Schreckengast Family

This is a brief history of the Schreckengast Family from Jeremiah Schreckengast in the 1630s up until 2007. It is not a genealogical study per se but a narrative of one family line. In Germany, the Schreckengasts changed the spelling of their name to Schreckegast once Wittgenstein was annexed by Prussia in the early-19th Century. In America, the many branches changed the spelling of the name to Schreckengost, Schrecengost, Shreckengast, Schrecongost, etc. Either way, every Schreckengast traces his or her lineage through Jeremiah Schreckengast of Reitzenhaus, Wingeshausen, Wittgenstein, Germany.