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Kidnappings


By Aida Garralda - Posted on 17 December 2007

Dear Fellow Researchers:

I was surprised to find out that kidnappings were not that unusual. Our ggrandmother was supposedly "stolen" from her parents by a foreigner who was either an engineer or delivered the payroll to the "Mines"

My ggrandmother was from Chihuahua and her parents name might have been"de la Mora or de la Moral". She was pregnant with my grandmother "Isabel" when her "kidnapper disappeared. .

My grandmother's father disappeared before she was born and her mother died when she was 4 so she was raised by the servants who gave her the name of Morales.

Her father (the foreigner ) supposedly had z's,x's and k's in his surname and my grandmother looked like she could be Russian or Ukranian.

I took the DNA (genographic project) hoping to discover what her ethnicity was but as of yet no matches have been found. I am Haplogroup X.

Anyone have any suggestions as to how I could trace my grandmothers roots either for her mother or her father?

Thank you,

Aida Garralda
garralda@cox.net