Sounds like a report card, doesn't it.
I can't believe that it is the 2nd of December - already ... where has the time gone??

Well - this is a kind of report card on what I managed to get done in genealogy research. At the beginning of the year I set some goals for my Zacatecas research. I read many films, but the truth is that I didn't find all the information I had set as my goal. Anyway - here is a listing of the films I went through - most did not have indices, which means having to have read them page by page (zzzzz - my eyes got mighty heavy): (NOTE - all are films of Zacatecas)

0604817 Regis. Parroquiales, San Juan Bautista, Sombrerete: Bapt./1863-1869;
search for Pascual DUENAS/DUEÑAS - Not found

0654983 Regis. Parroquiales, San Juan Bautista, Sombrerete: Matrim./1793-1854;
searching for marriage of Julio DUENAS/DUEÑAS con Ma. Guadalupe DURAN;
FOUND! 29 May 1853, Sombrerete, Zacatecas

1164727 Regis. Parroq., La Purisima, Valparaiso: Bapt/1831-1870 (note: catalog says 1868-1870);
search for Prisciliana CASTRO - Not Found
(Note: many records on this film were severly damaged, incomplete, or non-existent)

1164728 Regis. Parroq., La Purisima, Valparaiso: Bapt/1870-1876
search for Prisciliana CASTRO - Not Found
Did FIND rec. for Porfirio CASTRO, a brother of Prisciliana (Parents: Evaristo CASTRO
and Felipa LOPEZ)

1164741 Regis. Parroq., La Purisima, Valparaiso: Inform. Matrim./1878-1892;
search for marriage of Julio DUENAS/DUEÑAS con Prisciliana CASTRO - Not Found

1081927 Regis. Civil, Valparaiso: Defunciones/1900-1903
search for Pascual DUENAS/DUEÑAS - Not Found

1081937 Regis. Civil, Valparaiso: Matrim./1883-1884;
search for Pascual DUENAS/DUEÑAS con Prisciliana CASTRO - Not Found

1506940 Regis. Civil, Valparaiso: Inform. Matrim./1864-1904;
search for Pascual DUENAS/DUEÑAS con Prisiciliana CASTRO - still searching

1081926 Regis. Ciivil, Valparaiso: Deaths/1895-1899;
search for Pascual DUENAS/DUEÑAS - Not Found

1081928 Regis. Civil, Valparaiso: Deaths/ 1904-1907;
search for Pascual DUENAS/DUEÑAS - Not Found

1082247 Regis. Civil, Valparaiso: Births/1868, 1870, 1873-1875;
search for Prisciliana CASTRO (dau. of Evaristo CASTRO and Felipa LOPEZ)
- still searching

This concludes my year-end report regarding my research. 2009 will most likely be devoted to research on my husband's family (in AR, MS, AL, NC, MO, TN)

Thank you all for sharing your discoveries - it is always exciting to read about the found primos. Good luck in the coming year.
BTW - we did have additions to the family tree this year in May, and last year (2006) in October.

Take care - Peace and blessings,

Natalie Castro Coleman, in Virginia