Gonsalez, Garcia, Hernandez surnames

["Josephine Simons" <navlady@...>]

Dear Ranchos members,
I am a new, recently added member and if I have taken undue time to 
introduce myself, please accept my apologies.  My family surnames are in 
this order, Gonsalez, Garcia and great-grandmother's name Hernandez.  We 
were from Zacatecas, near Jerez, and from long-standing oral history in my 
family, my grandfather lived at La Hacienda de Trancoso, near Fresnillo.  I 
have requested the baptismal certificate of my grandfather, Luis Gonsalez, 
born in 1868, with record submitted to the catholic parish of La 
Purificacion in Fresnillo.  My father told me that his grandmother, Julia 
Hernandez was 6 years old and came with her father from Spain to be one of 
the hacienda administrators---it looks like they had several administrators 
as the hacienda was large and prosperous.  Two of her sisters were born in 
Jerez, and they married wealthy men.  The story goes that because she 
married a ranchero, she was looked down on by her sisters. My dad told me 
his sister went to Zacatecas and found distant relatives in Jerez, but since 
she passed away I cannot verify it with her.  The family name also has the 
name Garcia, which were cousins of my grandfather Luis, also from Zacatecas. 
  I am looking for records of Hernandez and those of Leon Gonsalez, my 
great grandfather who would have been born sometime between 1830-1850 in 
Zacatecas.    This is all I know about him.  My grandmother was from 
Zacatecas, born in 1888.  Her last name was also Gonzalez, but my 
understanding is that her grandparents were rescued and brought back to the 
hacienda and given their family name. Does this make sense?  So, my dad was 
Jose Luis Gonsalez Gonzalez, born in Durango in 1914.