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Moises Garza

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September 19, 2018 @ 8:12am

I just sorted a new members. Also, please join our WeAreCousins DNA Group on Facebook to better help each other out and or have your questions answered. Here is the link https://www.facebook.com/groups/wacdnagroup/

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Mary Cervantes

January 18 @ 3:55am

I joined last Oct 2018, and I am still not listed in the mtdna list. My mtdna haplogroup is C1b9. Thanks!

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Michael Gutierrez

January 20 @ 3:09am

Hi Mary, on my maternal side it's C1b9. My grandmother was Andrea Solis Amador.

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Mary Cervantes

January 23 @ 10:16pm

Cool! starting with my great grand mother:Euliala Vilano <- her mom is: Gumesinda Lopez <- her mom is: Merced Lopez <- her mom is: Maria Luiza (Luz) Ramires abt. 1831 born in Aguascalientes or Jaliso, or Zacatecas.

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Rosanna Moreno

February 16 @ 7:39am

Hi Primo, my Y haplogroup is RP311, the farthest I've gotten on my dad's ancestor is Juan Gomes(z) Mascorro and mtDNA haplogroup is A2-G135A! and the farthest I've gotten on my mom's ancestor is Maria Francisca de Herrera...thanks!

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Mario Salinas Saenz

September 25 @ 11:32pm

I did the familytree test with my family (sister, mother and father). So, with the raw data got the results from the others gene calculators. And there are the average of my family. All of my ancestors are from General Treviño, Cerralvo and Agualeguas, Nuevo León and Mier, Tamaulipas since 1600s.

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Sergio Delgado

October 2 @ 5:26pm

Hi Mario, it makes no sense to get that average because: First, inheritance doesn't work that way: the average of my parents and me is 100% meaningless (we ARE one family but each of us comes from VERY different families). Second, it's possible that members of your family used different chips (i.e., FTDNA switched to GSA last year I think, and you get different results because it analyses less sectors). And third, the algorithms are different; you can't get the "average" of FTDNA+MyHeritage, for example.

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Mario Salinas Saenz

October 5 @ 11:55pm

Hi Sergio, thank you for you comment. The main goal that I wanted to discover is the average of my ancestor's origin as in some studies we can see the average of a town. Well mine is the result of 300 years of endogamic relations. As fact my mother and father are genetic related as first cousins, but they are really fourth cousins. I did mine first and then, a year later, I ordered for the rest. The average of FTDNA and rest was taken grouping 1. European areas; 2. American and Siberian and; 3. Middle eastern, north african and jews. I did that division thinking in the division of christians, moros and jews before the discover of America as an effort to verify if the first settlers of my family could have "sangre impura"

Jaime Hernández

October 18 @ 11:18am

Well, with all these testing sites using different algorithms to determine ones ancestry, "algo" esta mal! Who are we to believe? I guess the best way to look at it, if ones written documented (civil and church) ancestral records meshes with the DNA evidence, that would be your best reference point. Maybe not exact, but in the ballpark..........

Linda Rodriguez

September 17 @ 9:28pm

How many people have Blas de la Garza Falcon or Diego de Montemayor in their family tree? Just curious, we are all cousins :)

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Jaime Hernández

September 18 @ 3:00pm

I am a direct line descendant of Diego Montemayor and Maria Inez Rodriguez, 18th gen maternal grandfather. Blas de la Garza Falcon is an indirect line Tio to me........

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Leopoldo Tamez

October 14 @ 5:21pm

I show in my family tree that I am a descendant through Alberto del Canto and Estefania Montemayor, daughter of Diego de Montemayor. My 9th grandfather Manuel Tamez Morales married Isabel Rodriguez Montemayor.

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Jacinto Garza

October 10 @ 12:34pm

Yay! Big Y is complete. I received my Y-DNA Haplogroup: R-BY15969

David Reta

October 12 @ 7:11pm

Looked at your Big Y results. It shows a marker found with other descendants of Marcos Alonso's son Francisco who have taken the Big Y as well. Which helps confirm that part of your family tree. The private variants will be useful to match up with others who share a more recent common ancestor.

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Jacinto Garza

October 14 @ 1:12pm

Awesome, thank you!

Criselda Garcia

October 11 @ 4:21pm

Hello everyone, I was wondering if any of you all were on GedMatch and if you've done a one to one comparison with Clovis #F999919? What was your result? I'm trying to find out if its common among the hispanic/latino/indigenous people to be within the 3-5 generation range. Thank you.

David Reta

October 12 @ 7:22pm

If you do a one to many comparison with that kit you will see a list of other people who match that kit. Just goes to show that some DNA segments have been around a long time within the Native American population which are some of the ancestors of the Hispanic people. I manage a kit of a relative who shows up as a match to that Clovis kit. This relative's family has been in Mexico for at least centuries.

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Criselda Garcia

October 13 @ 5:04pm

Oh didn't think to do that. Will give it a try. Thank you!

Criselda Garcia

October 11 @ 4:26pm

This is how far I've gotten on my tree, I am looking to see if I have any relations in this group or if anyone else is familiar with any of the names on here. Thank you. ;)

Linda Rodriguez has a question!

September 6 @ 6:34pm

“ Hay alguien de la Villa de Santiago, Nuevo Leon (o pariente) que tenga % de DNA de British Islands o Ashnekani Jew? Dicen que en la villa se quedaron los judios sefardis, pero esos son de Espana... alguien sabe la historia? mi tatarabuelo era guero/pelirojo y alto .. Algunos dicen que se quedaron unos franceses. Que opinan? ”

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Jaime Hernández

September 28 @ 12:02pm

Mario, I forgot to mention, my son Jaime Hernandez (11), here in FTDNA shows neither Sephardic nor Ashkenazi ancestry??

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Sergio Delgado

October 2 @ 4:37pm

Hi, those from Nuevo Leon with a high percentage of British Islands (>30%) should take a close look at the Battle of Monterrey and, in general, the couple of years that the US Army was stationed in the region. As for the people from Santiago, they show a relatively high percentage of Sephardic ancestry, but that French battalion story is just a myth: https://www.milenio.com/estados/gueros-de-allende-de-raiz-judia-no-francesa

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Mario Salinas Saenz

October 6 @ 12:29am

Hi Sergio, I doubt that the green/blue eyes and blonde hair of the people from Allende and Santiago were from sephardic heritage. I think that we are jew descendants but those who arrive to the Northeastern Mexico were already mixed with christians by the late XV century. Also, I don't believe that the US Army influence our DNA because in my case, with 30% british, have gotten the Y DNA test of most of my family's 5 generations back I haven't find anglosaxons matches.

Mario Salinas Saenz

October 6 @ 12:52am

My bet of the blonde hair and high British ethnic origin will be with Alberto del Canto whose family before being canarian were from England, del Canto was not sephardic jew according to the most recent researches. Also, with Cortes came blonde people as Pedro de Alvarado nicknamed by the mexicas as Tonatiuh because his sun color hair. About the link of the Cavazos genealogy, probably the origin of that surname is italian -as Cantú and Chapa- and not sephardic. I have done the process to get the spanish nationality but maybe it has created a myth of thinking that we were pure or with a high percentage of jew as I also doubt that Blas de la Garza Falcón was related to Hernando Alonso (the first jew assassinated in Mexico)

Ramon Martinez Borrome has a question!

October 1 @ 6:15pm

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Loreto Nevarez

September 26 @ 11:13pm