Re: [ranchos] re Family Tree DNA Project

[Alberto Duarte <albertodua@...>]

The priest never had the faith.

Alberto.

--- Emilie Garcia <auntyemfaustus@...> wrote:

> Joseph,
> 
> That is so interesting about the DNA Project.   
> 
> I have talked with Mr. Greenspan (via e-mail),
> president of the Family Tree DNA project, several
> times.  He is very nice.  He says to e-mail him any
> time.  He is a professor at the University of
> Arizona.  I had seen a story about a Hispanic priest
> in Albuquerque who now wears both a cross and a Star
> of David, since the DNA project showed not only that
> he was of Jewish heritage, but of the highest order,
> the Cohanim, direct descendants of Moses and his
> brother Aaron.  Mr. Greenspan said that he started
> the project for Jews to find out what Jewish groups
> they belong to (where in the hierarchy they fit). 
> The highest is the Cohanim [priest], then there is
> the Levite [temple servant], everybody else is
> Ysraelite.
> 
> I have heard many stories that many of our early
> 15th century Spanish ancestors in Mexico were
> Sephardic Jews and Moors.  We are not related too
> much to the people that live in Spain now.  So
> Joseph, you are not really descended from an African
> slave, but maybe from someone with Moorish or Arab
> blood.  The Moors were the powers in Spain only
> until shortly before the ancestors of the current
> Spaniards had kicked them and the Jews and Arabs
> out.  A Spanish friend from the Basque country told
> me she was proud not to be "hija de moro ni de
> indio".  (She can't help it- the Basques are very
> proud).   
> 
> I knew that my father's surname OLAGUE is Basque,
> because he told me so.  They were fair, with blue
> eyes.  People in Mexico have told us that all
> Olagues descend from one Miguel Olague who together
> with his brothers went with the conquistador Don
> Juan de Onate to New Mexico in 1598.  They returned
> to Zacatecas shortly.  My maternal ancestors, the
> MARQUEZ, did stay and colonize New Mexico.  They
> were all Espanol until my great-great grandfather's
> time.  Somehow a  Piro Indian got in the family,
> thus he was dark, and on my mother's side the
> females look Indian (go figure).   
> 
> In Gary Felix' website I read this:  "It is widely
> believed that a large percentage of the earliest
> settlers of Mexico may have origins in the Middle
> East  and were a result of the expulsion of
> non-Christians out of Spain, just befoe the conquest
> of Mexico".  I believe this, since when we first saw
> pictures of Saddam Hussein, we yelled out "He looks
> just like Uncle Jess [my father's first cousin
> Jesus, whose mother looked very Moorish or Arab]!   
> 
> 
> The project has Garzas [Garcias] with family lines
> in Northern Mexico [Jalisco?].  My husband was told
> in Mexico that he looked like a typical
> Norteno---quite tall and fair--a Tapatio--- and his
> Garcia-Cervantes line is from Encarnacion de Diaz in
> Jalisco.
> 
> Gotta go---thunderstorm above--don't want to fry
> this computer.
> 
> Emilie Garcia
> Port Orchard, WA Get more from the Web.  FREE MSN
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