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 thi! nk 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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