November 6, 2006

• My Ancestry

  I discovered the most wonderful thing today! Apparently my family had done some geneological research and discovered that I have Jewish blood on my Father’s side! I am a gentile no longer!

  Considering that I have long believed that, based on the Irish heritage from my Dad’s whole side, Russian and Scottish from my Mom’s side… well, it was clear to me I was pretty much a gentile through and through. In fact, most of my heritage was probably from the Vikings and Celts- at best, maybe some Roman somewhere in there along the line. But to find out I have some Jewish blood in me is very exciting. My Grandmother- who, being from the deep south apparently (I must admit, shamefully) has some prejudice in her- was horrified. It is on her side, too, apparently- her grandfather or something like that wanted to marry a girl and leave Kentucky, but she would only go if her sister came along. Well, that was a mistake, because he ended up having children out of wedlock with her sister- and she was a half sister at that, with a full blooded Jewish parent as best I can gather. My ‘line’ is descended from the product of their children. My Mammaw was about to have a heart attack it sounds like, from what my sister said. Not only was she Jewish, but it was out of wedlock too.

  A Jew in Part
  

  It’s exciting, because of course as a believer in Jesus Christ I also believed until now that even though I was adopted into God’s family, I still really had no part of the original ‘chosen people’. Of course, many Jews would say I’m far, far, far too removed to really think it a big deal. But it says to me that somehow, somewhere, I have a connection that might lead all the way back to Israel and the ten tribes. That’s a pretty cool thought, for someone whose always considered themselves purely a gentile- to read about those things and think “that’s really cool, but all those promises to the Jews as a people aren’t directly connected to me”. Now, I can feel a special link to it. I am quite proud!

  
  

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