They had to maintain composure and stay focused. The speed of the show was something that surprised Thomas-Vance and her family. In preparation for the live-audience show, the Thomas family played the Family Feud board game and watched the show together. The producers must have seen something special in them, because Thomas-Vance, Christopher and Christa Thomas-Jones, her brother-in-law and sister, Paul and Cynthia Thomas, her brother and sister-in-law, were selected from over 10,000 other potential contestants a few weeks later. Thomas-Vance and her family auditioned last year at the Hynes Auditorium in Boston in a faux-feud makeshift-studio version of the game against other local families. 2) on Family Feud airs on WHDH Ch.7 at 8p.m. Dorchester resident Judy Thomas-Vance and her family will appear on the nationally syndicated TV show, Family Feud this Friday (Feb.
