This was a surprise

[missdiane]

I was poking about on the DNA relatives on Geni.com since there are more folks outside the US and it's interesting to see what non-American relatives that I have. Quick background - my Dad's side goes wayyyyyyyyy back in the US so I don't start seeing direct relatives outside the US for quite a while (I have a 10th great grandfather buried a couple of miles down the road - pre-Revolutionary War). Mom's side is more difficult for me since while I managed to cobble together more of her Dad's side, her Mom's side pretty much hits a wall when you get to my great grandmother and grandfather on her Mom's side. They came over in the early 1900s from somewhere in Czechoslovakia/Hungary area and that's the furthest I can go back.

Anyway, Geni shows me with estimated 4th to 6th living DNA cousins living really far north in Norway and even some near Siberia. I don't have any good tree links, though. I look for distinct non-American names for fun and last night I saw one that sounded Dutch, which it was. She had a good bit of her tree done and was estimated as a 3rd to 5th cousin of some sort.

But the real eye opener for me was when I clicked back to look at her grandfather, Fritz Albert Citroen. I saw that he died in 1943

And then I saw where

Auschwitz.

Whoa. Evidently he was part of the Dutch resistance.

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[threecee]

Had Reference Librarian flashback and found some sites that mention him. Left the info on LJ