{"id":33379,"date":"2019-09-27T03:52:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T10:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=33379"},"modified":"2019-09-24T23:41:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T06:41:04","slug":"search-for-biological-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2019\/09\/27\/search-for-biological-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Search for biological father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>(photos from Mark Loudon)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Apart from an ambiguous hint dropped by his mother just after his father died in 1990 \u2013 and subsequently denied \u2013 Mark Loudon, a Brit of Scottish, English and Irish ancestry (so far as he knew), had no idea that the man he grew up with was not his biological father. A DNA test in May 2017 revealed a completely different DNA profile than what he was expecting \u2013 instead of Scottish paternal heritage, it showed an Eastern European Jewish and Spanish one.<\/p>\n<p>With only a third cousin DNA match to a stranger in Chicago and some childhood memories from his aunt, who was only 8 years old when he was born, Loudon set out on a search for closer relatives. This involved not only family history records, but diving into planning records and old photographs for clues. One such photo, shown here, is of Henry Naftali-Hirts Hart and his wife Elizabeth Mendoza.<\/p>\n<p>Loudon will discuss his journey to discover his biological father and its impacts at the next meeting of the Jewish Genealogical Society of British Columbia (<a href=\"http:\/\/jgsbc.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jgsbc.ca<\/a>) on Oct. 1, 7:30 p.m., at the Peretz Centre. All are welcome to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(photos from Mark Loudon) Apart from an ambiguous hint dropped by his mother just after his father died in 1990 \u2013 and subsequently denied \u2013 Mark Loudon, a Brit of Scottish, English and Irish ancestry (so far as he knew), had no idea that the man he grew up with was not his biological father. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1836,4960,4242,9346,9347],"class_list":["post-33379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-dna","tag-genealogy","tag-history","tag-jgsbc","tag-mark-loudon"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}