That's very interesting. Thanks for letting us know.
My nephew was born with the Mongolian blue spot. The only person in our family we believe was ever born that way. Like your haplogroups, his purplish spot at the base of his spine is like a signpost pointing across the Pacific.
Everybody had to see his butt!
Mexico has a long connection with the east. as Arturo indicated. The Filipinos cheered "Viva Mexico, Mabuhay!" when they heard Mexico had broken away from Spain. They expected it was their turn next. And indeed, a Mexican soldier serving in Manila declared the Independence of the Phillippines.
But the Spaniards swiftly caught him, and hung him from the highest tree.
The last flotilla left Las Filipinas loaded with silks and porcelains from China for Acapulco. and beyond.
But the Mexican govenrment confiscated the goods and refused to compensate the Filipino merchants, bankrupting many, and bringing an end to the Spanish Galleon trans-Pacific trade.
That IS interesting!!!!! My sister Patsy, who is the third of us four
girls and is a guera, had the same spot at the base of her spine. My
oldest daughter, Kerin, also had it as a baby. I know we descend from
Moctezuma on my father's mother's side but don't know what sort of
Indian blood my father's father's family had. Marge:)
On Jul 12, 2006, at 3:25 PM, erniealderete@charter.net wrote:
> That's very interesting. Thanks for letting us know.
>
> My nephew was born with the Mongolian blue spot. The only person in
> our family we believe was ever born that way. Like your haplogroups,
> his purplish spot at the base of his spine is like a signpost pointing
> across the Pacific.
>
> Everybody had to see his butt!
>
> Mexico has a long connection with the east. as Arturo indicated. The
> Filipinos cheered "Viva Mexico, Mabuhay!" when they heard Mexico had
> broken away from Spain. They expected it was their turn next. And
> indeed, a Mexican soldier serving in Manila
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My family descends from Montezuma as well. So that blue spot might be a recessive gene in our deep, deep, ancient, Atzlan background. A badge of honor:)
I wanted to change my surname to Moctezuma. But my only sister didn't want us to have different surnames, so Alderete it will remain.
They say all Alderetes in Mexico are descended from the vilest conquistador, Julian Alderete. The gachupin who held Cuauhtemoc's feet to the fire. That's probably why Alderete is not as popular a surname in Mexico as elsewhere in Latin America, and Iberia.
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My paternal grandparents are both mexican born. He in San Luis Potosi and she in Guadalajara. No one ever believes I have Mexican ancestry.
Even my moms half Portuguese, but I'm tall with light skin and blue eyes.
I had a Y-DNA test done to discover the origin of my Robledo family from San Luis Potosi. My records for them run out about 1800.
My results were a surprising Haplogroup O. I have had this confirmed by two more thorough tests. My family originated in southern Asia. My closest genetic matches are in the Philipines. This completly out of the blue, many family members are amused, some , especially the ones in Mexico, don't beleive it. This explains what doctors called a "birthmark" at the base of my back. It's a mongolian spot! My son also has one.
My daughter was getting her haircut by an Asian lady and she asked my wife if her husband was Asian . She felt my daughters eyes were distinctly Asian..
My further research shows an estimate of 140, 000 people of Chinese, Japanese
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One of my daughters had the black "Mongolian mark" as a child and has eyes
like chinnese, another one develop the mark later on her adolecent years.
I have not done my DNA but I am very curios to do it. I was a blond girl,
light skin that I pass as american, and if I speak they think I am
Eurpoean. No one believes I am mexican either.
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New DNA results for Gutierrez