Linda and Josie,

These are my HVR1 numbers: HVR1 Haplogroup A
16075C, 16111T, 16223T, 16239T, 16290T, 16319A, 16362C
 

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "Erlinda Castanon-Long"
<longsjourney@y...> wrote:
>
> 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
> >
>