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

[Gary Warner]

Gary,

In addition to Jerry Frank's suggestions, please also expand your 
search for the Schmidt family to include any of the following 
alternate surnames:

Schmidt (=Kowalski or Kovalski or Szmidt or Szmyt or Szmitt) or Schmidtke

Gary Warner
SGGEE

At 07:27 AM 01/01/07, Jerry Frank wrote:
>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.
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>
>Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
>FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca
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>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
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