WELCOME
County records suggest you meant to come here. Officially opened to the public on 2 August 2026.
FROM THE DESK OF CROCK O. SCHITT
Amateur Genealogist & Occasional Witness
I don’t claim everything in here happened exactly this way. I merely preserve what folks were willing to swear to.
Official Arms of the House of SCHITT
Museum Status
The Crock O. Schitt Museum & Family Archives is now officially open to the public.
Visitors may now explore the Archives online, follow the Museum on Facebook, or correspond directly with the Archivists through the Museum’s official email.
Website:
crockoschitt.org
Facebook:
Crock O. Schitt Museum & Family Archives
Museum Archives:
archive@crockoschitt.org
County records indicate these Archives preserve the documented history of the Schitt family, neighboring families, civic events, and several incidents the courthouse still prefers not to discuss. While every reasonable effort has been made to preserve the historical record, absolute accuracy has occasionally proven incompatible with weather, goats, and sworn testimony.
“Them County records says we’ve been preservin’ questionable history since 1694.”
Archive Collections
Early Family Fragments — Before 1770
“Scattered family records, partial entries, and surviving fragments of uncertain connection.”
Colonial Schitts – 1770-1849
“Founding families, questionable arrivals, and the earliest documented Schitts.”
Frontier Schitts – 1850-1910
“Westward expansion, homestead records, disputed property lines, and several mule related misunderstandings. ….. believe someone can’t tell the difference tween a mule n’ a goat!”
The Goat Era – 1811-1847
“The period during which goats became unexpectedly influential in county affairs, municipal planning, and at least one election.”
Crock’s Annotated Regrets
“Editorial notes, historical corrections, marginal observations, and personal opinions that probably should’ve remained in the filing cabinet.”
New records continue to surface … float … emerge ……. ‘er just plain show up as additional Schitt family materials are recovered from attics, barns, abandoned taverns, courthouse basements, and places respectable folks generally avoid.
NEWLY RECOVERED
Horace Schitt — Agricultural Mechanization & Experimental Steam Equipment
County records concerning Horace Schitt and his contributions to early agricultural mechanization have recently been added to the Archives.
The surviving account documents an experimental steam-powered manure spreader, a public demonstration, and subsequent disagreement concerning what constitutes an acceptable distribution radius.
Archivist Note:
Names is printed in bold on account o’ this family branches like swamp mangroves. Without the bold print, readers was gettin’ lost, accidentally marryin’ cousins, and blamin’ the author. We fixed what we could.
Explore the Archives
Official Register of the Schitt Family
The principal genealogical record—names, relationships, dates, disputed entries, and enough family branches to make wandering off advisable.
Schitt Family Bible
Selected family-register pages, marriages, handwritten entries, and surviving records preserved from the family Bible.
Back History
Migration, settlement, businesses, local history, and the circumstances by which generations of Schitt arrived where they probably shouldn’t have.
Schitt’s Business
From manure processing to interstate transportation: surviving records of the enterprises that kept Schitt moving.
Annotated Regrets
Artifacts, discoveries, corrections, unexplained objects, Crock’s observations, and several matters the Archives has wisely declined to resolve.
As the Archives have expanded, several collections and reference areas have developed beyond the original archival divisions listed above. Major public holdings are identified below for the convenience of visitors who have not yet become completely lost.
Volunteer Staff
Occasional Witnesses
Amateur Genealogists
Questionable Historians
Recovered Relatives
People Who Swear They Married Into the Family
Goat Wrangler (Vacant)
“Family history ain’t lost. It just wanders off now an’ then. Lucky fer ya, I generally know where ta start lookin’.”
— Cousin Deep
Museum Staff
Acting Chief Archivist – Evelyn Grace
Senior Correspondent & Public Affairs – Cousin Deep
Chief Archivist – Crock O. Schitt
Founder & Museum Director – Richard Riley
“That Evelyn gal keeps askin’ sensible questions. Bless her heart… she still thinks this family’s supposed ta make sense.”
— Cousin Deep
Deep’s Note: Anita has always maintained that other people’s recollections improve with age. Conveniently, so do hers.
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Statement subsequently received from Anita Kay Asse: “Deepa should be careful criticizing people for keeping old secrets. Some of us remember when hers were still new.”
Subsequent Annotation — Anita Kay Asse: Deepa, sweetheart, yours haven’t had enough time yet.