Saturday, January 28, 2023

Daniel Danny Trejo Family Tree, Ancestry, DNA, Ethnicity, by Mary Cummins Genealogist


Daniel Danny Trejo family tree, ancestry, DNA, ethnicity, heritage by Mary Cummins genealogist. I did this tree 20 years ago in 2003 and left it on Ancestry.com. That means anyone had access to all the data. I translated the old Spanish documents myself word by word. There was no tree for him on Geni, Ancestry, Geneastar, online...before I made it. I'm sure others probably made one in a private website or their computer but there was no tree on the internet when I made this tree. I did add the photos more recently but it's the same tree.

I love Henry Louis Gates Jr. and PBS' "Finding Your Roots." Great show. That said all of the family trees that he has shown on his show were done by other people many years earlier. He doesn't do them from scratch. I'm sure he probably worked to verify that the data was accurate but he saved years of work by using the existing data. He basically verifies trees, data then weaves it into a nice and compelling presentation. It's a TV show, entertainment.

Danny Trejo acted on the show like this is the first time this information was known. I realize he's an actor trying to put on a good show to promote himself. Still, this data has been publicly available to anyone on the internet since at least 2003. His mother's family was never unknown. Neither was his father's family. Since I made my tree for him I see many other people have linked to it and used the data for their trees. 

I've done over 1,500 trees for famous people and celebrities. Many of them are on Geneastar.org which was bought by Ancestry.com last year. I started making them public for all without a pay wall few years back. I was a little upset that Ancestry sells all my work, my data, my documents to other people for $35/month. Even if your tree is private everyone can see, use all of the data and your photos. They just can't see your name or living people in your tree. If you want your tree, family photos to be private, never put it on Ancestry, Geni, My Heritage, My Family or any other place even if they say it's private. You are giving them the right to sell your photos and data. This is why I don't put any of my photos on Ancestry. Once a relative of mine put one of my photos in his Ancestry account and Ancestry advertised it as one of their photos. It was my photo. I had to send a cease and desist to get them to remove it. They tried so hard to shake me so they could keep it and sell it but they finally removed it. Now I don't even let my relatives have family photos for this reason.

My specialty is Mexican, Spanish, Jewish and African American genealogy research. I like to do the not so famous people, Mexicans, Jewish and African Americans because no one was doing their trees and we need this information out there. I've been working on this project for many years. The main theme is that we are all related. In fact I've also been connecting all of the famous people to my tree. I connected all of the US Presidents, US VPs, English/Spanish/French... royalty, 500 most famous people ever... in my tree. Everyone in the US with one European ancestor is at least a 15th cousin to everyone else with a European ancestor. You just need to know the path.

I generally write a full article on each person in the tree with their biography, history, obituary but you can just read the articles online about the PBS show. It's not as detailed as my articles but I don't feel like doing all that work as other people just take my articles, data and sell it with ads or as a subscription service like Ancestry. I have no ads on this blog. 


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