Hey, I saw your message and thought you would be a good person to contact, cause you seemed to have some info about Cotas. My close ancestors (like maybe about 4 generations back?) were from Baja
California, Mexico. They were from the cities of
La Paz (where there's a '
Cota' Street, kind od dusty but...), and
Santa Rosalia (french mining town, lot's of french there, a mini Eifel
Tower, Eifel's church design was used there). Then a few came to Tijuana Mexico, bought a lot of land and were a wealthy family. From what I know almost all of them had a chance to go to school if they wanted and it shows they had some money to have that choice in Mexico at the time. (I say choice, cause here and there there are some Cotas who didn't do well at all, and their brother did great...). I also seem to rememeber seeing a post that a Cota's grandfather was in the french army. Another said that it came from Spain then spread out to France and Italy. I also saw a few posts about some Idian tribes named
Cota. These were in
Arizona, and from
Minnesota? (but a french name town). There was also a
Cota post from Canada (there's a lot of french there) I tried to go on Yahoo in France and looked up
Cota Family (Famille). I saw some french article about Martin
Luther. I Pasted it on an internet french-english translator and it turns out that Martin
Luther tutored some french Cotas and he converted the mother; starting out a protestant family religion. (I assume the Cotas were doing OK to be tutored by a famous
Luther). Conclusion...Cota = A very french name, the cotas indians were most liekly named
Cota by the dicoverers, as the Dieguits in
San Diego (My home town). More cotas came over to the mining company in Baja Mexico. They kept on dicovering, naming the natives, an old house in San Diego's old town that is now destroyed), buying land. And now one produced me!
If this helps, Great! cause i hope i didnt type this for nothing (this cota has a literature paper he puched back cause of this email). But I hope to hear from you, I'm sure whatever you know will help a lot.
Fernando
Cota Jr
PS Like me there's a lot of Engineers in our family, also a few architects, and more of that side brained careers. Is this true with yours too?
