Dear cousins:

I just got this email from a gentleman in Aguascalientes who is researching our same lines. He must have run across my homepage. As I understand his message Diego Romo de Vivar ranged over a wider area than we anticipated, not extending his lifestyle to Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua alone, but reaching as far north in Nueva Biscaya as Villa Ahumada, which he founded.

If you've never been there, I highly recommend Villa Ahumada. It's the town that cheese built. I think Menonite Cheese, but in any case a soft, moist, white cheese served on a fresh hand made tortilla.

Out of this world! Vendors sell them to passing cars, trains, busses....pedestrians! They probably sold them to passing wagon trains.

All decades before Pollo Loco!

Ernie: dame un poco más de información sobre los Romo de Vivar: Diego y
Pedro. Te informo que Diego estuvo unos años en Chihuahua como colonizador
y fundó lo que ahora es Villa Ahumada.. Es probable que haya dejado
descendencia fuera de matrimonio por allá. Hay un estudio interesante de ese
episodio.Tengo documentado que se casó en Aguascalientes, no en España.
Pedro estuvo en Alamos, Sonora también como colonizador, pero al parecer
volvió ya viejo a Teocaltiche, Jalisco. Es fundador de la mayoría de las
líneas genealógicas de Los Altos de Jalisco y de ahí, de las de Sonora y
Sinaloa. Tengo la hipótesis de que vinieron a América por que son primos
hermanos del Capitán Juan Rincón de Vivar y el Presbítero Pedró Rincón (de
Vivar) de Ortega, poderosísimo personaje que fundó el mayorazgo de los
Rincón-Gallardo. Es probable que los Romo hayan venido a ayudar a los primos
ricos y luego que sirvieron a la corona como colonizadores en las fronteras
de los chichimecas, se asentaron en esta región como propietarios. Está
documentado (Archivo histórico de Aguascalientes, 1654), que ambos
estuvieron un tiempo en la costa de lo que ahora es Nayarit, junto con otros
colonos del centro de Nueva Galicia, defendiendo la costa de los ataques
piratas.
Saludos

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The Romo de Vivar line, which fellow member Connie Dominguez has researched
extensively and posted seems to be of interest to many of us (my lines
descend from it as well). I had never heard of his excursion into Chihuahua
but it doesn't surprise me as my direct ancestor (which I'm "stuck" on)
Miguel de los Cobos also came from Aguascalientes to the Parral area in that
time frame.

I am new to the forum and am anxious to contribute some
documentation/research of value. I am physically located in Austin Texas
whihc has an extensive collection of film of the various Archivos at the
Univeristy of Texas. Despite being at the library many times I have never
mastered navigating thorugh those voluminous archives but if someone has
tips for me on how to do this I'd be very appreciative (is the Archivo de
Aguasclaientes located within another archive or is a seperate entity?) .
Tony Cobos.

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Hi. Welcome to the group! I have Cobos from Chihuahua in my maternal line. My sister, and I agreed long before we knew we had Cobos blood, that Cobos was our favorite Mexican name. I can’t say exactly why, except that it has a certain resonance.

Here is my Cobos legacy:

Maria Josefa Refugio Tiburcia Valeriana Robledo Cobos, born March 23 1834 in Hidalgo del Parral,
daughter of:
Jose Sirilo Robledo, born about 1808, and
Maria Petra Antonia del Rayo Cobos Serecedes, born October 1812, Jimernez, who were married on January 16, 1828 in Valle de Allende.
Her parents were:
Jose Mariano Pedro Cobos Aranda, born May 24, 1781 in Jimenez, and Trinidad Serecedes, born around 1792
His parents were;
Gregorio Mariano Cobos Talavera, born October 18, 1753 in Valle de Allende, and
Mariana Aranda, born around 1760, who were married March 2, 1778 in Jimenez.
I believe his parents were:
Raimundo Cobos and Manuela Talavera.

I’ve split my family into two separate homepages, so each one can hold more

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tony cobos wrote:

> I am new to the forum and am anxious to contribute some
> documentation/research of value. I am physically located in Austin
> Texas whihc has an extensive collection of film of the various
> Archivos at the Univeristy of Texas. Despite being at the library many
> times I have never mastered navigating thorugh those voluminous
> archives but if someone has tips for me on how to do this I'd be very
> appreciative (is the Archivo de Aguasclaientes located within another
> archive or is a seperate entity?) . Tony Cobos.

Well I'm not sure what film archives they have at the U of TX but at New
Mexico State University they have extensive films of the Diocesis of
Durango. (are these some of the films they have at U. of TX as well???).
If so maybe they have a finding aid similar to what NMSU offers. NMSU
has a CD for sale for less than $10 Finding Aids for this collection of
films. Even if U. of TX doesn't have that collection maybe they offer
various

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The Romo de Vivar line, which fellow member Connie Dominguez has researched
extensively and posted seems to be of interest to many of us (my lines
descend from it as well). I had never heard of his excursion into Chihuahua
but it doesn't surprise me as my direct ancestor (which I'm "stuck" on)
Miguel de los Cobos also came from Aguascalientes to the Parral area in that
time frame.

I am new to the forum and am anxious to contribute some
documentation/research of value. I am physically located in Austin Texas
whihc has an extensive collection of film of the various Archivos at the
Univeristy of Texas. Despite being at the library many times I have never
mastered navigating thorugh those voluminous archives but if someone has
tips for me on how to do this I'd be very appreciative (is the Archivo de
Aguasclaientes located within another archive or is a seperate entity?) .
Tony Cobos.

>From: NathanJones
>Reply-To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
>To: research@lists