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The Baltz family

This page brings together the people recorded with the Baltz surname in the current collection. Their biographies and family connections below are drawn from the sources attached to each profile. The history will grow as additional records are checked.

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Anna Baltz Schmidt

Anna appears as the wife of Earnest Schmidt in the reviewed 1920 Elkhorn household, with daughter Erna Ruth. Her age is recorded as 35 in that census; it is not treated as an exact birth date.

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  1. 1920 census · Earnest Schmidt household · ED 99, sheet 4B Original record Original image checked: Earnest, 39, is head; Anna, 35, is wife; Erna Ruth, 9, is daughter, in Elkhorn, Dodge County. This alone does not verify every birth date or biological relationship.
  2. 1942 draft registration · Ernest Schmidt · Nebraska, box 1276 Original record Original card checked for birth on June 24, 1880, in Dodge County, Nebraska, and self-employment in farming. Mrs. Anna Schmidt is named as a contact; the card does not by itself establish that she is his wife or that he served in the military.
  3. History of Dodge and Washington Counties · 1921 · printed pages 703–704 Read cited record · Open external record Historical biography Original published pages visually checked. Names the younger Ernest’s wife Anna Baltz and their children Erna, Ernest R. and Alberta May; the older generation uses Augusta Miller. A historical biography is not a civil vital certificate.
  4. Who’s Who in Nebraska · 1940 · printed pages 291–292 Read cited record · Open external record Historical transcription NEGenWeb transcription checked; original print not yet inspected. Ernest’s daughter Erna Ruth is explicitly identified as Mrs. Harvey von Seggern. The transcription spells the older parents Ernest Schmidt and August Miller.
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