Welcome!  I have established this webpage in order to share what I have learned and collected about the Schroeder and Tumbush family trees with friends and other family members.  Above, you will find links to subpages chronicling the various families included in these family trees.  To get started, click on your surname or your mother's or grandmother's maiden name.  Included are newspaper clippings, photos, U.S. census documents, as well as immigration, Social Security, birth, marriage, and death records.  All attachments are available for download to your personal computer for your records.  If you find that a historical document is too difficult to read, please let me know which one and I will try to post a transcribed version.  Send me an email at emily_kowalski@hotmail.com.

Pages are arranged in chronological order and in outline form, starting with the first ancestor(s) of each family who came to the United States.  Links are provided within every family group to take you to additional pages where ancestors from the maternal lines will be listed.  Direct ancestors are in colored font with stars (**), but brothers and sisters of these individuals are also listed because their documents oftentimes provide important information about their parents (who ARE direct ancestors).

Why no 1890 Census records?  Most of the records of the 1890 Census were destroyed by a fire at the U.S. Commerce Building in 1921.  Whatever papers survived were destroyed as per standard record-keeping procedure in the mid-1930s.