Rodriguez Family Ancestry

I found a famous person in the line... there has to be a little history with this story, which is like many stories in one. This is the 4th great grandfather of Grandma Sally. Summarized from an article by Steve Gibson, 4th great-grandson of Francisco Xavier Chaves.    Francisco Xavier Cháves (1762 –1832). The first member of the Cháves family in San Antonio was born in or around Albuquerque, New Mexico about 1762. His maternal grandfather was a Sergeant of the Royal Presidio at Albuquerque, who participated in Indian campaigns killing many Comanche’s and who was himself killed by Comanche’s.[1] His father, Ignacio was the son of Francisco Duran y Cháves and Juana Baca. The Baca Family of New Mexico also claimed to be descendents of the Cabeza de Vaca Family in Spain. His paternal grandfather was Francisco Duran y Cháves, son of Fernando Duran y Cháves, who became Alcalde Mayor of Villa de San Felipe de Albuquerque, and his wife Doña Luisa Hurtado, who he married in New Mexico...

I wanted to give you the whole lowdown of the DNA results I got from 23&Me. Its so interesting. Southern European 50.9%, of this 48.7% is Spanish and Portuguese, the rest is Broadly European Ashkenazi Jewish 0.9% French and German 0.7% Native American 39.1% Broadly East Asian 0.8% West African 3.2% (this includes Senegambian and Guinean, Nigerian, Ghanian, Liberian, and Sierra Leonian) African Hunter-Gatherer 0.7% (such as San, Pygmy, and Bantu) Angolan and Congolese 0.5% Indian and Pakistani (trace 0.3%) Arab, Egyptian and Levantine (trace 0.1%) Coptic Egyptian (trace 0.1%) North African (Moroccan Arabic 0.1%) The rest is mixed or unassigned. This is what the photo looks like and the colors match the countries in the photo above.

There has always been a story that some of our family from Grandma Sally's side is from Spain, which was why we had the light skin and Sally had blue eyes. But I looked for a long time and could not find the person who was rumored to be the Spaniard, Maria Something-German, who was Sally's grandmother. So to bring you up to date, I had my DNA done at 23 & Me about a year ago. I wanted to know what my genetic makeup was, and how much was going to be Spanish. So I turned out to be about 53% European (the Spanish would make sense here), 40% Native American and East Asian (Mexicans are Europeans mixed with Native Americans), and 4.8% Sub-saharan African! Yes, that is why I am such a good dancer! Anyway, 53% European is high for a one-relative Spanish ancestor, even with the Mexican Mix. So there must be more European, right? I went back to Ancestry.com (23&Me and Ancestry.com do not speak to each other. Each wants to make money on their products so in order to enter m...