Your Y-DNA has been identified

Hello Ed,

Do you have anymore infor or direction of Basques and the gremans brought over and how?
And does this place Minnillas or this Pic below ring your bell?
Big Thanks

Robert

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From: "ed@serros.net"
To: general@lists.nuestrosranchos.com
Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 5:12:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Your Y-DNA has been identified

"Here it is, it's R1b1b2, marker M269..
Anyone in Nuestros Ranchos with these markers??

Alicia"

Alicia,
I have the same markers as above. Unfortunately, they are very common markers in Europe and have not helped me much in my Serros genealogy quest. My extended family is from the Northern Jalisco/Southern Zacatecas area, an area they left in ~1916. Sadly for the purpose of genealogy, the Serros/Cerros line appears to be an illegitimate line so I can only go back so far in this particular line.
I agree that the markers suggest a Basque lineage; I did not say prove a Basque lineage. Clearly, as I search the 1600 and 1700 records of Mezquitic, Jalisco and Valparaiso, Zacatecas, I find surnames that are Basque in origin. My reading sources state that the Basques (and Germans) were brought over for their knowledge in mining. One of the largest silver mines in our area was of course Bolaños. In the mid and late 1700's the mines of this town made many locals and investors very wealthy.

Ed