The family first lived in a house on Broadway, belonging to Martin's great-grandmother. However, while he also believed he was a quarter Italian because of who he was told was his paternal grandfather, a DNA test on the show confirmed his Irish and other ancestries but excluded any Italian ancestry, showing instead he is approximately a quarter Ashkenazi Jewish. He also acknowledges French, English, Welsh and German roots, which were confirmed on the television series Finding Your Roots. He has two younger sisters, Darleen and Janet.
It made him feel that even if they were poor, they came from greatness that had been taken away from them. His mother's family had once been wealthy, owning a successful construction business, but lost it all in the Great Depression, something Martin was reminded about every day when he passed what used to be his family's dock and house. George Raymond Martin (he adopted the confirmation name Richard at 13 years old, and adopted it as part of his full name) was born on September 20, 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey, the son of longshoreman Raymond Collins Martin and Margaret Brady Martin. 10.1.2 Cross-genre anthologies edited (with Gardner Dozois).10.1.1 Wild Cards series editor (also contributor to many volumes).
