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 | Page 2 of Johann Peter Schmidt's Passport.
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 | Page 3 of Johnann Peter Schmidt's Passport
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 | People's Town Hall in Sudlolhne, 1800's
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- Fortmann Johann Heinrich
- Fortmann Johann Heinrich
- Fortmann (Vortmann) Johann Heinrich
- Fortmann [a Kleine] Clemens (I) August Ludwig
- Fortmann [Gross] Heinrich Anton, father of Rev Franz Joseph
- Fortmann [Gross] Heinrich Anton
- Fortmann [Kleine] Johannes Heinrich (a.k.a Henry Ist ) Joseph
- KleineFortmann Anna Maria, (Grandmother of Clemens, Heinrich & Anna Maria}
- KleineFortmann Hermann Heinrich, Proven Kleinefortmann Great Grandfather of Clemens, Heinrich & Anna Maria
- KleineFortmann Katharina Maria (wife of Frans Ludewig Landwehr, (Mother of Clemens & Henry 1st & Anna Maria)
- Landwehr, a.k.a. KleineFortmann Franz Ludewig (Father of Clemens (1) & J. Heinrich), a.k.a. Henry 1st
- Landwehr, a.k.a KleineFortmann Anna Maria Gertrude
- Landwehr, a.k.a. KleineFortmann Anna Maria
- Vortmann aka Kleinevortman [Fortmann] Anna Maria
- Vortmann aka [Gross] [Fortmann] Heinrich
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 | Peter "Pete" Fortmann
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| 185 |
 | Peter Schmidt's Immigration Record
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 | Phillip Fortmann
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 | Port of LeHavre, France 1870
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 | Rev Pastor Bernard Heinrich Topp
St Gertrud's
Lohne Germany
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 | Rockenburger, Germany
The Home of Johann Zender (1814)
This house called Rockenburgerhof. |
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 | Rockenburger, Germany
The Home of Johann Zender, 1814
This house called Rockenburgerhopp. |
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 | Roman Coin showing Governor General Varus
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 | Roman Legionaire, September, 9 CE
This is the infantry soldier of PUBLIUS QUINTILIUS VARUS, Commander of the ROMAN LEGIONS XVII, XVIII, and XIX. |
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| Rosemarie Mollicone Fortman, nee Schneible
Wife of David Alan Fortman
Wife of Donald Mollicone - Her TRUE love, deceased
(At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.) |
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| 194 |
 | Snow covered Shrine in the woods of Sudlohn near the Fortmann Farms
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 | SR 71, United States Air Force, ceiling altitude 85,000+ ft, speed: 2,300 Miles/hour.
Griffis AFB NY. to Suez Canal and return in 8hrs for reconnisance of Isreal's and Egypt's Army positions. |
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 | SR-71 Blackbird........Reconnisance missions to....China....Russia....Iran.....Iraq.......North Korea....Cuba....Afghanistan.....Isreal
Holds world speed and altitude records. |
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 | SR-71 Blackbird.....Throttles up to full afterburner.....airborne: Mach 3
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 | St Anna's Klaus adjacent to Fortmann Farms......miraculous spring waters for healing the eyes from the 1200's.
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 | St Anna's Klaus, 1200's adjacent Fortmann Farms
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 | St Clement Catholic Church, 1843
Church of the Loiselle and Bonnier Families |
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 | St Gertrud Catholic Church, Founded 815-850 by Benedictan Monks from England/Ireland. at Lohne Germany
Kleine Fortmann Church from at least 1400 to 1845
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 | St Gertrud Cemetery, Lohne,Germany
Kleine Fortmann's from 1510, (Meinke Tom Vorde being the oldest known first name), have been buried in this Catholic Cemetery.
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 | St Gertrude's Catholic Church, Lohne Germany
Church of worship of more that 11 Generations of Kleine Fortmann's deating from at least the 1300's
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 | St. Gertrud's Catholic Church, Lohne, Germany, Founded 815-850 by Benedictine Monks from England/Ireand.
The KleineFortman Church for over 538 years.
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 | St.Henry's Catholic Church #3, the East Facade, Ridge & Devon, Chicago, IL. Completed,1905.
Church # 1 was a single-room single-story wooden building built in 1851 by the Prussian Heritage German speaking Catholic Community. An examination of gravestone names confirms this Prussian Heritage. This Church served the growing Catholic Community for 20 years.
Prior to this Church, Catholic Mass and services were celebrated by Fr. Fortmann, a traveling missionary priest, in the 2-story wooden frame home of Peter Schmidt Smith(Jr) at 6816 Ridge Trail, (a sandy Indian Trail leading to Green Bay Trail that went to Milwaukee). This house was about 1 mile North of the Church's location.
Church # 2, a steepled wood Gothic style, was built in 1871, at a cost of $10,000 and utilized until Church #3 was completed in 1905. It served for 34 years.
The Cemetery adjacent to Church #3 was established in 1863. Many of the early German residents rest here. A plot cost $6.00 then. Today the Church charges $1300 for decendents to open a grave on a 144 year old family site if one can overcome the bureaucratic hurdles and legalisns of today's Church.
Burials prior to 1863 were either "on the farm" or in the City Cemetery that is now Lincoln Park. That City cemetery was closed and almost all residents were reinterred to Calvary Cemetery (Catholic) or Rosehill Cemetery if Protestant. It is also apparent that the recording of Children's Burials was not rigorously applied. The accuracy of Children's burials appears to have improved about 1960. Records prior to 1960 and earlier omit many children's burial records since they were probably performed by undertakers without a concern for Cemetery records.
The recording of Adult Burial dates appears accurate since 1863 and correlation with Census data after about 1880 improves.
Current Catholic burial records were moved in 2004 from St Boniface Cemetery to Calvary Cemetery in Evanston, IL.
The original "Books of Record" for funerals, (the accuracy responsibility beng that of Pastors until about 1930), has since been taken over by Archdiocosean Personnel. These original records were of course in German until about 1920 and then a "translation" transpired in the '30's and of course the error factor immediately grew. Finding and obtaining access to a "Book of Original Record" can be a daunting task. The whereabouts of these original records of St. Henry's is at this time an open question.
In about 1928 Cardinal Mundeline gave Church #3 to the Angel Guardian Orphanage. This infuriated the Congregation. The Pastor, Fr. Rittersoph, asked for and received reassignment, stating he could "no longer hold up my head" to his parishoners in light of this heavy handed action.
The parishoners had just finished paying off the mortgage the previous year.
The parishoners were given a small piece of land a block west on Hoyne Ave to construct the current two story fortress style Church. The second floor was the grammar school.
This Church #4, a small stone block building, served as St Henry's Church from 1928 to today. It's parishoners grew but peaked in 1952.
With middle-class flight to the suburbs beginning in the 60's; the parish stagnated in the 80's; declined in the 90's and is currently utilized by a small Catholic Vietnamese Congregation and Pastor. It's school is closed.
The fruits of "multiculturism" in Rogers Park have decimated a once vibrant Catholic Church. A sad ending to a great beginning. |
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 | Stained Glass Windows of Munster Cathederal
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 | Sudlohne Crest
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 | Sudlohne Mill House
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 | The channel seperating Poland and Russia
it was through this channel that on 28 or 29 March 1951 Larry sailed, as a prisoner, aboard the Russian ships OREL or KORSHUN to Baltiysk Naval Base. |
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 | The 1100 AD French City of Laon, birthplace of Jacques Marquette 1st White Man to see Chicago in 1673. Note who the painter was.
Located Northeast of Paris. On the Schmidt route to LeHavre. |
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 | The 1871 Ancestral Home of Peter Schmidt(Jr), (b. 1824)
July, 2001
6836 N Ridge Blvd, Chicago, Illinois
136 Year Old |
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 | The Breit Crest
Banner of the Breit's |
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 | The Catholic Cathederal of Munster Germany.......the second largest in Germany
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 | The Cenotaph (a sepulchral monument erected in memory of a deceased person whose body is elsewhere) of a Roman Officer and his two freedman killed in Sept of the year 9 CE in the Teutoburg Forest, Germany..........
the Translation from Latin:.........To MARCUS CAELIUS, Son of Titus, First Centurion of the XVIII Legion.........Born in the Lemonian District of Bologna, Italy........52 1/2 years old............He fell in the Varian War (in the 4 day battle in the Teutoburg Forest)........His bones may be interred here.........
PUBLIUS CAELIUS, (brother of Marcus,) Son of Titus, erected (this monument.)
............born in June 43 BC this Centurion would have known Julius Caesar.
Officers of the Legions in this battle were either killed in battle or, if captured alive, crucified after being tortured and burned or buried alive. The 3 historians of the time writing of this event record no Officers surviving and while none of the 3 writers was at the battle, the descriptions of one writer clearly indicate he had talked with surviving soldiers.
This is the most impressive archeological find of this War. It was also a pivotal battle in Europe's history since if the Roman army had conquered northern Germany and moved across the Rhine you would probably not be speaking English today but a form of Roman Latin. |
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 | The Fortmann Crest
This Crest describes the "Furt Mann" [river ferry man] origin of the name by displaying a ferry man crossing the low waterlands of Lohne Germany's Great Marshes and Ponds and the shallows of northwestern Germany some 60 miles South of the North Sea and 80 miles west of Berlin. |
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 | The GrossFortman Farm, 1100 Meters NW of the KleineFortmann Farm
Seperated in 1200-1400 by a stream from a spring.
The stream in visible under the line of trees seperating the farms.
The original Furt Mann starting the Fortmann Farm most probably resided here from 1100 to 1200. The village of Loan (Lohne) is first recorded in 890 AD. Prior to 314 AD, the year Roman Emperor Constantine, in Trier, Germany, 120 miles SW of here, declared Christianity the religion of the Empire, Kleine Fortmann Ancestors in the Lohne area belonged to the Germanic Tribe known by the Romans as Cheruscians. They were known for their independence and had destroyed the 17th, 18, and 19th Roman Legion (20,000)men, women and children between 12 and 15 Sep, 9 CE. Christian missionaries converted them around 400-500 AD. And they remained Catholic throughout the Reformation, 1550, initiated by Martin Luther. Again, Independence.
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 | The hand dug medieval stream seperating the Gross & Kleine Fortmann farms.
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 | The interior of the Catholic Cathederal in Munster, Germany
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 | The Kalkriese Narrows ambush point of the Roman Legions XVII, XVIII, and XIX.
This is a reconstruction of the choke point Arminius created between Kalkriese Hill and the Great Bog that clotted the Roman Legions as thousands died upon thousands. |
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 | The Kleine Fortman Farm in Sudlohne, Germany
Eleven Generations of Fortmann's dating from 1510, Meinke Tom Vorde to abt 1844, Clemens Fortmann were raised on this Farm. The farm could have existed as early as 1200.
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 | The Kleine Fortmann Farm Sudlohne, Germany
dating from pre-1300. The Fortmann lineage was born on this farm pre-1300 to at least 1824.
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 | The Kleine Fortmann Haus at Cherry Blossom Time
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 | The Teutoburg Forest Map.......the year: 9 CE
Where the Legions of Roman Commander P. Q. Varus met their end and he committed suicide.
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 | Trier Germany Cathederal
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 | Trier Germany Cathederal
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 | U-Boat Type IX
This is a profile of one of the German U-Boats captured by Soviet troops and used for intelligence purposes in the North Atlantic by Russia. It could range 12,750 Km and attain 6.9 knots underwater and 20.8 Km surfaced. 4.1 miles/hr under water and 12.5 miles/hr surfaced. With a minimum 6 hr window a U-IX could have covered 75 miles to a ditching easily. |
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 | U-Boat, Type IX Surfacing...Sea & Sky conditions of 23 Mar 1951
At the end of WWII Russia captured German U-Boats and employed them for intelligence gathering in the North Sea, North Atlantic, and throughout the oceans of the world as their range was 12,750 Nautical miles. The standard crew complement was 55-63 seaman and officers.
The 105MM deck gun was a very intimidating weapon with its 111 rounds on board. There was little room for extra passengers. These subs were known to operate in pairs and their "Radio" [resupply] ships were also plying the same waters near British Naval Weather Ship 4YJ. Intelligence gathering was the subs mission in the North Atlantic Ocean and the plight of a C-124 in distress would have been a tempting target to explore. This photo is an accurate view of the sky and sea conditions during the day-light hours of 23 Mar 1951. It was into these seas that 0244 ditched successfully. |
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 | U-IX U-Boat next to dock
This is one of the U-IX's captured by Russian forces at it's pen. |
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 | Water Fountain at corner of Fortmann Farm
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 | Wheat field in Lohne
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 | Winter in Sudlohne
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