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.
>