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• Bruno Strauss, 1926, USA
• Randy Strauss, 1957, USA

Bruno and Mannie graduated from Stuyvesant High School in NYC in 1944 and then served in the Navy from 1944 to 1946. Then Bruno attended Columbia University. He graduated in 1951 with both a BSEE (Electronics) and an MSEE (specialty: servomechanisms), and then married his best friend's sister, Inge.

The mid-June night after they married, Bruno and Inge boarded a train to Seattle, where Bruno had a job waiting at Boeing. In 1956, the first of 4 sons was born. In 1962 they had a home built in the View Ridge area and moved in.

Bruno worked briefly at Boeing then for many years at Eldec where he worked his way up to President just before retiring. Inge volunteered with the PTA, then for school desegregation groups, and was a central member of CQIE, Coalition for Quality Integrated Education. She also helped ensure the Sand Point Naval Base became a valuable multi-use site for Seattle instead of a private airport.

In 2005 Bruno & Inge sold their View Ridge home and moved into an apartment on 65th Street near Greenlake. Bruno died on January 8, 2018. In 2019, Inge moved into the Ida Culver home in NW Seattle, where she still lives (2020).

Paternal geneology of this Strauss family.
All through Bruno were born in/around Grosskrotzenburg, Germany.
   1755 Lob Strauss + Lia Lena
   -   1788 Mayer Strauss + Braunle Herzbach
   -   -   1818 Josel Strauss + Hannchen Schwarzschild
   -   -   -   1858 Bernhard Strauss + Jette Eisenmann
   -   -   -   -   1888 Moritz Strauss + Johanna Goldschmidt
   -   -   -   -   -   1926 Bruno Strauss (Seattle, Wa)
   -   -   -   -   -   -   1956 Robert Strauss + 3 sons (Seattle, Wa)
   -   -   -   -   -   -   1957 Randolph Strauss + 2 sons (Mtn View, Ca)
   -   -   -   -   -   -   1961 William Strauss + 2 daughters (Ithaca, NY)
   -   -   -   -   -   -   1963 Michael Strauss + 1 son (Winthrop, Wa)

A sketch of Randy's lineage:
(If you recognize a name below, search on this page to see if I added more about their children).

Great-great-GP shared by 3rd cousins	Great-GP shared by 2nd cousins	Grandparents shared by 1st cousins	Parents
Josel Strauss 1818	Bernhard Strauss 1858	Moritz Strauss 1888	Bruno Strauss 1926
Hannchen Schwarzschild 1821
??? Eisenmann	Jette Eisenmann 1858
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??? Goldschmidt	Aaron Goldschmidt 1850?	Johanna GoldSchmidt 1890
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??? ???	Lenehanna ??? 1878?
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??? Laband	Max Laband 1863	Herbert Laband 1902	Inge Strauss 1930
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??? Jacobwitz	Emma Jacobwitz 1863?
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Selig Cohen 1848?	Leopold Cohen 1875	Dina Cohen 1904
Rosetta Ballin 1849?
Moses Wetzler 1848	Betti Wetzler 1878?
Jeanette HeidelBurger 1850

Betti Cohen was the daughter of Moses Wetzler and Jeanette Heidelburger
Max Laband had a sister Rosa and one or two brothers.

Maternal geneology of Inge (Laband) Strauss, 1929, born in Breslau Germany, brother Manfred
  Dina Cohen, born 1904 Sep 8 in Kronach, Germany
    - Leopold Cohen was Dina's father, 1875 Jun 3, in Aurich, Preussen (Prussia), had a sister Herta
    -   - Selig Cohen was Leopold's father (maybe born around 1848)
    -   - Rosetta (Ballin) Cohen was Leopold's mother
    - Betti (Wetzler) Cohen was Dina's mother, born in Binswangen Germany
    -   - Moses Wetzler was Betti's father, born 1848 Jan 1 in Welbhausen, Germany
    -   - Jeanette (Heidelburger) Wetzler was Betti's mother, born 1850 Dec 8 in Altenkundstadt, Germany
    -   -   had kids: Salomon, Ida, Arnold, Betti, Emma, Siegfried, Zilly, Max, Ketchen, Hannchen, Leo
    -   -   - Salomon Heidelburger was Jeanette's father
    -   -   - Hanna (???) Heidelburger was Jeanette's mother

  Herbert Laband, born 1902 Feb 24 in Antonienhutte, Kattowitze, + siblings: Manfred, Georg, Frieda, Kurt, maria, Else, Selma
    - Max Laband was Herbert's father, born 1863 Jun 3 in Laurehutte, Germany + siblings Rika, Rosa and 1 or 2 unknown borthers
    - Emma (Jacobwitz) Laband was Herbert's mother, with siblings Johanna, Georg and Eugen

See a photo of Herbert & Dina and her mom and grandmother

DNA

On my mother's side: About .3% of 23andMe customers, 1 in 360, share my maternal Haplogroup N1b2, which is shared by nearly 10% of Ashkenazi Jews. This goes back to a woman who lived approximately 2,000 years ago, likely in the Levant.

On my father's side, my paternal haplogroup is much rarer- fewer than 1 in 300,000 23andMe customers share R-M173 which is estimated to date back 33,000 years. It branched into R1-M173 and R2-M479. The former is one of the most widespread lineages in the world.

Of course, like everyone else, my maternal line traces back to a woman who lived in easter Africa 150,000 to 200,000 years ago. And our paternal lines trace back over 275,000 years to the common ancestor of haplogroup A.

I have slightly more Neanderthal variants than the average- in the 56th percentile of 23andMe customers. It makes up about 2% of my DNA. I have one variant associated with having a worse sense of direction, but I have a pretty good sense. Or maybe I don't, and instead I tend to be able to figure it out quickly. These things aren't very well defined...

Plus one variant is associated with being less likely to fear heights. That was true with small heights, like trees and rooftops and roller coasters. But huge heights are not for me. Jumping out of a plane at 10,000 feet was very difficult...

Having extensively studied ego, both the concept and my own, I notice on the one hand, my brain wants to highlight the rarity of the paternal haplogroup- to make me special. On the other, it notices that a widespread haplogroup means that group was very successful. While certainty is elusive, this seems to imply I'm human...