Schmidt Family History
- Schmidt Name Meaning
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name from Middle High German smit, German Schmied ‘blacksmith’. The German surname is found in many other parts of Europe, from Slovenia to Sweden.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 7 887 071 Historical Documents with Schmidt on Ancestry
- 4 432 161 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 779 617 Census and Voter Lists
- 351 319 Military Records
- 307 800 Immigration Records
- 2 016 174 Member Trees
Number of Schmidt families
 204 - 405  69 - 203 |
 1 - 68  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Schmidt families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Schmidt census records
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Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
from the New York Passengers List
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The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Schmidt families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival, and destination.
from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Schmidt families immigrated to Canada. You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 CA Census Data
Schmidt census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Schmidt ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
Did the Schmidts fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
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