Say like you have a great great great uncle Wilfred who married a jewish girl!. and you can trace your ancestors clear back to Abraham!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: First, the Bible only has 2 genealogical records, both are found in the new testament!. All other records have been long destroyed!. Unless what you have you can directly trace, with a legitimate paper trail, to one of those 2 records, you cannot claim biblical ancestry!. Second, you are not related to or a descendant of a great-great-great-uncle's wife's ancestors!. You MUST be a direct ancestor yourself!.!.!.!.not by association or marriage, to claim the heritage!. Yes, fudging is cheating!. Anything that is less than honest, a spin of the truth, or omission of facts is lying and cheating!.Www@QuestionHome@Com If you could trace your 3rd great uncles wife back to Abraham, it would be her bloodline, not yours!. The only way you claim to be a direct descendant from Abraham, is to prove she (or someone else) is related to you by blood and descends from Abraham!. Listing her genealogy on your tree is not cheating or fudging!. Any amateur or professional genealogist will be able to distinguish between the ancestral (related by birth/blood) lines and collateral (related to by marriage) lines, just by looking at the tree!. I hope your not using info obtained from "The Book of Adam"!. The only thing it's good for is to start a fire in the fireplace!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I have a case or two like this in my own line!. The only people who are even part ethnically "Jewish" in this whole discussion are your distant cousins who came from the original marriage of Uncle Wilfred and his nice Jewish girl friend!. You don't come into the picture anywhere because as far as I can tell you do not have even one Jewish ancestor!. Today, a Jew must have been born of a Jewish mother to qualify as a Jew!. A Jewish man and a gentile woman have a gentile child!.Www@QuestionHome@Com O!.K!., for sake of argument you can do that!. What is the problem!? It probably is not accurate, but if you have found a trail that leads back to Abraham, go with it!. Just be careful whom you tell it to!. And, don't make up anything!. That would be fudging!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Why do you need to fudge anything - I don't know if this question makes sense!.!.!. and yes it would be cheating to fudge!. And I would find it hard to believe you could track your ancestry back to Abraham!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The Jewish girl he married wouldn't be one of your ancestors, would she!? Her descendents are related to you, but her ancestors aren't!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Any genealogy that goes back that far could not have documentation necessary to be accepted by any professional genealogist!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The only reason it would be ok to fudge we be if you could not find any traces of either family member, other wise yes it is cheating!.Www@QuestionHome@Com You usually can't but good luck trying to trace it back to Abraham!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I dont understand the question; I am into genealogy though Www@QuestionHome@Com |