RE: [ranchos] Toribio Romo --family traits

[Alberto Duarte <albertodua@...>]

Actually, you never lose any of your ancestor's
traits.  You are a composite of everyone that came
before you.  Yes, some traits are more predominate
than others.  I'm no exception; my brother's kids all
came out with blond hair and blue eyes while mine came
out with dark eyes and dark hair.  My brother is fair
and I'm dark (just like my grandmother).  In fact,
people use to ask if we were related.  

Alberto Duarte Prieto
Santa Maria, California  

--- Irma GomezLucero <igomezlucero@...> wrote:

> I really did not mean to spark anything, and Santo
> Toribio is my only
> claim to fame.  We genealogists are usually joked
> about always being
> related to someone famous.  He's about it so far,
> and my dad looks
> nothing like him.  When my parents visited Europe a
> few decades ago.
> They often mistook my dad as Middle Eastern with his
> dark, curly hair
> and olive complexion.  It was a real shocker when I
> discovered that one
> of his grandmothers was even a Romo.  The
> ressemblance is more than
> coloring.  I am not exaggerating when I say that my
> cousin Gregorio
> could be his double, and anyone coming from
> Jalostotitlan would tell you
> that the Romos in the area have those tell-tale Romo
> eyes.  
> Something that we Gomez are known for is our height.
>  My dad's apodo was
> "La Escalera del diablo."  He and his brothers were
> all 6' and up.  Of
> course my cousin Sam who measures about 5'5" would
> definitely not fit
> the bill.  He took after his petite mother.  Anyway,
> I just finished
> reading a book, Una seccion de los de Alba by Miguel
> de Alba Gonzalez.
> Since my dad's aunt married into the de Alba family
> in San Juan de los
> Lagos, I thought that it would be interesting to
> read.  Furthermore  we
> all know that in small towns everyone in the area
> eventually ties into
> every family.  I did find reference to her.    I
> also found a  reference
> to another distant relative, and the author remarked
> on his height, and
> it being attributed to his mother who came from the
> Gomez from the
> ranch, La Parada.  My Gomez' married twice into this
> family.  This
> family was rich, our Gomez were not.  My dad's tia
> was an old maid
> (26!!!), and he was a rich widower in his 60s.  My
> dad always joked
> about his Gomez tias being married to men of short
> stature because they
> were so tall.  At 5'9".  I worried about this, but
> fortunately I found a
> man of Mexican ancestry that is 5'11" .  :) 
> What I'm trying  to say is that there are certain
> traits that do appear
> over and over in families.    Of course as you say,
> there are always
> those exceptions.  It is more than skin color...
> Irma
> "La Escalera del Diablo #4"  --I'm the 4th child.
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:ranchos@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
> Of jose munoz
> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 2:16 AM
> To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [ranchos] Toribio Romo -- Mexico's
> Ghostly Benefactor of
> Illegal Aliens!
> 
> 
> I agree with you Alicia...
> 
> My fathers' cousin Angel Ramirez, and his wife Katy,
> gave birth in the 50's to Maria and Johnny Ramirez.
> The young girl eventually grew to a height of 5'5",
> brown eyes, and long beautiful black hair. Her twin
> brother growth was cut shot, just under 4 feet,
> green
> eyes, and "what" a carrot top he sported. It took a
> while to figure that one. No one thought they were
> siblings. I believe many people do not understand
> what
> they are really asking, assuming that it is just a
> matter of people having similar physical appearance.
> However, since physical appearance is influenced by
> environmental factors, and not just genetics, people
> can actually look very differently.
> 
> Jose Munoz
> 
> --- Alicia Carrillo <alliecar@...> wrote:
> 
> > I think it would be a mis-conception to make
> > assumptions about someone's ancestry based solely
> or
> > mostly on their looks. We all know that our genes
> go
> > very far back and with all the inter-mixing of
> races
> > anything is possible. I have a son who is very
> dark
> > and has a blonde blue eyed son. I have a daughter
> > that is not so dark and has beautiful brown eyed,
> > black haired beautiful girls. Looks, eye color and
> > skin color don't always tell the full story.
> >  
> > Alicia
> > 
> > Emilie Garcia <auntyemfaustus@...> wrote:
> > Irma--
> >  
> > No, I don't have the surname Romo in my lines.  It
> > is my husband's ancestors, the Garcias, who are
> > light skinned, tall, light haired, and hazel-eyed
> or
> > blue eyed Tapatios from Jalisco.  The photo of the
> > saint in the article for which I sent a link bears
> a
> > striking resemblance to my husband, his father,
> and
> > his great-grandmother, Marciana Cervantes.  I have
> > traced some of the Garcias who married into the
> > Calzada family that were from Rincon de Romos.  My
> > husband's gggg-grandfather Cayetano Garcia married
> > Anna Cleta Calzada.  Marciana Cervantes was
> > descended from Patricio Martines [Martin] who
> > married Maria Maxima Duron; they were also from
> > Rincon de Romos.  In between there were Aguirres,
> > Albas, Gonzaleses, Moroneses, Ornelases.  The
> > closest surname to Romo in my husband's lines is
> one
> > Roman.  
> >  
> > I was just amazed that someone surnamed Romo from
> > Jalostitlan could look so much like my husband's
> > Garcia-Cervantes family from Encarnacion de Diaz
> in
> > Jalisco.  People in Jalisco and Aguascalientes
> must
> > be inter-related.  They also look different from
> the
> > people I saw in Jerez when I went there in the
> > 1960's with my father.  It seems my husband's
> > ancestors were always merchants or military, or
> > religious, etc. (town people) and were not
> laborers
> > on the ranchos like my ancestors.  That leads me
> to
> > believe that the Spaniards were more educated than
> > the Mesizos in Mexico and held positions of
> > authority and in commerce rather than laboring in
> > the fields and ranches.
> >  
> > Emilie Garcia
> > Port Orchard, WA ---
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: Irma GomezLucero 
> > To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com 
> > Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 10:03 AM
> > Subject: RE: [ranchos] Toribio Romo -- Mexico's
> > Ghostly Benefactor of Illegal Aliens!
> > 
> > 
> > Santo Toribio has many of the features that are
> > commonly seen in Romos even of today.  My aunt
> > married a Romo, and many of my cousins have a
> > striking ressemblance (mostly the beautiful
> > eyes-whether they be brown/green/blue) to Santo
> > Toribio.  Since they haven't done any research,
> I've
> > been trying to figure out any connections for
> them. 
> > In doing this, I was able to tie in my dad's side
> of
> > the family to Santo Toribio's mother who is NOT a
> > Romo.  This is how I came to "meet" John G.  I
> still
> > have more work to do on my Romos & my cousin's.  I
> > also thought that my Santa Ana Romos would tie
> into
> > Rincon de Romos.  My cousins claim that their
> father
> > often told them they weren't related to the Romos
> of
> > Santa Ana--that they were from San Luis Potosi.  I
> > just think that their features are a bit too much
> to
> > ignore.  Gotta go and dig some more....
> > Emilie, am I understanding that you have Romo too,
> > and that you tied into the Romos in Rincon de
> Romos?
> >  Just wondering...  I know there are still many
> > there but haven't been able to tie mine in ...
> > Irma
> > 
> > 
> > ---------------------------------
> > From: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
> 
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