DNA Celtic and Spain
Greetings Robert,
Very interesting stuff, indeed. As it turns out, my mother's maternal Santelices and paternal Onate sides are both Basque. Santelices being Basque was a recent discovery, whereas Onate is well known. About 20 years ago I visited Onate in the Basque region of Spain and was blown away as to the total separation they feel with Spain. They don't claim to be Spanish, they told my mother and myself on various occasions that we were not Spanish, but of the "pais Vasco". In the town of Onate, all public signs, announcements, TV, and radio are in Basque. Basque is totally different and not at all understandable from Spanish. Many words were extremely long and appeared like German! Though all the Basque spoke Spanish, they chose not to speak it amongst themselves, but were kind enough to converse with us in Spanish. The occasional Spanish words used in their conversation were those referring to the government or products from central Spain. I keep a Basque radio station
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Hi all,
I descend from the NAVARRO family from Coahuila, altough according to one source my great-grandfather VICTORIANO NAVARRO came from OCOTLÁN, JALISCO (born about 1808; son of MARIA ENCARNACIÓN SEPEDA & DOMINGO NAVARRO; greatson of FERNANDA SARAVIA & JOSÉ MARÍA NAVARRO and of RAFAEL SEPEDA & ROSA SAUCEDO), however so far I have not confimed this Jalisco connection with any other documents. If anybody has any furhter information please let me know, I would really appreciate it.
I got the Y-DNA test from NatGeo/FamilytreeDNA and we belong to the R1b1b2 Haplogroup. The FamilytreeDNA page has an "Ancestral Origins" section where they compare one's results to their database. According to therm:
-Percentages above 2% are considered significant indicators of your family’s origins.
-Percentages above 4% may be interpreted as highly significant indicators of your family’s origins.
I don't have any matches on 25, 37 or 64 markers, but I have some on 12 markers (exact and one-step mutation results).
On 12 markers, exact matches, none of them is above 0.1%, but on one-step mutations the highest % matches I have are 2% matches with the database from NORTHEN IRELAND (10 out of 493); compared to the database from IRELAND I only have 1% matches (103 out of 10,051).
My results can be found at Gary Felix's Mexican DNA webpage and at Ysearch. There you can find other results from NAVARRO families fron JALISCO which are also R1b1b2 but that do not match each other nor my own.
I was also remembering some Spaniards from Irish origin. The last Viceroy of New Spain was JUAN O'DONOJÚ and one of the leaders of Chile's Independence War was BERNARDO O'HIGGINS.
Warmest regards,
Victoriano Navarro
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DNA Celtic and Spain