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I can see how you might think that was odd. Did you feel like it intruded on your privacy?

In her defense, however, even non-Mormons usually get excited to discover their roots. Our church leaders often put together pedigree charts for famous visitors. I have heard of complaints when someone of note comes to visit Utah and they don't get their genealogy.

Genealogy is an addictive pursuit. Kind of like solving a puzzle, only with a personal dimension. Someone who's really into it may just assume that everyone else will share their excitement -- even a Jewish Christian.

I meant to ask you, how do you prove your lineage back to Aaron? Are there written records? Oral histories?

" meant to ask you, how do you prove your lineage back to Aaron? Are there written records? Oral histories?"

Well, we have the name, tradition and records, but get the "official" status because my father's father was a prominent teacher back in the day and buried with all the symbols ("Vulcan" hands on the gravestone), etc.

More important to me, all the male cousins were all part of a study showing that the Sephardi Kohanim shared the same "Y" chromosome linkage as the Ashkenazim Kohanim --- basically showing that we all had one common male ancestor, circa 1400 BC. You could probably google "Kohanim Y Chromosome" and get the study.

Now, could that be Aaron or someone else? Who knows!