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As a long time researcher of Los Altos genealogy, I can honestly say that in reality the majority of the population of Los Altos is really of old Spanish extraction, with the lingering possibility that they were crypto-Jews, hiding the secret all the while. I simply have never seen any evidence of Judios in alteno records. Now there were lots of indios, mestizos, mulatos (libres y esclavos), coyotes, lobos, and the usual assortment of castas.
Of the various example of actual Jewish lineage is that of the Ha-Levi family of Burgos, whose lineage later became part of the Cadena, later Zaldivar and On~ate lineages of Zacatecas, Nochistlan. Another is that of Mariana de Vera y Medina, wife of Conquistador
Gaspar de la Mota y Mena, and later poblador of Nueva Galicia around Guadalajara, Jalisco. Don~a Mariana was the daughter of Don Juan de Vera, a known Judio converso who later became a Catholic. Don Juan de Vera, was, if I remember correctly, a member of the Audiencia. Based
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