Sephardic connections

_http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/Diaspora.html_
(http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/Diaspora.html) This link gives
a very brief overview of the Jewish Diaspora during the first century.

I am a double Villarreal from my father's side of the family, with surnames
of Trevino, Elizondo and others attached to me. One of my male cousins did
the DNA test...and like others have said....it appears we have the Jewish link.

When I brought this subject up to my aunt, she said that she knew all along.
In fact, a Torah was found in one of the ancestral homes..in between the
adobe walls...in Coahuila (Villarreal and Trevinos had come from Nuevo Leon
around 1830). Is this true, or family folklore...I will never know. But she did
not deny our Jewish ancestry.

My grandmother was the only person in the whole town who declared herself a
Protestant in the census. I wonder if this was her way of somehow rebelling
against the Catholic Church...guess I will never really know.

Esperanza
Chicagoland area

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