Reply To: Non-Jewish Baalei Teshuvas

When a kiruv person helps someone become frum, they often do not know the lineage or familial background of the non-Orthodox person. Often the person himself, at best, only vaguely knows his own Jewish yichus. Or whether there were any Reform/Conservative conversions on his or her maternal side or whether his own Jewishness hinged upon a paternal-only basis at some point in his lineage. Or whether any of his parents/grandparents/great-grandparents had a previous (potentially halachic/Orthodox) marriage that they never got an Orthodox Get for before remarrying under the auspices of the Reform or Conservative movement.