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My family research started 1985, through the Creole Geneological Institue, in particular with my Mother's Mothers side: Moreno's, Romero's.A mixture of Amerindo, Spanish and African. This line of Mulattos intermixed with Mestizos, and assimiliated as Spanish, or White. They intermarried with Indo-Portuguese Moriscos. On my mother's mother's father's side were North American Native people, Yokatch who were colonized by Spanish, as Mission Indians and were relocated to St. Cruz Missions. They were suppose to be emanicipated by 1833, mission St. Cruz Natives still continued to work as cummunal labors under state appointed administers and limited emancipation was granted. Finally, 1836-42 Governor Jaun Batista Alvarado emancipated St. Cruz., which many became wanderers with Gentiles in Ranches/or fled to Tulares under Mexican jurisdiction to work. Later some were given land grants, many went into U.S. Military, etc.
On my Mother's mother's Mother's side were people from the greater Antilles region: These people were what they call Indiginous people of the Caribbeans. They were called Taino-Arawak from the islands of West Indies, Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica. They were all dispersed amongst these islands during the 1st colonization of Spanish. Some were brought from the islands and intermixed into Spanish blood calling them seasoned slaves, whom then were brought into America's to work on these labor farms and fields. These people were what some may call Creole Indians (Afrakan, Native and Spanish). Some were brought thru different ports New Orleans, Miami, Mexico, as labor contracts. My people were brought in from Miami. It is not clear whether both sides of families met in the Missions, or they met after the emancipation and intermarried in the valley of Los Banos, Gilroy, Merced are where they formed a union of one. From here, I believe something happened to the land, which was given...maybe it was taken away, or government bought them out for land development. The husband died leaving the wife-Victoria Moreno-Soto to raise her 9 children plus adopted children. They ended up moving to San Ramon area where they made a life for themselves quietly. Most of these siblings were taken into the US Military, and some were lost in war. My grandmother met her husband a Morisco- whose family were Indian and Portuguese and married into this line bringing these lines together.
Then, I recently learned of my fathers fathers side,Abyssinian-E. African-Egyptian-Arab-Italian, which intermixed with Italian-exhiled from the Mussolini era, by name of Gioletti. They tried to cut my fathers fathers side out, and carry out a history of White assimilation. My father was raised on a farm in San Joaquin County area, and was left by his mother at a very young age. He lost is father at age 3, when they found him in a garage with a bullet through his head, execution style. They never talked to much about this side of the family. His mother relocated to San Leandro area and married into a Sicilian family, by name of Fazio and beared a child from this marriage, whom named Ernie Fazio. They reared this child into professional baseball. My father left the ranch in which he felt he was mistreated and ran away at age 13, or so to find his mother. He found her and she allowed him to stay with her new family. He went to school in San Leandro, then Hayward High where he starred on the Football Team. It was here he met my mother. They were taken in by my mother's family, until they were able to get there 1st apt. on Mission St. Hayward, CA. above a plumbing store. He was given the opportunity to go to plumbing school and worked for 25 cents an hour. He kept on in this trade and years later got his own business. They moved to the greater bay Area where they bought a home to refurbish, and redesigned the house from the ground up. He became a force in the community as he became Head Coach for Oakland Dynamites, Pop Warner Football.
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