First of all, I did not understand the comment about the priest not having the faith. Several of the early priests in Mexico were really hidden Jews. Maybe even later priests have been. Their parents were hiding from the Inquisition which had followed them to Mexico. One of my Carbajal ancestors was burned at the stake in Mexico City in the lat e 1500's for not refuting his Hebrew faith. The secretly Jewish parents of these priests had put them in the Catholic seminaries, since they wanted their sons to get an education and learn Hebrew legally, and they practiced Judaism secretly. Santos asked whose DNA they used to prove a connection to "Cohanim": the Jews have ancient traditions that have allowed them to track their ancestry wherever they go---remember all those "begots" in the Bible? So, it was a descendant of Aaron that is one of the 18 men that can be traced to the 18 separate haplogroups, these men being the ancestors of us all and thus Y (male DNA) can only be traced through male lines. AND it doesn't matter what we look like. Genetic makeup can be very similar in two people who look nothing alike. Also, there were no nationalistic borders in ancient Africa that are anything like the boundaries of the countries there today. One of the 18 haplogroups is "African", and not Ethiopian or Egyptian or South African. You can read about these haplogroups at the Genealogy of Mexico website run by Gary Felix. Yes, like Marge and Santos, I lament the fact that I will miss out on the Y-DNA testing, since my father died in 1966, and my grandfather in 1941. My father had no brothers, and I had no brothers. His male Olague first cousins are gone also. My only hope is to try to convince a son of a first cousin of my father's who bears the Olague surname. So far, he has been less than willing to even meet me. He simply stated that he knows nothing about family history and family trees (I tried to get him interested by telling him the family history and that I have a family tree going back to the 1700's). He changed his number once, I got his new number from his mother, and he has not returned my calls. I will not only have to pay for the test, but bribe him big time to get his cooperation. Maybe even that won't work. I am very disappointed that this testing came after my father passed on, but then I wasn't interested in genealogy like I am now. Santos, I will try to see what Mr. Bennet Greenspan has to say. I trust him and his Family Tree DNA project, since it was started for Jews who do not play "Gato por Oso" about something so important to their culture. This is their life, who they are, who they have been for thousands of years. The Family Tree DNA tests are very reasonably priced at $100.00 for a 12 Marker Y DNA test. (Tests with more markers can always be done later from the same samples submitted). Years ago a university lab in Oregon was charging $3,000 for such tests.
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