White Anglo Saxon Crypto Jews

One of the really cool things about ancestry DNA testing is people are discovering all kinds of things about themselves they did not know. 

I have dealt with so many hardcore white Anglo-Saxon Protestant Americans, I mean card carrying members of the Daughters of the American Revolution,  who are shocked to discover they have Hidden Jewish Identity. I mean really shocked. Not that they are upset by discovering they have a Jewish ancestry, they are just surprised. 

Part of my family are very much Daughters of the American Revolution members. Indeed, one ancestor was actually born on the Mayflower in the Boston Harbor, Peregrine White. These relatives really perceive themselves as colonial American Protestants. And they have been really surprised to discover there is a bit more to their history than they knew. 

All I can say is the colonies were a great place for Jewish Ancestry to become hidden. People came, they became whatever they wanted to become, and left their past in the past. It stayed a hidden past until ancestry DNA testing become cheap and readily available. 

This topic deserves a lot of attention. In the article below, you will find a paper that describes how much religious chopping and changing happened between the 16th and the 18th, in Europe and in the American colonies. If you think you are run of the mill American protestant, and you discover you have Jewish ancestry, read the article below and you will find out how that could be the case!