Correction.. my father is not 185 years old... he visited Jerez in 
1936.... he's only 85....
Linda

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "Erlinda Castanon-Long" 
<longsjourney@y...> wrote:
>
> Hi Alberto,
> In my family in Jerez Zacatecas the Mulato's were assimillated and 
> through the years by marrying into Espanol and Mestizo families 
they 
> eventually thought they were Espanol and Mestizo only.
> 
> My Alcala family records show them as Alcalan and Mulato Libre or 
> Indio depending on which brothers marriage record you read in late 
> 1700's. They come to Jerez by way of Valparaiso and Fresnillo to 
> live in Labor de Marquez by 1780. By 1815 my direct ancestor 
Marcial 
> Alcala had married an Espanol woman and therafter they thought of 
> themselves as Espanol! 
> Abt. 1865 my ancestor Maria Marcos Alcala married Ambrocio Caldera 
> and the Caldera family always said they were Espanol. If I 
remember 
> correctly you and I share the Caldera line.  I have found 1 record 
> that suggests that the Garcia line married into the Caldera lines 
> twice in late 1700's were also Indio and possibly Mulato, the 
record 
> refers to him as Collote... I have the Garcia line in at least 2 
of 
> my lines.
> 
> When my father visited El Durazno, Jerez in 1836 he was asked if 
> there really were people with black skins in California? They said 
> they had never seen such a person and knew nothing of the history 
of 
> slavery in their own community. It's nice to reclaim through 
> genealogy the people who got me here..
> Linda in Everett.
>

Hi Alberto,
In my family in Jerez Zacatecas the Mulato's were assimillated and 
through the years by marrying into Espanol and Mestizo families they 
eventually thought they were Espanol and Mestizo only.

My Alcala family records show them as Alcalan and Mulato Libre or 
Indio depending on which brothers marriage record you read in late 
1700's. They come to Jerez by way of Valparaiso and Fresnillo to 
live in Labor de Marquez by 1780. By 1815 my direct ancestor Marcial 
Alcala had married an Espanol woman and therafter they thought of 
themselves as Espanol! 
Abt. 1865 my ancestor Maria Marcos Alcala married Ambrocio Caldera 
and the Caldera family always said they were Espanol. If I remember 
correctly you and I share the Caldera line.  I have found 1 record 
that suggests that the Garcia line married into the Caldera lines 
twice in late 1700's were also Indio and possibly Mulato, the record 
refers to him as Collote... I have the Garcia line in at least 2 of 
my lines.

When my father visited El Durazno, Jerez in 1836 he was asked if 
there really were people with black skins in California? They said 
they had never seen such a person and knew nothing of the history of 
slavery in their own community. It's nice to reclaim through 
genealogy the people who got me here..
Linda in Everett.