Nuestros Ranchos Site

Hello:

I have made a great discovery today and wanted to share it will all 
of the group. I was always told that we (family) were from Spanish 
decent and that a grandfather had come from Spain on a boat to 
Mexico. Blah Blah Blah! Well, Guess what? I guess oral stories do 
have some hint of truth. I was reading a book called "Historia de 
Guachinango" by Felipe Arreola (whom I bought the book directly 
from). Here is the excerpt that I found:

"El 20 de Marzo de 1829, se dio un decreto ordenado la salida de los 
Espanoles del territorio de la Republica. La orden se plublico en 
Guachinango el 3 de mayo del mismo año y se fijo un mes de termino 
para que salieran del pueblo. Se recordo y volvio a publicar el 29 de 
junio y, por dispocision del jefe politico de Autlan, se concedio que 
se quedara en la localidad un español: Don Juan Bautista de Iglesias, 
esto por hallarse Guachinango a mas de sesenta leguas de distancia de 
la costa; se recibio la excepcion el 6 de julio mismo año

While visiting the El Paso County office and ordering death 
certificates for my grandfathers I was pleasantly notified by a 
clerk that I could go on line to search for information on DEATH, 
BIRTHS, MARRIAGES and CIVIL CASES.  I did a Google search for "El 
Paso County search" and I was able to get quite a few of those pesky 
dates for more recent family members. The info is very basic but it 
did clear up alot of the blank spaces for my cousins their spouses, 
etc. 
How about your city? To find out you can call your local county 
office for theie internet address. If your city has a similar site 
could you share it with the group.  Muy agradecida, muy agradecida! 
Yolanda 

Joseph,

Can you tell me if I have sent mine in? I think I have but just to be sure
can you check. The names I am researching are:

Sandoval
Arellano
Correa

Thank you


              ~~glo~~






From: Joseph Puentes 
Reply-To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
To: LosRanchos 
Subject: [ranchos] April 15, 2005
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:51:29 -0500

I just checked and I only have 56 genealogies and 73 members. That means
that 17 of you haven't sent in your work yet. Now I realize that in the last
month or so we've had a good 5 or so new members and of course they will be
given extentions of a short few months say to around June 15, 2005, but for
the other 12 of you that have been in the group a long time now and don't
have a good reason for not sending in your work. . .well all I have to say
is April 15th is coming up fast and I need a short communication from you
with a real good reason why even if we've discussed the matter previously.
In the

Joseph,
 
I do not know of any Roman ties. However, I would be very interested
in knowing how the haciendas functioned and how they were structured
in terms of people, if you know such data. 

I do know that the Felguerez haciendas in Valparaiso and Colotlan
appeared to work closely together, even though it appears to me that
one part of the family "worked" one and another part of the family
"worked" the other. I uploaded an article into the Valparaiso photo
folder describing in Spanish the extent of the Felguerez land holdings
in the Colotlan and Valparaiso area (see paragraph 3 of the Cerro de
Gallegos jpg file). I estimate the haciendas comprised approximately
1500 sq. miles, assuming square plots of land, which may not be the
case. Near as I can tell, in 1910 Mexico was owned by 1000 families
and 1/4 of Mexico was owned by 200 of them.

My grandfather, Jose Cruz Cerros, likely worked on the Felguerez
haciendas. My grandmother, Maria Felguerez, was the illegitimate
daughter of one

I'm currently listening to a book on tape about the life of Mozart and
whenever I listen to historical accounts of great people I always seem
to think of my relatives in the sense of wondering what they were doing
during that same time period. For example Mozart was doing his composing
[1781] at the same time that my gggg grandfather, Vicente Diaz was born
in Cuculiten, Zacatecas. So i wondered about him awhile during the time
I should have been listening to my story and then started thinking about
the historical music of Mexico. And then I started thinking of really
really wanting to hear some music from Mexicos 17th and 18th century. I
found this reference to traditional dances and was wondering if anyone
has any "music" or "dance" in their genealogy? Does anyone have
relatives that either by word of mouth or somehow by records were listed
as musicians?

. . .or does anyone know of an particular reference books that might
give some of the history of Mexican Music

Well I'm on a roll so here is something else on my mind. The file space
of the Ranchos1 group is over 50% used. [11463 Kb used of 20480 Kb
total]. I guess I start getting a little antsy when we get anywhere
close to our allotted "free" space.

Now this is just my thought and not a requirement, but . . .

I prefer but not require that you send your work in as a genealogy
report for a couple of reasons:

1) the genealogy report gives much much more info than the straight line
tree. You have the side branches to an extent along with their downline
information

2) the genealogy report uses so so much less file space

As we get much closer to exhausting our free space we'll have to make a
group decision. So to prolong that moment as long as possible I'd ask
that some of you think about possibly changing your trees to reports.
Also any new people I'd really love for you to consider sending in a
report instead of a tree, BUT as I said before it is not a requirement
just a

Hello, as promised, here's an updated version of my family tree. Use 
size 150% or larger to navigate it. By the way, I put as the 
background picture the church of San Francisco de Asis in Zacoalco 
de Torres, Jalisco. It was in that place where many of my ancestors 
had their baptisms, marriages, and funerals.

You may have noticed that my family lines extend mainly to the 
southern pueblos of Jalisco (once called Provincia de Avalos). Many 
of you have deep roots in los Altos, however. I already knew that my 
Tapia ancestors were from los Altos, but I did not know from where. 
Now that I found a marriage record in Lagos de Moreno, I will start 
researching my Tapia line. I hope I can find some cousins in this 
group.

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, ranchos@yahoogroups.com wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> This email message is a notification to let you know that
> a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the ranchos 
> group.
> 
>   File        : /Steve G. Apodaca Tapia (sgapodaca@y

Hello,

This email message is a notification to let you know that
a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the ranchos 
group.

  File        : /Steve G. Apodaca Tapia (sgapodaca@...)/Arbol de Gary.pdf 
  Uploaded by : sgapodaca  
  Description : My Direct Ancestors 

You can access this file at the URL:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ranchos/files/Steve%20G.%20Apodaca%20Tapia%20%28sgapodaca%40yahoo.com%29/Arbol%20de%20Gary.pdf 

To learn more about file sharing for your group, please visit:
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/groups/files

Regards,

sgapodaca 
 

How do you relate those surnames to that region? If I
may ask?  I have Castro in my mother's line, but I
have only been able to trace it back to Vicente Castro
around the mid 1800's and he lived in El Castro, Sain
Alto, Zacatecas.  

Perhaps he came from Valparaiso, that could be a
possibility.  

Dora
--- Joseph Puentes  wrote:

> Is anyone in the group studying in the Valparaiso,
> Zacatecas area?
> 
> if so might you have these surnames in your family:
> Castro, Garcia, 
> Duenas, Martinez, and/or Arevalo?
> 
> joseph
> 
> 
> 



		
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Is anyone in the group studying in the Valparaiso, Zacatecas area?

if so might you have these surnames in your family: Castro, Garcia,
Duenas, Martinez, and/or Arevalo?

joseph

I read somewhere that the reason the race stops being documented was 
a result of the Mexican Independence. Much like the American 
Independence in which "all men are created equal", the Mexican 
Independence established similar laws.  Thus, it became illegal to 
note the person's race.  The year when the law was put into practice 
will vary from parrish to parrish, but, it would be in the early 
1820's.

Maria Cortez

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, Joseph Puentes  wrote:
> 
> 
> alice wissing wrote:
> 
> > Alberto,
> >  
> > There is a table in the book "Governance & Society in Colonial 
Mexico 
> > - Chihuahua in the Eighteenth Century" that contains the number 
of 
> > baptisms occurring in El Sagrario Parish broken down by race.  
In 1780 
> > there were 66 mulatos, and in 1790 there were 0.  It's as if 
they 
> > disappeared during a decade.
> 
> One thing I've noticed and seem to think it had reference to the 
> struggle for Independance from Spain. . . But at a

Hello Guillermo.

Well, I do not agree with your point that there are very few blacks 
in Mexico. Blacks did not dissapear, they just melted with indios and 
espanoles and formed today's mexican society. If you go to any town 
in Mexico and look around, you'll find lots of people that have small 
traces from these ancestors. And I'm not just talking about the color 
of the skin, but also of the facial features and body complexion. 

On my personal experience, I have seen lots of baptisms of both free 
and slave mulattos in the Zacoalco, Jalisco area. Today, you don't 
see mulatos there, but believe me, if you look closely, you'll find 
them. Heck, even myself, I look more white than black or indian, but 
I am always aware (and proud) of my recently proven black heritage. 
(Maybe that explains my slightly wide nose). Also, maybe Joseph can 
confirm this: my sister lives in Winston-Salem, NC. Most of the 
Mexican immigrants in that area are from the state of Guerrero. I 
visited NC once