even more about my germanic kin

ok, so.....my mother had gone off the deep end about the note specifically to her in the email from austria.....first, she was convinced that gertrude must be confused because she made a statement about how all of the schauer family is gone in the same sentence as she reported that her spouse had passed away....and that it could not be so because gertrude was a schauer....and then she went home and called her sister in cleveland, and they decided that gertrude was confused because schauer was her sister's married name, and her sister had a son/family and that the family couldn't be gone...and when i suggested that she might be referring to her spouse's family- mentioned int eh same sentence- all a translated sentence she insisted that if the spouse was somehow related to her sister's husband her sister would have known about it......and then my mother proceeded to say that she and her sister would send a letter to gertrude 'setting her straight'.....wtf?.......we american cousins cannot be sending letters to 90+ year old german/austrian cousins telling them that they don't know their own heritage/family ties as well as we do........thankfully, the eldest will be translating,a nd he will have the sense to leave out the outrageous parts......