Those are all my blood ancestors. All of those names, and last names are in my family tree. I've been working on my family tree for 2 years now. Every single person that you talked about is In my tree. I have well over a thousand people that I have researched documented and can show proof of each of them being in my family tree most of them being grandparents. I can go all the way back some to BC era
I am very interested in understanding the history of the Maestas family in New Mexico. My understanding is that this name is very common in New Mexico. There is a record of a Mestas traveling with Don Peralta to establish Santa Fe. Somehow the name changed to Maestas, and from what I can see this name only exists in the United States.
Andrew O. Meastas (RIP) was related to Maximilian of the Maximilian land grant (modern day Pueblo Co) there is a monument outside Pueblo that honors his family (namely his mother) maybe some info in that area would help you in your efforts. PS Fun Facts: Maximilian was known as the last Hapsburg (Prince)! 😉
I'm fascinated with the Caceres surname in New Spain, I wonder if Juan Ruiz de Caceres was related to the prgenitor of the Casares surname in north Mexico/Texas?
Thank you y muchas gracias Jose et al for doing all this work! I have been searching for my family info on this side until recently has been a huge mystery. I am excited to visit NM soon! I will say to someone's comment - my ancestor is not showing my full native American, Spanish or Mexican dna which is disappointing but I would like to try to join the NMGS project.
I’m so glad I found this. My name is Nathaniel Luján/ Mestizo my family originated from New Mexico and from what I’ve found is they all lived in the La Canada, San Juan rio arriba area. I’m stumped on my family. The name I’m stumped on is Lucas Lujan, father of Damacio lujan who then was the father of candelario Lujan. I need help finding this line. Also the atencio and Torres lines both born in nm but marriage was in southern Colorado el grita I think. Where can I find this info
My long jokes that were pretty much all related to everybody in New Mexico if they're native or Hispanic because they're really all one of the same. But you know while the rest of the world was still trying to figure out how to get across the Atlantic our ancestors were already sitting in the new world building schools hospitals canals. Building important things that people still make till this day. That's something that's we have to promote more of you know something to be proud of. Even on the native side they built those elaborate prabos the big chimneys. Canyon. When part of the world was still leaving with dirt and mud floors our ancestors were building high rises LOL.
By the way anyone know where I can get a good replica of a Spanish sword when I was younger I remember one of my relatives used to have a helmet of a conquistador and a sword. I think it was my grandma. And now I think I know where it came from. You walked in the house there was two pictures of Jesus and I think Mary was on the other side with the lights you know what I'm talking about the crosses and then he walked in and where we hung our coats that little entryway there was this armor.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and information. I recognize many of the names in my ancestry. What ( kinda) surprised me is the mention of the Lucero de Goday, that's a lot of mine, that I'm most familiar with but it seems like it's much later in the timeline, what's a few hundred years in the grand total, right? Here I am in 2022 a melting pot of lineage. I knew I had a percentage of Native in my bloodline, but was surprised at the high percentage, Now I understand, also Portuguese. All the long established resident names are mine too, Archuleta, Martin, Martinez, Duran.......many others, just wow! Indeed, you have reinforced my delight and feeling honored by my centuries of documented Native and European heritage. I appreciate your hard work in puzzling out the family lines and history. Again, thank you.
you sound mad we love our heritage/culture..natives lived side by side w/ iberians before your people got here, you mad? guess what, somewhere down your ancestral line, other people enslaved your other ancestors, so on and so forth
I’ve had an amazing turn out doing my family genealogy tree from my paternal grandfather who was native to the state of chihuahua Mexico (it was called “la nueva Vizcaya). I come a far back to trace several 13 th great-grandfathers from the late 1400’s 🤯. And my 8th great-grandfather Juan Dominguez de Mendoza born in New Sapin 1627 christening in 30 May 1627 and died in 1693 was one Calvary solder that was Sent from the Viceroy to settle and colonized New Mexico
Congratulations on tracing your ancestos so far back. One thing you might want to do is have your dad, or brother, or uncle (on your dad's side), or even a nephew do a Y-DNA test.
Pretty much everyone who’s Hispanic in New Spain has both Spanish and Native American ancestors. This was the policy of the Spanish crown and Catholic Church since 1521!
Anyone from New Mexico doesn't think that they're more native than they are is delusional. There are some more Spanish family lines but eventually over time they made it with other people. When they did the DNA in our families first and aunt then more cousins. We knew it that we were mostly Spanish and that there was native DNA in there. So there was no big surprise this. The ad mixtures that they have in there there were some surprises the one that's Far East. And sub Saharan Africa but there were slaves and there were free black men that came. And there were Asians that came sometimes as well. But when people ask me what we are now because of the dna test I simply say take a look at my face I am literally the mixture of all the dominant races on the planet. And I had one person say even black I says even black. I get funny looks on that one. It's true but what I find really interesting about this is how much the percentage of Spanish DNA is now in a lot of people in modern New Mexico when they were raised as Spanish spoke Spanish or they were native. Because according to research I was looking at from the Max Planck Institute and I think the National Geographic people who've been testing DNA as well we in New Mexico that have more Spanish DNA have more Spanish DNA now than those living in modern day Spain. But like I said many of us knew that we were mixed.. I mean I asked this just came before even the English came.
New Spain included Filipinas (the Philippines) and we also got around 200,000 African slaves. It makes sense. The Spanish empire was open minded and legalized interracial marriage since 1521. We were ahead of the Anglos by around 450 years.
@LewisC-t1f Spanish women kid get a divorce going back over a thousand years in Spain before they came here so when Republicans say let's use old laws I said yes please let's use the Old colonial Spanish laws. Because they gave women rights to property. One of the biggest land grants ever was called the Elena g a l l e g o s land grant and it was granted in New Spain when women in the rest of the United States at the time women in the US part of North America cannot own property in their own name or inherited in Spanish women could and what's now Mexico and the entire west. That's why they used to make fun of Spanish women are on TV they say oh that lady she's hot-headed because a woman could do pretty much what a man could do in the New Spain world but even an old Spain women could still own land and they were Queens
First of all, congratulations, it was a great conference. However, I want to mention something about the Castas and the Canary Islands. Castas were not different status each. Actually, technically, all castas were lumped together, and they all got mixed with one another (in fact, many of those castas didn't even exist, their names in paintings, but not recorded in any document). This would evolve and change, eventually, but it is very tricky because they didn't remain the same during the 300 hundred years of the Spanish empire. Quality in reality had little to do with racial stuff (at least not how we understand race now a days), and a lot more to do with your lineage and family, which is in no way a particularity of Europeans, just take a look to different tribes in the American continent and how they thought of themselves as the "chosen race", as opposed to other indigenous groups. Of course, when you get two group of people who look very different, superficial stuff such as skin colour of facial features do play a role in diferenciation, but the Castas thing is pretty tricky, and yet, it is not much different from what you get in any ancient society, including the different social status in the very Native American societies. Also, I want to add that at the time, "wealthy" people in the Canary Islands were literally of fully mainland Spain descend (for the most part, though some were already mixed), and not what we would consider "mestizo" (since technically they are not even different races, not even by racist scientific standards in the 19th century).
North african genetic markers are not something alien to Iberian Peninsula, being present in that region since very very ancient times. North Africans today changed their genetic composition since antiquity, and if you want to know how north africans looked like, just search for reconstructions, and descriptions of guanches from the Canary Islands. North African genes are caucasian genes. I strongly disagree with the notion that Iberians were "already mestizos", just because they had north african ancestry (most Iberians have very few of it, and the maximum number is around 10-15%), but regardless I think it is unwise to assume that those genes present in Iberia are from "another race".
So glad these are being filmed and put on TH-cam. We don't want to lose this knowledge.
Those are all my blood ancestors. All of those names, and last names are in my family tree. I've been working on my family tree for 2 years now. Every single person that you talked about is In my tree. I have well over a thousand people that I have researched documented and can show proof of each of them being in my family tree most of them being grandparents. I can go all the way back some to BC era
I also have these names in my ancestry from my dad's mom's side.
We're cousin have them in my family tree
Same lol
wow if you would be willing to share with the NMGS project or email me? That is amazing work. I have family traced to these linages.
Same girl were probably primas @Jaharali1
I am very interested in understanding the history of the Maestas family in New Mexico. My understanding is that this name is very common in New Mexico. There is a record of a Mestas traveling with Don Peralta to establish Santa Fe. Somehow the name changed to Maestas, and from what I can see this name only exists in the United States.
I descend from them as well out of Santa Cruz de la Canada, good day to you!
Andrew O. Meastas (RIP) was related to Maximilian of the Maximilian land grant (modern day Pueblo Co) there is a monument outside Pueblo that honors his family (namely his mother) maybe some info in that area would help you in your efforts.
PS
Fun Facts:
Maximilian was known as the last Hapsburg (Prince)!
😉
I'm fascinated with the Caceres surname in New Spain, I wonder if Juan Ruiz de Caceres was related to the prgenitor of the Casares surname in north Mexico/Texas?
Thank you y muchas gracias Jose et al for doing all this work! I have been searching for my family info on this side until recently has been a huge mystery. I am excited to visit NM soon! I will say to someone's comment - my ancestor is not showing my full native American, Spanish or Mexican dna which is disappointing but I would like to try to join the NMGS project.
I’m so glad I found this. My name is Nathaniel Luján/ Mestizo my family originated from New Mexico and from what I’ve found is they all lived in the La Canada, San Juan rio arriba area. I’m stumped on my family. The name I’m stumped on is Lucas Lujan, father of Damacio lujan who then was the father of candelario Lujan. I need help finding this line. Also the atencio and Torres lines both born in nm but marriage was in southern Colorado el grita I think. Where can I find this info
My long jokes that were pretty much all related to everybody in New Mexico if they're native or Hispanic because they're really all one of the same. But you know while the rest of the world was still trying to figure out how to get across the Atlantic our ancestors were already sitting in the new world building schools hospitals canals. Building important things that people still make till this day. That's something that's we have to promote more of you know something to be proud of. Even on the native side they built those elaborate prabos the big chimneys. Canyon. When part of the world was still leaving with dirt and mud floors our ancestors were building high rises LOL.
lol..The more I learn I too feel like Im related to everyone in New Mexico. S
Very interesting, I am Spanish and part of my family moved to Cuba in the early 1700’s.
Amazing how they describe people
This was great thank you!
By the way anyone know where I can get a good replica of a Spanish sword when I was younger I remember one of my relatives used to have a helmet of a conquistador and a sword. I think it was my grandma. And now I think I know where it came from. You walked in the house there was two pictures of Jesus and I think Mary was on the other side with the lights you know what I'm talking about the crosses and then he walked in and where we hung our coats that little entryway there was this armor.
I wonder if Blas Martin Serrano of New Mexico born in 1677 is related to me? I have alot of Serrano's in my line going back to 1600
Up the Spanish Empire and Catholic Church! Arriba el Imperio Español! Viva Cristo Rey!! 🇪🇸 ✝️ ❤️
I'd love to find out which 27.3% Native American I belong to
Thank you very much relative these were some of my relatives and my wife's we are all related in some way
I've read that Juan Bartholome Dominguez de Mendoza was the father of Juana Dominguez. Has anyone else found this information?
Is part 2 available on video?
Most Dominguez people from New Mexico are related to the Tome Dominguez de Mendoza family that arrived in New Mexico from Mexico in the mid 1600’s
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and information. I recognize many of the names in my ancestry. What ( kinda) surprised me is the mention of the Lucero de Goday, that's a lot of mine, that I'm most familiar with but it seems like it's much later in the timeline, what's a few hundred years in the grand total, right? Here I am in 2022 a melting pot of lineage.
I knew I had a percentage of Native in my bloodline, but was surprised at the high percentage, Now I understand, also Portuguese. All the long established resident names are mine too, Archuleta, Martin, Martinez, Duran.......many others, just wow!
Indeed, you have reinforced my delight and feeling honored by my centuries of documented Native and European heritage. I appreciate your hard work in puzzling out the family lines and history. Again, thank you.
so your ancestors enslaved your ancestors
you sound mad we love our heritage/culture..natives lived side by side w/ iberians before your people got here, you mad? guess what, somewhere down your ancestral line, other people enslaved your other ancestors, so on and so forth
I’ve had an amazing turn out doing my family genealogy tree from my paternal grandfather who was native to the state of chihuahua Mexico (it was called “la nueva Vizcaya). I come a far back to trace several 13 th great-grandfathers from the late 1400’s 🤯. And my 8th great-grandfather Juan Dominguez de Mendoza born in New Sapin 1627 christening in 30 May 1627 and died in 1693 was one Calvary solder that was Sent from the Viceroy to settle and colonized New Mexico
Congratulations on tracing your ancestos so far back. One thing you might want to do is have your dad, or brother, or uncle (on your dad's side), or even a nephew do a Y-DNA test.
How do I submit my family’s DNA for this project? My ancestors are from New Mexico and I recognize some names from my family tree
Which project are you wanting to join? There are several.
The famous Geronimo a great uncle
Pretty much everyone who’s Hispanic in New Spain has both Spanish and Native American ancestors. This was the policy of the Spanish crown and Catholic Church since 1521!
Omg Same here, just did DNA test, I'm direct Bloodline to Cristobal Dominguez, Manuel Dominguez
Anyone from New Mexico doesn't think that they're more native than they are is delusional. There are some more Spanish family lines but eventually over time they made it with other people. When they did the DNA in our families first and aunt then more cousins. We knew it that we were mostly Spanish and that there was native DNA in there. So there was no big surprise this. The ad mixtures that they have in there there were some surprises the one that's Far East. And sub Saharan Africa but there were slaves and there were free black men that came. And there were Asians that came sometimes as well. But when people ask me what we are now because of the dna test I simply say take a look at my face I am literally the mixture of all the dominant races on the planet. And I had one person say even black I says even black. I get funny looks on that one. It's true but what I find really interesting about this is how much the percentage of Spanish DNA is now in a lot of people in modern New Mexico when they were raised as Spanish spoke Spanish or they were native. Because according to research I was looking at from the Max Planck Institute and I think the National Geographic people who've been testing DNA as well we in New Mexico that have more Spanish DNA have more Spanish DNA now than those living in modern day Spain. But like I said many of us knew that we were mixed.. I mean I asked this just came before even the English came.
DNA CAN MANUPALATED.. DNA IS BS
New Spain included Filipinas (the Philippines) and we also got around 200,000 African slaves. It makes sense. The Spanish empire was open minded and legalized interracial marriage since 1521. We were ahead of the Anglos by around 450 years.
@LewisC-t1f Spanish women kid get a divorce going back over a thousand years in Spain before they came here so when Republicans say let's use old laws I said yes please let's use the Old colonial Spanish laws. Because they gave women rights to property. One of the biggest land grants ever was called the Elena g a l l e g o s land grant and it was granted in New Spain when women in the rest of the United States at the time women in the US part of North America cannot own property in their own name or inherited in Spanish women could and what's now Mexico and the entire west. That's why they used to make fun of Spanish women are on TV they say oh that lady she's hot-headed because a woman could do pretty much what a man could do in the New Spain world but even an old Spain women could still own land and they were Queens
SERRANO 11:20
First of all, congratulations, it was a great conference.
However, I want to mention something about the Castas and the Canary Islands.
Castas were not different status each. Actually, technically, all castas were lumped together, and they all got mixed with one another (in fact, many of those castas didn't even exist, their names in paintings, but not recorded in any document). This would evolve and change, eventually, but it is very tricky because they didn't remain the same during the 300 hundred years of the Spanish empire. Quality in reality had little to do with racial stuff (at least not how we understand race now a days), and a lot more to do with your lineage and family, which is in no way a particularity of Europeans, just take a look to different tribes in the American continent and how they thought of themselves as the "chosen race", as opposed to other indigenous groups. Of course, when you get two group of people who look very different, superficial stuff such as skin colour of facial features do play a role in diferenciation, but the Castas thing is pretty tricky, and yet, it is not much different from what you get in any ancient society, including the different social status in the very Native American societies. Also, I want to add that at the time, "wealthy" people in the Canary Islands were literally of fully mainland Spain descend (for the most part, though some were already mixed), and not what we would consider "mestizo" (since technically they are not even different races, not even by racist scientific standards in the 19th century).
11:24
Until today
House of reign craig childs
Great turns out I'm a descendant of a blakes lottaburger
"Indians?" Which Indians? Apache, Ute, Navajo or any of the dozens of bands associated with those tribes? Indians! Gad!
Which Spanish?? Galicians? Andalusians? Castilians? Asturians? Etc etc
North african genetic markers are not something alien to Iberian Peninsula, being present in that region since very very ancient times. North Africans today changed their genetic composition since antiquity, and if you want to know how north africans looked like, just search for reconstructions, and descriptions of guanches from the Canary Islands. North African genes are caucasian genes. I strongly disagree with the notion that Iberians were "already mestizos", just because they had north african ancestry (most Iberians have very few of it, and the maximum number is around 10-15%), but regardless I think it is unwise to assume that those genes present in Iberia are from "another race".
A huge part of Canary Islands have North African dna. It makes sense for many of us in New Spain to have it also.
JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE A SPANISH SUR NAME DOESNT MEAN YOUR SPANISH AMERICAN. OR MEXICAN..