Category: Schmitt genealogy
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A Week of Ancestors
May 19 to May 25 BIRTHS: What is about Jennie that makes me want to know more about her life? She appears in several other family trees on Ancestry, but the fact fields tend to be incomplete and sources are scarce. Eugenia Schmitt was born in Cincinnati on 21 May…
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A Week of Ancestors
May 12 to May 18 BIRTHS: Although there are a number of births on this week’s calendar, the name that caught my eye first was that of John Nicholas Schmitt. Six years older than my great-great grandmother Elisa, big brother John was born in Hellimer, Moselle, France on the 16th…
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A Week of Ancestors
April 21-27 Seeing the places where my ancestors lived their lives was an amazing part of last year’s trip to Scandinavia. BIRTHS: It was an emotional experience being in the spot where “our” cottage stood 154 years ago. Elis Peterssdotter, who I wrote about here, was born at a farm…
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Monumental Perspective
My 2nd great-grandmother Elisabeth Schmitt had 13 known siblings. One of her younger brothers, Emile, married the daughter of a beer baron in Cincinnati and played an instrumental role in the John Kauffman Brewing Company in the late 19th century. Although I am not related to John Kauffman, I have…
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A Week of Ancestors
April 14-20 BIRTHS: 200 years ago this week, my 3rd great grandfather Johan Peter Landström was born in Göteryd parish in Kronoberg, Sweden. He was the sixth-born child of a master blacksmith (mäster smed) and as a young man became a blacksmith himself. Johan raised six sons, most of whom…
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