to Donate to Reunion!

THANK YOU to our cousin Cynthia Galles, and her husband, Michael Galles, of Aurora, IL, for their generous donation to the 2016 Schmidt Family Reunion fund! Cindy & Mike are the 100th family household to donate to the Schmidt Reunion! Join Cindy & Mike and make history. Cindy is the daughter of Donald Schmidt, granddaughter […]

Martha (Lindemann) Schmidt and her Grandchildren (1913)

(Click the image to enlarge) Thank you to our cousin Sandra (Schmidt) Banwart of Algona, Iowa for this terrific photograph of Martha Elisabeth (Lindemann) Schmidt (1837-1923) (the wife of Conrad Jacob Schmidt, one of the original Schmidt immigrants to the West Bend, Iowa area) and twenty nine of her grandchildren! This picture was taken in […]

Thank You to Mike and Lynn Krug!

THANK YOU to our cousin Michael Krug and his wife Deborah Lynn of McDonough, Georgia for their very generous donation to the 2016 Schmidt Family Reunion fund! Join them and make history. Mike is the son of Johnny Krug Jr., grandson of Anna (Schmidt) Krug, great grandson of Karl Schmidt, 2xgreat grandson of Dietrich Schmidt […]

Happy Mother’s Day!

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms in the Schmidt Family! Here are 14 mothers in the Schmidt family, at the Carl Lindemann farm in Humboldt, Iowa. A couple of them are still unidentified–perhaps you can help? This photo was taken during Mike and Lizzie (Schmidt) Lindemann’s 50th wedding anniversary celebration in July 1937. (Left to […]

Congrats to Mike Schmidt and Matt Studer

Our family just got a little bigger! Congrats to our cousin, Mike Schmidt, on his engagement to Laura Linzmeier. Congrats also to our cousin, Matt Studer, and his wife, Julie, on the birth of their son, Griffin Studer. Mike Schmidt is the son of Steve Schmidt, grandson of Don Schmidt, great grandson of William Schmidt, […]