Roman occupation and Moorish occupation in this region
This is most likely the case. How many people did Y tests in Spain, one in one thousand? Even if it is one in one hundred it is still not that many to find close matches in a town of few thousand people. Plus records of these peoples' tests are scattered amongst different testing companies and databases.
I know with certainty that records can be found further back. I was able to visibly see them locked away and controlled by the church rather than municipalities or government agencies. Few historians have access. I was graciously allowed because one high ranking church official liked my enthusiasm when I visited from the United States, year after year and, with my dad. My dad is now gone but I continue.
The area of Spain that I am referring to is the large region of Extramadura, Badajoz Spain. Specifically,
1) Fuente de Cantos, Badajoz 2) Sancho Perez in Zafra Badajoz and Calzadilla de los Barros, Badajoz. Many from this region joined voyages to the New World and it's well documented but my dad's line never left the region. This is when I began hunting for more information.
I also know that there was Morrish occupation and Roman occupation.
Regarding Roman occupation, ruins in each of these towns mentioned above have found the inscription Contributa Julia Ugultuniacum (in spanish Contributa Iulia Ugultunia) which is mentioned within documents of Pliny Ptolemy of Rome. Pliny mentions that Contributa Iulia Ugultunia consisted of three Celtic areas of Baetica and associated with Curiga. The "Antoine Itinerary" says that under the "Ravenna Cosmography and Georgraphy of Ptolemy" that Contributa Julia and Curiga are 24 miles apart; "on the main road of Hispalis to Emerita". If we assume that Roman miles measure approximately 1,620 yards and the itinerary figures are correct and the fact that remnants of this roman road still exists, today, it would be Medina de Las Torres, a municipality pertaining to the Comarca Zafra, Badajoz. And, while no records have been found to definitively say that Contributa Julia is an actual town name, there are sufficient records to show that Curiga was a town, today Monesterio, Badajoz Spain.
Monesterio and Medina de Torres are very, very close to the towns mentioned above and where my dad's line come from. In addition, there is a very old cemetary in Monsterio with an inscription built within an honorific statue of an emperior with the decree Decuriones Res. P. Curiensium honoring him but the top of the head is missing. Experts have seen it and say that the style of epigraphy is that of Emperior Septimus Severus which cooperates with the stone dating of 196 A.D. Inscriptions can be found in many places including churches built during the Vespasianic period.
MORE IMPORTANT, DNA.
Spanish antiquate historian Rodrigo Caro says the term "acum" is a common celtic suffix found in Gaul.
Controversies regarding Contributa Iulia Ugultunia actual location will continue.
Yet, Ptolemy and many more records indicate that region is occupied with Celtic (colonies).
With this information, I can understand why my dad is only connecting with people having Irish, Scottish and Germany ancestry.
Yet, I can't understand why no spanish surnames are popping up today from the list of people connecting with me.
A sample of SURNAME connections:
HAMILTON within 23 generations, 18/19 markers match, genetic distance 2
MOORE within 23 generations, 18/19 markers match, genetic distance 2
CIITTA within 23 generations 18/19 markers match, genetic distance 2
WILIAMS within 29 generations 23/24 markers match, genetic distance 3
JEFFERSON within 32 generations 20/22 markers match, genetic distance 3
OTHER SURNAMES WHO CONNECTED ( within (23-28 generations, markers 20 and higher and genetic distance of 2)
BARKER, MITCHEL, HANLEY, KOELLING, LUST, HALL, INGLIS, MILLER, GILLESPIE, YUNGNER, CZITROM, EVANS, GOODMAN, BATEMAN, PEACOCK, MIGLIORE, RANKIN, HOWLAND, CAMPBELL, THERIAULT, DEAN, GEIGER, ADAMS, JONES, GIESE, DEMPSTER, HOPKINS, McENTAFFER, SALMON, WYLDE, DAYTON, McKINLEY.
ONLY 1 GARCIA (50 generations, distance of 3)
Does this not seem odd to you?????
I would have expected more Spanish surnames but not the case.
Now you can understand why I'm so perplexed.
It's not as if my dad was born out of wedlock from an unknown paternal line
because many siblings and cousins conducted DNA and all tested same line.
Wow!