Thank You to Mike and Lynn Krug!

July 17, 2015July 17, 2015 Schmidt Reunion Cousin Updates contribution, deborah, donate, donation, family, fund, fundraising, georgia, iowa, krug, lynn, mcdonough, michael, mike, reunion, reunite, schmidt, schmidts, spencer, thank you, thanks, west bend Leave a comment

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 […]

10 Schmidts Who Left Everything Behind

July 4, 2015October 21, 2015 Schmidt Reunion Family History, Family Photos anna, ashton, balthasar, baltimore, benton, bochum, boston, catharina, civil war, conrad, dysart, elisabeth, essen, family, franco prussian war, franz, germany, günther, hans, hazleton, heinrich, herman, iowa, jacob, johannes, karl, kersten, könig, lee, lindemman, lizzie, louis, louisa, ludwig, luzerne, machtlos, maggie, margaretha, martha, maryland, massachusetts, michael, pennsylvania, philadelphia, raub, reunion, reunite, schmidt, schmidts, spencer, tama, uemmingen, vinton, washington dc, west bend Leave a comment

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 Real Reason the Schmidts Went to West Bend, Iowa

June 22, 2015June 10, 2018 Schmidt Reunion Family History, Family Photos adam, bradgate, conrad, dysart, family, germany, herman, hotzel, humboldt, immigration, iowa, jacob, karl, kersten, lindemann, lizzie, machtlos, maggie, margaretha, maria, martha, mexican american war, michael, reunion, reunite, saint louis, schmidt, schmidts, spencer, starff, vinton, west bend Leave a comment

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 […]

Happy Mother’s Day!

May 10, 2015May 11, 2015 Schmidt Reunion Family Photos 50th, alice, anliker, anna, annie, anniversary, belva, carl, christine, elizabeth, esther, family, farm, girls, humboldt, ida, iowa, irene, jergens, kathryn, katie, knobloch, krug, ladies, lindemann, lindemanns, lizzie, lydia, messner, michael, mike, moadinger, mogler, mother, mothers, mothers day, neighbors, niewoehner, perkins, photo, photograph, picture, reunion, rick, sabine, schmidt, schmidts, spencer, wedding, west bend, wilson, women Leave a comment

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 […]