In Search of my Spanish Roots

all i know is i am pure Filipino..just looking at my nose, lol

maybe my great forefathers had Spanish blood because of our features like our nose and our height. But I prefer to be a pure Filipino, and with pure Pinoy blood as well.

That is great to find your Spanish heritage my friend. I hope you can find out more about it. My history is not hard to trace as it is immediate. I am first generation in this country on both side of family. My Mother born in Ireland, my Father Sicily. So I know where they come from and all about their history too.

I know for a act that my father's side were spanish. I hated it because you can see attitude coming from my dad, my siblings and me. there's no point tracing the roots for me if they didn't live up to be good parents.

My grandparents on both sides came from Russia. From discussions with my father, I know his grandparents came, too. I hope you can find out more about your interesting heritage.

My father said my grandfather (on father side) is half Spanish. But my father doesn't mention or maybe doesn't know about his grandparents because that's all he can say. I am not looking for my roots anyway.

I don't think we have a foreign blood. I know my great, great grandparents are both Filipinos.

I think if i am in that situation , i would certainly look for my roots too . It's as if life will be lacking if you know where your roots came from yet you don't know a bit about them .

OOh another discussion on ancestry! First let me say that I have a magazine I bought here today that has several websites listed for help on finding ancestry. It doesn't just cover the ancestral websites we can access here in the US but also other countries so I will look to see if they have any sites recommended for the Phillippines and Spain and get back to you. I am working on my father's father's side of things and thus far (with the most information given) I can trace back to the 1700s and find that we came from Ireland. I am trying to trace back for my father's mother now but have not gotten very far. Another relative is looking through my mother's side of things and we hail from Shropshire, UK (to name one place) so far. Ancestral lineage really fascinates me.

I have known my great grand parents and from my grandparent I knew a little about my ancestors. All my family members were and are Italian.

I can go back to my great grandparents, but don't know much else.. @BelleStarr is something of an expert in this field - she helped me in trying to trace my great aunt.

My family on my father's side came from England. So far, that is as far as I have traced them. I plan on working on this again in the near future.

I think it would be great.

Wow! It seems nice to have a foreign bloodline especially in our country. I remember my friend having one as well same as you do. They were able to trace their roots which is also of Spaniard lineage. But as for my bloodline, i'm not really so sure about that. I don't know if my parents kept a record of it and if they did not, I don't know how or where to start... It's like hunting for a treasure for me...

I have been lucky with some lines and not lucky with others. But as new records some online every day, you just never know what you will find in a few months. Alas... I still have 4 people who are very difficult to get to know lol!! Keep digging... you will find something! And if you don't have any lucky with the name alone... change the spelling a little bit and try again. I have one ancestor who did changed her name all the time. In fact my own grandfather added another letter to the end of our surname so that it would look more "posh". It's a good thing that we all know what he did and documented it for later generations!

My ancestors came from Normandy, France. My Dad had a genealogy research done more than 50 years ago.

I know mine a few generations back from what the elders have told us.

That makes you 1/8 Spanish?

It can be difficult, like there are a lot of sites or things for searching it, but the reality is that some of us from more rural environments, these things are not so easy to search out-especially like on my mom's side when they were fleeing 2 wars:/

I imagine genealogy is hard to trace in some lands -- perhaps the Philippines? It's not hard in the U.S. or some european lands. I have traced thousands of people. During that time period, did men from Spain come for military reasons?