Hi Laura,
I don't know if you got the suggestion I posted on Nuestros Ranchos to your request I think perhaps it didn't get sent out as an email. You may try San Juan Bautista Church records for the time frame your looking for. My research is also in that area and my ancestors used both churches.
Good Luck
On Dec 1, 2012, at 3:55 PM, mayangrl@sonic.net wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> I spent most of my summer working on genealogy (I'm a teacher, so I was on vacation). I've just come back after a hiatus and I thought the time off might clear my head and give me some more ideas about how to find missing relatives. No such luck.
>
> Maybe you can help with some ideas?
>
> I'm looking for my ggrandmother, Vita Castañeda Galván. I have found other documents mentioning her, but not a baptismal certificate (which I have now become fixated on).
>
>
> Name: (Ma) Vita Castañeda Galvan
> Born: abt 1881-1883 (according to her marriage cert., she was 18 in 9/1899, birthday in June. Took place in Capilla de la Ermita)
> Place: Jerez, Zac (Los Cuervos or El Tesorero). Everyone else was baptized at La Inmaculada)
> Father: Gregorio Castañeda Segobia
> Mother: (Ma.) Ysabel Galván Márquez
> Paternal grandparents: Juan Casteñeda Gonzales, Jesus Segobia Martí
> Maternal grandparents: Toribio Galván Llamas, Margarita Márquez Villegas
>
> I've looked under Castañon, Castellanos, etc.,Galvan, with no luck. I've also gone through the images of books from La Inmaculada, with no luck.
>
> Her marriage certificate says she was legitimate. Any other ideas?
>
> ALSO, she told everyone she was born in 1870, but that isn't true according to everything else I've found. She was widowed at some point in the 20s (in Texas) and ended up marrying a first cousin (no children). Why would a woman lie about her age, making herself about 10 years older?
>
> Gracias, Laura González
>

Hello Laura,
You may never definitely know why and you won't know the true birth year until you find the baptismal info.  I came across a similar situation with my own mother.  She had always given 05/14/1915 as her birthdate in Aguascalientes, and on all subsequent official and religious paperwork, including border crossings.  BUT she never had a copy of her baptismal record, much less a birth certificate.  She passed away in 2002 and I didn't start our family genealogy until about five years ago.  The first inconsistency I found was in the 1930 Mexican Census (where although she was living away from home working as a rural teacher), she was listed by her family as being 18 and having been born in Zacatecas.  After much research, I finally located her baptismal record stating she was actually born on 05/18/1911, indeed, in Zacatecas.  My first reaction was I wouldn't mind dropping four years off, too.  But why would she bother to change
her birth date from the 18th to the 14th?  After much family discussion and speculation, we came to the conclusion that we will never really know why, and her headstone will always reflect 05/14/1915 as her birhtdate.    
Alice
  

--- On Sat, 12/1/12, mayangrl@sonic.net wrote:

From: mayangrl@sonic.net
Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] Help?
To: research@lists.nuestrosranchos.org
Date: Saturday, December 1, 2012, 11:55 PM

Hi everyone,
I spent most of my summer working on genealogy (I'm a teacher, so I was on vacation).  I've just come back after a hiatus and I thought the time off might clear my head and give me some more ideas about how to find missing relatives.  No such luck.

Maybe you can help with some ideas?

I'm looking for my ggrandmother, Vita Castañeda Galván. I have found other documents mentioning her, but not a baptismal certificate (which I have now become fixated on).

Name:  (Ma) Vita Castañeda Galvan
Born:  abt 1881-1883 (according to her marriage cert., she was 18 in 9/1899, birthday in June.  Took place in Capilla de la Ermita)
Place:  Jerez, Zac (Los Cuervos or El Tesorero). Everyone else was baptized at La Inmaculada)
Father:  Gregorio Castañeda Segobia
Mother:  (Ma.) Ysabel Galván Márquez
Paternal grandparents: Juan Casteñeda Gonzales, Jesus Segobia Martí
Maternal grandparents: Toribio Galván Llamas, Margarita Márquez Villegas

I've looked under Castañon, Castellanos, etc.,Galvan, with no luck. I've also gone through the images of books from La Inmaculada, with no luck.

Her marriage certificate says she was legitimate.  Any other ideas?

ALSO, she told everyone she was born in 1870, but that isn't true according to everything else I've  found.  She was widowed at some point in the 20s (in Texas) and ended up marrying a first cousin (no children).  Why would a woman lie about her age, making herself about 10 years older?

Gracias, Laura González

Hello Laura,

I also ran a quick check and only found two brother for her. My ancestors are also from Jerez and Tepetongo. I'v found them and their children are baptized at both Jerez, Imaculada and at San Juan Bautista. Have you searched through the records of San Juan Bautista for the period you are looking? Could be there.

Good Luck,
Barbara