It's my understanding that Jewish ethnicity comes from the mother. The "Maher" name is probably the Irish side. Lynne On 1/7/2016 5:10 PM, mizscarlettny via wrote: > > > Dear Friends, > > Evidently season 3 of "Finding Your Roots," the Henry Louis Gates series, > began Tuesday night on PBS, 8pm NY time. > > Next Tuesday, Jan 12, getcher popcorn ready, folks! > > The 2nd episode titled "The Irish Factor" will focus on Soledad O'Brien, > Bill O'Reilly and Bill Maher (who I always thought was Jewish...hmmm). > > Livin' and learnin'. > > > > Barb > > MizScarlettNY@aol.com > > > *************************************** > Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nywestch/ > *************************************** > Browse or Search the Mailing List Archives of postings sent to this list over the years. Visit > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/usa/NY/westchester.html#NYWESTCH > *************************************** > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message