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The current version on this web site was downloaded from Ancestry on 18 Apr 2024 and contains 3,227 people in 1.040 families with 884 media files.. All living people are privatized. So search for your most recent deceased ancestor and not for yourself.
Because this tree is updated in full with each new snapshot, the URL for any specific individual will almost certainly change with each new snapshot. So if you created a bookmark for a specific person, you will most likely find that bookmark takes you to someone completely different at some point. So it is best to bookmark the home page, which will not change.
At this time, Josie's father Santos Elizalde's ancestry goes back the furthest for verified and documented generations, to the de Ribera/Rivera family which came from Spain to the island of Espanola and then to Mexico in the 1500's. There are trees on Ancestry.com that take that line further back to Spain, but I have not found documentation to be certain of these connections. So the records in this database only go back as far as I have been able to find documentation to verify them.
GENEALOGICAL DNA TESTING Many of Josie's descendants and relatives have DNA tested, mostly with Family Tree DNA's Family Finder test.
- If you are a relative who has DNA-tested at any company, it is extremely important that you upload your DNA results to the free GEDmatch website to compare with people no matter what company tested them. Then please use the top right "Info" pulldown's "Contact Us" to send me an e-mail to let me know your GEDmatch kit number so we can include you in the analysis.
- If you have not tested but would like to, then please use the top right "Info" pulldown's "Contact Us" to send me an e-mail for information.
- The Mama Pepa DNA Project is for all descendants and relatives of Josie's maternal grandmother Josefa (Ruiz) Salazar. Click here for the project web page.
Josie's direct maternal line has been tested for mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and is haplogroup D1. The specific mutations seem to conform to the indigenous Nahua, Mayo or Otomi people in southeast Mexico, although this research is still in the early stages, so that this is not certain. (Click here for more.)
Do not assume that standard spellings were in effect. Standard spellings did not come about until the mid to late 1800's. And even today, people often write down names the way that they think they may be spelled, without checking to see what the correct spelling is. So just because one person is de Ribera and another is de Rivera does not mean that they are not related or even the same person.
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15 July 1582 Marriage: de Ribera=de Contreras
The document that appears at the top of every page is the earliest document that I have thus far found for Josie's ancestors, on her father's side. It is the 15 July 1582 marriage record of Francisco Martin de Ribera and Cathalina de Contreras at Santa Veracruz in what is now Mexico City. He was from an important family and received a power of attorney to represent a very wealthy man before the Viceroy. His parents had come to Mexico from the island of Espanola (now the Dominican Republic). The family appears to have been multiply-related to survivors of the ill-fated de Soto expedition in what is now the southern United States, since many of the surnames of the survivors appear among the ancestors of that period. However, I have not confirmed any connections yet.