Thank-you for the many responses. The surname Gonzalez has been both a
blessing, because my family tree has sure grown since I began researching
this line, but it is also a time consuming challenge to stick with it,
because there are so many Gonzalez in microfilms. The microfilm I am
currently viewing is LDS Film Number 1667417 for Huejuquilla El Alto,
Jalisco, the San Diego Parish Records of Baptisms 1833-1875. It is in the
Diocese of Zacatecas.
This particular film has taken me many months to view and I am still going,
because there are so many Gonzalez in it. I asked if anyone had this
surname in their tree, because you would know how voluminous the information
can become with such a surname. The exciting prospect is, that I think I
may have found the area of my first "Rancho," somewhere in this parish.
There is the mission San Diego in Huejuquilla in the Huichol homelands and
the many pueblos, haciendas, and ranchos of this parish. But, only one or
two contain those families I know are my ancestors. The main area
they lived was in Huejuquilla, but some lived on the Rancho de la Muraya and
Rancho de los Limones.
The names I have found in this film have created a whole branch of my family
tree stemming from my great-grandmother Francisca Cabral. Her siblings
were: Virginia, Jesus Maria, Felis, all born in Huejuquilla; Juana, born in
Aguascalientes; Luz, Miguel, Isabel, and Daniel, who, along with Francisca
were born in Guadalajara.
Their parents were Pioquinta Gonzalez and Benigno Cabral. On this film I am
viewing, 1667417, I found Pioquinta's siblings. Pioquinta was born 1834,
then Maximo, Eufemia, and Pasqual. Benigno was from Huejucar.
Pioquinta's mother was Maria Antonia Gonzalez, whom I believe was a Huichol
or, as I think they call themselves, Masrara? Her father was said to be
Ygnacio Figueroa, but he did not claim her at her baptism, so she is merely
an indio, hija natural de Antonia Gonzalez. (And, I have not found any
record of him on this film, so I ask myself if I should even pursuit his
supposed line.)