Well, I am back for a little bit here whilst I come up for air.

My work with the de Silva blood line has stirred up some coals and has brought back some life within the genealogical circles I frequent.
I just got challenged on issues concerning my Copy Right on stuff I spent some long hours researching. I purposely have not been sharing that data within Forums. If I do share something it gets Copy Righted. That didn't seem to agree with that the head of the forum. They really wanted to "absorb" everything that had been "shared" to put into books and periodicals to sell for their profit. The one who actually did all the work gets the finger....

Genealogy Forums are strange places. I'd advise everyone who is working genealogy to keep away from them.
The forum is set up by one person who is doing work on their specific family tree, they either have come upon a blank wall in their paper trails or they want to get more concentrated data on their specific family.
People join those forums with a good intent. others join to flea suck data from others. There are never real and lasting connections made in so far as genealogy. One amasses volumes of data that leads nowhere doesn't make any connections. I bet you that the forum leader is the only one making connections within their own family tree.
A lot of time can be wasted by a genealogist in a forum that is based on greed. They literaaly work a little piece of dirt in a place called a town for half a lifetime and miss the whole point of the purpose of genealogy.

In regard to the work.

Copyright 2008 May 16, 2008 John J. Browne.

I'll be the first one to say this, anyone who says that they are a Taino Indian better think twice about it.

The Spaniards took away Aztec country from the Moctezuma clan. The clan was in a very tenuous position because everyone hated them in Mejica country.
After the conquest the Spaniards started marrying them and they eventually ended up in Spain. Many of the Spanish today who have taken DNA tests are scratching their heads when their mtDNA comes out Haplo Group C. The bloodlines are supposed to have been kept clean by way of intermarrying one another. Ah, blame their ancestors for marrying those Moctezuma people!
That genetics eventuall got to the Caribbean by way of the Spanish sons and daughters who immigrated to Cuba, Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico etc. It then found its way back to Mexico and South America by way of Spanish immigration.
By then the Taino Haplo Groups were almost extinct. Very few of them had survived the deprivations of war, disease and their enslavement. Some Taino genes might have filtered through and survived via the women who were taken as "wives".
Right now the way it stands DNA science is still in its infancy technologically. It just doesn't have the know how to test DNA to distinguish if a Haplo Group C belongs to a Taino, Aztec or an Apache Indian. So, I have been informed.
So, everything I am writing here is a theory that can't be supported yet by technical science. But the paper trail I have created does.
There are hard copy documents in the Archives of PARES, Ministry of Culture, Spain to support my theory. Right now I can only list the reference numbers and catalogue numbers within my family tree. Even that venue has gone caput because of the restrictive size limitations imposed on images that can be uploaded into that Site by the Web Master. Today's technology limitations are working against me for now until I find a way around them.
The de Silva family were a minumental family in that every where one looks in anyone's family tree one or two of them show up.
The Jiminez, the Inigo, the Alfonse, the Stewarts, the Garces, the Garcia, the Fonseca, the Ijars, (Hijar to you), the Perez, the de Castro, Martinez, Sotomayor, etc. Name one and I'll show you a de Silva who has gotten into your specific family tree, even the Moctezuma. yDNA as well as mtDNA all reflect the de Silva. I am beginning to think that it was perhaps the other way around because it seems that everyone in Spain was in a real huff to marry a de Silva.
I am presently working upon connecting the families who settled in Puerto Rico to the families who started their careers and life in Spain. The font of information in Puerto Rico doesn't go beyond the great cathedral in San Juan. The paper trail stops cold there for many a genealogist. As a result I have made it my mission to make the connections in Spain and then work my way into the Filipines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and then to terra Firma. Right now if you go online to have a look at my family tree you will actually see those connections being made from Spain into the New World. I even have the genealogy of the Moctezuma who fought at Mobile extending itself from Spain to America and Florida. I also have the Aviles tree coming out of Spain into Florida, the Alles, the others extend into Europe as well.
As I sit back playing within my family tree its astounds me to see how massive the Spanish Empire was back in its day. From China, India, Surinam, America, South and Central America. Not one place seems to have been untouched. Spain had many fronts to conend with, the Dutch and the English as well as the French were at war with them.
They withstood the war for quite a long time before it caught up with them.
You know, I must be some kind of weirdo. When I first began my genealogy It was with the single minded intent of finding out who were my immediate ancestors were. The Ayes. Then I began discovering connections that extended itself out of Puerto Rico into the rest of the world. Right now I feel I have evolved into a sort of world genealogy that spans timeframes that I could have never before imagined. The scope of my family tree is a world wide one. It embraces nearly all the families who ever lived in the medieval world of the time.
Our ancestors lived in a time of discovery. New places and inventions, and despite all of that positive that went on there were the greedy little flea people sucking the life out of other people. Greed and lust were rampant. On one hand they were building and empire and on the negative opposing side of the frame they were sucking the life out of the land. Natural resources as well as human ones. They set the stage for the destruction of many of the old sacred ways of the indigenous peoples. No one can really estimate the great loss of wisdom that has occurred because of the New World expansionism.

Ayes