Question of the Week: Do you have Spanish roots?

Question

Do you have any ancestors from Spain? 

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My dna says, im related to peoples of portugal.

Answer 1

Hello , this is my 1st time on G2G forum..... my husbands 3x great grandfather was Alejandro [ Alexander Garcia [Garcie ].He was at the Battle of Waterloo under the Duke of Wellington and was in charge of the cart containing the Public money and Documents pertaining to the 16th Light Horse Dragoons. If anyone has anymore info please contact me ... thank you.

Answer 2

Yes, but it has been a while - my last Spanish ancestor was Agnese de Argote (1570-1612), the daughter of a Spaniard who settled in Italy.

Answer 3

Yup.  Wish someone could check records for Pradillo or Logroño.

Answer 4

As far as I know, I don't have any Spanish ancestors in my family tree, but I did pick up some Iberian Peninsula (Spanish and Portuguese) in my DNA  test results in June 2018.

Answer 5

My dna says im related to the peoples of portugal.

Answer 6

My maternal grandmother was born Martha Ann SPAIN b1881 in Halifax Yorkshire but all her ancestors back to the1400's lived in Canterbury!  Unfortunately I have not managed to find out where in Spain did they originate nor why so many of them moved to this country?

Betty Reid

Answer 7

My paternal ancestry goes through New Mexico and Mexico back to Spain.  It's hard to trace back to Spain unless you have a record for their passage or they had some problems with the Inquisition.  That's how I found my ancestors from the Canary Islands.

Answer 8

Yes, I have ancestors from Spain. My DNA is 89.3% Iberian. My maternal great-grandfather, A. Corral y Fragoso, was born in La Coruna, Galicia, Spain. My maternal great-great-grandparents, J. Campino y Gonzalez and P. Morales y Juliana, were born in the Canary Islands, Spain. My paternal great-grandfather, J. B. Razquin y Zuasti or Zugasti was born in Navarra, Spain. I also have relatives from Catalonia, Spain on my mother's side, but I do not have information on them. My four grandparents were from Cuba.

Answer 9

All of my family up to my great-grandparents have fully Spanish surnames, and most of my DNA is from Spain too.