That's strange that you were rejected. Right now all they ask for is
a 4 generation family tree to accompany a submission. It may be that
you were rejected from a particularly restrictive research project
back then. My research has only taken me back to 1850 in
Guadalajara. I haven't heard if I was accepted or rejected. I
didn't know they rejected any body. That is very interesting.

Linda

On Jul 30, 2006, at 12:57 PM, research-
request@lists.nuestrosranchos.org wrote:

> Message: 16
> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:10:08 -0700
> From: "Emilie Garcia"
> Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Mexico DNA study announced
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> Linda (Romero),
>
> Yes, as Ernie says, this is the Brigham Young U. project. (Brigham
> Young U. is LDS). I had wanted to participate when it started, if
> only to help them build a database. I would not have gotten any
> personal results, only a report on migration of our species. They
> had us (my husband and myself) go to a community center and present
> our family trees and my husband and I were rejected because we had
> (and still have) gaps in our first five generations. Funny, I
> found everyone back in the late 1700s and early 1800s, but maybe
> the Revolution caused the loss of a lot of later records in
> Mexico. The oldest records must have been in a safer place in a
> central well-guarded location.
>
> Emilie Garcia
> Port Orchard, WA --
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