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The Schmidt family search has taken me to Germany for five (5) visits to the homeland.villages of my ancestors that came over to the U.S. arriving in Baltimore, Maryland in March 1887. It appears that other siblings of my grandfather KARL SCHMIDT, from Ober-Ohmen, Hesse, and his bride to be KAROLINA RUCKELSHUASEN from Burg Gemunden, Hessee, Germany also came to Baltimore and settled there. From the research I have done since 1985, and with the help of "cousins" still living in Germany, I (we) have located and documented the Schmidt/Ruckelshausen line back to 1236 with HEINRICH FRILING and HERMANN WEIFENBACH being the earliest located in the towns of Frankenberg and Felda.
The Paternal search has produced families going back 20 generations with over 44 surnames along with much information and history of that side of the family.
On the Maternal side with my Mother's maiden name of GOSNELL, I have come up against a stone wall with the GOSNELL namE. I have not been able to get past my ggrandfather CLINTON E. GOSNELL,1830-1908. On the maternal side of my Mother, it has been "unstopable". I have received thousands of names and data on that side of the ancestry with almost daily discoveries. I have considerable information on over 20 surnames with the most recent being: GOSNELL, YEATMAN, SMITH, BENSON, CHILCOAT, ENSOR.
Almost all of my Mother's family came from the England area and settled into the Maryland, Virginia states in the early 1600's.
I listed my home page with a connection to the Panama Canal Zone since our immediate family lived there from the earyl 1930's for the next fifty years. We all were born in Maryland.
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