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My sister got an odd thing from a possible unknown relative on Ancestry.com.

I don't know how that site works-but this lady was extremely closely related to both a line on our paternal line (Norway) and a maternal line (Germany.)

Apparently, her mom went from Norway to Germany in 1945 (of all years). Her mom never told her anything about her dad.

On the surface, it looks like Mom collaborated with the Germans in Norway and fled to Germany as the war wound down.

Was that though a DNA match?

I just finished adding a whole bunch of new DNA relatives from Steele County, Minnesota.

Bob Juch wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 01, 2021 12:19 pm

Was that though a DNA match?

To my knowledge-Yes. Remember, she knows nothing about her father.

Apparently, it was an almost perfect match on both the Norwegian and German lines.

Spock wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 01, 2021 3:16 pm

Bob Juch wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 01, 2021 12:19 pm

Was that though a DNA match?

To my knowledge-Yes. Remember, she knows nothing about her father.

Apparently, it was an almost perfect match on both the Norwegian and German lines.

My mother's Norwegian Benson ancestors came to Crow Wing County, and my father's Etters were Germans who came to Switzerland then Pennsylvania.