Family Home Evening Post

For FHE tonight Alex and I are adding a post to my blog.  The idea of blogging my genealogy was to present in an organized fashion the information about my ancestors in such a way that my posterity can read and follow my research.  During the last several months of 2012 I was hit hard with the genealogy bug.  I had to find the next generation back!   I still have leads that have yet to come in and plans to further explain my research that I will follow up with in this blog.

So tonight I will transfer a bit of information about my Smith Family History that I self-published in December 2012 and share it here.  I will start with a post I made on June 14, 2012 at http://www.myfamily.com/group/john_smith.   It was the beginnings of a series of discoveries.

Michael Schertz connection

When I did a Google search for John Felter Smith the following site was one that comes up: http://freepages.gen­ealogy.rootsweb.ances­try.com/~wallner/sche­rtz.htm

On the second generation it mentions: "Michael, one of Michael and Eva's four sons, was born in Germany about 1679 and came with his family when he was about 30 years old. A month before his father's death he married on 2 February 1711 "Maria Elisabeth Stierin" at the Hackensack NJ Reform Dutch Church. Maria Elisabeth was the daughter of Jost Stier, who was also on the NY Subsistence List, and was the widow of Johann Friedrick Schmitt who she had married at Gundersheim, Germany, on 20 February 1705; from this marriage she had one son John Felter Schmidt."

Down in a following paragraph it states that in Michael's will: "Michael also provided 10 Pounds for his wife's son John Felter Schmidt, then living in Pequannock Township, Morris County, and known as Faltus Smith."

The birth year for this John Felter Smith would be in the neighborhood of between 1705 and 1710.

Any connection?