Having grown up in a culturally Chinese family, musician Jack Ho believed he was pure Chinese, many comments about his late grandfather looked Eurasian. It was not until his Grandmother’s funeral a few years back where he got involved in many family conversations with extended and distant relatives that he started wondering about his lineage. Everyone kept talking about how his grandfather and grandaunt might have had a mixedrace mother who hailed from Indonesia when it was a Dutch colony…

Yet, he found it strange that no one has ever acknowledged or confirmed if they have Caucasian ancestry. Was there a reason for their lack of certainty? Jack wants to find out once and for all if his family has Caucasian ancestry and if so, why it was never acknowledged. Who might this Caucasian ancestor be? And how far up the line would he have to go in his search?

00:00 Introduction: Who's Jack and what are his family mysteries?
01:16 Do my grandparents look Chinese or Eurasian?
04:01 Mapping out my family tree with my cousin
10:17 Why didn't my dad ever ask his father about our family history?
14:65 Consulting a history professor
16:34 Mixed marriages were illegal before 1898
19:31 What will our DNA test reveal?

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