By meef98367 |

Yes, I have found such varying descriptions of race in baptisms in my research. One family had several children, and I was amazed that each child was listed with a race different from his parents. In this family I found "espanol", "yndio", "mestizo", and "mulato". A rainbow family.

I guess the priests did look at the complexion of the child, although I thought all newborns looked the same (reddish) and didn't take on color until they were older.

Emilie
Port Orchard, WA

Maureen Bejar

16 years 9 months ago

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Yes, I have found the same discrepancies on my Alviso line. Mestiza, Mestizo and then Espanol with siblings of the same mother and father. Als,o mestiza or mestizo at birth and then Espanol for the marriage. I think the race description were quite subjective (or influenced my donations possibly), so they should not be entirely trusted. I think we have spoken on this subject previously.

Maureen Bejar

Thanks to members Maureen and Emilie for the very interesting info on race assignment.
Jaime. PS also thanks for the info on the ~. My Mac (running Windows) does not want to recognize
the command.

-------------- Original message --------------
From: "Emilie Garcia"

> Yes, I have found such varying descriptions of race in baptisms in my research.
> One family had several children, and I was amazed that each child was listed
> with a race different from his parents. In this family I found "espanol",
> "yndio", "mestizo", and "mulato". A rainbow family.
>
> I guess the priests did look at the complexion of the child, although I thought
> all newborns looked the same (reddish) and didn't take on color until they were
> older.
>
> Emilie
> Port Orchard, WA

Here's a link that explains how to type non-English characters on a mac:

http://ml.hss.cmu.edu/mlrc/links/keyboardhelp.html

Karr

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Thanks to members Maureen and Emilie for the very interesting info on race
assignment.
Jaime. PS also thanks for the info on the ~. My Mac (running Windows) does
not want to recognize
the command.

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