Biography

Ambar Díaz has completed 49 boxes in the Mystery Box Challenge.

Ambar Díaz competed with the Glorious Gingkos in the 2024 WikiGames.

Ambar Díaz has Puerto Rican ancestry.

Ambar Díaz has Irish ancestors.

Ambar Díaz has roots in the region now known as Hessen, Germany.

Ambar Díaz has roots in the region now known as Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.

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Ambar Díaz achieved the 16 For 16 award for completing 16 missions in our 2024 16 For 16 Challenge.

Ambar Díaz achieved the 15 For 15 award for completing 15 missions in our 2023 15 For 15 Challenge.

Ambar Díaz is a graduate of the US Black Heritage Project's PATH.

Ambar Díaz is a member of the Connectors Project.

Jean Marie Diaz was born in Ohio in 1967. She is the daughter of Luis Díaz Miranda and Margaret Tierney.^[1] Around 1970, the family moved to Ponce, Puerto Rico, where her younger brother was born. About 1972, the family moved back to Dayton where both children started school.

About 1977, to indulge a lifelong love of horses on the part of Margaret and Jean, the family acquired two Puerto Rican Paso Fino horses and subsequently moved to New Carlisle, Ohio to a ranch house with five acres of land and a barn. Foals followed.

In the summer of 1980, the family moved to Miami, Florida. Jean graduated from high school in 1985 and proceeded to spend two years at MIT (with summer breaks for internships at AT&T Bell Labs) before taking a break from academia, spending a two-year stint in California. She came back to Boston about 1989 where she took up breeding and showing Maine Coon cats before leaving permanently for California in 1992.

In California, she graduated with a BS in Biology from California State University in March 2006. Once she realized she could afford a horse if she gave up flying around the country to cat shows, she promptly acquired a rescue Arabian horse, and then another.

Ambar's 17 For 17 Tracker, 2025

Sources

1. ↑ Birth certificate from Montgomery County, Ohio. Certified copy in the possession of Ambar Díaz.

See also:

• Birth Certificate of Jean Marie Diaz, Registration 134-335 (1967), Ohio Division of Health, Division of Vital Statistics, Personal copy in the files of Jean Marie Diaz.

• Paternal relationship is confirmed by an AncestryDNA test match between Jean Marie Diaz and her father. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: parent-child, based on sharing 3,446 cM across 32 segments.
• Paternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between Ambar Díaz and DMFE, her 3rd cousin . Their most-recent common ancestors are Ignacio Silva (abt.1866-bef.1912) and Belén Fernández (abt.1861-1926), the great great grandparents of both Ambar Díaz and DMFE. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 2nd cousin, based on sharing 175 cM across 8 segments.
• Maternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between Ambar Díaz and CC, her 3rd cousin . Their most-recent common ancestors are John Kelly and Johanna Leahey, the great great grandparents of both Ambar Díaz and CC. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 2nd cousin once removed, based on sharing 141 cM across 6 segments.
• Maternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between Ambar Díaz and SJM, her 3rd cousin . Their most-recent common ancestors are Johannes Kohl (1839-1903) and Eva Elisabeth (Berg) Kohl (1844-1908), the great great grandparents of both Ambar Díaz and SJM. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 3rd cousin, based on sharing 49 cM across 3 segments.