Birth Name: Ana Patricia Rojo Stein
Place of Birth: Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico
Date of Birth: February 13, 1974
Ethnicity:
*Uruguayan (Spanish [Canarian and Castilian]) (father)
*Peruvian (Indigenous, Spanish), German (mother)
Ana Patricia Rojo is a Mexican actress and singer. Her father, Gustavo Rojo y Pinto, is an Uruguayan actor and producer. Her mother, Carmela Stein Bedoya, represented Miss Peru in Miss Universe 1961, ending up in semi-finals. She is married to Jorge Grijalba. She was previously married to Andrés Puentes Jr.
Ana Patricia’s paternal grandparents were Rubén Rojo y Martín de Nicolás (the son of ? Rojo and ? Martín de Nicolás) and Mercedes Pinto Armas de la Rosa y Clós (the daughter of Francisco María Pinto y de la Rosa and Ana María de Armas Clós). Rubén was a Spanish immigrant, from Quintanar de la Orden, Toledo. Mercedes was a Spanish-born writer, from San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife. Ana María was the daughter of José Benigno de Armas Jiménez and María de África Clós y Eguizábal.
Ana Patricia’s maternal grandfather was Benjamín Stein Yacarini (the son of Karl Stein and Toribia Yacarini Luján). Karl was born in Hesse, Germany, to Karl Volbrath Stein and Catherina Heimburg. Toribia was listed as “mestiza” on civil records, and was the daughter of José Esteban Yacarini and Petronila Luján.
Ana Patricia’s maternal grandmother was Adela Bedoya Vargas (the daughter of Saturnino Bedoya y Viana and María del Carmen Vargas Plata). Saturnino was listed as “blanco” (white) on civil records, and was the son of Manuel Bedoya and Dionicia Viana. Carmen was also listed as “blanco” (white) on civil records, and was the daughter of Benito Vargas and Jovita Plata Gálvez.
Ana Patricia’s matrilineal ancestry can be traced back to her third great-grandmother, Manuela Gálvez.
Sources: Genealogy of Ana Patricia Rojo (focusing on her father’s side) – http://geneall.net
Biography of Ana Patricia’s mother – http://www.labiografia.com
Genealogy of Ana Patricia’s maternal grandfather, Benjamín Stein Yacarini – http://gw.geneanet.org
Death record of Ana Patricia’s maternal great-grandmother, Toribia (Yacarini Luján) de Stein – https://familysearch.org
Marriage record of Ana Patricia’s maternal great-grandparents, Saturnino Bedoya y Viana and Carmen Vargas de la Plata – https://familysearch.org
Death record of Ana Patricia’s maternal great-great-grandmother, Jovita Plata Gálvez – https://familysearch.org