Hi Theresa, If I understand your comments correctly, I would like to tell you my experience. All Mexicans did not come from Spain. When the Spanish came over to South and Central America, they were met by 'Indians' just like in North America. There are people in both South and Central America that are of Spanish ancestry, some of other European ancestries, some are of Indian ancestry and some a mixture of all. Their DNA might reflect this. It is a common mistake to generalize and think that all Mexicans are of Spanish ancestry. If you look at them you can see the differences and easily pick out the ones that are more of the Indian ancestry. These are mostly shorter, darker and have dark eyes and hair. There will be exceptions due to mixtures. My mother's aunt married a Mexican of Spanish ancestry and their sons were white and tall. The grandchildren are white, light haired and blue eyed. She was from Puerto Rico. My father is American and my mother is from Puerto Rico of Spanish ancestry. Yet the mtDNA on her Puertorican father is A2 considered Amerindian or from the Taino Indians of the Carribean. His YDNA is R1b1b2 considered very European. We had no idea there was Indian blood in the family. This Spanish ancestry has a lot of blond, blue eyed people. This also should answer your comment about the NA DNA not showing if you have Spanish or Portuguese DNA. My grandfather had both. I do not mean to cause a problem but I just wanted to clarify this generalization. Sincerely, Evelyn On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Dan M <mygen2@d-matney.com> wrote: > I think it is good to open all avenues of the DNA on this list this week. > Next Sat, we can move it back to the DNA list and maybe some more > subscribers too. > People need to learn all the details, might as well have a topic and go > with > it. > Dan M > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joy King" <joyk@sc.rr.com> > To: <cherokeegene@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, June 06, 2014 11:42 AM > Subject: Re: [CherokeeGene] Native DNA > > > > Theresa, > > > > Have you looked at all of the projects? > > > http://nativeheritageproject.com/2014/05/26/native-american-dna-projects/ > > > > You can contact Roberta if you still have any questions. > > > > Joy > > =====*NOTICE THIS*===== > Cherokee genealogy; certain conversation is allowed to do genealogy; and > sort fact from (fiction). > > Rude people will be moderated asap! > List archive > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cherokeegene > please take non genealogy to Cherokee@rootsweb.com > Dual admin. > Dan and Joyce > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CHEROKEEGENE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I think there's a difference between Spaniards & Latino/Mexican. The Mexicans have Indian blood but also have Mayian in there too (which might also be considered indian to some extent) They are just as melted as the "white" people that a lot of them (Mexicans) will dis lol Alli :) -----Original Message----- From: cherokeegene-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:cherokeegene-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Evelyn Hutto Sent: Friday, June 6, 2014 5:53 PM To: cherokeegene@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [CherokeeGene] Native DNA Hi Theresa, If I understand your comments correctly, I would like to tell you my experience. All Mexicans did not come from Spain. When the Spanish came over to South and Central America, they were met by 'Indians' just like in North America. There are people in both South and Central America that are of Spanish ancestry, some of other European ancestries, some are of Indian ancestry and some a mixture of all. Their DNA might reflect this. It is a common mistake to generalize and think that all Mexicans are of Spanish ancestry. If you look at them you can see the differences and easily pick out the ones that are more of the Indian ancestry. These are mostly shorter, darker and have dark eyes and hair. There will be exceptions due to mixtures. My mother's aunt married a Mexican of Spanish ancestry and their sons were white and tall. The grandchildren are white, light haired and blue eyed. She was from Puerto Rico. My father is American and my mother is from Puerto Rico of Spanish ancestry. Yet the mtDNA on her Puertorican father is A2 considered Amerindian or from the Taino Indians of the Carribean. His YDNA is R1b1b2 considered very European. We had no idea there was Indian blood in the family. This Spanish ancestry has a lot of blond, blue eyed people. This also should answer your comment about the NA DNA not showing if you have Spanish or Portuguese DNA. My grandfather had both. I do not mean to cause a problem but I just wanted to clarify this generalization. Sincerely, Evelyn