Well as for Bynes her father s surname doesn t really match either does it I find surnames in 2006 can be grossly misleading and don t necessarily mean much In 1900 sure but at this point everyone s changed their names and intermarried enough that you can t tell who is what by last name Why wouldn t Eli s father be Jewish He s Joseph Cross also the father of actress Flora Cross who is Jewish but whose mother is apparently not Eli s mother There are seemingly a bunch of Jewish Cross s out there anyway Well in the case of footnotes the point is really the list is called a list of Jewish people so the most important part is really whether the person themselves is Jewish The mistake I guess many made before is thinking that the most important part was whether one of their parents or something are Jewish I think adding a quote about Elvis ancestry however is important since in his case it is a big stretch and it s for the most part something that biographers added on after his death so it would definitely be helpful But in cases like Bynes Lauren Storm plenty of others it s really mostly irrelevant if they are not ethnically fully Jewish and besides that can be found out in their entry same for the other X American lists establishing that someone is Italian American is good enough for example on List of Italian American actors I m sure Tina Majorino s mother isn t Italian with Italians unlike Jews you can obviously tell that if someone s mother s maiden name is Black they are most likely not Italian but the source just calls her Italian so that s good enough for us Family tree stuff isn t the most important Plus of course most of the quotes in the numbers for people who are half already say they are half but I ll go over them below here As for practicing Judaism well of the people who are half and whose one non Jewish parent didn t convert in the 1980s LaBeouf was raised Jewish practices and the source quoted says he is Cajun also Scarlett wore a Star of David to a bunch of events Jake Gyllenhaal was raised Jewish and the quote says he is only Jewish on his mother s side anyway Grey raised Jewish Flynn s mother apparently converted Feldman raised Jewish and the quote says his mother wasn t Carter quote says his father is Jewish only Bynes says she is Jewish and we don t even know which parent actually for the longest time Wikipedia under someone s assumption had Jewish mother But this was removed once I came in and started purging these assumption games other editors played and started putting in only verified facts Bilson quote says she is half Italian half Jewish ditto for Baldoni Paxton quote says all we know that she is Jewish maybe her non Jewish parent converted Peck grew up with a Jewish single mother he doesn t know who his biological father was and he was likely Jewish anyway Prepon we don t know which parent Reed s brother had a Bar Mitzvah and sources herself have called her Jewish Schwartzman dunno Sigler mother converted Thomas raised Jewish and the source says his father isn t anyway Vuolo father converted Wilson raised Jewish I think that s about it So as you can see for a large number of these the quote already says that they aren t ethnically all Jewish if that was relevant OK as for JInfo yes it seems to definitely fall under some guy s website It does sometime cite sources right But often it doesn t So I would say yes generally do not use it