Re: Mis ancestros de los Altos.

["Victor Villarreal" <vela_este@...>]

Alicia,

I agree.  This really must be an exciting finding for Steven.  
I've also wondered how many in the Ranchos group have done a DNA 
study (either Y-DNA or mtDNA) or are considering doing one?

What is gradually showing up by those who have done genetic testing 
is that most of us with Mexican roots have a European paternal 
lineage and a Native American maternal ancestry.

Saludos
Victor


--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, Alicia Carrillo <alliecar@p...> wrote:
> Steven,
>  
> How exciting that you found this information and that it's a 
possibility that you may have made a connection with your ancestral 
tribe.
>  
> I feel happy for you and a little envy that you have come so far 
and that you may have Otomi blood lines. Have you by chance done the 
DNA study on anyone in your family? That would be interesting to see 
where it takes you.
>  
> Alicia
> 
> "Steve G. Apodaca" <sgapodaca@y...> wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I want to share what I recently found and check if anybody is 
> related to these ancestors. A couple days ago, I finally checked 
the 
> marriage record of my ancestors from Los Altos.
> 
> My 2nd greatgrandfather Juan Tapia married my 2nd greatgrandmother 
> Bibiana Martinez in Lagos de Moreno on February 5, 1879. Juan's 
> parents were Atanacio Tapia and Secundina Olivares. Bibiana's 
> parents were Juan Martinez and Matiana Lopez. Before reading this 
> document I just knew that my Tapia ancestros were from "somewhere 
in 
> Los Altos", according to my grandmother. She did not remember where 
> were they from. Now, I know that they were from a rancho near Lagos 
> called Cañada de Ricos. Is anybody familiar with this name? I 
> checked the Jalisco census on the files area and found out that the 
> population in that place is currently less than 100. Well, while 
> surfing the web, using google, I found something very interesting 
> about this rancho. On the Lagos de Moreno official website, I 
> discovered these two entries:
> 
> 
> 17 de (Abril) 1686 El cacique indígena al parecer otomí Joseph 
> Cristobal de Luna y Tapia compra un sitio de ganado menor ( 780 
> has.) y dos caballerías de tierra (85.6 has.) para establecer el 
> poblado de "Cañada de los Indios Ricos" que evolucionaría a la 
> actual colonia Cañada de Ricos.
> 
> 14 de (Mayo) 1935 Se autoriza la fundación del ejido Cañada de 
Ricos 
> su ejecución es el 29 de Junio del mismo año. En esta zona se ubicó 
> un importante asentamiento indígena a partir de 1686 cuando compra 
> estos predios el cacique al parecer otomí Joseph Cristobal de Luna 
y 
> Tapia quien efectúa la operación de compra-venta de estos terrenos 
> en San Luis del Río, Querétaro en el citado año.
> 
> I wonder if it is all a coincidence that my TAPIA ancestors are 
from 
> Cañada de Ricos, a village founded by an otomi cacique named 
> Cristobal de Luna y TAPIA in 1686. Could this individual be my 
> gggggggreatgrandfather? Well, I still need to research 200 years of 
> Tapia history in order to find a possible connection, but it is 
> quite exciting just to imagine that I possibly found the name and 
> native tribe of one of my family lines.
> 
> Saludos.
> 
> Steve
> 
>