From: E. Blaschke (eblaschke@sprint.ca)
Date: Tue Feb 29 2000 - 19:26:06 PST
----- Original Message ----- From: Monica Drake <erdahl@IDIRECT.COM> >I guess my inquiry is linked to another piece > of information I just learned yesterday, which is that my mother has both > her grandparents Ariernachweis's or Ahnenpass's. Both go back 5 generations. > These documents are very hard to find any information about, but I was told > (I don't know how reliable) that most people had to go back 3 generations > and that the closer you were involved with the SS, the more information you > had provide. I am looking at my own and my parents' Ariernachweis. It is based on the official documentation one provided about one's ancestry. If you furnished documentation for parents and grandparents (as in my family's case) you were given the "kleine Abstammungsnachweis". So it seems to be a shortened version of what might have been available, and while membership in the SS might have required 5 generations, I would be surprised if it was necessary for a membership in the HJ. Offhand I would think that tracing back 5 generations may not have been easy in many families, and perhaps if you were lucky enough you could prove no Jewish blood in 5 generations you would be given the larger edition. This is just speculation on my part. Ernest. > I am wondering if my Guncle's involvement with the HJ is the > reason for the 5 generations.