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
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Message: 9

Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 17:45:47 -0700
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From: Mary Allen
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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