Linda,
I saw that show the other evening, too. My husband watched too, and
he was amazed. It was especially interesting to me, since I am discovering
just how many mulato lines I have on my father's side from Zacatecas. It
should be interesting to whites too to find out that they may have as much as
11% African blood as that genetecist found out (and his mother told him to stop
talking about it-he looked nothing but white), and that someone like the
professor that narrated the show had 50% white blood even though anyone looking
at him would say he was black. When Oprah saw the documents for her black
slave ancestors and she cried, I cried too. It was interesting too that
blacks had Asian blood too.
My father's Spanish ancestors, the Olagues and Tinajeros (Felix/Suriano)
were all mulatos by the mid and late 1700's.
I really want to send for those DNA kits now,
Emilie Garcia
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Subject: [ranchos] DNA testing
advances
The public service chanel here in Everett, Chanel 9 has a
show on the
genealogy search for Blacks to find thier genetic makeup.
Since I have
traced 3 Mulato lines in 3 different states, Jalisco,
Zacatecas and
Michoacan I was very interested in what they had to
say. They shared
the fact that the Portuguese controlled the slave
trade and that in
the time frame I'm looking at, mid 1600's the odds are
the slaves were
from Angola. They shared the major advancments they are
making daily
in genetic testing now being able to isolate genes to find
what
percentages we are of different ethnic backgrounds. I find this
all
very exciting and hope if you get the chance that you will get to
watch this very informative show. Even if you have no black ancestors
the sharing of genetic information and genealogy research methods is
great and well worth watching.
Linda in
Everett
