THANK YOU to our cousin, Anna Schwint, and her husband, David Schwint, of Storm Lake, IA, for their generous donation to the 2016 Schmidt Family Reunion fund! Join Anna & David and make history. Anna is the daughter of Carl Schafer, granddaughter of Lizzie (Schmidt) Schafer, great granddaughter of Karl Schmidt, 2xgreat granddaughter of […]
(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 […]
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. […]
Congrats to our cousin, Dillion Barber, and his fiancee, Destinee Crayne, on the birth of the newest member of our family tree: Rogue Barber! Rogue was born this very evening. Rogue Barber is the son of Dillion Barber, grandson of Jody Barber, great grandson of Terry Prentice, 2xgreat grandson of Mary Prentice, 3xgreat grandson of […]
Many Schmidts from Machtlos, Germany left behind family, friends, jobs, and everything they knew when they ventured to a foreign land with a different culture and a different language. Driven by a belief in the American Dream, these Schmidts sought and achieved opportunity, freedom, and prosperity. No doubt they would have celebrated the Fourth of […]