[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Schmidt, Walters and Tesmann Families from Ruspolen

[Jerry Frank]

Gary,

I have a great deal of sympathy for anyone that has to research the 
Schmidt surname, especially with limited data such as yours.  There 
are 136 August Schmidts in our master pedigree database.  What are 
the "usual research options" that you have already used?  Knowing 
that, we might be able to suggest some less usual ones.  For example, 
have you found U.S. naturalization records?

Some observations from your data and my browsing:
- The children are apparently born in 1883, 1886, and 1887.  If 
August arrived initially in 1885, he had to be travelling back and forth.
- Since it appears that August was already about 30 years old upon 
marriage to Caroline, could this be his second wife?
- The Tessmanns in the SGGEE database appear to all live further east 
than Lubraniec.  Not a major clue but this is an indication that 
there may NOT be a correlation between Lubraniec and the residence of 
the Schmidts and Walters.
- Most of the extractions in our databases stop at about 1867 as that 
is when the script changed from Roman to Cyrillic.  It is therefore 
unlikely you will find August's marriage(s) in our database as the 
result of extraction.


Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca





At 06:24 PM 31/12/2006, g.ruppert at att.net wrote:
>The Schmidt and Tesmann families from "Ruspolen" have been major 
>dead-ends in my search for years. I've exhausted all of the usual 
>research options and am now looking for the miraculous!
>
>August SCHMIDT born 12 Dec 1852 in "Ruspolen" immigrated before his 
>wife and family roughly 1885 +/- to Baltimore, MD. His wife, 
>Caroline Pauline WALTERS (variants Wolter/s) arrived in Baltimore on 
>6 Aug 1889 aboard Muenchen with children Louise 6 y and Marie 3 m. 
>Mother-in-law, Amelia WALTERS arrived in NYC on 13 July 1892 aboard 
>Dresden with her granddaughter 5 yo Martha Schmidt and her two sons 
>Carl and Adolph Walters (Welder on the manifest).
>
>A "cousin" named Matilda Tessmann arrived 26 May 1907 a 21-year 
>female from Lubraniec, Russia of German descent. Another entry for 
>another Matilde Tessman, aged 27 arriving on 7 August 1908 also 
>states birthplace of Lubraniec.
>
>Does anyone have connections to any of these families, or to 
>Lubraniec? Any suggestions for further European research?
>
>It seems like there are lots of clues here, but I've been 
>unsuccessful in making any European connection.
>
>THANKs and HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007!
>
>Gary Ruppert