THANK YOU to our cousin Jacob Rieke, and his wife, Kylie, of Fairfax, MN for their extremely generous donation to the 2016 Schmidt Family Reunion fund! Join Jake & Kylie and make history. Jacob is the son of Janet Rieke, grandson of Rosabelle Johnson, great grandson of Charles Schmidt, 2xgreat grandson of Karl Schmidt, […]
THANK YOU to our cousin Jacob Rieke, and his wife, Kylie, of Fairfax, MN for their generous donation to the 2016 Schmidt Family Reunion fund! Join Jake & Kylie and make history. Jacob is the son of Janet Rieke, grandson of Rosabelle Johnson, great grandson of Charles Schmidt, 2xgreat grandson of Karl Schmidt, 3xgreat […]
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 […]
The Schmidts of West Bend, Iowa will dominate the record-breaking 2016 Schmidt Reunion in Spencer, Iowa. Yet, of all the places that the Schmidt immigrants from Machtlos, Germany could have settled in, why did they choose West Bend, Iowa? Hessian Troops in British Pay in the US War of Independence, by C. Ziegler, 1799 (Wikimedia commons) The […]