Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Time Travelers

07 February 2012

The Time Travelers

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MA ANTONIA VELA

Born 1903 in Mexico

Died ???? in Mexico

Father Salvador Vela Born 1719 in Bosnia Died 1800 in Mexico

Mother Agueda Longoria Chapa Born 1719 in Mexico Died 1788 in Mexico

1744 Married Joseph Miguel Alanis

1767 Married Jose Miguel Alanis Sr

1910 Living in Bexar, Texas

1920 Living in Cambria, Pennsylvania

1920 Living in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico

1930 Living in Hidalgo, Texas

Children with Joseph Miguel Alanis (1720 - 1797)

Tadeo Alanis Garza (???? - 1819)

Esteban Alanis Vela (1750 - 1768)

Jose Miguel Alanis (1750 - 1831)

Jose Damian Alanis (1767 - 1819)

Manuel Zapata (1923 - 2002)

Children with Jose Miguel Alanis Sr (1892 - 1797)

Tadeo Alanis (???? - 1819)
Tadeo Alanis Garza (???? - 1819)

Joseph Miguel Alanis (1720 - 1797)

Jose Miguel Alanis (1747 - 1797)

Esteban Alanis Vela (1750 - 1768)

Jose Miguel Alanis (1750 - 1831)

Jose Damian Alanis (1767 - 1819)

Jose Joaquin Alanis (1769 - 1812)

Ellis Alanis (1898 - )

Eddie Alanis (1902 - )

Jose Daniel Alanis (1905 - )

Josephine Alanis (1910 - )

Manuel Zapata (1923 - 2002)

Plus 7 more children listed as living

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The quick lesson from this should be: Not everyone with the same name is the same person. Antonia Vela born in 1903 is not the same as Antonia Vela born in 1737!!!

Ancestry.com should have a short test before people are allowed to start a tree.

Here are a few questions to begin:

1. A woman is born in 1719. If the following years represent the births of her children which one is NOT possible?

    A. 1735

    B. 1759

    C. 1903

2. If a woman's second husband was born in 1892 is it possible her first husband was born in 1720 (172 years earlier)?

    A. Yes.

    B. Maybe, I need to see the documentation.

    C. No, that's insanity!

3. In what era would a mother have been able to marry her own son?

    A. early 1700s

    B. mid 1800s

    C. Are you mental?

If the potential subscriber answered anything but C to a question they should be taken to a page saying:

Congratulations!

You have just saved yourself a lot of time and money.

We do hope that it's not genetic so

someone else in your family

can discover your family history.

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