Thanks to Richard & Darlene Jergens!

THANK YOU to our cousin Richard “Putter” Jergens, and his wife, Darlene, of Gilmore City, IA, for their generous donation to the 2016 Schmidt Family Reunion fund! Join Putter and Darlene and make history.   Richard is the son of Howard Jergens, grandson of Anna (Schmidt) Jergens, great grandson of Conrad Schmidt, 2xgreat grandson of […]

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 […]