My conclusions
John Henry Quirindongo Arroyo Me and Wife
GENEALOGY
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picture
Ethnic phenotypic
composition of present day PR
(Holland)
1400 Kiring and Doncker (Curacao) 1650 Kiring Dongo (Puerto Rico) 1780 Quirindongo
Spanish language and Papiamento used by functionally-literates
in 99% of PR and 99% of Curacao 1493-1950
The village in Curacao that is now called KIRINDONGO ABOU (sic) today existed in a larger area circa 1499 before the Spanish discovery but the original Amerindian Taino Caiquetio place-name is vague and unknown perhaps meaning WATER OASIS and written in Spanish script and later Papiamento KIRING but the original meaning ostensibly lost to History. Parts of the larger KIRINDONGO area were later called KIRINDONGO ABOU and KIRINDONGO ARIBA. (sic) The area was also called WANDONGO in and near an oasis well-water area for the period of Dutch rule during and after the tenure of the governor Jan (Juan) DONCKER who was widely known circa 1679 as “WANDONGO”.
Both place names WANDONGO and KIRINDONGO were at one time interchangeable. Only the barrios-localities of KIRINDONGO ABOU which is large enough to appear on some maps and KIRINDONGO ARIBA still survive in Curacao. Curacao (spelled Curazao in Spanish script) is the original Amerindian Taino Caiquetio phonetic island-name when the Spanish arrived as is Aruba and Bonaire. Many urban legends abound about the derivation of their names including “oro hubo” there was gold for Aruba altho’ no gold was ever found there and the unlikely heart Spanish “Corazon” for Curacao and a Portuguese coraçăo heart and “cure-all” aloe for Curacao all with false cute apocryphal stories in an effort to disenfranchise the History of the ancient illiterate Amerindian.
The oldest bona fide
archive found in script in Curacao
as copy and in Holland as original so far of similar sounding surname KIRING
DONGO was most likely illiterate? functionally-literate? Black Slave
Maria Magdalena (born 1700?) who requested or was given the unusual patronymic and/or toponymic split surname KIRING DONGO written in old Dutch and
old Dutch PAPIAMENTO
by Dutch scribe in (copy) 1758
manumission
one hundred twenty four (124) yrs - six (6) generations after Dutch rule
and one hundred six (106) yrs – five (5) generations before abolition. Most
manumitted Slaves received no
surname. The custom in Curacao for manumitted Slaves who wanted a family
name was that they use a pre-existing European surname. The Haplogroup all-male
yDNA points to a European therefore Maria Magdalena’s master or mate may have
been the KIRING DONGO (DONCKER) surname used by Maria Magdalena manumitted 1758
and she may be gmother to Pedro QUIRINDONGO 1863? “negro olandes” of El
Rucio Penuelas and Tallaboa
Penuelas whose parents were the Mulatto Nicolas and Catalina
and may be a product a generation after the White yDNA and Black sub Sahara
Maria Magdalena KIRING DONGO union.
The surname QUIRINDONGO first used written in Spanish by Spanish scribe may have been in 1780 with free Black phenotype but European yDNA Pedro QUIRINDONGO (KIRING DONGO) also called “Negro olandes” Pedro of El Rucio or “Moreno” Pedro? of Tallaboa when he arrived in PR as a carpenter. All other free Blacks may have had no surname but some were surnamed QUIRINDONGO because they came from the KIRINDONGO town of Curacao. They as well as the Spanish scribe may have thought the town-name KIRINDONGO in Curacao to be indigenous Amerindian or from the Spanish false cognate word QUERINDONGO but not from the sub-Sahara since sub Sahara surnames had not been instituted in Africa nor in the New World at that time. I say this because the Dutch origin oral history of the Dutch-like sounding SPLIT surname KIRING DONCKER does not persist in oral history in other QUIRINDONGO families even in Curacao except for the phenotypic European White yDNA QUIRINDONGO families of the Penuelas El Rucio barrio of PR. Also it’s easy to mistake or confuse freed Black families with White families in script because Blacks frequently appropriated the name (and surname) of their White masters. i.e. old Black Joe versus White “Joe”. and/or sometimes appropriated any New World town or European surname. In Curacao illiteracy and two or more languages led to Pedro-Pieter and Juan-Jan-Wan and DONCKER-DONGO. Also the very similar false cognate QUERINDONGO in Spanish means a rich woman’s kept man lover.
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The
Real Cedula de Gracias of 1815: The Royal Decree of a Benevolent Grace Period
The Cedula abolished
many of the existing restrictions on trade between Puerto Rico and countries
other than Spain, permitted the tax free importation of sugar-processing
machinery, and invited Catholics from all nations to settle in Puerto Rico. To
stimulate Catholic immigration, incentives were offered. Royal lands would be
given free to these new immigrants, six acres for each member of the family and
three acres for each slave a family brought to the island. The Cedula also
exempted immigrants from taxation for a period of ten years after they arrived
on the island and offered them Spanish citizenship after residing in Puerto
Rico for five years.
According to the author José
Luis González, the Real Cedula de Gracias was an attempt by Spain to
"whiten" the population of Puerto Rico after the Haitian
Revolution of 1789 and represents the second "storey" phase or
tier of the Puerto Rican national identity. Thus, the Real Cedula de Gracias
encouraged a new class of white immigrants to settle in Puerto Rico. In the
years to follow, English, French, Majorcan, Dutch, German, and Spanish immigrants
flocked to Puerto Rico, as did Creole refugees from the South American
colonies. After Napoleon's final defeat in 1815, Corsicans also came to Puerto
Rico. Later on in the century, the migration of agricultural laborers from the
Canary Islands also increased significantly.
Misc.Spanish
Transcripts of Land Grant Law Made by the Spanish ...
... cedula se tome rason en la nominada Contaduria
Gral ... Royal Decree reducing public
lands to private property ... Estas gracias se concederán á los sugetos
referidos ...
From early on, racial classifications in Latin America and the Caribbean were complex. The criteria included skin shade, hair texture, and social background.. . In eighteenth-century New World America and racial mixture was classified in great detail mostly depending on phenotype. This classification would include all non-Whites in Europe and the New World during the 400 yr Slave Trade
European yDNA and WHITE European PHENOTYPE ?
The second scripted
QUIRINDONGO to arrive in PR in 1794 may have been mulatto-quadroon Juan Pedro who
applied for the CEDULA
de GRACIAS
land grant which had an ostensible White Race requirement and/or bias.
Juan Pedro branches away from my ancestry lineage circa 1818.
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Spaniards and Canary
Islanders are said to be the last Berber remnants of
the Caucasoid Cro-Magnon
and are not the focus of my search are
conspicuously missing here and also missing in the ESTRANJEROS
EN PR although they were also “estranjeros” but as Spanish citizens were
eligible for the Real Cedula de Gracias and had carte blanche to move freely within PR
and the Spanish Colonial
Empire. They generated
a written record which
is kept in texts in
PR, Curacao and in Seville
Spain ARCHIVOS
de INDIAS.
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In view of the fact that there was no and still is no African or Amerindian script, the only History we can garner is from Spanish script in PR and Curacao old Dutch and Papiamento script records which may contain biased ethnocentric inaccuracies.
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Lineage of
QUIRINDONGO in detail
Dutch and
Sephardic Jews in Brazil 1600-1650
Brazil’s Pernambuco Jews 1550-1600
Sephardic Jews
who arrived in America from Turkey
Sephardic Greeks from
Chios
Spain’s
decline AFTER 1630 Spain's desperate poverty in the 1930s
Catalogo de
Extranjeros Residentes en Puerto Rico en el Siglo XIX, Ediciones de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, 1962 by Dra. Estela Cifre de Loubriel WHOLE BOOK is not
comprehensive and not up to date by
any measure since two (2) of the most infamous non-hispanic families in PR are
not represented (1) the Oppenheimer of Ponce Isabel la Negra
and (2) the Von Kupfershein Roberto
Cofresi. Ireland in PR “El Marques
del Norte DON ARTURO O’NEYLL de TYRONE y O’KELLY
The Hispanic people are a major part of the culture and racial makeup of the USA in general
and the New World in particular
Other resources of
the Puerto Rican immigration and diaspora
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PR and economic
progress as seen by erudite outsider
PR and
Cuba intertwined as USA immigrants in N.E. USA
64 Puerto Rico $ 65,210,000,000 GROSS
GDP
55 Puerto Rico $ 16,800 PER CAPITA GDP
Ethnic
groups: undetermined mixture
of Spanish-European-
Amerindian-black
origin 80.5%, black 8%, Amerindian 0.4%,
Asian 0.2%, other 10.9%
population 3,897,960 (July 2004 est.)
Taino of PR More More
Taino China in
PR
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172 Netherlands Antilles $
2,450,000,000 2003 est. GROSS GDP
71 Netherlands Antilles $
11,400 2003 est. PER CAPITA GDP
Ethnic groups: mixed black 85%, Carib Amerindian, white, East Asian
Population: 218,126 (July 2004 est.)
Migrants
to Curacao
illiteracy and the Jews
Slavery and the
Jews and
sugar in Netherlands
Antilles
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Curiosity
Aruba
has a considerably high GDP per capita income
$11,200 more than PR and $16,600 more than Curacao
Aruba’s
ethnology is eighty (80%) White-Amerindian
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $28,000
Unemployment rate: 0.6% (2003 est.)
The Cayman Islands enjoy one of the highest outputs per capita
and one of the highest standards of living in the world.
GDP - per capita: - $32,300 (2004 est.)
British
Virgin Islands enjoy a higher
standard of living
GDP - per capita: - $38,500 (2003 est.)
Bermuda
enjoys the highest standard of
living in the world
GDP - per capita: - $69,900 (2004 est.)
54% Black population
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88 Cuba $ 32,130,000,000 GROSS GDP
152 Cuba $ 2,900 PER CAPITA GDP
Ethnic groups: mulatto 51%, white 37%, black 11%, Chinese 1%
population 11,308,764
(July 2004 est.)
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70
Dominican
Republic $ 52,710,000,000 GROSS GDP
111 Dominican Republic $ 6,000 PER CAPITA GDP
Ethnic groups: white 16%, black 11%, mixed 73%
population 8,833,634 (July 2004
est.)
Jews
of
the Dominican
Republic
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13
Mexico $ 941,200,000,000 GROSS GDP
83 Mexico $ 9,000 PER CAPITA GDP
Ethnic groups: mestizo (Amerindian-Spanish) 60%,
Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian 30%, white 9%, other 1%
population 104,959,594
(July 2004 est.)
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United
States GDP - per capita (PPP): $41,800 (2005 est.)
$
12,770,000,000,000 GROSS GDP 2005
est.
recent GDP v.
Corporate profits
agriculture: 1% industry: 20.7% services: 78.3% (2005 est.)
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QUIRINDONGO living in 2004 NY Florida CA KRINGDON in USA
QUIRINDONGO and variations
now living in Holland
QUIRINDONGO
and variations living in CURACAO
USA
and PR QUIRINDONGO progeny in SCRIPT in toto in 1999
Other
QUIRINDONGO and ancestors world wide in ancestry.com
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yDNA history of surname QUIRINDONGO
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Oral History of surname QUIRINDONGO
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(1) My Paternal yDNA Ancestry results and paper trail
user id AMAPT 12
marker yDNA
results kit 35383
confirm Quirindongo surname of European Dutch ancestry lineage origin 1910 Census. yDNA
search (click on red spot in Malaysia on map) finds one (1) perfect
match “Malaysia [Indian]
My g ggg gfather Juan Nicolas QUIRINDONGO European yDNA Mulatto phenotype
born in Curacao 1740? died 1820? in Peńuelas PR (this entry submitted by Jaime Cortes)
My ggg gfather Pedro QUIRINDONGO
European yDNA Mulatto phenotype born in Curacao abt. 1760 married Andrea de
Mat(h)os “Parda” 1818 Both
died in Peńuelas PR (this entry submitted by Jaime
Cortes)
My gg gfather Eugenio
QUIRINDONGO de Mat(h)os born Peńuelas Oct 1820 European yDNA Mulatto phenotype
married White phenotype Castiza
gg gmother Joaquina Feliciano (this entry submitted by Jaime Cortes)
My g gfather Alejandro
QUIRINDONGO Feliciano “el Holandes” very White phenotype 1841-6 Feb 1893
married in 1859? 1863? to g gmother White phenotype Castiza Juana
Genara SANTIAGO Arroyo b. 1839 IGI LDS.
My gfather (Jose)
Monserrate QUIRINDONGO Santiago firstborn 1858-1921 listed as “B”
blanco (white) in 1910 Census
barrio Rucio Oeste in Peńuelas PR (ref: Jose Monserrate – Carmen Arroyo Torres - White phenotype Castiza 13 Feb 1888 marriage certificate)
My father (Jose)
Carmelo QUIRINDONGO Arroyo firstborn 5 Nov 1888-13 Feb 1968 listed as “B” blanco (white)
in 1910 Census
barrio Rucio Oeste in Peńuelas PR
Quirindongo
pedigree OVER fourteen (14) generations in Caribbean before going to USA in
1924.
QUIRINDONGO YDNA 12 Marker results:
DYS: DNA,
Y-chromosome, Segment - STR: (Short Tandem Repeats)
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(2) My Paternal mtDNA Ancestry
results
user id 8AV7N mitosearch
mtDNA
results HVR1 kit
44263 confirm Taino-Boricua Amerindian ancestry origin with forty-four (44) perfect matches
ALL in PR of paternal White phenotype gmother Carmen ARROYO Torres This does not necessarily rule out the
possibility of a Black or Amerindian man mating with an Amerindian woman in the
ancestry lineage recently. mtDNA
database Haplogroup “A” map.
Quirindongo
Ancestry DNA and Surname Genealogy Project in detail
phony Family CRESTS (Coat of Arms)
Doncker
Arroyo Cortes
Velazquez
Torres
Cadiz
Feliciano
Santiago
(3) My
Maternal yDNA
Ancestry results and paper trail (All paper trail entries submitted by Jaime Cortes)
CORTES yDNA 12 Marker results in surname
match of long lost relative
user id 3AYKP 25 marker yDNA results (see Haplogroup) kit 41475 confirm the European ancestry origin with very heavy Irish Recent Ethnic Origins which can be the result of immigration from Ireland to Spain or of the 1588 Spanish Armada. “Recent” can be measured from hundreds to thousands of years finds an eight (8) marker close matches Brescia, Italy 1 / 106 Stuttgart, Germany 2 / 453 and one (1) perfect match in the Pyrenees Spain yDNA search Click “search”.
Maternal gfather Juan ARROYO CORTES 1887-1942 listed as “B” blanco (white) panadero (baker) in 1910 census
Matrernal ggfather Isaias CORTES Luciano listed as “B” blanco (white) census 1910 born July 6, 1862 died circa 1916 Peńuelas PR
maternal gg gfather Francisco CORTES Feliciano born Peńuelas PR abt. 1830? died February 15, 1916
maternal ggg gfather Juan Francisco CORTES born Peńuelas PR abt 1800?
maternal
g ggg gfather Leonardo CORTES born Peńuelas 1775
maternal gg ggg
gfather? Cristobal CORTES born in Utuado PR 1754
This does not rule out that a Black or Amerindian woman mated with a White man in the ancestry lineage recently. Haplogroup R1b database is the most common Haplogroup in European populations.
(4) My Maternal mtDNA
Ancestry results
user id CBDRQ mitosearch mtDNA results HVR1 kit 36569 confirm Taino-Boricua Amerindian ancestry origin with eight (8) perfect matches ALL in PR of Amerindian phenotype maternal gmother Angela Cadiz Velazquez. This does not necessarily rule out the possibility of a Black or White man mating with an Amerindian woman in the ancestry lineage recently. mtDNA database Haplogroup “A” map.
yDNA-mtDNA genotype analysis conclusions
Composite of a total of four (4) samples of two (2)
yDNA and two (2) mtDNA from both maternal and paternal gparents show my genotype
to be one-half (1/2) White and one-half (1/2) Amerindian. All my other
Haplogroups including Black mtDNA and/or Black/mulatto phenotypic varieties in
oral and documented History are and will remain hidden due to present day
limited DNA sample-technology.
ysearch.org shows Haplogroup R1b presently worldwide of 18.59% but 70.25% in and of Europe while yDNA Haplogroups I (8.90%) and I1b (2.72%) presently worldwide but in and of Europe I (14.69%) and I1b (1.1%) - mtDNA Haplogroup A is predominantly Amerindian.
Unknown
Haplogroups in FamilyTreeDNA database long download
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DNA of PR explored for fee mtDNA shows most PRs have Taino blood yDNA Study Traces Europeans Ancestry African-American ancestry 30% paternal yDNA versus 5% maternal mtDNA from Europe
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Ethnic composition of present day PR
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Juan
QUIRINDONGO MORELL High School in Vega Baja PR in Spanish
Juan
QUIRINDONGO MORELL HIGH SCHOOL in
English
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Adam QUIRINDONGO could be Jose Adan? The Dept. of Interior refuses to impart any information thru’ the FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT. Adam due money from Indian Affairs Trust first name may have been changed from Spanish in keeping with Amerind tradition? in the USA and unfortunately surname not split as in Spanish tradition to include the mother’s surname. Oddity in view of the fact that Quirindongo is not known as an Amerind surname nor widely known as a PR surname to this day. Quirindongo is often misspelled. Kiring Dongo is the original phonetic Papiamento spelling by Dutch Scribe in Curacao 1758. The Spanish language as well as all Latin based languages has no “K”. Most likely Adam attended Carlisle Indian school Carlisle Indian School Blog under a Hispanic first name-surname - possibly used his maternal surname in error when attending school circa 1900 and later used his proper surname with American first name. Soon after Adam was sent to an American Indian Reservation… perhaps to Fort Atkinson, Iowa since it was built to keep the Winnebago Indians on Neutral Ground after their removal from Wisconsin after 1840, and to provide protection for them from the Sioux, Sauk, Fox and from white intruders on Amerindian land. Fort Atkinson was for “orphaned” Amerindians who did not fit into any Tribal Nation. Also see Ft Hoskins Iowa and Nebraska.
1900
and 1901 eleven expeditions carrying approximately five thousand contract
workers, almost half of whom were women and children, set sail for Hawaii from Puerto
Rico's southern ports. Many Quirindongo were included… source: many Emails
to me from Hawaii inquiring ancestry information and on the WWW i.e. Lucki QUIRINDONGO
Hawaii Microbiologist now in Texas A&M
First
mass migration to USA by PRs in 1918 ends in disastrous flu deaths
1947-1957 mass
migration to NYC including 50 State 1980 USA PR population distribution in
pdf
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Cristobal
Colon History or Legend?
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Papiamento as a pidgin Spanish language for ALL
seasons in Curacao invented by Jews
Because of the
lower educational level of the insular government and absence of compulsory
public schooling for close to five (5)
centuries in Curacao, the same bastardization of language from Spanish
to pidgin by illiterate people occurred in Curacao as it happened with English
in Jamaica only more so. The added introduction of a distinct lettering of old
Dutch to the Spanish pidgin vernacular quickly destroyed the written Spanish
root in 1634 in only one sense (the written Papiamento form) and gave the
impression of a new different dialect or language when seen in print by the
intelligentsia of Curacao. While Papiamento has always stayed akin to Spanish
phonetically, a new European
Germanic script Dutch element had
been introduced. The Curacao intelligentsia minority was unable and unwilling
to change the written vernacular of Papiamento. The written vernacular
Papiamento was used by Jews and a functionally-literate majority Black
population. The ”hoi poloi” common people promoted unopposed ethnocentrically a
pseudo African element to explain the un-Spanish look of the Dutch Papiamento
script.
This is similar
to “old Spanish” of the Sephardic Jews in the Middle East and America if we
leave out the Race and illiteracy issue who only know and use the phonetic old- Spanish 1500s vernacular of their parents and promote a pseudo Hebraic element
versus the current standardized Spanish of Spain.
It also explains
why the myriad of 1,000 dialects and languages in the sub-Sahara Africa because
of remoteness, primitive culture, the lack for eons of schooling, literacy and
standardization sub-Sahara Africa was unable to contribute to European
Papiamento significantly.
We can also see
as well that the recent forced introduction of unstandardized Papiamento
unopposed ethnocentrically in public schools in 1996 has hurt the general
public higher education of Curacao whose brighter pupils seek higher learning
abroad. We point out the added difficulty of learning yet other European languages
or the attractive lure of going abroad to get professional higher education in
Dutch and English or for that matter Spanish and be in a better position to
research advanced scientific writings in the higher developed mother countries.
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The
language of Castilian Spanish was standardized after 1492
History of Papiamento starts circa 1450
Before
1500 the Sephardic Portuguese Jews
first used European Papiamento in the Slave trade in Africa
sub-Sahara
Africa Slaves arrived in the New World after 1500 with no standard language
sub-Sahara
Africa Slaves contribute
to music
with Guene pidgin
now extinct and
Papiamento
1500 to
present the Sephardic Jews continued using European Papiamento
Before
1600 the Sephardic Portuguese-Spanish
Jews used European Papiamento in Brazil and the Caribbean
Before
1700 the Sephardic and Ashkenazy Jews
made Curacao its headquarters
sub-Sahara Africa Slaves contribution to Papiamento
vernacular is meager to non-existent
The oldest document
written in Papiamento is a letter from 1775, a message between two members of a Jewish merchant
family. In 1802 the British Governor Hughes in a report mentioned the language
abroad for the first time. In the 19th century (after over four (4) hundred
yrs) Papiamento was finally recognized. The first
Papiamento-Dutch dictionary (van Ewijk) a small large type very limited
vocabulary and few pages hard cover pocketbook appeared in 1875. It seemed to be
useful as a learning to read children’s book
Yet other dialects in
nearby Suriname
- Sranantongo
carib aukan Samaraccan Saranami
hindoestani
The
reason for so many dialects in Dutch colonies in the New World was the lack of
Dutch schools.
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Europe and World Slavery and Bible ancient and present Slav-Slovak-Slovene Slavery
Earliest Black sub Sahara Black Slave trade
Black Slaves in Italy Portugal
and Spain prior to 1492 (in Spanish)
Sub-Sahara African Sickle cell anemia
follows the slave trade into Europe India and New World altho’ Black
phenotype changes to the majority population.
"I
Haemoglobin S (Hb S) : This is extremely common in Africa, particularly in
countries south of the Sahara (but not South Africa), and in some Asian Indian
tribes. It is also found in areas where beta thalassaemia is common, such as
the Middle East, northern India, Pakistan, Greece, Sicily and southern Italy,
Albania, southern Turkey and southern Portugal."
Altho’ Sub-Sahara Africa Blacks always wore clothes in Africa and had
migrated in small numbers northwards into Europe since antiquity, Sub-Sahara Africa Slaves were taken during the 1500-1850 Middle
Passage era for stoop labor in sugar and cotton plantations and later coffee
and rubber plantations in large numbers. They were also taken at a LOWER
quantity to both southern and northern
Europe and reached CENTRAL
Europe in small numbers never making
more than one (1%) of the population and eventually mixed and took on the
general European population phenotype. They, similar to Canada, “…
Mexico,
Ecuador,
Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina,
Paraguay,
and Uruguay
ceased to be counted as
black."
In Spain during the Muslim occupation
711-1492 there was much racial mixing and today the Moors of Spain appear as a brown
Arab people not Black. Moro and Mora
are surnames
ALL over Europe
as is Lebron and Le Brun (the Brown person) but the phenotype has changed to White. “The last two
centuries have seen numbers of Jewish, African (initally as slaves in the 18th
century), Brazillian, Vietnamese, Chinese, east and central European, to name
but a few, make Ireland their home.” Some Sub-Sahara Africa Blacks and to a lesser degree Amerindians
took on surnames starting very early in the 1500s reflecting their Race as the
famous surname SCHWARZE NEGGER denotes and suggests that even the whitest white Europeans can have very
immediate and verifiable-by-surname sub-Sahara Negroid or Amerindian ancestors
and/or yDNA. i.e. SCHWARZENEGGER
SCHWARZE = black NEGGER NEGER = negro. SCHWARZENEGGER See DICTIONARY
Blacks and other non-Whites in Spain Italy Germany Europe and the New World
The fact that Sub-Sahara Africa Blacks had taken on surnames (not their master’s
surname) in Europe, Peru and Mexico before 1600 shows that a system was in
place very early in these countries for Sub-Sahara Africa Blacks and others to gain their freedom.
Curacao also had a
system of Slaves buying out from their master’s bondage before abolition but
not for surnames as the Curacao's
pre-abolition manumission register shows as early as 1700 one hundred fifty (150) yrs prior to abolition and
Curacao especially did not have a system for adding an independent
surname describing their Race nor their African heritage.
This means that in Europe, Mexico, Ecuador,
Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay where Blacks were less than
one (1%) of the population surnames were required from first and second
generation illiterate Blacks who remembered Africa in the various European and
New World countries circa 1550 three hundred (300) yrs before abolition unlike
Curacao where Blacks were more than ninety percent (90%) of the population. In 1789 the population of the Whites in
Curacao peaked at circa four thousand (3,964) and the Black population peaked at
over sixteen thousand (16,580). Source:
Hartog (1968), p. 222
In Curacao before abolition there seems to be the custom of manumitted Blacks taking on no surnames least of all their master’s surname and of the few that chose surnames they are in either European Dutch, Jewish, Portuguese, Spanish or perhaps also in indigenous Amerindian Caiquetio place-names all in Papiamento. ie. CURAZAO ARUBA therefore all migrants from Curacao to PR may have been from the KIRINDONGO town and not surnamed at first in Curacao before entering PR and for this reason some of them did not have the Dutch origin of KIRING DONGO in their oral history.
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Blacks assimilate in Europe
and the New World
“the white or Native American
majority over time blurred considerably the obvious (Negroid) ethnic
distinctions.”
In Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia,
Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, the black sector constituted less than
1 percent of the population. In Central America, coastal Colombia, Venezuela,
Brazil, and the Caribbean, the black concentration ranged from 2 percent
(Honduras) to 99 percent (Haiti). People of mixed African, European, and Native
American ancestry, however, in an effort of inclusion had ceased to be counted as
"black." This was directly counter to the racist racial purist
ONE
DROP RULE later taken on by the USA previous to 1776.
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Slavery After 1776
and Adam
Smith
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In the Pedro
QUIRINDONGO “negro olandes”1789 marriage to Sabina DIAS later (Maria) Sabina
DIAS (1818 WILL ), was
(Maria) Sabina DIAS originally Portuguese Jewish? (The Quirindongo-Dias fa. is
NOT in my ancestral lineage.)
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Jews
in the West Indies Jewish
Slave Traders Jews and Curacao
Jewish
Portuguese DIAS families of Curacao
Dias, Branca (-)
Dias Brandao,
Benvenida (-1808)
Dias Brandao,
Esther Salomon (-27 APR 1902)
Dias Brandao,
Raphael (-)
Dias Brandao,
Raphael (1686-1735)
Dias Brandao,
Salomon Nathan (-)
Dias Brandon,
Benjamin (-)
Dias Brandon,
Benjamin alias Francesco (1662-)
Dias da Fonseca,
Estevao (-)
Dias, David (-)
Dias do Valle,
Filipe (Philippe) (ABT 1600-)
Dias, Ester (-26
DEC 1700)
Dias, Esther (-)
Dias Fernandez,
Ribca de Isaac (BEF 1764 62-)
Dias, Isaac (-)
Dias, Rachel (-)
Dias, Rephael (-)
Dias Santilhano,
Jacob de Mordechai (-)
Dias Santilhano,
Mordechai (-)
Dias, Violante
(-)
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Table
2
The Jewish Population of Curaçao (1750-1865)
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“Fewer
than 350 Jews remain on the island today, out of an overall population of
125,000. The steady decrease in population is attributable to the flight of the
youth, who usually leave the island to attend university, and rarely return.”
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1785 -
1816 Mass exodus of (free) people (with money) from Curacao due to Slave
Revolt, Politics, Economic downturn, Disease and weather. ---- “Chaos” Pg 277 and “Emigration Pg 301
Emmanuel and Emmanuel JEWS OF THE NETHERLANDS ANTILLES” CaribSeek
Books | Economic Stagnation and Decline | Roots of our Future by Linda M.
Rupert
Table
1
Curaçao's Population: 1789-1833
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1789 |
1817 |
1833 |
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Whites (including Jews) |
3,964 |
2,780 |
2,602 |
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Free Colored |
2,776 |
4,549 |
6,531 |
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Slaves |
12,804 |
6,765 |
5,894 |
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Total |
19,544 |
14,094 |
15,027 |
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Source: Hartog (1968), p. 222 |
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These numbers show that there was an exodus of “whites including
Jews” a drastic half (˝) diminution of the amount of Slaves and a
proliferation of ”free colored” in
Curacao when QUIRINDONGO arrived in PR.
While “Whites (including Jews)”
had limited schooling, “Free Colored” and “Slaves” had no schooling.
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KIRINDONGO not listed in LDS IGI
A search produces no KIRINDONGO but hundreds of QUIRINDONGO proving
1.) QUIRINDONGO became literate before KIRINDONGO
2.) QUIRINDONGO surname existed in script before KIRINDONGO surname
3.) KIRING DONGO circa 1758 split surname predates ALL variations in script
4.) KIRING is Papiamento for unrecognized Amerindian word perhaps meaning “oasis”
5.) KIRING may be the Dutch surname KRING or the German surname KIRING
6.) DONGO is Papiamento for the Dutch DONCKER
7.) that there are 40 DONCKER archived in the Netherlands Antilles 1650-1850
8.) QUIRINDONGO was born in PR 1780 but originated in Curacao
9.) KIRINDONGO area and surname circa 1800 is peculiar only to Curacao
KRING is the Dutch word for “ring” but it seems to be a false cognate altho’ my Aunt Mercedes told me various times that the KIRING was “Dutch for KRING ” My Uncle Cheo changed his name to KRINGDON and said it is much closer to the “original Dutch.” Both now deceased may have meant Dutch Papiamento and therefore truthful. Also “Kring” is difficult to say in Spanish or pidgin Papiamento.
No other variations of
KIRINDONGO found originating from any other area but Curacao.
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And what was the inspiration for the diabolical song
KIRINDONGO in Curacao? It must have been a historical event that may have been
lost.
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Translations from many languages into
English
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Dongo False
cognates Worldwide
Mussolini
apprehended in the village Dongo in Northern Italy and executed in Via XXIV Maggio, at number 14 on the road to Milan - no common root of
the village-word Dongo with sub-Sahara
Africa or Curacao found
A pair of false cognates consists of two words
in different languages that appear to be or are sometimes considered cognates in
Latin script or phonetics (ohio in Japanese = good morning) when they're really
not. (Same language phonetic false cognates i.e. Colonel and kernel) Note that
there could be an indirect connection between them; however, only words sharing
a common root can be considered real or true cognates. i.e. german
milch (pronounced milsh) = English milk are true cognates
DONGO common root (only) in Curacao from European surname to pidgin
Papiamento Doncker = DONGO - no other common root world wide or
with sub-Sahara Africa found except
perhaps Doncker = Dongo in Malaysia-Dutch East Indies circa 1600 – see yDNA
above. Dongo also appears
as a name-surname in Papua New Guinea
and a place-name in Indonesia
The Papiamento surname
BARIEDONGO
BARRIO DONCKER? (claims father may have changed surname from QUIRINDONGO or KIRINDONGO)
appears in Curacao and Venezuela There are no Bariedongo in present day
Curacao.
QUILILONGO false cognate found in Chile, Spain, Netherlands and here and here.
Dongo FALSE COGNATES in SUB SAHARA AFRICA
English-Swahili Dictionary
(1)
dongo
in Swahili = soil, earth, clay (2) Dongo
people of the Sudan-language Gbaya
(3) Margaret DONGO,
(4) Dongo Dongo beef and
(5) the recently named small sub-Sahara Africa village Dongo.
and (6) Dongo The god
of thunder. Some of the six
(6) Dongo within
sub-Sahara Africa may be true cognates within sub-Sahara Africa. All
sub-Sahara African DONGO are false cognates
Wandongo place-name in Curacao circa 1650 four hundred
(400) yrs later False cognate Wandongo surname in Tanzania.
Kiryandongo is a recent 1991 refugee camp in Uganda.
Dongo does not
appear in any New World sub-Sahara African Cult Religions - no common
root with sub-Sahara Africa or New
World sub-Sahara Africa religions found
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other
ideas:
(1) it
was an Amerindian village place-name in Curacao when
the Spanish had held “Curazao” since 1499 for one hundred twenty three
(1634-1499=123) yrs six (6) generations, and
(2)
two hundred fifty seven (1758-1499=257)
yrs thirteen (13) generations of a Spanish language immediate area and
a mild but controlling Dutch but heavily Sephardic Spanish-Portuguese
Papiamento vernacular presence and
(3)
the appearance of KIRING DONGO so early
in 1758, two hundred five (1970-1758=212) years - ten (10) generations BEFORE
African surnames appeared in the New World circa 1970 begs the four (4)
questions:
1.)
Is the pidgin Spanish Papiamento surname
KIRING DONGO later QUIRINDONGO and KIRINDONGO a Caiquetio Amerindian village
place-name word plus the European Dutch surname DONCKER…?… or
2.)
Is the pidgin Spanish Papiamento surname
KIRING DONGO later QUIRINDONGO and KIRINDONGO a European Dutch surname KRING
or the European
German surname KIRING plus a European Dutch
surname DONCKER…?… or
3.)
Is the pidgin Spanish Papiamento surname KIRING
DONGO later QUIRINDONGO and KIRINDONGO a corrupted European French surname QUIRIN plus a European Dutch
surname DONCKER…?… or
4.)
Is the pidgin Spanish Papiamento surname
KIRING DONGO later QUIRINDONGO and KIRINDONGO two (2) Dutch European surnames QUIRIJN
plus a European Dutch surname DONCKER corrupted into
written Dutch Papiamento in 1758?
Only the absence of a hard “g” may mitigate against
the latter (2) theories.
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Because piped water was of dubious quality,
the town water vendor remained an important part of daily life until well into
the twentieth century. An artifact of a branding iron “KD” could have been for
a fleet of water toting donkeys..
Kirindongo may have been the word loudly used by the
women selling a better brand of water from the wells of the town of Kirindongo
as the water carrying donkeys traveled the streets of Willemstad.
KIRING DONGO BRANDING IRON shown by NAAM in Curacao?
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Dongan hills in
NYC is a variant of DONCKER.
YONKERS from the
Dutch Van der Donck
near NYC is a variant of DONCKER
Dongo,
AKA Paul van Dongen, in Curacao
Anecdotal History
Donck and VERDONK
Curacao
directory Holland
directory
My personal conclusions
in old age
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QUIRINDONGO
family NYC pictures
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Altho' all QUIRINDONGO from
Curacao are included and listed here, we must stress that they did not obtain
their surname from the same place or procedure.
1)
Some were given the surname when freed in abolition
1863 in Curacao
2)
Some acquired the surname thru' marriage
3)
Some can say they can trace their lineage
with no documentation to before Maria Magdalena 1758 in Curacao
4)
Some have the oral history of QUIRINDONGO
being a combination of two (2) Dutch surnames
5)
Others say that Quirindongo is the
combination of a place-name (Amerindian) and the surname Doncker
In
any case there is no unifying family origin uncovered so far except for the
Quirindongo of El Rucio in Peńuelas PR
which I can trace back to Nicolas circa 1740 in Curacao and Patriarch
Pedro of Curacao who arrived in PR 1780. The surname origin comes from the
Papiamento place-name KIRINDONGO in Curacao during or before Governor Jan
DONCKER circa 1650. The ethnicity of the split surname KIRING DONGO and place-name
KIRINDONGO seems to be Dutch spelled in Papiamento. QUIRINDONGO is the PR 1780
Spanish spelling innovation.
A common mistake by PRs is to classify Race phenotypically by hair texture and general facial features solely and disregard brown skin color. PRs as a group are a very racially mixed people and phenotype may sometimes hide a recessive ancestral genotype that can be discovered not only by genotypic examination but also by logical phenotypic observation and extended family somatic scrutiny. Also all documents asserting the Race “Indio” is suspect that it is a mixture of Black and Amerindian while the documents asserting “Blanco” is a mixture of White and Amerindian as my genotype and most genotypes of PR confirm.
The oldest documented European yDNA Quirindongo in PR was g ggg gfather (Juan) Nicolas 1740? (wife (Maria) Catalina.) g ggg gfather (Juan) Nicolas may have been 18 yrs old in Curacao when Maria Magdalena Kiring Dongo was manumitted in 1758. He could have been manumitted without surname and not related at all to Maria Magdalena. (Juan) Nicolas died in PR circa 1820. He was father of patriarch ggg gfather Pedro who died circa 1840 who was father of gg ghalf-uncle Juan Pedro of the 1815 Cedula de Gracias who died circa 1850. All were Mulatto born in Curacao with Black or mulatto phenotype but white yDNA and all three (3) died in Penuelas. The European yDNA Quirindongo did not take on the White phenotype until 1840 by mixing with the Castiza females of Penuelas. This began in 1818 with Patriarch ggg gfather Pedro who married ggg gmother Andrea de Matos a Parda after his first wife (Maria) Sabina Dias died. The marriage document shows his father (Juan) Nicolas was still alive in 1818. Their only issue a son gg gfather Eugenio married gg gmother Joaquina Feliciano a Castiza who issued a mostly White phenotype family then g gfather Alejandro “el Holandes” married g gmother Juana Santiago a Castiza who issued a mostly White phenotype family then my gfather Jose Monserrate married gmother Carmen Arroyo a Castiza (I knew her) who also issued a mostly White phenotype family. Thus this singular branch of Quirindongo had mixed with female Castiza of PR over four (4) generations before migrating to NYC. During that time there were some Black and Mulatto Quirindongo around in PR and especially Curacao but the European yDNA Quirindongo of PR with White phenotype forgot their Black female mtDNA heritage from Curacao and the Quirindongo of Penuelas also forgot the town of Kirindongo in Curacao and mistakenly assumed their European whiteness was Dutch from Holland not a Spanish phenotype because of the rare and unusual surname Quirindongo. Family and neighbors went as far as nick-naming g gfather Alejandro “el Holandes” because of Dutch oral history (they were at most functionally literate) but mostly because of his whiteness with blond hair and blue eyes when in reality he was far removed by time and space from the Curacao pre-1758 White Dutch phenotype. Only the yDNA in reality without question after DNA analysis points to Dutch yDNA of a bygone era many yrs ago in Curacao when for the first time the surname Kiring Dongo was written in Papiamento and before that when written as Doncker in Dutch in Malaysia and Holland, all areas where my yDNA is found long before 1758. The mtDNA had changed the Quirindongo phenotype to Castizo four (4) times in four (4) consecutive generations in PR with four (4) different Castiza females of White phenotype but Amerindian mtDNA. Although there were “throwbacks” and “skipped generations” phenotypes to Mulatto and to Amerindian the darker Quiirindongo became fewer and fewer and the Quirindongo phenotype changed to White in or about 1860 after being Black phenotype and Black mtDNA in or about 1758 Curacao. This change of phenotype syndrome was mimicking the world-wide syndrome that effectively changed phenotype to the concentration of extremes of the colors of skin and texture of hair and the observable differences in the Races of Mankind especially in the isolated areas of China and Africa. For example 1. John D'Isselt 5/15/91 2. Richard D'Isselt 4/25/94 3. Barbara D'Isselt 1/16/98 All three (3) are children of White phenotype father and white phenotype Gloria CARABALLO Quirindongo Wiederhold. Note the Carabali the African tribe member of the New World Cabildo guild is the genesis of the surname Caraballo The surname Caraballo is spread worldwide showing a high rate of yDNA miscegenation.
The
Quirindongo family of el Rucio upon being forced into an economic depression
diaspora in 1920 to Ponce, Santo Domingo and ultimately to NYC mixed with
Mestizo, Mulatto and Negro/Amerindian to a large extent rendering a mixed
racial identity and reverting to an observable diverse phenotype in the first
and second generation NYC Quirindongo residents of which I belong.
miDNA “Eve” female
always mutated each time thousands of years before the yDNA “Adam” male.
All mtDNA which controls phenotype and Race is contributed 2x by the female and 1x by
the male consequently my yDNA is linked in tandem throughout the male genetic
ancestry lineage and has remained relatively unchanging and traceable
concurrently for twenty (20) to forty (40) thousands of yrs or more regardless
of ever-changing Racial phenotype and is also connected recently (1,000 yrs) by
following my male surname Quirindongo/Kirindongo/Doncker.
History Timeline (1,000 yrs) Quirindongo true and false cognates
1100? surname Doncker appears in Holland in Latin script
1400? surname Kiring found in France in Latin script
1499? Querindongo (lover) word (never a surname) appears in Latin script in Spain
1500? Amerindian Caiquetio-Spanish phonetic word for fresh water “Kirin” found in Curazao
1601? tribal-names Kiring and Dongo found in Malaysia later becoming surnames and names in Latin script
1634? Amerindian-Dutch phonetic word “Kiring” for fresh water? or oasis? found in Curacao
1640? Wandongo/Jan/Juan Doncker short-lived place-name (never a surname in Curacao) appears as a water oasis in Curacao
1645? Kirindongo phonetic place-name appears in Curacao in Spanish Papiamento as a water oasis
1650? Kiring Dongo in Dutch Papiamento Latin script appears as a surname and water oasis in Curacao
ALL
DOCUMENTED DATA
1673-79 Jan/Juan Doncker (Wandongo) quits governorship to continue selling fresh well-water
1750 Slave rebellion Hato Plantation in Curacao
1758 Maria Magdalena manumitted in Curacao surname Kiring Dongo given
1780 Patriarch Pedro Quirindongo migrates from Curacao to PR
1791 WIC finally goes Bankrupt in Curacao after many yrs running in the red
1794 Juan Pedro Quirindongo arrives in PR from Curacao
1795 Tula and Carpata slave rebellion - names as legacy don’t survive
1800-02 British occupation in Curacao
1807-16 British occupation in Curacao
1821 insurrection in Kirindongo “East Division” of free Blacks in militia.
1863 Kirindongo surname in Latin script given to freed slaves in Curacao when owners compensated
1865 Some 1/5 USA Black slaves take on European surnames owners NOT compensated
1873 Slavery abolished in PR - surnames in Latin script given to freed slaves when owners compensated
1881-1889 Bismarck institutes Social Security and surnames in Germany
1914 More USA African-Americans get European surnames as soldiers in WW I
1924 Quirindongo family migrates from PR to NYC
ALL RECENT FALSE COGNATES
1930? Dongo surname food-name religious-name and tribal-name appear in Latin script in Africa
1935 Turkey mandates all citizens use surname in Latin script
1940? Wandongo surname (never a place-name in Africa nor surname in Curacao) appears in Latin script in Tanzania Africa
1945 Mussolini captured and killed near Dongo Italy
1991 Kiryandongo place-name (never a surname) appears in Latin script in Uganda Africa
Therefore my yDNA in spite of my Mestizo
phenotype is found in
profusion in Europe followed by smaller quantities in sequential date order
Malaysia then Curacao on to PR then to NYC and USA… and curiously similar in
Mongolia, Siberia, Korea, the China coast and interior and Japan. Yet no
significant amounts of yDNA of my Quirindongo “I” (eye) Haplotype is found in the area of Sub Sahara Africa slave
coast in spite of the large historic Dutch Slave Trade there and a heavy Dutch
influx further south.
I
think I prove the surname KIRING DONGO and the yDNA Haplogroup “I” came from
Europe and shipped out as DONCKER from Holland to Curacao where they stayed for
one hundred twenty five (125) yrs (after a short preliminary twenty (20) yr
stop in Malaysia) and were compelled to go to PR by the CEDULA
de GRACIAS free land. Since there is in Curacao localities named Kirindongo
Abou and Kirindongo Ariba many Slaves and people with no surname took on the
Kirindongo/Quirindongo surname when migrating to PR and we cannot say because
of illiteracy which one of the many similar surnames is in my individual
ancestry including:
1) the KIRINDONGO
in Curacao and QUIRINDONGO
worldwide
2) the
more recent “misspelling” QUIRINGDONGO
QUIRINDINGO
in the USA and
3) the
recent AFTER WW II in Holland KIERINDONGO
KIERINDOONGO
QUIRINGDONGO
KERINDONGO
QUIRINDOONGO
“misspellings” and the USA
KRINGDON
Only
an eight (8) marker yDNA test
with an unexpected Malaysia
connection can prove that phenotypes of the yDNA progeny can and
will change phenotype even with the same partner every time a sexual union
introduces mtDNA. The yDNA, which is my main focus, on the other hand remains
constant with rare minor mutations together with the surname if married.
Therefore phenotype and yDNA-mtDNA unions are separate unique entities working
independently and a European yDNA can’t assure a European phenotype and vice
versa; a European phenotype cannot assure a European yDNA. We must think about Mendel’s Law
in which all varieties are possible in numeric
distribution. A mixture of Amerindian and Black may very well
produce in profusion a not too dark-skinned child with straight hair. PRs in
general can have white blue-eyed children together with very dark mulatto
semi-straight-haired not-quite-Black facial featured children and every color
of skin in between from the same father and mother.
Facts stated but not in
evidence:
Wandongo and Kirindongo Abou are
the same area
Juan
Pedro is a phenotypic White man
El Rucio is the land grant from
the Cedula de Gracias
Maria Magdalena is Nicolas’s
mother
The
seeds of USA political destruction
1.
THE CASE FOR SPANISH ORIGIN
rejected…
2.
THE CASE FOR INDIGENOUS CURACAO
ORIGIN…
4.
THE CASE AGAINST AFRICAN ORIGIN
(whole or in part)…
.
Any combination of all 4 origins of
KIRINDONGO in Spanish, Indigenous Amerindian, Dutch. (or African ?)
NOT NECESSARILY IN THAT ORDER
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NAAM “facts”
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