If your last name is
Schmidt, McGee or Feingold, or if you have any information that may aid our search, please help us reunite our family!
Here is some of what we know
about our missing family member, Carl
Walter Schmidt. We hope you'll look around and, if you can help,
please send us an email.
Carl Walter and his older brother,
Richard August. Click the
picture for a close-up of Carl
We are looking for our long-lost
brother and his family. His name today may be Alex, Alexander, or Alec. It
is entirely possible—probable—that his temporary guardian (who he
now likely considers his birth mother) may have given him her maiden name - Feingold.
He was born Carl Walter Schmidt
on February 17, 1935, in Oakland, California. He was to be temporarily
cared for by Bill/William John and Sylvia Bernice (Feingold) McGee of either Oakland or a
nearby town. The arrangement was made during the depression and it was
1-2 years before the family realized that Carl was gone. Sylvia
(probably without Bill) left the area with the never-legally-adopted Carl Walter sometime after
1938-1940.
The last photo was taken
with eldest brother Richard (adopted by friends of the McGees) during a
brief visit before Carl and his temporary guardians disappeared. Richard
recalls addressing his brother as "Alex" or "Alec"
— and not Carl. It now seems a near-sure bet that Carl's
name is now Alex or Alexander Feingold. It also seems likely that either
he or his descendents reside somewhere in or near New York.
Carl has a biological sister who was
raised with two now-deceased brothers, Frank and Robert, by their birth
parents, Carl & Loretta Schmidt in the Oakland Bay Area of
California.
Carl also has two living
brothers: Richard August (now John Richard Tippin of Jackson,
California) and Herman Frederick (now Frederick George Davis of Palermo,
Maine), both of whom were legally adopted out of the family but have
since been reunited.
We must find Carl. We not only have important
medical history to share, we think Carl has a right and deserves to know, as do his two
now-reunited brothers, the true history of his birth family
and early childhood years! Thanks for taking the time to read this!
