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Emilie Garcia wrote:
So Joseph, you are not really descended from an African slave
I really couldn't say one way or the other. the MtDNA results are my
maternal (mom's mom's mom's mom's) side and I have no documented
records past my grandmother. . .in fact I didn't know her name until
recently: Antonia Lopez from somewhere in Jalisco.
But on my paternal side going out to some GGGG grandparents some are
identified in baptism records as mestizo, coyote, mulatto, and negro.
, 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.
http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/Fact.aspx?fid=10&yr=0&ln=Olague
http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/geneal/index_gc.html
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