Ancestry/Genealogy

She went batshit - the thought that she married a multi-racial man, and has produced multi-racial children has sent her over the brink (she's still not talking to me).

The one daughter of the Canadian 'war hero" in my story, she's also extremely upset about it. This is 2012 people!!

It horrifies me that ANYONE finds any of this to be a "problem".

So here's why I responded to you specifically, tonight I was just contacted by a major genealogist who wants to do extensive research on the Jewish side of my family. He's the President of the US Jewish Genealogy Association or some such organization based in Skokie IL, and wants to get some DNA sampling done, plus find out answers to a couple of other questions, and then present it all at some annual Jewish genealogy conference (who knew they even existed?) I'd be happy to get some tips from him (if you like) about where to go in your own search from him. He wants to play up the "reality show" aspect of the search - what did we know ahead of time, and what was actually a surprise but thinks a "backstage" view of the process of these shows would be interesting. He just wants some "surprises" to unveil himself for his presentation - heh.

When I get closer to actually meeting him, I'd be happy to take your info to this conference and let them rip.