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Hello, Elvira? (I can't tell who is writing what in the messages below). However, one comment peaked my interest: "maternal lines in (or back to) Zacatecas, especially Tepetongo to test for mtDNA. I don't think anyone has started a Zacatecas mtDNA project yet...::Grin::" I must confess that all this talk about DNA and Haplogroups and "numbers" is way over my head. However, I am very interested in your particular results, since you state that you are looking for more people with maternal lineage in the area of Tepetongo, Zacatecas. My mother was from the Juarez-New Mexico area, descended from settlers who had been there since the 1500's, so I guess my DNA would only follow her maternal lines. However, my father's people for two hundred years that I have studied so far (back to the early 1700s) in the Tepetongo area (Salitrillo, to be exact) never lived anywhere else until my father and his father immigrated to the States in 1916. Unfortunately, my father and his immediate relatives are all gone now and I was never close to his relatives. I wonder if his first cousin (a male whose mother was sister to my father's father) could provide DNA results that would show origins in Tepetongo via his maternal line, either he or a second cousin of mine whose grandfather and father bore the same surname (Olague) and whose grandfather was brother to my father's father. I've hesitated approaching them since they wouldn't know anything about DNA and would be suspicious, etc. My uncle (my father's first cousin---primo hermano) is very elderly now and might not remember me, and I have never met my second cousins. I am so intrigued by the mention that your sequences and combinations are quite rare. I found that my father's people were Basques who came to Zacatecas in the 1500's. Basques are known to have a very rare DNA and language and customs, aren't they? No one seems to know their origins. Also, many of the names I find in my father's lines sound so Italian to me---Marcelo, Marcelino, Regina, Suriano, etc. I find no mention anywhere of Italians in Zacatecas anywhere else. I think there were also several Sephardic Jewish lines ---Acevedo (Portuguese?), Reveles (Sephardic?), etc. My father used to say his ancestors were French, but I find no evidence of that so far. Please keep us apprised of what you find. It is of particular interest to me. Emilie Garcia Port Orchard, WA ---
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