TEST SITE - DO NOT USE - Development only

http://www.smgf.org



wow the more I look at this the more I'm intrigued. . .we could eventually
submit our DNA and possibly confirm beyond the shadow of a doubt some of
the things we're finding:



from the FAQ's section:

"How is this research going to benefit me in my genealogical
research?

Once enough data will be collected, analyzed and correlated,
findings from this research will be made available for genealogical research.
Individuals interested in learning more about their family history will need
to submit an inquiry and a DNA sample in the mail, regardless of their previous
participation in the study (the DNA sample submitted for the database will
NOT be used to answer personal questions). This new sample will be compared
with the data from the database in an attempt to answer the question posed.
Information about how, where and when these services will become available
will be posted on this website. Research

Wow (2) I'm totally amazed at how much we are coming together as a
group. I feel like the info we're contributing is important and not the
kind of stuff you find on other groups. thanks everyone for staying
focused. At the same time there's nothing that says you can't
occasionally post an account or a picture or two of a family activity.
Afterall we all might be related*** and genealogy is about us as a family.

***http://www.smgf.org/index.jsp (I might be giving them a sample of my
DNA because this research group is coming to Chapel Hill, NC in a couple
of weeks)

kitty_cortez wrote:

Joseph,
You asked about Mrs. Shirmacher, I just came across her name in some
of my notes. She has helped us transcribed some of our documents.
We have met her a couple of times and my sister has used her services
a number of times. We will probably see her this coming Easter week,
since Rich and I plan on visiting FHL SLC the 28th, 29th and 30th of
April. We will be in So. Utah the

Wow Patricia what a great message. I don't know what is the problem with
us new researchers we can't see the forest with all these trees around.
Why I've been ignoring the 1930 census escapes me. For some reason I've
just completely overlooked this resource---maybe because I got hung up
on 1930 not being all that old. But for my Current main goal of finding
the Side Branches*** to my family the 1930 Census is exactly what I
need. And your listing of all the good info included in it makes my
mouth water. . .thanks, I'm ordering it next chance I get.

thanks,

Joseph

***I've kind of been on a leave of abscence for the last 3 months in
looking backward for the parents of my oldest ancestors. I've come to
the conclusion that all these relatives that I'm searching for in the
1700's have no current memories in the minds of the people that are
alive right now, but there are plenty of relatives that I don't know
about that ARE alive now that have a wealth of information that I

Dear Tammy,
     I know what you mean by no cooperation from the mother-in-law.  
I had that problem myself but just worked around her.  My father-law 
gave me the best information that he could and I used it when I 
looked at the official records. 
     As for my husband, he has no patience to do the actual work but 
he will pay for any field trips that we take.  Last year, amoung 
other places, we drove up to Yahualica, Jalisco.  It was a most 
beautiful place.  I took some pictures and it was this trip that 
convinced us to get a video camera for future trips. 
     As for the Godinez name, I understand that it is not common.  I 
go back very far with my records and even have some of the family 
baptisms in Jamay.  However that is a few hundred years back.
For now, I think the best thing for you and most beginning 
researchers is to get what they can from other family members and 
papers kept at home and then try to get the 1930 Census for their 
area.
    The 1930 Census will help

Joseph, 
You asked about Mrs. Shirmacher, I just came across her name in some 
of my notes.  She has helped us transcribed some of our documents.  
We have met her a couple of times and my sister has used her services 
a number of times.  We will probably see her this coming Easter week, 
since Rich and I plan on visiting FHL SLC the 28th, 29th and 30th of 
April.  We will be in So. Utah the previous Easter week with 
grandchildren hunting for dinosaur tracks.  
 
When we go to FHL in SLC, I feel right at home since most of the 
workers there smile at me as if they know me.  Actually they think I 
am my twin sister who goes there about 2-3 times a month.
Yesterday, my sister (who lives in Ogden, UT) just took an inventory, 
of all the films for Jalisco, Huejucar, Colotlan, and Zacatecas, 
Momax areas.  I have since highlighted them in green and sent them to 
the file database as a word.doc.  These films are permanently shelved 
in SLC.  This word.doc includes only those three cities

HI.  What I meant by not getting any cooperation is from my husband's mother, aunts, cousins, etc.  Although it was my idea to start the research for our chilren, my husband is now interested as well.  I do know that my mother-in-law was born in Jamay in 1939.  I believe she came to the US when she was around 12-14 years of age.  Her father, Catarino was born in 1905 and died in 1953 and I don't know if he ever came to the US.  Her mother's name was Margarita Lopez, born in 1904 and died in 1992 in the US.  I'm not sure when she came to the US.  I just found out yesterday the names of her grandparents.  They were Florentino & Marciala (ortega) Godinez and Felix & Tiburcia (gonzalez) Lopez. 

Can you please tell me how I can find out where to find my local family history center and how to use the list that you have informed me of.  As you can tell, my search has just started so I know I have alot to learn yet. 

Thanks for your help.

Tammy

 Joseph Puentes wrote:

Hi Tammy,

I'm

Hi Tammy,



I'm glad you're asking your questions. I'm not sure how much help I can be
but I'll try. When you say that you're not getting any cooperation what do
you mean? Is your husband supportive? If so maybe you can send him on a fact
finding mission. It could be that he can get you the info you need to get
stared. If he could just find out your mom's grandparents names and areas
they came from that would be a tremendous help. Do you know if Victoria was
born in Jamay Jalisco and when?  Did her parents or grandparents come to
the US with her?



If you can confirm that she was born in Jamay and it was before 1958 then
you might have a chance of finding her on one of these films that you can
get at your local Family History Center. Later if you need help learning
how to come up with such a list as follows we can go over that:

Title

Registros parroquiales, 1746-1958

Authors

Iglesia Católica. Nuestra Señora del Rosario (Jamay, Jalisco) (Main Author)

Notes

Microfilme de manuscritos en el

thanks all for the great response to my encouragement to introduce
yourselves. I have a suggestion. Just like Maria did below why don't we
all post again and do it only in this format

My name is: Joseph Puentes

I'm doing research on these Surnames: Joseph Puentes de Diaz, Aguallo,
Ledesma, Casas, Alvarez,
Varela, Gonsalez, Sanchez, Leaños, Marquez, Torres, Santa Maria, Lugo,
Espinosa, Romero, Banuelos,

Miranda, Muro, Nava, Castañeda y Rivas. (thanks Maria for the ñ)

I'm researching these areas--- Jalisco: Colotlan, Santa Maria de Los
Angeles, Rancho de Animas, Salto de Los Romeros, Sauz de Los Marquez,
Ojo de Agua, Sotoles, Huejucar and a few other Ranchos in the Colotlan
jurisdicion (if that is the right word for it). Zacatecas:
Sombrerete, Rancho de Los Negros in the Villanueba district, Coculiten,
Momax, Tlaltenango, Tepechitlan, and Tepetongo.

I guess I really need to clarify what I mean. I have relatives that come
from or I believe come from these areas. I've

Attachment:
Arturo & Martha Romero.vap

Description: Arturo & Martha Romero.vap

-----Original Message-----
From: readysetgo95814
[mailto:mcortez@...]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:39
AM
To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ranchos]
introductions

Hi all,

My name is Maria Cortez,
I live in a suburb of Sacramento, CA.  I've
been doing research for
about 3 years now. I think I've had contact
with some of you in the
past.

I am not related to Rich Cortez. Cortez is my married name, and I

haven't done any research on that surname. Some of the surnames I'm

researching are:  Sánchez, Díaz, Soto (Sotomayor), Mora (de la Mora),

Delgadillo, Abundis(Agundis/Agundes), Castañeda, Ruíz, and more.  The

towns and ranchos I'm interested in are:  Ixtlahuacán del Río, San

Nicolás de los Abundis, Cuquío, Yahualica, and a few others.

I'm
also a cousin of Steven Hernandez and I've contact with

Hi all,

My name is Maria Cortez, I live in a suburb of Sacramento, CA.  I've 
been doing research for about 3 years now. I think I've had contact 
with some of you in the past.

I am not related to Rich Cortez. Cortez is my married name, and I 
haven't done any research on that surname. Some of the surnames I'm 
researching are:  Sánchez, Díaz, Soto (Sotomayor), Mora (de la Mora), 
Delgadillo, Abundis(Agundis/Agundes), Castañeda, Ruíz, and more.  The 
towns and ranchos I'm interested in are:  Ixtlahuacán del Río, San 
Nicolás de los Abundis, Cuquío, Yahualica, and a few others.

I'm also a cousin of Steven Hernandez and I've contact with him in 
the past.  He is a wealth of information in the Los Altos region.

Regards,

Maria

Diane, 
  Hi.  I just read your post and I see that your husbands name is 
Godinez.  I too, am researching my husband's family tree.  My mother-
in-law's maiden name is Godinez and she is from Jamay, Jalisco.  Her 
names is Victoria and her parents were Catarino & Margarita(Lopez) 
Godinez.  Unfortunately. I am not getting any cooperation with any 
living relatives so I have begun the search on my own.  Not having 
much luck due to the fact I don't have much information to start off 
with.   
Any help you may be able to give, would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you....Tammy Miramontes
-- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "canprin " 
 wrote:
> Dear Joseph and Other Members,
>      I appreciate the opportunity to join with you in sharing 
> information.  I work at an elementary school, am active in church, 
> serve as a board member of Somos Primos, and Family History is my 
> passion.  I have researched my husband's Mexican family for 
numerous 
> years and have

Hello group my name is Carol Muro-Turner.  I live in Kansas City and 
have been doing research for about 3-4 yrs.  My father (David Muro) 
and I have gone on this wonderful adventure researching our roots and 
have made pretty good progress.  Hopefully soon we can upload our 
files, we are in the process of grouping our family together.  The 
names we are researching are Muro, Carrillo, Sanchez, Haro, Saldana, 
Marquez, Rodgriguez, De Casas.  I have seen many Muro marriages with 
Puentes, Cortez, Romero, Diaz, etc. The films we have viewed are from 
Colotlan and Santa Maria De Los Angeles, we have started to view some 
films from Villanueva, Zacteucs.  My Muro family is from Sauz de Los 
Marquez near SM and Colotlan.  Our Carrillo's are from Hujecar as well 
as the Sandovals.  

Joseph..you are doing a job keeping us all informed and I appreciate 
your efforts in getting this group together and hopefully we can all 
help each other.

Carol

Dear Joseph and Other Members,
     I appreciate the opportunity to join with you in sharing 
information.  I work at an elementary school, am active in church, 
serve as a board member of Somos Primos, and Family History is my 
passion.  I have researched my husband's Mexican family for numerous 
years and have just really gotten in to my own Canadian roots in the 
last couple of years.
     My husband was born in the rancho of Santa Rita, in Ayo el Chico 
area, in 1950.  His family still has land there and our most recent 
visit was last March 2002.  It was then that I had the opportunity to 
meet Hugo Moises in Capilla de Guadalupe.  Previously, we had met on 
the Internet.  He is distantly related to my husband.  I also know 
Steven Hernandez, from meetings with our SHHAR (Society of Hispanic, 
Historical,and Ancestral Research) group.  He too is distantly 
related to my husband Ramon Godinez.
     I have many names in my files but I am best with research in the 
Atotonilco el Alto

I have been sending a lot of info to the group and will continue to do
so as long as I think its relevant to our research. At the same time I
absolutely dislike having a cluttered inbox so if any of you would like
to change from "Individual Messages" to the "Digest" mode of
subscription please do (or just tell me and I'll switch you myself). The
difference is that instead of getting each individual message at the
time the sender sends it you'll get one message daily with all the
discussion that took place that day in one larger message. The latter
makes it easier to handle an active group. . .then again we quite
haven't gotten there but I'm thinking of asking on the Jalisco and
Zacatecas group is anyone is doing Research in Northern Jalisco or
Southern Zacatecas. (I can't help but believe that is we get 10-20
researchers all working in the same area that good things won't come of it).

joseph

Joseph,
Thanks again for those census records.  I printed them all and found 
even more names that were already in my database!
To answer your question about getting the tilde to stay...you have to 
enter unicode characters.  You accomplish this by pressing and 
holding down the Alt key and enter (on the numeric pad with the Num 
Lock key on) 164 then release the Alt key.  There are other codes for 
accented vowels, such as, Alt+160 for á, Alt+161 for í, Alt+130 for 
é, etc.
Maria  

5.  Spain, The United States, and The American Frontier: Historias Paralelas
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/eshtml/eshome.html

Partnering with The National Library of Spain, The Biblioteca Columbina y
Capitular of Seville, the Library of Congress has developed this fine
collection of primary and secondary historical documents that explore the
complex and multifaceted history of Spanish expansion into North America
from Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, and across most of what is now the
modern-day American Southwest all the way north to Alaska. The site contains
digital versions of numerous texts, maps, manuscripts, and first-hand
accounts composed by different individuals. Some of the highlights include
"La Florida del Inca," which is an account of the Hernando de Soto
expedition through Florida and the southeastern part of North America, along
with the "Notes of a Military Reconnoissance from Fort Leavenworth to San
Diego," published in 1848 as a special report to the United

WOW!!!



what a great link. This needs to go into the Links page of the Ranchos group.
If you get there first can you put it in. What a great resource. Thanks.




So many of my Puentes relatives (their branches) are lost and on this I found
5 Ranchos in other parts of Mexico that are called "Puentes." Hey you never
know but many generations ago some of my Puentes might have moved to these
places and established a Rancho named after them. I'll have to check this
out later.



Maria thanks for this contribution.



joseph



readysetgo95814 wrote:

http://biblio2.colmex.mx/bibdig/dicc_cubas/base3.htm

The above link takes you to a digitized version of "Diccionario 
Geográfico, Histórico y Biográfico de los Estados Unidos
Mexicanos"
by Antonio García Cubas

It's fully searchable and I have found it very useful.


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Maria said:

Hi Joseph,
Thanks for uploading those 1817 census images.  I found my ancestors
Domingo Puentes and Rosalia Diaz on page 3 of the Changanga census. 
I also found some of their married children.  
I was curious, did you print selected pages off that film?

[[[[[[yes when I saw Domingo and Francisca Puentes along with your Rosalia I knew they belonged to you (or you to them). I was in a big time rush that day since I was actually on duty as a volunteer at the family history center I frequent, but it was a slow day and I had time to do some research. There is a lot more info on that film and I'd encourage you to order it. I've put the Film number at the top of the page. And like I said in my previous post there are like 4 or 5 films with Padrones for the Huejucar area. But I have a question. Is the Changanga area close to Huejucar? I couldn't find it on my map]]]]]]]]]]]]]]

 Have you
found any common ancestors from the reports that I uploaded to the
ranchos website? 

[[[[

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Puentes
[mailto:makas@...]
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 9:53
AM
To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ranchos]
Padrones/Hunting For the Spain Link

Hello
Roberta,

Welcome to the group. Speaking only for myself I'm a newcomer
to Genealogy just having opened my eyes to its wonders back in August of 2002

here is only a partial listing and there are some gaps. Let me know if
you need any help in how to use this info to do a deeper study of these
films from your computer.

Batch #                       Year Range                    Film #

C604131                    1754-1760                    0221412
gap
C604132                    1764-1767                    0221413
C604133                    1767-1771                    0221414
C604134                    1771-1775                    0221415
C604135                    1775-1777                    0221416
C604136                    1777-1781                    0221417
gap
J604138                     1783-1786                    0221419
gap
C604142                    1796-1798                    0221422

C604143 1798-1803 0221423 (this
section overlaps unsure why)

C604144                    1798-1807                    0221424
C604145                    1803-1807                    0221425

Hello Roberta,



Welcome to the group. Speaking only for myself I'm a newcomer to Genealogy
just having opened my eyes to its wonders back in August of 2002. But since
then its been a wild and wooly ride and it continues to be. I've met your
primo Steve Hernandez on the phone a couple of months ago. It would be my
dream if he would consider joining this group and taking us all under his
wing in our journey's. He has a wealth of information and he'd be a great
addition to the groups expertise.



You are the first person in this small community that is doing research in
Tepatitlan (is that close to San Juan de Los Lagos--the area I seem to recall
Steve said he was researching)? Though I understand that we have some research
going on in the Lagos de Moreno area that is not far from San Juan de Los
Lagos.



I really don't know exactly where to find more info but if it were me doing
this search I might try to find info on those individuals that were on the
ships that came from Spain. I know

Carol Turner said:

I've taken a look at the 1817 census records and I'm
still in total amazement but this new found information.  This leaves
me to believe this is a definite connection with our Muro's.  In
looking at the ages of Vital Del Muro age 55 and my Francisco Muro
age 66, I would have to say they would be brothers our great-
grandpa's.

[[[[[[[Joseph said: I'm actually hunting for Jose Cosme's tie into to
your Francisco or Juan.
I believe Vital is important also but I haven't been able to make the
relationship. I might
have more information that I haven't mentally processed yet but at this
time the best I've
come up with is that Vital was a padrino for Vbaldo Muro (see the newly
added file called "Vital

PadrinoForUbaldoMuro").

Jose Pio is on your Vital's list and I believe Pio was on
Reynaldo's list.  But to see my Francisco Xavier and my other
grandfather Jose Eusbio in the census with their family was great! I
would like to ask my dad to join this group, he will be

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Puentes
[mailto:makas@...]
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 8:08
AM
To: LosRanchos
Subject: [ranchos]
Padrones

See number 0168809 --- that is where I found

I'll start.

I'm Joseph Puentes from North Carolina via Maryland for 18 years and
California for 26 years. I'm searching for relatives in the Santa
Maria de Los Angeles/Colotlan, Jalisco area. I currently know of
Puentes that live in Huejucar and it wouldn't surprise me to find some
 ancient roots from there also. I believe that before Jalsico my Diaz
family roots came from the Tlaltenango, Zacatecas area. I also believe
that my Puentes roots came from the Sombrerete, Zacatecas area.

I'm sorry to report that I haven't made any positive connections with
other people on this group but I think that I might be related to
Carol Turner via my Muro roots and quite possibly to Maria Cortez (are
you related to Rich Cortez?) through my Diaz and/or Puentes roots.
Time and study will prove this out.

. . .but even if none of us ever make any positive connections between
our families I think we can benefit from sharing our discoveries on
this group. I also believe that if we are aware of who we