Carmen de Salas (1867-1940)
An index card of my maternal great grandmother and her children.
It is one of thousands created by anthropologist Jane Hainline Underwood from 1965 - 1992. These cards are located at the Micronesia Area Research Center, University of Guam.
I still have the theory that Carmen de Salas is really the daughter of Rita Aguon Salar born out of wedlock; and, that the Salas surname was a transcription error. Family lore reveals that she that her biological father was Felix (Tun Felis) de Torres. I have written about this before and is searchable on this website. Carmen is also the lineal source of my mitochondrial DNA (MtDNA) haplo group E2a, unique to the CHamoru people. It will be through this type of DNA that will prove whether my theory is correct.
