Thanks for the info Paladin and Gratval. So here goes round 2. Wiki states, "Thus the immediate descendants of all female Jews (even apostates) are still considered to be Jews, as are those of all her female descendants. Even those descendants who are not aware they are Jews, or practice a faith other than Judaism, are technically still Jews, as long as they come from an unbroken female line of descent."
So if I look 20 generations ago, if any of my female ancestors are jewish, all of her female children are jewish (whether they know it or not), and all their female children are jewish, etc.etc. And even though the maternity line may die out in those 20 generations, all you need to start it up again is to have any male descendent to mary a female jew to start it allover again. Again, by my math, that makes pretty much everyone a jew, whether they know it or not (1,048,576 ancestors in the 20th generation is an awful lot, and that's not even going back that far).
2007-02-08
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