Family Story Finder

The sweep of family history across the generations

Widow Patty Smith Swett and six children by two husbands were among the first settlers who staked claims in Wapello County near Ottumwa in May 1843

German refugees in the UK, even Jews like Gerhart Feidt, were deemed potential enemy aliens

In December 1937, the Feidt and Lewi family members share a last holiday together

Families from Connecticut settled northeastern Ohio in the early 1800s

Rosa Feidt was the only Lewi sibling who got out, to her everlasting remorse