Posted By:	Gregory Thompson
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	Subject:	Re: "Albert Heymanse Roosa the Jew" theory
	Post Date:	June 29, 2003 at 12:56:43
	Message URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/roosa/messages/289.html
	Forum:	Roosa Family Genealogy Forum
	Forum URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/roosa/

here is a p.s. to that which I posted to you yesterday regards the DNA testing you had done. Again, I caution you regards DNA "totally" refuting a Jewish connection. In addition too the Native American anology I used yesterday, I found this in my files which is a CAVEAT using DNA-testing to prove or disprove one having "Jewish DNA". The following is a portion of the notes I took regards JUDAISM at Religious Diversity Training on 2/21/2001 the presenter was Rabbi Berry Marks from the CONSERVATIVE JEWISH Synagogue in Springfield, Illinois: "JEWS are NOT a race. Are DIVERSE & SCATTERED with VARIED PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS look just like people in populations where they live. RATHER, JEWS follow A CERTAIN WAY OF LIFE which has been handed down over through generation after generation. NOR is JUDAISM a RELIGION. Rather, JEWS/JUDAISM have a common history & a common destiny." THIS CAVEAT--so much for any DNA-testing "totalLy" refuting a JEWISH-connection. --Respectfully, Gregory Thompson, descendant of ALBERT HEYMANSE(N) ROOSA THE JEW