MediumThinker, before everyone starts excoriating you for daring to mention such a non-PC issue as aprreciating yichus in shidduchim, let me add that this dates back to Avraham Avinu sending his eved, Eliezer, to find him a wife for Yitzchak who was not from Bnos C’naan. Eliezer himself was a C’naani with daughters, and may have found this less than comfortable, but Avraham needed a daughter-in-law from a better family. Of course the individual is what matters, and our history is replete with geirim and ba’alei teshuva who were great people and made outstanding contributions to Yiddishkeit; nonetheless there is nothing wrong with factoring in yichus mishpacha when considering a shidduch.
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