Joseph,
What are you hoping to find? Any idea? My mother and uncle (her bother) had DNA testing done and the results is that they have European Jewish genes. My mother's family tree goes thru Mexico, Spain, France and Germany.
Needless to say, it was an eye opener. It also shed some light in many areas, like customs, receipts, and family oral stories. Currently, I am researching Sephardi traditions. So far, I have found many similarities.
Please keep us inform with your results.
Joseph Puentes <makas@...> wrote:
This is not directly related to our geographical areas of research but of general importance to our geneological advancement
Just wanted to share this message sent to me by George Gause on DNA testing. It is so interesting that connections were made and now they are striving to make the paper connection. I became part of the DNA testing project about 3-4 weeks ago. My results are not back yet but I'd like to encourage some of you to be part of this project as well.
joseph
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Villarreal DNA Testing Match
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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