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Oy Debi!
Are you Reformed? Because most temples will acknowledge patrianial (sp?) lineage -- in other words, if your kids' father is Jewish, they will be. But, yeah, in less "liberal" congregations it could be an issue if it were to come up.
My rabbi (Reformed) said intent matters. So if you've always been told you were born Jewish and acted accordingly then I would expect that you _are_ Jewish. Unless you _know_ that your birth parents weren't Jewish, it may not matter. I'm sure, somewhere along the way someone's conversion or informal adoption rendered lots of families not strictly Kosher -- there's probably some teaching about this...
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