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Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 10:48, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

The science doesn't actually give quite the kind of account of personal ancestry that you think it does, TFD, (see here) but it's not relevant. Go back far enough and most of us humans share a common ancestor somewhere. American Jews, who sometimes have difficulty establishing their Jewishness when emigrating to Israel, because US records to not register religious affiliation, for instance, cannot invoke genetic testing as a fallback. Descent as it is relevant to this discussion is in any case a sociological phenomenon rather than a biological one. It's about publicly recognized and acknowledged relationships between family members. Not even the racially obsessed Nazis would have been concerned with one single distant manifestly Jewish ancestor unless subsequent descendants expressed this Jewish inheritance in their form of life. It's not just consanguinity that matters, it's how a mother teaches her daughter.