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Surnames: Schorr Schmidt Schmitt Spies Lienhard
Classification: Query
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Hello Bill,
I suppose my Louis Schorr is related to yours, in some way, but my Schmitts are not.
Mine are spelled "Schmidt."
According to Helen Bateman, Lou Schorr's grand-daughter in Cresco, Iowa, my Lou
Schorr is the daughter of Fred Schorr and Louisa Schmidt. Helen says Louisa's parents
are Andreas (Andrew) Schmidt and Margaret Spies. Louisa would then be an older sister of
my grandfather Chris Schmidt, and her son, Lou, would be my mother's first-cousin.
(Later, my grandfather Anglicized his name to "Smith.")
I wonder if your Schorrs and Schmitts were Lutheran or Catholic.
Some records, (perhaps Census), say Fred Schorr came from the German state of Bavaria.
However, that would almost certainly not be the REAL Bavaria, down in the mountains around
Munich, but an area in the
Rhineland that had been conquered by the Kingdom of Bavaria.
My e-mail address is glbaker50613(a)yahoo.com, if you want to correspond further. As I
said, I think we must be related, through the Schorrs.