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Dear Primos:

You will find in the April issue of Somos Primos eleven articles with DNA information. I think you will conclude that those of us in the Americas with Spanish heritage, connect with every racial and cultural group in the world. Wonderful to observe that many Latinos have being moved, inspired, and directed to search out family roots. We now have physical proof through DNA of those some time surprising global connections, however, evidence that we all . . . . really are connected.

Once we are convinced of our brotherhood, the next step is forgiveness of historic injustices, and then work together to solve current problems, instead of "cursing the past".

An example of a historic event whose purpose is increased understanding:
April 16, 1803, the Battle of the Bay of San Diego in California.

In 1803 California was under the governance of Spain. Spanish soldiers were stationed at Fort Guijarros on Coronado North Island. Spain was attempting to keep foreign ships sailing in the Pacific Ocean, from landing on the California coast.

The Anniversary of the Battle of San Diego Bay, remembers a historic event in which an English-speaking crew was attempting to engage in smuggling. History is clarified, the Spanish presence acknowledged, and historic adversaries joined together to present the past in unity.
Collaboration between the U.S. Navy and Spanish representatives from the Casa de Espana is mounting the 213th event. [Included under California in the issue.]

I am convinced that as more of the general public becomes aware of the early Spanish presence in the building of the United States, more unity will result.

God bless America, Mimi

UNITED STATES
Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States by Felipe Fernández-Armesto U.S. now the world’s second-largest Spanish-speaking nation “La leyenda negra en Alemania y los Países Bajos. El patio trasero suramericano”
Hispanic Texans: Journey from Empire to Democracy Latino Americans, Shared Orange Heritage

Latino Museum Studies Program
Mixed Marriages Causing US: Hispanics, Asians to Integrate Faster by Dora Mekouar DNA Sharing by Somos Primos readers The Challenge that Chicanada face

Brad Pitt is joining Disney to tell the story of Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa.
Jovita Idar: Journalism Pioneer
Alicia Dickerson Montemayor, civil rights activist G.I. Forum, LULAC Protest "Whites Only" Normanna Cemetery

Six Young Women Help Launch NCLR “Entre Mujeres” Program U.S. National Anthem sung by 500 students in Kentucky high-rise hotel.
Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs - NumbersUSA.com Real time U.S. Government spending clock.

HERITAGE PROJECTS
Meet the Charro Mexican Cowboys Fighting to Save the Lost Art and Traditions of Mexican
Horsemanship by Antonio Gomez Texas Connection to the American Revolution, March 2, Meeting,
Topic: SPAR, Spanish Presence in Americas Roots Colonial collection of the Durango municipal archive online

HISTORIC TIDBITS
NPR Latino USA
March 19th, 1697: Spanish priest and chronicler of Texas enters Franciscan order Gaspar de Portola de California, Olivdado Países que pertenecieron a "México" (Nueva España) Biography.com

HISPANIC LEADERS
Dr. Miguel Encinias: Combat Aviator, April 8th, 1923 - February 20,
2016
Jose Garcia Pantoja: Paleographer, November 1, 1927 - March 15, 2016 Sgt. Rudy Garcia: President, LA Chapter, 11th Airborne Division Assn.
March 8, 2016
Daniel James Ramos: Social and Political Activist October 11, 1945 to March 11, 2016.

LATINO PATRIOTS
Santiago Erevia, Medal of Honor Recipient passed away Vietnam POWs . . . . 40 years later My Friend, Eugene (Gene) Treasrau by Jose M. Pena Living Through the Tet Offensive by Jose M. Pena

EARLY LATINO PATRIOTS
April 2, 2016: Symposium in Honor of Bernardo de Galvez, Rice University, Houston Albert Seguin Gonzales receives the Sam Houston Award The 'Other' European Ally of the Continental Army, Part 1 of 3 by Hon.
Edward F. Butler, Sr.

SURNAMES
Juan and Vicente de Zaldivar, The Nephews by Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint Descendants of Joseph "Jose" de Urrutia, Juana de Dios de Urrutia, and Ignacio Gonzalez Ynclan

DNA
[DNA] Chromosomes, Genes and Inheritance 101 [DNA] The majority of people in the British Isles are actually descended from the Spanish [DNA] Oldest ever human genome sequence may rewrite human history [DNA] The Races of Humanity by Richard McCulloch

FAMILY HISTORY
Create a Family Keepstake
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Diccionario de Abreviaturas Novohispanas Vast FamilySearch.org Collection of Mexico Ancestor Records Continues to Grow

EDUCATION
Growing Critically Conscious Teachers by Angela Valenzuela Dr. Cirenio Rodriguez shares life experiences that shaped him Latino Role Models Success

CULTURE
Television host Johnny Canales to receive his own star on the Las Vegas Walk of Stars The Mexican Revolution Corridas, 1910-1920 Nopal en La Frente by Cirenio A. Rodriguez
Film: Who am I? Wisdom from the Bones, featuring Author/Poet Luis Javier Rodriguez

BOOKS, PRINT MEDIA, and the WEB
Latino Reads, Inspiring Conversations ~ Great Authors & Leaders Daily Good News that Inspires Libros para Latinos: Int'l Latino Book Awards Somos en Escritos Boulder County Latino History Project Raza Rising, Chicanos in North Texas by Richard J. Gonzales We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st Century America

ORANGE COUNTY, CA
April 9th: SHHAR, Dr. Vicki Ruiz, "Empire of Dreams"
April 16th: A Story to Tell: Family History Fair!
Cesar Chavez Sculpture Installation at Santiago Canyon College The Education of Mexican Education of Mexican Students in Orange County by Simon Ludwig Treff Saturday Hours Planned for Orange County Courthouses Sara Guerrero is OC Theater's Breath of Fire

LOS ANGELES COUNTY
East LA, Ellis Island of the West by Mike Acosta The House of Aragon, Chapter 17: The Death of the Old Warrior by Michael S. Perez
One: Mind, Body, Spirit . . Mujeres de Maiz 19th Annual International Women's Day and Women's Herstory Month Celebration Jessica Alba's Mexican Roots Pecans and Migrant students by Ray Padilla Student Activist by Cirenio Rodriguez

CALIFORNIA
Southern California
Saturday April 16th, 213th Anniversary of the Battle of San Diego Bay.
Time to put Balboa on a pedestal by Logan Jenkins Tracing America’s borderlands history along the Anza Trail Northern California Tapia, California Family Pride by Lorraine Ruiz Frain Felipa Yorba Farias born 1871 Life at Harney Lane by Cirenio A. Rodriguez April 23: La Purisima Mission State Park, Sheep Shearing Day Baja California Baja California

SOUTHWESTERN, US
Attempting to Capture the magnitude of the Grand Canyon Pioneer Families of the Presidio San Agustin del Tucson, 1775-1856 by J.
Homer Thiel
Tucson Presidio Museum
Tracing America’s borderlands history along the Anza Trail Damaris Giron, Researcher in Ciudad Juarez

TEXAS
April 2-3, 2016, Team TSHA
On this Day in Texas
First Civil Government in Texas and Alcaldes of San Antonio, from 1731 to 1836 by Rueben M. Perez Texas declares independence from Mexico, March 2nd, 1836 Mexican Army captures San Antonio; Republic of Texas totters, March 5th,
1842
April 9: San Jacinto Symposium: African-Americans in Texas History Canary Islands Descendants Association, March 9, 1731 180th anniversary of Texas Independence Dedication of Historic Santo Nino Cemetery in Duval County Drama & Conflict: The Texas Saga of 1776, co-authors, Robert S. Weddle and Robert H. Thonhoff Original Land Grantees and groups of their descendants

MIDDLE AMERICA
Nazi submarine discovered at the bottom of Lake Ontario. 3/8/16

EAST COAST
April 13, 2016: Borinqueneers Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony in Washington D.C.

AFRICAN-AMERICAN
Black Students Who Are Taught Racial Pride, Do Better In School [DNA] Tracing Your Roots: I Expected African DNA Results. Why are Mine Chinese?

INDIGENOUS
March 16th, 1758 -- Indians attack San Sabá mission [DNA] links Native Americans with Europeans by Rasmus Kragh Jakobsen America’s Other Original Sin By Rebecca Onion The Bureau of Indian Education

SEPHARDIC
[DNA] Chinese women with Jewish roots to make Aliyah [DNA] Study Shows 20 Percent of Spaniards Have Jewish Ancestors [DNA] Evidence for Common Jewish Origin and Maintenance of the Ancestral Genetic Profile [DNA] The History of the Jews in Syria

ARCHAEOLOGY
Shipwreck believed to be part of Vasco da Gama's fleet Radical Theory of First Americans Places Stone Age Europeans in Delmarva
20,000 Years Ago
[DNA] Where do Neanderthals come from? Oldest DNA reveals clues.

MEXICO
Personajes que llegaron a México por el Puerto de Veracruz Fray Jacobo Daciano Mi estimado y fino amigo Noble Caballero Don Fernando Muñoz Altea.
Anselmo Vidales Torres, telegraph decoder and/or spy in Mexican Revolution by Pedro Olivares
1914: Daños a la Escuela Naval de Veracruz En Recuerdo y Honor de los Hèroes Olvidados de las páginas de la Historia, 12 y 13 de Marzo ”
Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War by Julia G. Young Mariano Gonzalez-Leal’s “Retoños de España en la Nueva Galicia.
Teniente Coronel Antonio González Dávila, Héroe de Nuevo León Matrimonio de D. Adulfo Pedraza Valdèz y Da. Marìa Garza Zozaya Matrimonio de Don Francisco de Sada y Doña Maria Tomasa Esparza Matrimonio de Don Francisco Gil de Leyba y Doña Marìa Rosa de Sada Testigos al ver casar dicho Dn. Po. Godoy, fueron Nicolas Farìas y Diego Flores.

CARIBBEAN REGION
Royal Spanish Academy, San Juan, Puerto Rico conference Historia de Puerto Rico​: Movimiento Reunificación con España An Unknown Latino Tuskegee Airman Has Been Discovered

CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA
Latin American Lawmakers support Israel Unequivocally La Monja Alférez, Catalina Erauso y Pérez Galarraga Esto en Los Virreinatos
100 años antes de que llegaran los primeros colonos a EEUUA

OCEANIC PACIFIC
Alaska y el Virreinato de la Nueva Espana: Por Luis Ozden

PHILIPPINES
The US and Philippine Presidential Elections in 2016 Tratado de París Año 1898

SPAIN
España estuvo allí - Los españoles en la costa atlántica antes de 1607 List of Counts of Spain:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Counts_of_Spain

INTERNATIONAL
Sharia Law or One Law for All?
Bible Knowledge to Ponder
The Eucharistic Miracle of Buenos Aires