Re: Names 's' and 'z'/HOHOHO

["v.h.villarreal" <raices_regias@...>]

Joseph,

Alberto is correct about the Portuguese version of some surnames
ending in "s" versus the Castillian version ending in "z".

Of course finding a Gonzales among your ancestors does not necessarily
mean that you had a Portuguese origin relative but rather that the
priest doing the recording was using a particular grammar convention.

The idea of "z" ending surnames as being of Jewish origin is being
propagated by a group called "Los Mesiánicos", but is totally
baseless.  It is a theory that you should write down on your list of
lunatic fringe theories.

By the way, could you explain what you mean about you belonging to the
priestly tribe of Levi?  I remember you mentioned being R1b...

Feliz Navidad!!!

Victor Hugo Villarreal Villagrana
Reynosa, México.


--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, Joseph Puentes <makas@n...> wrote:
>
> 
> This reminds me of a question I've been meaning to ask but kind of 
> forget every time I get to the key board. I guess its time (been time) 
> for me to start writing myself notes so i'll remember later [here's a 
> confession---I've been writing myself notes but half the time I forget 
> to look at the notes].
> 
> anyway what is the take on  Gonzalez and Gonsalez and Gonzales and 
> Gonsales?
> 
> Since I've started studying genealogy I've always been told not to get 
> hung up on spelling, but that seemed to be coming from the Anglo point 
> of view. I tend to believe that we as well shouldn't get hung up on 
> spelling from the Mexican point of view. Do you all agree?
> 
> Reason I'm asking is that I seem to have read something when I first 
> started genealogy that either the the ending with the Z or the ending 
> with the S meant something like Jewish roots for folks of Hispanic 
> hertiage: Peres v. Perez
> 
> I don't know and don't really know how they can prove something like 
> that with a bunch of folks that "SEEM" to be spelling the same persons 
> name in all different possible ways. . .what does that mean that to one 
> scribe he was Jewish and to the next one he wasn't. Or is it as it
seems 
> to be that certain ones weren't very literate and spelled the names 
> phonetically?
> 
> And since the Jewish subject came up does anyone know of good resources 
> for Askenazi (sp) Jews in Mexico. I seem to be of the tribe of Levi (a 
> priest) if my DNA indications are to be believed?
> 
> joseph
> 
> ps:  I hope you all have a Feliz Navidad. I wish we lived close by 
> because we could have a great party couldn't we.
> 
> 
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