# DNA testing  advances

**URL:** https://lingram.top/t/dna-testing-advances/10797
**Category:** Historical Archives
**Created:** [February 10, 2006, 11:59pm UTC](https://lingram.top/t/dna-testing-advances/10797 "2006-02-10T23:59:01Z")
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### Author: ![Nuestros\_Ranchos](https://lingram.top/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/a4c791/32.png) [@Nuestros\_Ranchos](https://lingram.top/u/Nuestros_Ranchos)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2006, 11:59pm UTC](https://lingram.top/t/dna-testing-advances/10797/1 "2006-02-10T23:59:01Z")

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Linda,

 

I saw that show the other evening, too. My husband watched too, and he was amazed. It was especially interesting to me, since I am discovering just how many mulato lines I have on my father's side from Zacatecas. It should be interesting to whites too to find out that they may have as much as 11% African blood as that genetecist found out (and his mother told him to stop talking about it-he looked nothing but white), and that someone like the professor that narrated the show had 50% white blood even though anyone looking at him would say he was black. When Oprah saw the documents for her black slave ancestors and she cried, I cried too. It was interesting too that blacks had Asian blood too. 

 

My father's Spanish ancestors, the Olagues and Tinajeros (Felix/Suriano) were all mulatos by the mid and late 1700's. 

 

I really want to send for those DNA kits now,

 

Emilie Garcia

Port Orchard, WA ---

> ----- Original Message ----- 
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> **From:** [Erlinda Castanon-Long](mailto:longsjourney@... "mailto:longsjourney@...") 
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> **To:** [ranchos@yahoogroups.com](mailto:ranchos@yahoogroups.com "mailto:ranchos@yahoogroups.com") 
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> **Sent:** Friday, February 10, 2006 3:28 PM
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> **Subject:** [ranchos] DNA testing advances
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> The public service chanel here in Everett, Chanel 9 has a show on the   
> genealogy search for Blacks to find thier genetic makeup. Since I have   
> traced 3 Mulato lines in 3 different states, Jalisco, Zacatecas and   
> Michoacan I was very interested in what they had to say. They shared   
> the fact that the Portuguese controlled the slave trade and that in   
> the time frame I'm looking at, mid 1600's the odds are the slaves were   
> from Angola. They shared the major advancments they are making daily   
> in genetic testing now being able to isolate genes to find what   
> percentages we are of different ethnic backgrounds. I find this all   
> very exciting and hope if you get the chance that you will get to   
> watch this very informative show. Even if you have no black ancestors   
> the sharing of genetic information and genealogy research methods is   
> great and well worth watching.  
> Linda in Everett

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