Josie I had the exact same experience as you, Early in my research I said I have Espanol ancestors and then my mtdna came back Haplogroup A as you said is Native American. My female line goes from Jalisco to Michoacan and I have matched 2 others who's female line was from Guanajuato. Also like you the "Muse's" from my line help me do genealogy at night! Not much sleep but lots of names. In fact from a dream my Gutierrez line went from Tamazula Jalisco back to Chilchota Michoacan from about 1680 to 1780.. I picked up almost 1,500 names from that dream! I will never question what I don't undertand again! Linda in Everett --- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "Josie T. Trevino" <Josiett3@s...> wrote: > > Hi Mary! What you describe as "a strange feeling" is a good thing!!! It > happens to me all the time and the first time (a few years ago) I did not > understand what was happening! I now feel that it is the ancestors way of > telling us that they are helping us! I also dream of them (I even > "attended" a wedding on 15 Aug 1810 of one of my ancestors!) and that dream > is still quite vivid in my mind. When I travel in Mexico I feel like "I am > at home" and I expect to "see people that I know".........quite a strange > feeling! The odd thing is that I do not know of any living relatives I have > in Mexico, other than a few "primos & primas" that are younger than I am!!! > But that does not count!!! I want to meet OLD people who can tell me their > stories! :-) > > Today I just received the DNA results for my mother's line (using my > brother's DNA) and I spoke to a person at the lab in Houston that does the > testing. She told me that my maternal line shows a large "Native American" > influence in the A Haplogroup......I am just learning about all this DNA > stuff......but my father's line is all documented "Espanoles"......when I > explained this to the lab person I was told that this is quite common in > Mexico since the Espanoles often married some of the Mexican women who had > Native American heritage! Now I will be on a quest to find my maternal line > and hopefully get back to the Jalisco, Zacatecas, Queretaro, etc. lines of > research...... Good luck with your research! Josie in San Antonio > > Mary Allen <mailto:mary.allen3770@s...> > mary.allen3770@s... wrote: > > Message: 9 > > Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 17:45:47 -0700 (PDT) > > From: Mary Allen <mary.allen3770@s...> > > Subject: Re: Re: Travel to Mexico > > Thank you, Victor. Now I know where San Felipe is located and it is not a > surprise visit. And I will purchase a cellular phone. There are two more > places I need to visit, but perhaps not on this trip: San Luis Potosi, SLP > and Salinas, SLP. Something to look forward to. > > It's a strange feeling: I have been working so intensely on this project for > the last few weeks. Now that I have a few photographs, their faces are so > etched on my mind that I dream about them. I feel as if I know them and I am > just going to go "meet" them on their own turf. I have been sharing each > step with my family and we all feel as if something great is about to > happen, as if one of them walked in the front door, we wouldn't be > surprised. It's just that we have been looking for them for so very long and > now, suddenly, they start to appear with their stories, some of them quite > sad. They are more than names and dates and pictures; they are real. As if > they are coming home to us. > > Mary >
