Help with my ancestry?

Question

Am Mexican am ligth skinned and i have ligth brown hair, and ligth brown eyes, all my family is white, my both grandas are blonde and 1 has dark blue eyes, and my grandas grandmother was british with a last name of Thomas, my both granpas are a bit colored and have very ligth skinned dark skin, from far there is no actual difference, they are a bit colored, just a bit, and my both parents are really white, both. What would be my mix?

Answer 1

In the last 300 years, there were three groups that made a mass immigration to Mexico: Spaniards, French and Lebanese. Since you're light-skinned and have a name like Thomas, French and Lebanese are both strong possibilities. The Brits were more to the east, near the border with Belize. It's also possible they were once Americans who settled there in the 1800s after Spain left and before the Republic of Texas.

Answer 2

Wendy and Genevieve's mom gave you some great information.  

Your parents probably inherited recessive European genes in their pigmentation that your grandparents carried.  Most Mexican are Mestizos.   The Spanish themselves are not necessarily a dark race, except around Andalusia.  In Castille, they are frequently blond or light brown hair  with blue eyes. Some have red hair.  Outside of Andalusia, the Spanish frequently have very dark hair and eyes with fairly light skin tones.

The conquistadors intermarried with the native population that was already in Mexico and in most Mexicans the pigmentation of the natives

is dominant.

Answer 3

You would have to research all your grandpas to find your ethnic background.   Trying to tell origin just by the color hair or eyes is not specific enough.

Answer 4

I would ask for clarification, since I know many persons using the term Mexican, even for persons who were born in CA..but have Mexican background.  This would be somewhat different than a person who was born/lives in Mexico, currently.   And, since you are using physical description, that concerns me too.

NOTHING HOSTILE here!!! Physical coloring ("white" or not) can come from anywhere, and is not going to give you good information as to who your ancestors are.

What is needed is to use actual names/ dates/ places to learn about your family.  For starting out, you need to collect these things within the family, as they will not be online. Birth and Death certificates are used early on.. if family was in the US prior to 1930, then you can start picking the trail up in the census. There are many other records to use.. but which ones, will depend on learning which state or country you are working with.

Many persons are surprised to learn that other European persons lived in Mexico, aside from Spanish, and the trick is finding them, then their parents/ lineage.

http://www.cyndislist.com/beginner.htm

here is a huge collection of sources, both to get you started, and also listing sources from around the world.

You need to learn also about "pedigree charts" which are much like a map, to put the persons in a way that you can see them and their connecting.

By the time you get back a certain number of generations, you won't HAVE things like light/dark to work with, even if it was reliable to start with (which it isn't).