The family's bloodline runs through two threads that meet in 1861: the Schmidt line, crossing from London to Kittery, Maine, and the Dudley line, rooted in York County since before the Revolution. From there it branches further — into the Oswald, Bowland, and Seitzberg lines that married in over the generations that followed. The tree below shows where Schmidt and Dudley meet; each branch has its own page below, and the family's military service is gathered separately on Those Who Served.
Otto and Henrietta's London household, Edward's naval service and emigration, and his descendants in Kittery, Maine — five ancestor records in all.
Open the archiveMary Catherine Dudley's family in York County, Maine — her parents John H. Dudley and Lydia Jane Voudy, and her Dudley siblings.
Open the archiveLydia Jane Voudy's own ancestry, Isles of Shoals and York County, Maine — the confirmed direct line; full source synthesis still to come.
Open the archiveAaron Booker, a Revolutionary War patriot of York County, Maine, and the Booker family that married forward through the Voudy line into the Dudleys.
Open the archiveSarah Varrell's own ancestry, Isles of Shoals and York County, Maine — the confirmed direct line; full source synthesis still to come.
Open the archiveMargaret "Madge" Oswald's family in Hanover, Kansas — a placeholder page, pending dedicated research.
Open the archiveNellie Florence Bowland's family in Tiffin, Ohio — a placeholder page built from the GEDCOM export, pending dedicated research.
Open the archiveMarjorie Irene Schmidt's marriage to Frank William Paton, 1949, Cook County, Illinois — a placeholder page, pending dedicated research.
Open the archiveMarylyn J. Seitzberg's family, traced five generations back to Hamburg, Germany — a placeholder page, pending dedicated research.
Open the archiveThe family's newest branch — reserved for future research. No records appear here yet, out of respect for the privacy of living family members.
Open the archiveMilitary service doesn't respect bloodlines, so it gets its own page rather than being split across each one. It now covers seven confirmed veterans across four wars, from Aaron Booker of the Dudley line in the Revolution through the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World War II — spanning the Schmidt, Dudley, Bowland, and Seitzberg lines.
