Sources & original files.

Original filename: Ernst-Friedrich-Schmidt-Family-History.pdf

• All seven physical PDF pages are included, with the full handwritten note on page 2. The original download is unchanged; the complete reading copy corrects page orientation without cropping.
• The preface credits Katie Schmidt Treptow and Ernest Schmidt and identifies family recollections as the basis of the narrative. Its historical claims are not all independently verified.
• The handwritten grandparent note is unsigned and undated. It is preserved as a family attribution, not independent relationship evidence.
• Full-page machine OCR is unreviewed. Separate corrected transcriptions of the printed text remain available in the curated records.

Original filename: The-Clarks.pdf

• All 53 physical PDF pages are included, in the supplied order, with handwritten additions and family entries. The original download is unchanged; the complete reading copy rotates pages upright.
• The file begins with a Jesse Marion Mead portrait. The supplied filename and page order are preserved; no claim is made that this is a complete historical edition.
• Page references mean physical PDF pages; printed book pages are separate. Machine OCR can misread names, dates, handwriting and columns, so consult the scans.
• The file contains printed Clark narrative pages 1–84 with inserted pages 15A–15D, letters 1.L–9.L, and Clark index pages iii–vi. The final facing page contains Mead index i. No Clark title page or index i–ii is visible in this file; later Clark index material appears at the end of the separately supplied Mead PDF.

Original filename: The-Meads.pdf

• All 53 physical PDF pages are included, in the supplied order, with handwritten additions and family entries. The original download is unchanged; the complete reading copy rotates pages upright.
• The supplied file begins with an index continuation rather than a title page. Completeness of the historical book and its original order remain unresolved.
• The compiler records uncertain names and alternative family traditions. Machine OCR and similar surnames are not proof of a family relationship; compare every claim with its source.
• The supplied PDF jumps from printed pages 66–67 to 70–71; printed pages 68–69 are absent. The last two PDF pages contain Clark index material. The online reading text follows all supplied pages in their original order.

Original filename: von-Seggern-vs-von-Seggern.docx

• The full supplied main text is included, preserving paragraph and table order. The unchanged Word download retains the original formatting and metadata.
• The case concerns family farming and trucking partnerships. Its presence in the collection does not establish relationships to the website’s family tree.
• The Word file reports six pages in its document metadata; pagination may vary by application. The website presents one continuous text record.

Original filename: Aaron-Barnum-Clark-Tombstone.jpg

• The complete original JPEG is available unchanged. A smaller derivative is used for page display.
• The camera metadata records March 5, 2017, but that timestamp is not independently verified as the photography date. The photographer and cemetery location remain unverified.
• The inscription is weathered. Use the original image to assess uncertain letters and numbers rather than treating a proposed transcription as certain.

Credit: F. J. Bandholtz, c1908. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, pan 6a07459.

Rights: Library of Congress rights advisory: “No known restrictions on publication.”

• The catalogue dates the photograph c1908 and records a July 6, 1908 copyright deposit.
• This is historical place context, not a family photograph or proof that a particular ancestor appears here. The complete panorama is preserved without a speculative reconstruction.

Credit: Internet Archive; contributing institution Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center.

Rights: 1921 U.S. publication; Internet Archive catalogue marks the volume NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT.

• The two displayed pages are excerpts: printed pages 703–704, physical PDF pages 339–340. They are not the complete volume.
• The biography names Anna Baltz and children Erna, Ernest R. and Alberta May. It supplies published relationship evidence, not a civil marriage or birth certificate.
• The biography uses Augusta Miller, while the family booklet uses Muller. Its reported age at her death conflicts with the booklet chronology. The 1849 immigration year also differs from the 1940 account’s 1848. These differences remain unresolved.

Credit: Who’s Who in Nebraska, 1940; transcription hosted by NEGenWeb / USGenNet.

• The online transcription was checked. The original printed pages have not yet been inspected.
• Birth on June 24, 1880, in Dodge County agrees with the original draft card. The entry records marriage to Anna Baltz on September 10, 1908, in Saunders County.
• The transcription spells the parents Ernest Schmidt and August Miller; that source spelling is retained as a research note, not silently corrected.

Credit: Find a Grave memorial 242976721, created by Rodney Carstens; portrait added by MrsB.

Rights: Reuse permission has not been established. The portrait is linked at its source and is not hosted in this archive.

• The portrait and its attribution were visually checked on October 28, 2026.
• The memorial is a community-maintained source. Its family information is not treated as an independently checked vital record.

Credit: Oldenburgische Gesellschaft für Familienkunde e.V. (OGF), Auswanderer-Datenbank.

• Individual person entries are linked in each profile. The compilation is not treated as an original record.
• Relevant registers are held in the Oldenburg church archive and catalogued through Archion for Hatten, Ganderkesee and Dötlingen. Ancestry membership does not itself provide access to those separate archive images.
• Heinrich’s May 1891 death day differs between the owner tree and this compilation; both statements remain documented.

Credit: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1903; digitized copy of the published volume.

• Physical PDF pages 42 and 46 were visually checked. This is a published transcription, not the original handwritten town register.
• Solomon: July 8, 1678 in this publication; August 8, 1678 in The Clarks. Both readings are retained.

Credit: Ancestry.com, Nebraska, Compiled Marriage Index, 1856–1898, 2004; original index compiled by Liahona Research.

• The entry points to Family History Library microfiche 6110914–6110917. The original certificate has not yet been checked.
• Access to the external record may require an Ancestry membership.

Credit: Dodge County, Nebraska marriage register, 1896–1903, printed page 538; digital image in Ancestry’s Nebraska Select County Marriage Records, collection 61335, image 527 of 849.

• The original image was visually inspected on October 28, 2026. The register remains at its source; no Ancestry image has been republished here.
• The license uses Minta Stalling; the certificate uses Meta Stalling. Hooper is handwritten in the certificate; Hooker is an index error.
• Parent-name spelling, including Egbert/Egberg and Fortmann, should be checked against German records.

Credit: Jacek Rużyczka, St. Ansgari Church in Kirchhatten, 2011, via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0.

Rights: CC BY-SA 3.0

• The OGF compiled entries cite Kirchhatten baptism and marriage references. This photograph does not establish a particular person’s presence or the appearance of the church during the 1800s.
• Original downloaded photograph reproduced unchanged. This is not an ancestor portrait or a photograph from the 1800s.

Credit: Frank Poppe, St. Firminus Church in Dötlingen, 2006, via Wikimedia Commons. Public-domain dedication by photographer.

Rights: Public-domain dedication by photographer

• The OGF entries and official Archion catalogue identify Dötlingen parish research targets. This view is place context, not proof of any specific ceremony or ancestor’s presence.
• Original downloaded photograph reproduced unchanged. This is not an ancestor portrait or a photograph from the 1800s.

• The OGF entry dates departure from Bremen to March 13, 1869 and arrival in New York aboard Deutschland to March 29, 1869. It cites the Bremen departure database and Castle Garden entry 5312539.
• The Ancestry record is indexed as Hemhich Seggers, age 25, from Oldenburg. Matching vessel, age and place are a research lead, not a substitute for checking the original name and identity.
• No passenger-list screenshot, ship portrait or later shipwreck image is reproduced here.

Credit: Fremont Tribune, January 8, 1913, page 3; digital image hosted by Newspapers.com.

• The original page was visually inspected on October 28, 2026. Screenshots are retained privately for research; the public website links to the source.
• The report describes a city residence at the time of death, while the family booklet places the death at the Schmidt Place.
• The farm purchase year and price, arrival year and military account conflict with other sources. No unsupported date reconciliation or new child identities are introduced.

Credit: Fremont Herald, January 10, 1913, page 9; digital image hosted by Newspapers.com.

• The original page was visually inspected on October 28, 2026. Screenshots are retained privately for research; the public website links to the source.
• The newspaper prints near Metzingen as the birthplace and gives an 1851 arrival. These details are retained as reported, not silently substituted for the booklet’s spelling or other immigration years.
• Military service and pension stories require an original military or pension record. Similar newspaper accounts are not assumed to be independent sources for every anecdote.

Credit: The Uehling Messenger, December 29, 1932, page 1, “John Von Seggern Dies Following Short Illness”; digital image hosted by Newspapers.com.

• The original page was visually inspected on October 28, 2026. Screenshots are retained privately for research; the public website links to the source.
• The birth date is given as April 23, 1875 on a farm south of Uehling. The tree’s Hooper birthplace wording is preserved in profile notes rather than treated as the same exact place.
• The original county marriage register independently agrees with the obituary’s March 28, 1901 wedding date.
• Harvey is explicitly identified as a son. The daughter is called Mrs. Anderson, and several siblings appear under married names; their full identities have not been inferred from this notice alone.