Few things in genealogy compare to looking at the photo of an ancestor for the first time - being able to put a face to a name as well as look for a family resemblance.
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Peter Bernd
Royden and Clara Schmid Butterfield
Royden and Minna Mader Butterfield with Royden and Beatrice
William Butterfield's grandfather John Butterfield, who left England in 1832.
Gustave and Anna Bernd Schmid
Conrad and Magdalena Jόlg Schmid
Andreas and Marianna Betsch Jόlg
George and Kathryn Madden Meyer
Otto and Anna Winters Meyer
William and Rosa Seiler Meyer
William and Elizabeth Murphy Madden
Couples (from left to right): John Madden and Emma McCarthy Madden, William and Elizabeth Murphy Madden, Andy Murphy and Kate Coyle Murphy
Bridget Cuddihy Madden
Thomas Madden
Mary Ann Cunningham Murphy
Valentine and Karolina Schroer Ulrich and their family
Other photos:
My grandfather Royden's delivery truck
My grandfather George's racecar
My great-grandfather Gustave's office at Schmid Food Products
William Butterfield in front of his blacksmith's shop in Winchester, Illinois with son Royden next to him.
A Madden-Murphy reunion around 1911
The Evangelical Church in Glan-Mόnchweiler, Germany, where my Bernds and Schroers were Christened and later married
A portrait of Karolina Schroer Ulrich, probably drawn by my great-uncle Rudolph Valentine Schmid
Valentine Ulrich, Karolina's husband
