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Category: Schmitt family history

  • Translating Fraktur obituaries

    My second great-grandmother was one of nine children who (with their parents) immigrated from France to Cincinnati. Most of Elizabeth Schmitt’s siblings stayed in Ohio for the remainder of their lives. Like Emile: Emile married the daughter of a brewery owner. Emile’s wife Maria Elizabeth Kauffman predeceased him: Only two of…

  • Cincinnati Birth and Death Records

    My genealogical research is often challenging because of three courthouse fires that occurred in Cincinnati Ohio. So I was thrilled to stumble upon Cincinnati Birth and Death Records, 1865-1912 in the Digital Collections at the University of Cincinnati. Death certificates are available through the Ohio Historical Society from December 20, 1908 through…