Marcie (Korte) Ruiz

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Daughter of Richard Charles Korte and Shirlena (Harris) Fong

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Biography

Marcie (Korte) Ruiz is a member of the Korte Name Study Project.

I was born in 1962 to Richard Korte and Shirlena Harris in Northern California. Other than one year spent in Denver, Colorado, I have lived my whole life here. In 1994 I married Ken Ruiz and we have one wonderful son.

Now that I am retired, I finally can spend the amount of time I want on Genealogy. I've always been interested in my family history. When I was eight, I was thrilled to see a gravestone for my 3x great-grandmother in the Missouri Ozarks. Thanks to my grandmother, I knew all the family stories about her. Thanks to genealogy, I now know that many of the stories weren't quite true.

My paternal family came from New Mexico and my roots are very deep there. I've managed to track down a few lines to Oñate and several lines to the new colonists from Zacatecas and Mexico City. I also have a 3x great-grandfather and a 2x great-grandfather from Prussia who gave me my German maiden name. My family moved to California in 1943 but I'm still proud to be an nuevomexicana.

My maternal family is almost all from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Most of them arrived in Virginia and began the route west to Kentucky and Tennessee, eventually landing in southern Missouri to stay until they headed further west to California in search of jobs in 1950.

Surnames of Interest

Each surname links to my most recent ancestor to be born with that surname starting at the great-grandparent level.

Paternal Grandfather ancestors

• González, Gutierrez
• Korte
• Lopez, Lucero
• Martín, Martínez, Mestas, Metzger
• Romero
• Solano y Valdes
• Vigil

Paternal Grandmother ancestors

• Archiveque, Archuleta
• Benavidez, Blea
• Hurtado o Urtado
• Lobato
• Martín, Mestas, Moya
• Olivas, Ortega
• Quintana
• Rodrigues
• Samora
• Tafoya

Maternal Grandfather ancestors

• Amyx
• Byron
• Copaus
• Davis
• Emberton, Emmert
• Goodman
• Haislip, Harris, HarveyHarvey
• Ivie
• Mahon
• Thompson

Maternal Grandmother ancestors

• Bilyeu
• Celia Collins, Coyle, Crow
• Elkins
• Mason, McKisick
• Odom, Owens
• Pierce
• Roberts, Routh, Russell
• Teeple

Sources

New Mexico Resources to Share

I finally created a list of resources for New Mexico that I own and ones you can find online. The Spanish Recolonization of New Mexico: An Account of the Families Recruited at Mexico City in 1693, Revolt of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Otermíns's Reconquest, 1680-1682, and the series The Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, including By Force of Arms, To the Royal Crown Restored, Blood on the Boulders, That Disturbances Cease, and The Settling of Accounts, are the most difficult to find. I am willing to do lookups in any of the books I own. I can also help with reading or translating New Mexico church records on FamilySearch film (my Spanish is only so-so, but my Catholic Church Records Spanish is great!)

DNA

• Paternal and maternal relationship is confirmed with an AncestryDNA test match between Marcie (Korte) Ruiz and M.K., siblings. Their MRCAs are their parents, Richard Korte and Shirlena Harris. Predicted relationship reported by AncestryDNA: immediate family based on sharing 2,429 cM across 50 segments; Confidence: Extremely High.

• Paternal relationship is confirmed with an AncestryDNA test match between Marcie (Korte) Ruiz and Joe Korte, first cousin, once removed. MRCAs are her great-grandparents and his grandparents Charles Korte and Emerenciana Romero. Predicted relationship reported by AncestryDNA: 2nd cousins based on sharing 291 cM across 14 DNA segments; Confidence: Extremely High.

• Paternal relationship is confirmed with an AncestryDNA test match between Marcie (Korte) Ruiz and L.M., 2nd cousins. MRCAs are their great-grandparents Gavino Hurtado and Alejandra Blea. Predicted relationship reported by AncestryDNA: 2nd cousins based on sharing 330 cM across 17 DNA segments; Confidence: Extremely High.

• Maternal relationship is confirmed with an AncestryDNA test match between Marcie (Korte) Ruiz and Kelli Harris, first cousins. MRCAs are their grandparents Baker Harris and Velvia Owens. Predicted relationship by AncestryDNA: 1st cousins based on sharing 679 cM across 29 DNA segments; Confidence: Extremely high.

• Maternal relationship is confirmed with an AncestryDNA test match between Marcie (Korte) Ruiz and S.D., 3rd cousins. MRCAs are Benjamin Franklin Harris and Sarah Elizabeth Byron. Predicted relationship reported by AncestryDNA: 4th cousins based on sharing 63 cM shared across 6 DNA segments; Confidence: Extremely High.

• Maternal relationship is confirmed with an AncestryDNA test match between Marcie (Korte) Ruiz and Joyce Copass, 2nd cousins, twice removed. CRMA is John Brock Copass. Predicted relationship reported by AncestryDNA: 4th cousins based on sharing 75 cM shared across 6 DNA segments; Confidence: Extremely high.

• Maternal relationship is confirmed with an AncestryDNA test match between Marcie (Korte) Ruiz and D.H., 2nd cousins once removed. CRMAs are James Wesley Owens and Celia Collins. Predicted relationship reported by AncestryDNA: 3rd cousins based on sharing 199 cM shared across 11 DNA segments; Confidence: Extremely High.

• Maternal relationship is confirmed with an AncestryDNA test match between Marcie (Korte) Ruiz and B.I., 2nd cousins once removed. MRCAs are Nathan Routh and Ann Teeple. Predicted relationship by AncestryDNA: 4th cousins based on sharing 63 cM shared over 7 DNA segments; Confidence: Extremely High.

• Maternal relationship is confirmed through Mitochondrial DNA test results on mitoYDNA.org. Marcie (Korte) Ruiz, mitoYDNA kit # T18469, and half her 6th cousin 1x removed, Richard Stalcup, mitoYDNA kit # T19549, (compare kits), have an exact HVR1, HVR2 and Coding Region match, thereby confirming their direct maternal lines back to their most-recent common ancestor who is Mary Henry, the 6x great grandmother of Marcie (Korte) Ruiz and 5x great grandmother of Richard Stalcup.

Advance Directive

In the event of my death, I would like all of the profiles for people not living that I manage alone to be changed to Open. Space pages that I have created can all be changed to Open. If I missed anything (and for the Red/still living profiles on my Watchlist), I ask that they are managed by Team Wiki or a WikiTree Leader at the discretion of WikiTree. Marcella Denise Ruiz, née Korte-201.

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