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This was a surprise
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.
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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