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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is going to sound like an odd question. My Mother's family was non-religious for at least 3 generations back into the 1910s. My Mom strongly suspects my Grandfather's mother was Jewish (last name Kramer) and the non-religious decision was basically to eliminate our Jewish identity.

I have absolutely 0 corroboration of this story. But when a major religious event happened in my other family history you heard the story (e.g. husband died Catholic church asked for more tithing so they became protestant).

Thoughts? BS? Weird?

If this were the case, how would you reconnect with the identity?[/quote]

Protestants were stricter on tithing than Catholics so that might have been the story they told everyone.[/quote]

DP. I'm not familiar with the PP's tithing story but I was sitting at my FIL kitchen table when he got a letter from his Catholic Church reminding him to tithe. It was 3 days after MIL's funeral.

My ILs were hard core Catholics. My DH had gone to Catholic schools K-12. FIL spent years as a sacrostan. A priest had been coming to their house weekly for the last 6 months of MIL since she was too infirm to go to church. The callousness of the letter crushed FIL and he stopped going to church.[/quote]

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