Many people today are searching for their genealogy – I don’t know if this is correct but my assumption is they are searching for an identity; which reminds me of the story of the Maggid (the successor to the Baal Shem Tov) who seeing his mother crying upon their little home going up in flames (as often there was such community fires then) he tried to placate her – “I am not crying about the home” said the mother “rather we had a family tree going all the back to King David which is forever lost” – "don’t worry mom” said the precious child “I will start a new family tree!” – and by searching, learning and teaching the truth he found, he certainly did!