Aquila

 

Aquila Calles. UNM & FAPECFT.

The University of New Mexico Digital Collection's scans from the Fondo Plutarco Elias Calles in Mexico included a photograph of Aquila Clemenica Calles, daughter of Maria Jesus Campuzano. This photo was found along with a copy of the Informacion Matrimonial between Aquila and Belisario Moreno, and another photo showing Aquila with sons Ramon and Jorge Moreno.

UNM & FAPECFT.

When looking at AncestryDNA's Thrulines feature for my Aunt Linda, I see several DNA matches to descendants of Maria Jesus Campuzano, including three related to Aquila Calles.

AncestryDNA Thrulines.

Revisiting Maria Jesus

 

Source: U. New Mexico & FAPECFT.

Back in 2016, I wrote about the connections between my Granny's Campuzano family and the family of former Mexican President Plutarco Elias Calles. His mother, Maria Jesus Campuzano, was a daughter of my 3rd-great-grandfather Vicente Antonio Campuzano and first wife Benancia Gutierrez. The University of New Mexico Digital Collection has published scans from the archives of Plutarco Elias Calles, including family documents. I was able to run a search on the Campuzano family, uncovering the death record for Maria Jesus above. This record confirms her death in Hermosillo, Sonora on 20 June 1881.

The New Mexico Digital Collection includes other documents on the children of Maria Jesus Campuzano, such as birth records for Aquila Clemencia Calles, Jose Carlos Calles, Carlos Francisco Calles, as well as records for Juan Bautista Calles and his wife Maria Antonia Campuzano. Juan was the uncle of Plutarco Elias Calles, and adopted him after the death of his mother.

I also located the baptism record for Maria Jesus, in the town of Ures, Sonora on 15 October 1847.

FamilySearch. 

The New Mexico Digital Collection had a copy of the baptism record for Plutarco Elias Calles from 23 December 1878 in Guaymas, Sonora, listing Jesus Campuzano as his mother, and Plutarco Elias as father.

U. New Mexico and FAPECFT.

AncestryDNA Update is Here

 

AncestryDNA August 2022 Update.

Yesterday I wrote that Ancestry would soon be rolling out its August 2022 update, and by yesterday evening the latest update had appeared on my page. As with the update from April, the latest changes had some minor adjustments to my ethnicity estimates. Ancestry also introduced a very cool beta chromosome browser, and I'll have more on that below.

The new figures show a slight drop in my percentages for England & Northwestern Europe, down to 44% from 49%. My Scotland went up from 13% to 29%, but my share of Spain dropped from 8% to 7%. Germanic Europe & Wales both dropped to 5%, along with Ireland to 4%, and I lost a percentage of Indigenous Americas - Mexico, but gained a percentage of Indigenous Americas - Yucatan Peninsula (yay!).

The beta Chromosome Painter tool is super cool. Below is a portion of a screenshot, with certain percentages highlighted. It is interesting to compare this across the results for my Mom and sister.

Ancestry's new Chromosome Painter view.

Chromosome Painter view for my Mom.

Comparing this view between my Mom and my Aunt Patty shows that she inherited more Basque DNA than my Mom. Another difference is where my Mom has Northern Italy but Aunt Patty has Indigenous Americas - North, Indigenous Americas - Bolivia & Peru, and Indigenous Americas - Yucatan Peninsula.

My sister has Cameroon, Congo & Western Bantu peoples in the same place as me, on chromosome 4. However, Ancestry cautions "if you and a match have the same ethnicity in the same location on a chromosome, it doesn't mean your DNA is identical there. You can have the same ethnicity in the same place, but from different patterns in your DNA. With the chromosome painter, it's not possible to tell where you share DNA with someone." 

New AncestryDNA update coming soon

 

Source AncestryDNA. 

Ancestry will be rolling out an update to the DNA ethnicity estimates sometime in the next few weeks. Above is a screen capture showing the update from April 2022. The banner at the top of the graphic indicates eight new regions are coming. I'm curious to see what this does for my percentages, and for the tests I administer for others in the family.

Sunflowers

 

Photo by Patrick Jones. Saluda Riverwalk, Columbia, SC. 15 July 2022.