1.   American Jews, following the example of their eastern European ancestors, revel in potato latkes.

2.   American Jews, following the example of their eastern European ancestors, revel in the starchy treats.

3.   Americans have long been more understanding than their European ancestors toward deadbeats.

4.   But even then I could get only the most fragmentary glimpses of my European ancestors.

5.   If human beings are still here - Americans and children of European ancestors, descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers or the Spanish conquistadores - it is thanks to beans.

6.   The Walsh name comes not from a European ancestor, as some others do, but from a simple misunderstanding.