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Lying, Slander, and the Christian Duty to Tell the Truth

Welcome to another installment of Fighting for the Faith. My name is Chris Rosebro. I am your servant in Jesus Christ. This is the program that compares what people are saying in the name of God to the Word of God.

Now, unfortunately today, we've got to do another James A. Prash, Jr. That's his real name update. And unfortunately, we're gonna have to do this in two parts as well. If you are not aware, James A. Prash, Jr., that's his real name, last week put out a three-hour long video attacking me.

Which, by the way, I knew he would do that before I ever began critiquing him. In fact, knowing that he would do that is going to be part of tomorrow's or the next installment of Fighting for the Faith.

Hopefully we can get it done tomorrow. But the next installment of Fighting for the Faith, let's talk about that one first. The name of that episode is going to be James Prash defeats an army of 666 strawmen.

Because that's what he did. He misrepresented what I believe. He lied about, he slandered me, Justin Peters, and others. And the things that he said in his own defense, he didn't even rightly address the actual charges that people are bringing.

All of that being said, there is some concern by people out there, and I want you to understand, I understand the concern. And the question is, Chris, why are you doing this? Because to some, it looks like this is a personal vendetta, or that I'm angry, or that I'm lashing out, or as one person accused me of, I'm white knighting for other people, and nothing could be further from the truth.

The reality is this, is yes, I've come under attack by James Prash in the past, as well as Joshua Chavez in the past, and you know, you just, you know, you either ignore it or move on. But what I did notice a while back is that there are a growing number of people who are listening to James Prash and Joshua Chavez, and are thinking that their slander is truth.

And that's the problem, is that they believe their slander is truth. You go, how do you know it's slander? Because I know who I am, and I know what I've done, and I know when I'm being slandered. And so the reason why I'm doing this is really for their sake.

Let me explain. I know that might seem kind of counterintuitive, but the reality is this, is that Scripture is clear, that sin is slavery. And when you are lying and slandering and acting in hatred and malice, yes, you are hurting other people, but you're also endangering yourself, and you're hurting yourself.

Lying is something that universally is considered to be wrong. It doesn't matter if you're a Christian, it doesn't matter if you're a Jew or a Muslim, lying is sinful. Deceiving other people or slandering them maliciously is considered wrong.

It's considered a sin. And so you're gonna note then, the truth itself is worth fighting for, but it's also worth fighting the person who's slandering for their own sake so that they can be set free from these sins.

Let me explain it to you biblically first. In fact, let me pull my Bible up, and we'll start here. A couple of passages. We'll start in the book of Proverbs. Proverbs 6, 16 says this, Yeah, a lying tongue is one of the things that God hates.

This is exactly what James Prash and Joshua Chavez do. They bear false witness against people, and if you don't believe me, just look at the latest video by Justin Peters, where he answers, and his Board of Accountability answer, this, this is the exact same thing.

The false charges that were leveled by Joshua Chavez, that, that Justin Peters was hiding emails regarding Doreen Virtue, it's not true. It's now been proven to be a lie, and the one who was lying wasn't Justin Peters, it was Joshua Chavez.

And Joshua Chavez has made a career out of slandering people who are preaching the truth and preaching the gospel, defending the faith. He is a slanderer, and so is James Prash. But it goes a little bit deeper with James Prash, and I'll explain that in a minute.

Scripture, Jesus tells us that the, kind of like, the native language of the devil is lies. As Christians, we should not be speaking this language, where we cannot employ the language of the devil, the native tongue of the devil, in the defense of the truth.

Jesus says to the Pharisees, you are of your father the devil, your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning. He doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him.

When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar, and he's the father of lies. Scripture cannot be defended with lies. And when you are slandering and maligning people, or telling falsehoods regarding yourself, yeah, you're speaking the language of the devil, not of Christ or of the Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 4, 30 says, do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Because we have the Holy Spirit dwelling in us, let all bitterness, wrath, and anger, and clamor, and slander be put away.

Let it be put away from you, along with malice. Slander and malice go hand in hand. Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you. So, I want to make this clear up front.

I don't bear a grudge against James Prash, who's slandered me horribly, recently. In fact, I'll let him know right now. I forgive him. I forgive you, James Prash, for lying about me, and misrepresenting my theology.

I forgive you. And my prayer for you, and my prayer for you for a while, has been that you yourself would be set free from slavery to lies. And I assure you, the peace that you want in your life, you can find it.

But you first have to confess your sin. Confess your lies, your deceit, your false narrative about your ancestry, and be forgiven. Christ has bled and died for all of these sins. So, you'll know, I bear you no ill will.

In fact, the reason I'm doing this is for you, not because I'm against you. I am for you. I want you to be forgiven. I want you to have the freedom of the forgiveness of sins, and I do not want you to suffer the consequences of your lies.

I don't. I don't desire that for you at all. And that's going to require you to own up. And so, today's video is going to be a hard push for you to tell the truth. And you'll see that in a minute. So, be tender-hearted and kind towards one another, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.

Colossians 3 says you must put away all anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Don't lie to one another, seeing that you have put off your old self with its practices, and you've put on the new.

It is not appropriate for Christians to operate in malice and slander. We are to put these off. These are not the fruit of the Spirit. These are the fruit of the flesh. And so, Peter, in his epistle, says put away all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.

And so, you'll note, part of standing up for true religion, for the truth of Scripture, is to stand against slander. It's to stand against lies and those who are telling them. In fact, I would say it takes a little bit more discernment when it comes to addressing people who are slandering, and a lot more factual information, because it's not necessarily a case of comparing biblical texts.

It goes a little bit deeper than that. So, that's the heart and soul as to why I'm doing what I'm doing. So, defending the Christian faith against error includes the sin of slander and misrepresenting yourself.

Mike Warnke and the Consequences of a False Testimony

Now, all of that being said, I'm going to remind you about a little bit of Christian history that maybe some of you have never heard, or you may have forgotten. This is Mike Warnke. So, when I was in Nazarene, when I was an evangelical attending Maranatha, Maranatha Christian School in Sierra Madre, California, living in Arcadia, California.

Well, you know, I went to the Christian bookstores, and with regularity, aside from my copies of Petra albums and things like that, I had some Mike Warnke albums, and I thought they were hilarious. And this guy's past, his testimony, is a major reason why he had the credibility that he had.

This guy sold millions of albums. Millions. And his testimony was that he was a satanic high priest, and, you know, he had a whole stand-up comedy shtick regarding that. But as it turns out, it wasn't true.

It wasn't true at all. In fact, back in the day, in 1992, Cornerstone Magazine wrote an article called, Selling Satan, the Tragic History of Mike Warnke. And this also plays into why I'm doing what I'm doing.

My, two of my apologetic mentors were Bob and Gretchen Pazentino, who worked very closely with Walter Martin. And they worked behind the scenes for this particular article for several years. And while they were working on it, I was aware of what they were working on, because we would talk about it from time to time.

And so I knew where this was going long before the article was ever published. But the name of it, it's Selling Satan, and I want you to listen to, like, the opening paragraphs of this. This is the story of a well-known comedian, evangelist, and professed ex-Satanist Mike Warnke.

Known as America's number one Christian comedian, Mike Warnke has sold in excess of 1 million records. June 29th, 1988, was declared Mike Warnke Day by the governor of Tennessee. The Satan seller has, according to its author, sold 3 million copies in 20 years.

And his 1991 Schemes of Satan quickly climbed the bestseller list. Mike Warnke's press material includes credits for appearances on The 700 Club, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, Focus on the Family, ABC's 2020.

Mike has won numerous awards from the recording industry, including the 1992 Grady Nutt Humor Award. He continues to perform 200 live shows a year. He is truly a figure of national prominence. Now, I want to make something clear, that what's going to follow next doesn't take away from the fact that Mike Warnke did preach the gospel.

He did. You would hear him preach the gospel. The problem is, is that his credibility was based upon a lie. And so it doesn't take away any of the good that he did. It doesn't. But the problem is, is that lies are not tolerated within the body of Christ.

So here's what it goes on to say. Mike Warnke's ministry and public profile are based on the story he tells of his previous involvement with Satanism. As written in The Satan Cellar, the story goes like this.

A young orphan boy raised in foster homes, drifted from whatever family and friends he had to join a secret, all-powerful satanic cult. First, he descended into the hell of drug addiction. Then he ascended the satanic ranks to the position of high priest with 1 ,500 followers in three cities.

He had unlimited wealth and power at his disposal, provided by members of Satanism's highest echelon, the Illuminati. And then he converted to Christ. But here's a problem. That whole story is totally fabricated.

That's not the truth of his past. And so this then goes on to document how his entire story, which gave him the credibility, made it so he can sell all these millions and bazillions of things, the whole thing was a lie.

And as a result of this article, Mike Warnke's career came crashing down. And so I'm gonna note here that this was a necessary thing to do at the time, and what I'm about to do right now is as necessary as pointing out that Mike Warnke's past, that he fabricated, wasn't his past.

In fact, I would say that Mike Warnke and James Aleutius Prash, Jr., that's his real name. There's some similarities here. And I want to make something clear, that I'm not denying that James Prash has done some good and has benefited people and ministered to them when he's taught the truth.

He has. In fact, I'm gonna note this, that James Prash has boldly spoken out against false teachers when many were silent, and that he should have credit for. But the problem is, is that it's time for the lies that he's telling about his past to come to an end, and because the lies that he's telling about his past are giving him credibility, that he's then using to lie about people today, including myself and others.

And that's got to come to an end. Lies cannot be tolerated within Christianity. And so it's in that spirit. This is why I'm doing what I'm doing, and you need to know that, because people out there claiming, oh, this is a vendetta.

Oh, why are you doing this? The reason is because the truth matters. And it's the same reason that motivated these people to expose Mike Warnke's false background. Those same reasons make it so that I'm required to do what it is I'm about to do.

Public Records and the Paternal Ancestry of James A. Prash, Jr.

So let me put this, hang on a second here, I'm going to put this down here, and we are going to be spending some time doing some genetic research. And what I'm going to do here is I'm going to pull this document up, and I'm going to put this over here.

This should self-correct. There we go. So here's what we're going to focus on today, and it's some tedious research, but it needs to be put out there. The question on the table is what the documents show regarding the paternal ancestry of James A. Prash, Jr.

That's his real name. A stands for Aleutius, and I'll explain that in a minute. So I want to talk about what we're going to do here, and I'm going to note this. All the documents that I'm going to show you are publicly available.

No private information has been accessed or shared, none whatsoever. And this is not doxing. So if anyone says, Chris Roseborough doxed James Prash, that's a lie. I have not, this is not doxing. I'm not telling you where he lives, I'm not telling you to go out and order him pizzas or any nonsense like that.

This is me just walking through the public information, and I'm going to show you my methodology on how I did what I did, and then we'll consider then the implications regarding the claims from James Prash that he is 50 Jewish, half Jewish on his father's side.

So that being the case, let me talk about methodology. When it comes to this kind of research, documents matter. They absolutely matter. So here's my starting point. In research of this type, you need a firm anchor point, and you need to know who James Prash's parents are, with absolute certainty.

There can be no ambiguity. There cannot even be a question of, I'm not sure if these are his parents. Okay? So exhibit number one, and where we're going to begin, we're going to begin with the obituary of Maureen Prash.

This is James Prash's mother. This obituary can be publicly accessed at Legacy .com. Now that being the case, I want to make something clear. We are going to blur the photograph of her out of respect for James Prash's siblings and other family members.

So you need to know that. But all of that being said, one of the things I was able to do was able to confirm that the obituary that I'm going to read to you, that a former employee of Moiriel and one of James Prash's siblings have confirmed that this is, in fact, the obituary of James Jacob Prash.

This is his mother. Okay? So all of that being said, let's take a look at the documents. We're going to walk through these, and we're going to see what the documents really show. Now, real quick, because I need to go over, let's see here.

There we go. This is the obituary of Maureen Prash, and I want to read part of it out so that you can see what it is that this document says. There's very important information here that we can then use for further searching and fact-checking the paternity of James Prash.

All right? So Maureen A. Prash, Nii Connors, she was 86 when she passed away on April 28th, 2018. This took place in 2018. All right? She was born and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. That's going to be an important data point we'll take a look at later, and she also liked to travel the world.

For a living, she was a retired scheduler for the New York and New Jersey Port Authority. She lived very close to New York City. She loved New York City, spent much of her free time there enjoying it.

Patriotic American who bore a deep love for her Irish heritage, and you'll note that James Prash acknowledges that his mother is Irish Catholic, and she was. She traveled to Ireland many times, was an avid fan of its music, dance, and literary culture, and she is the beloved mother of James A. Prash, and pay attention to this part, Jr.

James A. Prash, Jr. So this obituary tells me James Prash's father's name as well, inadvertently, but it does. Now, you'll note then that she's the grandmother of Beth Miel and Eli Prash. Those are James Jacob, and I'm putting that in air quotes, James Jacob Prash's children.

That's what their names are, Beth Miel and Eli Prash. Those are their names. So we now know some important information, and we've gleaned it from a public document, and we know the name of James Prash's mother.

It's Maureen. We know the name of his father. His father's name is James A. Prash, Sr. That's how Sr. Jr. works, and we're looking for Maureen and James Prash, Sr. in Bayonville, New Jersey. That's where we're looking for them.

Okay, so let's go back to my document, and I have confirmation from both an ex-Mauriel employee as well as one of Mr. Prash's siblings that that is indeed James Prash's mother's obituary. This is undeniable.

Okay, so like I said, we've noted that this obituary identifies that Mr. Prash's name is James A. Prash, Jr. His father's name is James A. Prash, Sr., and we're looking for Maureen Prash and James Prash together, and that they would have lived together in Bayon, New Jersey.

Bayon, New Jersey. All right. Well, let's take a look at then what Ancestry .com says. This is all public information. So James Alusius Prash. James Alusius Prash. That's not only James Prash's father's name, it is James Prash's Jr.'s name.

So if we were to see James Jacob Prash's birth certificate, the birth certificate would read James Alusius Prash, Jr. Now, I'm gonna point this out. Alusius is a strange name for a fellow if he's Jewish.

So we're gonna search Google for that, and here's what we find. Alusius is, well, this is a name that invokes Alusius Gonzaga. Alusius is a popular name given by people who are Roman Catholic, especially Irish Roman Catholic.

Keep that in mind. Is Alusius an Irish name? Because Alusius is the name of a Roman Catholic saint. So that being the case, my immediate question is, why does a man whom James Prash claims is Jewish, why does he have a middle name after a popular Irish Roman Catholic saint?

At least he's not an Irish saint. I think he was an Italian saint, but popular among the Irish. You just have to ask the question, okay? So coming back then here, let's yeah, we've found, we've found, let me show you this also real quick while we're at it.

James Alusius Prash, Sr. is married to Maureen A. Prash. That's, so there's no doubt who we're dealing with, and he was born on August 16th, 1926, in Bayonne, New Jersey. There we go, and he was married to Maureen A. Prash.

There we go, so we can see the couple together. There's no doubt about it. This is James Prash's parents. Okay, we know who his parents are, we know who his grandparents are, both paternal and maternal.

We know who they are, and we're gonna just follow the paternal line because James Prash claims that he's Jewish via his paternity, not his maternity. Does that make sense? So let me come back then here, and we'll sum up things here.

James Alusius Prash, Sr. Married to Maureen A. Prash, correct. Lived in Bayonne, New Jersey. Check. We're dealing with the right people. Alusius is a Roman Catholic saint. This is true. This is an odd middle name for someone who is alleged to be of Jewish descent, in fact to be like practically full Jewish.

So this means that Mr. Prash's birth name, and like we said, is James Alusius Prash, Jr. And this, by the way, is the name on his birth certificate. It is. And it's fascinating to me he hasn't shown that birth certificate.

But also a little bit more information. This is the name registered for him at St. Mary's Star of the Sea, the Catholic Church where he graduated in 1967. Let's see if I have that handy. Here it is, St. Mary's Star of the Sea, Bayonne, New Jersey.

There's no doubt about that. And we'll note something here as we look for Prash, that in 1967, James Alusius Prash, that's the fellow who goes by James Jacob Prash today, that's where he graduated from.

And you'll note that this is his name, James Alusius Prash. Okay. So that's what the document says. And St. Mary's Star of the Sea, keep that in mind, that name will come up again here shortly. So then, knowing then this, we now know who his paternal grandparents are.

And again, I'm focusing on his paternal grandparents because that's where he claims he's half-Jewish and he has Jewish descent. So his paternal grandparents, the parents of James Alusius Prash, Sr., they are George Conrad Prash, and he was married to Ann Jane Flynn.

Okay, now a little bit of a note. George Conrad Prash spent time in St. Mary's home for boys in Baltimore, Maryland, after the death of his mother. Ann Jane Flynn, a tragic story, died very young in her late 20s, and so it's very sad.

So George Conrad Prash spent some time in a Roman Catholic boy's home. Now, let me show you where that is. And so when we go here, so here we've got the facts regarding George Conrad Prash, and so that you can see the paternity here.

George Conrad Prash and Jane Flynn are the parents of, and we're looking specifically at, George Conrad Prash. So you you Let's see here. Those are their five children. So we got Junior, we want James.

There we go. So they are the parents of James Alusius Prash, Sr. Okay, George Conrad Prash, Ann Flynn, parents of James Alusius Prash, Sr. Got it. Okay, and here's a note then in here at Ancestry .com, and the note says that George Prash was placed in St. Mary's home for boys in Baltimore for a while after his mother died, and which at that time housed another kid named George Babe Ruth, the baseball king.

This is a true story reported by James Prash's brother, and and so there you go. That's in the documentation in Ancestry .com. Okay, we continue then. So James Conrad Prash is buried at Holy Redeemer Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland.

Let's go back to the information and we'll check the facts regarding George Conrad Prash, and at the bottom it says he is buried at Holy Redeemer Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. That's an odd place for somebody who's totally Jewish to be buried at.

Odd, because Roman Catholic cemeteries back in the day, the Roman Catholics only allowed Roman Catholics to be buried there. There's some strict ones like that still to this day. So the best I can tell then, George Conrad Prash dies a Roman Catholic in good standing.

That's what the documents show. So let's go back then to our thing. So here's my question for James A. Prash, Jr. For James Prash, Jr., how do you explain these facts? How do you explain that your paternal grandfather is buried at Holy Redeemer Cemetery in Baltimore?

How do you explain that? Okay, now regarding Ann Jane Flynn, this is his paternal grandmother, and and so, you know, James Prash would have never met his paternal grandmother, Ann. She's the daughter of Thomas Flynn, and according to the 1900 census, both of Thomas Flynn's parents were born in Ireland.

So Ann Jane Flynn, she's, yeah, yeah, yeah, her father, totally Irish. Her mother, I think, is English. English Welsh. But you'll note that that's kind of an interesting part of this, so let's take a look at the census data.

And so we're gonna go over to the information for Ann Jane Flynn. Let me again show you her life story. She's married to George Conrad Prash, and she is the mother of James Aloysius Prash, Sr. That's the truth.

Okay, so what do we know about her? Well, let's go back to the fact that I'm looking for, that her father, Thomas Flynn, they were born in Ireland. So let's take a look at Thomas Flynn. In fact, I can do this this way, so let's go back to FACTS.

So this is her father. We'll go to the 1900 census, and let's view the actual document itself. And they are down here at the bottom. Thomas Flynn, and his birthplace is Ireland. Father's birthplace is Ireland.

Mother's birthplace is Ireland. Now, that's very fascinating information there. So you get the idea here, that, so there's a strong Irish connection there. And what else can we then glean from Ancestry .com as it relates to Anne Jane Flynn?

Well, here's coming back to this. And by the way, I'm gonna make these documents available down below, and you can check my work. And you'll note that there's a big difference between how I operate and how James Prash operates, and that is that I give you access to the documents.

Always. You have, yeah, in fact, when I'm reading a biblical text, you can see the biblical text. When I'm reading out the biblical languages, you can see the biblical languages in front of you. You can always fact-check me.

You don't need to give me the benefit of the doubt. You need to give, look at what I'm saying with an open mind. You just need to follow the evidence, right? It's all there for you. Okay, so here's what it says.

Anne Jane Flynn, her obituary states that there was a solemn high mass held for her at Our Lady's Star of the Sea. Our Lady's Star of the Sea is the same place where James Prash graduated from, the Catholic school there.

And her body was buried at St. Mary's Cemetery. Let's take a look and see if that's true. Okay, so when we go to Anne Jane Flynn, let's go to facts regarding her, and her obituary is in here. Here we go.

So let's take a look at view regarding her obituary. I'm going to click on view record, and I want to view the image, and it'll take me right to it. So here is the obituary from the Herald News from, you know, what's the date here?

The 21st of January 1964, and let me zoom in here. Anne Prash, Anne J. Prash, entered into rest on Monday, January 20th, and talks about her, who she was married to, who her children were. Let's see here.

She was in Bayon, New Jersey. She was the wife of the late George C. Prash, loving mother of Mrs. Mary Mueller, and Camara, got it, okay. Let's see here. She's got grandchildren. Also, here we go, James Prash, and so, you know, we got James mentioned here.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral. A solemn high mass will be held at Our Lady's Star of the Sea. At 10 a .m., internment at St. Mary's Cemetery in Perth, Amboy, New Jersey. Well, okay, so let's go back here to our governing document.

Okay, so Anne Jane, her father is Irish, 100 Irish. Her obituary states that there was a solemn high mass held for her at, you know, when she died, and she was buried at St. Mary's Cemetery. So my question for James Prash Jr. is, how do you explain these facts?

This is odd behavior, and I mean odd behavior for people who are Jewish, and this is, these are, this is his paternal grandmother, okay, married to his paternal grandfather. Now, a little bit of a note, Anne Jane Flynn had a sister.

Her sister's name was Isabella, and according to the records, Isabella was baptized two weeks after her birth. In fact, she was baptized on St. Patrick's Day. Wonder why that would be. I think it's an Irish thing.

She was baptized on St. Patrick's Day, March 17th, 1892, at St. Patrick's Church in Union, New Jersey. Mm-hmm. Yeah, let's see. That seems like an Irish thing to do here. In fact, I'm pretty sure the only thing more Irish than baptizing your child on St. Patrick's Day, in St. Patrick's Church, would actually baptize your child with Guinness on tap, you know, on St. Patrick's Day.

Just, just saying. But let's see if the, that documentation actually pans out. So I'm gonna back up here, and go back to the facts regarding Anne Jane Flynn, the maternal grand, paternal grandmother, paternal grandmother of James Prash, and we're going to see if she has a sister named Isabella.

Yep, we do. Here we go. Birth of sister Isabella. In fact, she's born, like, 11 months. So Anne Jane Flynn is born the 2nd of March, 1891. 1892, 29th of February, leap year. Isabella is born, and let's take a look at the information regarding Isabella.

Give me a second here. So here's Isabella. Birth on the, you know, no, that's George Washington. Hang on a second here. Yeah, here's Isabella. Isabella, baptism. So, born February 29th, 1892. Baptized just a couple weeks later, 17th of March, St. Patrick's Day, at St. Patrick's Church, Elizabeth Union, New Jersey.

Odd thing for a Jewish family to be doing. Yeah, so clearly James Lucius Prash Jr. has some strong Irish descendants on his mother's side as well as his father's side. Now, on his father's side, it's not completely Irish.

In fact, the name Prash isn't Irish. It's German. Okay, so let's, okay, so let me close up Isabella here, and I think then I can close up Anne, I think so, which will leave us to George Washington, George Washington Gray.

We'll talk about him here in a second, but let's go back to our government documents. So Anne, she's Anne Flynn. Her father, Thomas, is 100 Irish. She was buried at St. Mary's Cemetery. Her obituary says there was a solemn high mass held for her.

Her sister, Isabella, was baptized as an infant two weeks after her birth at St. Patrick's Church, got that. Okay, so great-grandparents, moving on. Okay, great-grandparents. Ferdinand M. Prash is paternally his great-grandfather, and his paternal great-grandmother is Sarah A. Gray.

So Ferdinand, born in the United States to parents who immigrated from Germany, this is true. His obituary states that a requiem mass was held for him at St. Michael's Church, and that he was buried at Holy Redeemer Cemetery.

Let's take a look at the information regarding Ferdinand M. Prash. This is gonna require me to go to Conrad. Hang on, I'm gonna go to Conrad, and we're gonna go down the line then to Ferdinand M. Prash.

Here's Ferdinand M. Prash and Sarah Gray, that's who he's married to, and so let's see if I can find information regarding his obituary. Here's the facts, and I do believe his obit is in here. Let's see here.

Here it is, and let's view it. Open the image. Here we go. View the image. Voila. And let's zoom in. So, Ferdinand Prash, on January 3rd, 1933, husband of the late Anna L. Prash, funeral service from his son's home, a requiem mass at St. Michael's Church at 9 a .m., internment at Holy Redeemer Cemetery.

Okay. That's pretty strange behavior, religious behavior, for paternal great-grandparents that are supposed to be Jewish. So I'm just saying we've got a big problem here. Let's come back to our governing document.

And then Sarah Gray's father is George Washington Gray. Okay, so Sarah Gray, she's an interesting character in that finding her heritage, it's not easy to pin it down, and I'm not sure I've done it, but I've got a good guess.

Hang on a second here. So James Prash Jr.'s paternal grandmother, Sarah Gray, her father is George Washington Gray. He was baptized at the age of two at the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland.

Okay, let's take a look at that. So coming to Ferdinand, it'll go back to life story. We're gonna look at his wife, Sarah Gray, and we'll let that refresh, and then we're gonna go to her father, George Washington Gray, and look at the facts regarding his life.

George Washington Gray, born the 24th of July, 1838, baptism on the 6th of September, 1840. He's two years old. He was baptized at the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland. Okay, that's strange behavior for somebody who's supposed to be of Jewish descent.

Have we seen any evidence of any Jewishness here at this point? Answer, none whatsoever. So we continue. How about the great-great-grandparents of James Prash Jr.? This would be Jacob Prash, the real Jacob Prash.

Okay, and you'll note that James Lucius Prash Jr. is not named after this relative of his. He's not. But this is his great-great-grandfather, paternally, through his father. He was married to Elizabeth Recklin, and the two of them came over from Germany.

They both came over at different times. They married here, but these are his family members, paternally, who immigrated to the United States. So Jacob Prash, the data shows that he and his parents were born in Germany, and Jacob Prash's daughter, Margaret Anne Prash, is buried at Holy Redeemer Cemetery.

Okay, so let's take a look at that. So coming back here, then, I'm gonna close George Washington Gray, and well, I had him open on a couple of occasions, but we're gonna open up Jacob Prash, and we're going to look for his daughter.

Specifically, we're going to be looking for Margaret Anne Prash. Margaret Anne Prash, his daughter. Here she is. Let's open this up, open Lincoln New Tab, and let's pull her over. And she's born 2nd of October 1867, and she is buried 2nd of April 1937 at Holy Redeemer Cemetery.

Okay. You know, you'll note the consistency of the appearance of Roman Catholicism. It's very much on both sides of James Prash's family, maternally and paternally. It's very well-exemplified, easy to document, if you would.

Okay, so we got that. So then you'll note, then, kind of summarizing this portion of the data, as far back as the 1840s, there's no evidence of Judaism in Prash's paternal ancestry. None. There is no evidence of Judaism in Prash's paternal ancestry.

Instead, there is documented evidence of Christianity, at least, you know, in the broad sense of the term. So my question, then, is how does James Ellucius Prash explain these facts? None of this lines up at all with an ancestry that's Jewish and him being half Jewish.

It doesn't add up at all. So it gets worse, though. Okay, so let's just kind of do the ethnic mix. When you do the work on this, figuring out, all right, so what is James Prash, you know, genetically?

Well, when you consider, you know, this heritage here, James Ellucius Prash Senior, we know that he's 25 confirmed Irish. He may be more, but we got 25 confirmed Irish in him. 25 Welsh-English.

This is true as well. 25 German, and 25 that's kind of up for grabs. Let me explain. Sarah Gray's ancestry. Gray is a surname that can come from a variety of origins. However, it's typically found in Scotland, Ireland, and England.

So the best guess is that Sarah Gray is English. Here's why. She grew up in Baltimore. Baltimore, Maryland, is originally an English colony. Her father's baptism was in a Methodist Episcopal Church, which kind of screams English heritage rather than, you know, than Irish.

So, you know, I just say probable English or Irish, so we know that. And then according to James Prash, his mother Maureen is totally 100 Irish. Now, that's overly simplistic, but we'll just go with it for the sake of this particular exercise.