The Ethnic Ancestry of Jaliscan Higlanders (🇲🇽)

My paternal grandfather & my great-grandfather (my mother's maternal grandfather) were both from the Jaliscan Highlands (English for Los Altos de Jalisco) a region in the Mexican state of Jalisco, known for its overwhelmingly predominantly European (also known as "Criollo") population, along with charreria, tequila, bullfighting, mariachi music, historic Mexican Colonial architecture, & deep Catholic conservatism.

The Origins of Jaliscan Highlanders can be traced to the Criollo settlers who settled from other Mexican regions such as Michoacan, Zacatecas, Mexico City, Guadalajara, Aguascalientes, & other parts of Mexico, with some settling directly from Spain, mainly in older settlements such as Lagos de Moreno, most of the Jaliscan Highlands was heavily populated in the 1600s & 1700s, with some of the settlers also having Genovese Italian, Portuguese, Sephardic Jewish, Alsatian French, Indigenous (including Purepecha & Mexica/Aztec), & Belgian Flemish.

Jaliscan Highlanders tend be descended from Giovanni Lomellini (a Genovese Italian man who settled in Zacatecas, who's descendants were spread out to the Highlands of Highlands), few conquistadors such as Hernan Cortes (who conquered the Aztec Empire, which lead to the establishment of New Spain), Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (who explored the Southwestern United States, up to present-day Kansas, as well as Pedro Menendez de Aviles (who was the 1st governor of Spanish Florida & the founder of St. Augustine, the oldest white city in what is now the United States), many of them also descend from Moctezuma (who was the last emperor of the Aztec Empire).

The Ethnic Ancestry of Jaliscan Higlanders is predominantly Spanish (🇪🇸) (Basque, Galician, Andalusian, Extremaduran, & Castilian), with 1/4 to 1/32 Native American (🪶) (Purepecha, Aztec, & Chichimeca), along with smaller amounts of Portuguese (🇵🇹), Alastian French (🇫🇷), Genovese Italian (🇮🇹), Belgian Flemish (🇧🇪), & Sephardic Jewish (✡️).