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From: "Elizabeth V Cardinal" <>
Subject: Schmitt Passenger records
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 09:59:09 -0400

Thank you to all who have sent me passenger records for Franziska and Clara
Schmitt.

I should have said there is no reason to believe either one came with anyone
else. In fact, I am not sure the two women came together. There is little
question that Franziska Schmitt's birth date was on or about 1858. I base
that on her death certificate, census records and the birth certificates of
her children.

Clara Schmitt was born on or about 1855. This is also based on her death
certificate and census records.

Part of what I am trying to do is to prove these two women were sisters and
not just coincidental neighbors as they lived next door to each other in
Greenpoint and my grandmother the daughter of Franziska was born in the home
of Clara Schmitt Stoll.

With all the documentation I have nothing shows Franziska parents names and
on Clara's death certificate it only gives her mothers first name.

Yikes...this is one big brick wall. We have broken through other
ones....and this is the last. If I can prove they were sisters then I will
have ancestry back into the 1700's.

Elizabeth V. Cardinal

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