Hello
Not sure how much information anyone has collected on Smydra - the posts are a bit old. I have some family history/research.
Agnes and Andrew Smedra (Smydra) immigrated from Poland. They had ten children - four girls and six boys. The boys were Joseph, Paul, Thaddeus, Stanley, Frank and Adam. Thaddeus (Ted) was my great-great grandfather. I'm searching for more information on Andrew and Agnes. I've found cemetery records for them at the St. Francis Cemetery near Ashton, NE.
There is some dispute about the last name - I've always known the original spelling to be Smydra - a significant portion of the family changed the spelling to Smedra for phonetic correctness in English. I've never heard that Smidra was related.
Hope you have all the answers by now. Feel free to email me.
Cordially,
Jeremiah Smedra