StoryCorps with Leonard Trujillo and Deborah Trujillo-Terracino

Leonard Trujillo and Deborah Trujillo-Terracino

Recorded December 20, 2024
Length 38:58 minutes

Description

Deborah Trujillo-Terracino (63) discusses with her fourth cousin Leonard Trujillo (73) their extensive research on their shared ancestors, Juan Estevan Trujillo and his son Lorenzo Trujillo, who were Genizaros from Abiquiú, New Mexico.

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01:55 Deborah Trujillo Terracino (DTT) explains how she and Leonard Trujillo (LT) are direct descendants of Juan Estevan Trujillo and his son, Lorenzo, and shares their process of researching their ancestors.

05:11 LT shares insights into how Juan Estevan likely received his surname “Trujillo.”

05:55 DTT speaks about the Genizaros, displaced Indigenous people, and their practice of enslaving other indigenous people.

12:20 LT shares that, along with their nine children, Juan Estevan and Juliana Martin also had three Indigenous individuals baptized and added to their household.

15:22 LT and DTT share what they know about Juan Estevan’s son, Lorenzo Trujillo, from various documents.

18:30 DTT and LT discuss the curiosity of Lorenzo, with Genizaro roots, marrying María Dolores Archuleta, of Spanish descent, and their life together.

24:02 LT shares that Juan Estevan and Lorenzo both had slaves which was confirmed through another burial document.

25:52 DTT and LT discuss Lorenzo's journey in 1841, when he took his family from Abiquiú, New Mexico over the Old Spanish Trail to Alta, California.

35:55 LT shares the most recent findings of the QL400 Haplogroup DNA results.

36:35 DTT and LT reflect on what it has been like to collaborate on this extensive research project of 14 years together.