Do you mean the turn of the 20th century or of the 19th?
As of 2012, researchers have done extensive DNA sequencing studies of both many populations of Jews and of American Indians, with the most advanced technology available. According to these studies, American Indians came from Asian ancestors, not from Israelites, despite the complicated genetics of the Jews.
Moreover, NO ONE with any knowledge of the Early Christian Church, starting with Christ and his Holy Apostles, and continuing on from there, would believe that the True Church of the Apostles was “lost”. It continues in the Holy Orthodox Church, which has maintained an unbroken connection with the Apostles and their successors, the Apostolic Fathers.
The ones who restored the True Church to the North American continent were the Russian missionaries who first came to Alaska, followed by the Orthodox faithful who immigrated here from Eastern Europe. St. Herman of Alaska is the Patron Saint of North America.
If anyone cannot believe the science or the history, he or she can pray to St. Herman to intercede with God to reveal the truth to them. We need no Mormon/LDS “church”, which has been falsified many times over!!!!
Pray for the unity of Christians!
It also continues, the Church, in the west, going back to Christ and the Apostles with the Roman Catholic Church.
Remember that Blessed John Paul II said about the Churches of the east and west being like two “lungs”.