Re: mtdna 4 marker match

["v.h.villarreal" <raices_regias@...>]

Linda,

My result was no surprise but a confirmation of what I already knew by
word of mouth, particularly from my late grandmother.  You can now
find my folder in the files section.  Unfortunately, my maternal
(mtDNA) branch goes back only to my g2-grandmother: my mother is
Villagrana, her mother Martel, her mother Colunga, and then Alvarado.
 I just haven't been able to break thru that wall.  I suspect that she
has roots in neighboring Nayarit and church records from Nayarit
haven't yet been extracted to the IGI.

Your comments about your mother's eyes and skin are very interesting,
which only shows that physical traits are not necessarily correlated
to DNA haplogroups.

Best regards
Victor

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "Erlinda Castanon-Long"
<longsjourney@y...> wrote:
> 
> Hi Victor, how exciting to even think that someone from a small group 
> like this could be a 4 marker match even if it happened a while back 
> in time.. I find it amazing!!  I looked into the files but don't see 
> your genealogy, are you posted here or anywhere else?  I have my 
> maternal line on Ancestry family tree.  In a time reference I can only 
> take my female line back to abt 1800 and know nothing before that.  My 
> mother was Gutierrez, her mother Villanueva, her mother Mendez, her 
> mother Fernandez and her mother Barbosa.. the line stops there. To be 
> honest I was surprised to find this a native line since my mother was 
> blond and blue eyed and her mother was extremely fair too. They were 
> from Tamazula Jalisco but the Fernandez line may have come from 
> somewhere else. I guess 200 years is nothing compared to a history in 
> genetics that goes back 30,000 years.. but we have to start somewhere 
> to find we all more alike than different. I did some reading and found 
> that a few Eskimo bands, the Salish band here in Washinton and a tribe 
> or two along the California coast line share the same group A, the 
> group continues through Mexico and down into South America... sure a 
> good case for migration.
> Thank you for taking the time to share the information.
> I guess that makes us primos.... sorta?
> Linda in Wa.