As
you know the
Villarreal DNA project which is part of the Mexican Dna Project has had
some
success. Danny Villarreal from Harlingen
Texas
and Ed Villarreal who lives in Chicago
have come up as exact genetic matches. This
means that we have a same common ancestor. I think the common ancestor
is Diego
de Villarreal my 9th great grandfather who was born in 1601. We are
working at
tracing Ed's family tree and are within one generation away from Diego.
We are
just trying to figure which son he came from. One common finding is
that
we are classified as Haplogroup E3b which means we are of Jewish
origins and
our closest genetic cousins so far are mostly Eastern European Jews. A
small percentage of Sephardic Jews or Spanish Jews are Ashkenazi Jews.
I have
made big leaps in my own research and have found more than one
Villarreal
family in Mexico.
Diego had an uncle and several cousins. His
father was General Francisco de Villarreal and there were two in the
family
whom were priests one was the tercer cura de Saltillo
1647 to 1667 . This was either his brother or cousin. It
seems strange that the inquisition was after them and they were clergy.
The
parish priest of Saltillo
once complained to the inquisition about Don
Diego whom he described as riding a horse, wearing silk clothing and
jewelry
even though those privileges were denied by law to a descendant of
parents who
had been converted from Judaism to Catholicism
as
adults. This contradicts what I have found. One strange
fact is that I can’t
find the names of any of the mothers or wives
of his father and grandfather. Anyhow,
just
thought Id share this with you.
This is the link for the Mexican DNA project http://members.tripod.com/~GaryFelix/index63.htm
Later
Danny
Villarreal
SOURCE: Danny Villarreal Daniel5822@...
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