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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