08-15-2007, 07:52 AM
If patrilineal descent is used to determine which of the 70 families to which one belongs, then intermarriage between families would be meaningless. If I am to determine my history through my fathers, then indeed I would be 100% German. All the way back to the Teutons, and etc. Intermarriage doesn't affect patrilineal descents, any more than a Jew having a Gentile father would affect his Jewishness.
Brian D. Schuh
Brian D. Schuh