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A few months ago, I got a new genetic group on 23andMe, basically this & the very recent AncestryDNA update confirms that I have legit Sephardic Jewish ancestry, likely I'm 1/64 or 1/32 Sephardic Jewish.
I'm 100% Colonial Mexican aka Chicano/Mexican-American (born in Northwestern California), to two Mexican immigrant parents, my paternal grandfather & my mother's maternal grandfather were both Spanish Criollos from Los Altos de Jalisco, & my paternal grandmother, maternal grandfather, & mother's...
As I'm visiting the Cape Mendocino (Cabo Mendocino) area in the small village of Petrolia, I'm honoring my very distant Filipino ancestry (coming from the Manila Galleons).
Cabo Mendocino has been a landmark since the 16th century, when Manila Galleons followed the prevailing westerlies across...