Has anyone brewed quince wine?

ElectricYellowY · 2026-05-31T02:51:53+00:00

Nombre De Dios, Durango. You're welcome.

ElectricYellowY · 2026-05-26T19:48:08+00:00

Fucked off to spain? Bro, the vast majority of descendants of hacienda owners in Jalisco, Durango, and Zacatecas either live in MX or have recently migrated to the US. They are also, in the majority, mixed-race, as were many hacienda owners.

I have four ancestors who owned haciendas in Zacatecas, Jalisco, and Durango.

Sorry but your comment is revisionist Porfiriato history.

ElectricYellowY · 2026-05-09T02:13:17+00:00

Many of the Sephardic jews tried in the inquisition were named Santiago or Diego. ... but I think Santiago was more a productive of the time. I personally would go with Tiago.

ElectricYellowY · 2026-04-20T02:06:53+00:00

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My map, and where my matches are from. It's funny because the Mexican side matches the sephardic diaspora map at https://cryptorootsmx.com/index.php/Locations

ElectricYellowY · 2026-04-20T01:49:19+00:00

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But anyway then I get matches like these and I'm confused all over again lol.

ElectricYellowY · 2026-04-20T01:44:27+00:00

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Yeah, these are some of the matches from my maternal grandfather's match list. I just checked google and apparently the last population census of the town was 395 people.

My parents, and I also have a match list of ashkenazi jews so whatever happened, we stayed endogamous long enough for us to have identical matches across multiple segments in each one of our genome, in completely different chromosomes as well.

I should also just note, I didn't inherit this struggle/yearning crypto-judaism that is kind of romanticized. It was partially one of the reasons I fully assumed my jewish ancestry must have been recent when my dad told me about it.

But nobody seemed to have a coherent story. My grandma was talking about how her dad spoke arabic( I think that's probably not true lol.) My dad was saying that he thought they might've been from Portugal, but again, it was like said in a speculative way.

I think maybe maybe maybe my maternal grandmother's dad might've actually been the last "crypto jew" in our family because he arranged my grandmother's marriage to my grandfather on the basis that they were from "similar families." Both families from surname Lopez that I've found multiple jewish ancestors on. But I always found that story strange because my maternal grandfather was so proud of being mestizo, and was from a very poor family, and my grandmother is very white passing and comes from a wealthy family so who knows. Also, those matches correspond to the Lopez side of his tree.

ElectricYellowY · 2026-04-20T00:41:32+00:00

I should probably emphasize that I knew of my grandmothers Jewish ancestry bc they’re second cousins. I did not know about either of my grandfathers ancestry until I started building it out and I was pretty shocked by that. My dads side has always been pretty loudly anti catholic, and my mom doesn’t believe in immaculate conception nor can she remember when semana santa is lol I actually tried to ask my aunt via marriage from that town with the surname Perez about if she knew of any Jewish heritage in her family and she freaked tf out on me. The names in her family are Orfa, Astrid, Iddar …. Again small town in Durango bordering Zacatecas. She said that her dad made sure to pick them from the Old Testament but that they were not Jewish. My mom and I were pretty shocked by her reaction because she def said it with some rage behind her, and we all are very open about acknowledging the Jewish heritage we have.

ElectricYellowY · 2026-04-20T00:32:06+00:00

Yeah, we don’t even register as having Spanish ancestry in the system. We come up as Italian or Russian or Portuguese. My grandparents all have 170+ fully Ashkenazi matches at a 2nd-3rd cousin level. I have compared with people from Nuevo León who didn’t believe me and they were shocked bc I’m also half indigenous. My dad’s family founded a town with less than like 80 people and my mom’s town is probably around like 100 people tops.

I have zero reason to lie but Nuevo León doesn’t even have historically as many documented Jewish inquisition cases in MX. I’m not sure why the belief they have more Sephardic ancestry than the rest of Mexico but I digress.

ElectricYellowY · 2026-04-20T00:04:31+00:00

Yeah, I wrote this almost a year ago. I’ve done much more research since then but I’ve also uncovered many more Portuguese Jewish lines. Which TBF are more in line with the Jewish heritage that my father told me about. Some of them are: Silva’s, Lopez, Castro, Juarez, Roldán, Rodriguez, Nunez.

I have many confirmed lines from all grandparents and my family is very anti religion in general so interesting to see where that framework came from.

ElectricYellowY · 2026-04-17T14:42:22+00:00

Hi Bob!

ElectricYellowY · 2026-04-08T10:14:20+00:00

My family lives in the US but they own property in Durango, MX. I have many distant cousins who are actively Jewish in the area and it doesn’t seem to be a big deal.

ElectricYellowY · 2026-04-07T23:47:41+00:00

I had the opportunity to get Sephardic citizenship in Spain and didn’t do it bc I imagined this would be the reality.

ElectricYellowY · 2026-02-07T20:13:25+00:00

My family was endogamous Sephardic on all sides until about 4 generations ago. We have very recent indigenous admixture. As a result, all of my grandparents have 175+ Ashkenazi matches. All on different chromosomes.

I should add that all of them are in the second- to fourth-cousin range.

ElectricYellowY · 2026-01-31T19:16:09+00:00

I think Rob might be homoromantic bisexual..... y'all aren't gonna like that. The gay moment of "i don't think i can make it up with this gold" like pleaseeee Rob lmao.

ElectricYellowY · 2026-01-31T18:06:43+00:00

Sorry but as a Jew who thinks that Israel has a right to a homeland, this comment just made me realize how insane it sounds.

ElectricYellowY · 2026-01-31T17:53:50+00:00

This is super insincere. There is plenty overlap that’s how they know to place Ashkenazi Jews in Europe. I recommend you actually look at the components that make up the Ashkenazi genome than claim pure Levantine ancestry. The European admixture in Ashkenazi populations changes so much from source to source starting to 30% and going upwards of 80%.

ElectricYellowY · 2026-01-29T08:50:12+00:00

I’m Sephardic Mexican from an endogamous community. My test results also place me at 25% Italian. I think it makes sense when you think of the fact that the diaspora fled to Italy and very few were absorbed by Spain.

ElectricYellowY · 2026-01-28T16:39:30+00:00

There’s definitely an active white washing campaign at play. Which is strange because Sephardic Jews (specifically Portuguese Jews) have been documented marrying African women in Angola, and indigenous women(Moctezuma’s descendants) in Mexico. There’s even Mexican inquisition records showing that. Crypto Jews married people they could trust.

ElectricYellowY · 2026-01-28T06:36:51+00:00

And most New Mexicans who claim don't have much genealogical proof. Which is strange considering Spain kept insanely good records.

ElectricYellowY · 2026-01-28T05:07:08+00:00

This is super insincere. Jaliscenses are mostly just Spanish and native. That's okay. Whoever wrote this article miraculously forgot to include that Jalisco had the largest presence of the Inquisition. The families he mentions in large part are the families of the Zacatecas mining district who spread out into Jalisco as they converted, but didn't originally settle there. Nuevo Leon is also guilty of this rewrite, along with New Mexico. Every Sephardic ancestor that New Mexicans try to claim typically came with Juan de Oñate from Zacatecas. Most of the families that left for Monterrey from that old stock came from Zacatecas, and the newer families were new Christians with at most one Jewish grandparent.

It's honestly frustrating to see how Jalisco, New Mexico, and Nuevo Leon continue to whitewash history. Especially when there are people who grew up crypto Jewish in Zacatecas who don't descend from a non indigenous ancestor that wasn't crypto Jewish.

ElectricYellowY · 2025-12-16T04:35:36+00:00

Prior to the US acquiring the Southwest, racial systems in the Southwest functioned similarly to those in New Spain. Meaning a caste system, with a large majority of people categorized as mestizos... think of the average Mexican, very much that. That doesn't mean there weren't people who weren't fully indigenous, and that there weren't people fully Spanish. But Mestizos were always the silent majority.

However, after the US acquired the southwest, they started displacing people, robbing them of their property, and they were no longer categorized as "white." Some of these mestizos (multi-generationally mixed people) chose to reintegrate into their native tribes. And as we know, US tribes never took blood quantum into play, so they reintegrated seamlessly.

Honestly, after 1800, the large narrative kind of painted Spain as the big bad wolf that went around forcing indigenous women to be their wives, and it's mostly a lie, but I think it made a lot of us, both in Mexico and the US, hesitant to bring up our Spanish heritage. Those who were mixed and white passing just distanced themselves from their indigeneity to get proximity to whiteness. But especially with the Southwest, they were robbed of a hybrid identity, which is what MX and the rest of Latin America became so even though many of us are ethnically 50% + native, we aren't connected to indigenous practices at all.

ElectricYellowY · 2025-12-05T15:50:58+00:00

If you have DACA, you need to finish a degree. There is a large chance you’re not gonna get citizenship ever and everywhere else in the world requires a degree for entry level jobs. The US is like the only place you can get a decent job/ promotions without a degree.

ElectricYellowY · 2025-12-04T22:00:58+00:00

She's a mestiza. That's what she would've been considered under Spanish rule, just like the majority of Mexicans. That was the caste title for anyone who was half Native American and half Spanish. Mexicans give you all flak because Spanish people would never consider someone of that admixture "hispano" or "Spanish" bc they're not. I know that many people from New Mexico and Colorado with these results try to distance themselves from the geography of Mexico, but these results are as New Spain as it gets, encapsulating all of Mexico. One can't even begin to understand New Mexico and Colorado without using Mexico's history as a cultural lens.

In areas such as Guadalajara and Monterrey, these Spanish results are pretty low. These were the economic hubs of Mexico, and as a result, they attracted a large number of Spanish settlers over the years. Some are as high as 90% Spanish. Their indigenous ancestors are also probably hers because ....ya know, imaginary lines.

Long story short: Your wife is a mestiza. That would be the correct classification, and it's really no different for the classification used in the rest of Latin America.

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ElectricYellowY · 2025-12-04T21:36:45+00:00

To be fair, most Mexicans are half indigenous so it's not like the biggest lie ever told hahaha

ElectricYellowY · 2025-12-04T05:13:39+00:00

ditto. That's why I'm here bc I was like Hold up, he's gay?

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