books to read

A current good read is "Jaguar's Children" by John Vaillant, a Canadian living in Mexico.I also know that there were English tin miners who went to live in Mexico in the 1800's.

Research Digest, Vol 115, Issue 8

Hi Erika,
I'm so glad you Email.
Since you're making a revision, please add the surname Cabrera to mine as
well.
That's my maternal grandmother's -- I forgot to include it.
Many Thanks!!
See you

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I just can say how surprising Was for me when I met people From Guatemala, they dont lime mexicans at all and they say mexicans had stolen a part of their territory...

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> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 17:59:34 -0700
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> Danny,
>
> You'll have lots of support along the way with Nuestros Ranchos. Join your
> local Latino Genealogical Society wherever you live, it helps to have face
> to face contact with other people with similar areas of research. It's a
> great opportunity to bounce ideas off of people and to have others assist
> you along the way.......where do you live?
>
> Alicia,
> San Jose, Ca
>
>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Danny Alonso wrote:
>>
>> Thank You Mr. Hernandez and Alicia and Christopher for your advice and for
>> the books to check out. I will go to the library and start looking for all
>> of them. I already learned more since joining the Nuestros Ranchos Forum
>> than I have in high school.
>>
>> Danny C. Alonso

Getting History Straight

Are your children learning that a Spanish/Latino/creole army and navy ran the British out of most of what became the southern U.S. during the Revolutionary War? Check their U.S. history books!

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Thank you Emilie and Mr. Hernandez. That map is so cool. Only since being a
part of the Nuestros Ranchos Forum did I know that Mexico once owned so
much of America. We were once supposed to talk about The Alamo in our
textbook but the teacher skipped it to talk more about the civil war.

Danny C. Alonso

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And don't they wonder why we have The Alamo in the middle of San Antonio? It was once a mission and fort named after a cottonwood tree in Spanish. Don't they wonder why we have cities with Spanish saints' names like San Francisco, San Diego, Sacramento, etc. etc.? I heard of someone visiting San Antonio and asking why they put "The Alamo" in the middle of the city. They don't know it used to be the only thing out there and the city grew around it, just like Los Angeles grew around a tiny mission church out in the middle of what used to be a desert?

Emilie

> Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2015 20:13:08 -0700
> From: dcalonso97@gmail.com
> To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
> Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] Getting History Straight
>
> Thank you Emilie and Mr. Hernandez. That map is so cool. Only since being a
> part of the Nuestros Ranchos Forum did I know that Mexico once owned so
> much of America. We were once supposed to talk about The Alamo in our
> textbook but the teacher skipped it to talk more about the civil war.
>
> Danny C. Alonso

Comentario

Thank You Mr. Hernandez and Alicia and Christopher for your advice and for
the books to check out. I will go to the library and start looking for all
of them. I already learned more since joining the Nuestros Ranchos Forum
than I have in high school.

Danny C. Alonso

Comentario

Danny,

You'll have lots of support along the way with Nuestros Ranchos. Join your
local Latino Genealogical Society wherever you live, it helps to have face
to face contact with other people with similar areas of research. It's a
great opportunity to bounce ideas off of people and to have others assist
you along the way.......where do you live?

Alicia,
San Jose, Ca

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Danny Alonso wrote:

> Thank You Mr. Hernandez and Alicia and Christopher for your advice and for
> the books to check out. I will go to the library and start looking for all
> of them. I already learned more since joining the Nuestros Ranchos Forum
> than I have in high school.
>
> Danny C. Alonso

Comentario

Hi Danny,

As a recent High School graduate I can attest that there are many teachers that need to be educated about our culture and history. I took every opportunity to do that while in school, especially as a junior and senior. I know it may be difficult and uncomfortable, but, if you hear something about our history that you know to be incorrect, you should definitely take the time to educate the teachers. Whether, that means bringing in one of the recommended books or printing out an article about our history from SomosPrimos, or just sending the teacher a link that will better educate them. It's especially sad when the teacher ignoring our history or teaching something false about our people, happens to have ancestors from Mexico. I once brought in a stack of articles to educate one such teacher. But, it turned out, she was actually very receptive and used many of those articles in a class discussion the following day. And, remember, every time you learn something new about our history and culture doing genealogical research and as a member of this forum, you can use that knowledge to educate others around you and provide them a true history of our people.

Christopher de Cuellar

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Hello

I'll look for that book and I'll try to teach them but sometimes it's hard
after the teacher says they don't believe something and the students only
believe the teacher.

Danny C. Alonso

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Danny,

As I tell the members of our Genealogical Society, It's up to us to learn
our history and tell our history. When you know your true history, you're
able to tell others about it and no one can brainwash you when you know the
truth. Once you learn it, you'll be doing what primo Paco Hernandez is
doing, learning it and teaching it with conviction. Not saying it doesn't
take time, it takes a lot of time and dedication, but slowly you'll get
there. It takes patience and perseverance.

Alicia

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Danny Alonso wrote:

> Hello
>
> I'll look for that book and I'll try to teach them but sometimes it's hard
> after the teacher says they don't believe something and the students only
> believe the teacher.
>
> Danny C. Alonso

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If you print out a copy of a map showing the original territory of Mexico, or if you have the internet on your smart phone or iPad, or if someone in class does, you can show them that Mexico was once twice the size it is now, and that the states of California, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, parts of Louisiana etc were Mexico the other students will believe you. Students sometimes have to do their own research. You can also bring up lists of the various tribes in Mexico to show that not "just Spanish and Aztecs" live there. Also there might be a new immigrant from Mexico at the school who might want to give a presentation about Mexico, if it is not discouraged. I didn't know how ignorant some adults in this country are about our neighbor to the south.

Emilie
Port Orchard, WA

> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 16:06:36 -0700
> From: dcalonso97@gmail.com
> To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
> Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] Getting History Straight
>
> Hello
>
> I'll look for that book and I'll try to teach them but sometimes it's hard
> after the teacher says they don't believe something and the students only
> believe the teacher.
>
> Danny C. Alonso

Comentario

Hello Nuestros Ranchos Forum,

I'm in high school and I never knew any of this and the teachers don't know
about Mexico at all. The only time Mexico ever was mentioned they told us
that Mexico was just Spanish people and Aztec people. I told my teacher
there was lots of tribes and even Aftrican Americans in Mexico and she said
that was silly, just Spanish People and Aztecs.

Danny C. Alonso

Comentario

Danny,

Now it's your turn to teach your teachers a little something about Mexican
history. There are many wonderful books but one exceptional book in English
is the War for Mexico's West, by Professor and Historian, Ida Altman. It
can be purchased at Better World Books, Abe's Books, Amazon and Barnes and
Noble.

On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 11:28 PM, Danny Alonso wrote:

> Hello Nuestros Ranchos Forum,
>
> I'm in high school and I never knew any of this and the teachers don't know
> about Mexico at all. The only time Mexico ever was mentioned they told us
> that Mexico was just Spanish people and Aztec people. I told my teacher
> there was lots of tribes and even Aftrican Americans in Mexico and she said
> that was silly, just Spanish People and Aztecs.
>
> Danny C. Alonso

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Gracias prima Alicia!

I've been looking for a new book to read. I just bought it on Amazon.

On a different note, I've made some great finds on our common ancestors
(Duran line from Nochistlan) thanks to a post on NR in 2013:
http://www.nuestrosranchos.org/node/21881

For those of you hitting road blocks be sure to use dispensas which have
helped me immensely in the 1600s and 1700s.

http://guadalajaradispensas.tumblr.com/ by Katy Brecht. I wasn't aware of
this post until last week. Thank you Katy Brecht!

One that I used before last week was :
http://www.guadalajaradispensas.com/ by Claudia Casillas

Happy Hunting.

Saludos,

Juan Aguayo

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Alicia Carrillo
wrote:

> Danny,
>
> Now it's your turn to teach your teachers a little something about Mexican
> history. There are many wonderful books but one exceptional book in English
> is the War for Mexico's West, by Professor and Historian, Ida Altman. It
> can be purchased at Better World Books, Abe's Books, Amazon and Barnes and
> Noble.
>
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 11:28 PM, Danny Alonso
> wrote:
>
> > Hello Nuestros Ranchos Forum,
> >
> > I'm in high school and I never knew any of this and the teachers don't
> know
> > about Mexico at all. The only time Mexico ever was mentioned they told us
> > that Mexico was just Spanish people and Aztec people. I told my teacher
> > there was lots of tribes and even Aftrican Americans in Mexico and she
> said
> > that was silly, just Spanish People and Aztecs.
> >
> > Danny C. Alonso
> > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
> > Nuestros Ranchos Research Mailing List
> >
> > To post, send email to:
> > research(at)nuestrosranchos.org
> >
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Attached is a bio on Professor Ida Altman from Wikipedia. I would be
interested in getting my hands on the professor's first published
article. Altman's
first article was published in 1976, "A Family and Region in the Northern
Fringe Lands: The Marqueses de Aguayo of Nuevo León and Coahuila", in the
now classic anthology on regional variation in colonial Mexico.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Altman

I hope you get as much from this book as we did as part of our first foray
into Mexico History as part of the Nuevo Mundo Historical and Genealogical
Society of Silicon Valley.

Let me know what your thoughts are once you receive it and have a time to
delve into it. Que lo disfrutes primo!

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Juan Aguayo
wrote:

> Gracias prima Alicia!
>
> I've been looking for a new book to read. I just bought it on Amazon.
>
> On a different note, I've made some great finds on our common ancestors
> (Duran line from Nochistlan) thanks to a post on NR in 2013:
> http://www.nuestrosranchos.org/node/21881
>
> For those of you hitting road blocks be sure to use dispensas which have
> helped me immensely in the 1600s and 1700s.
>
> http://guadalajaradispensas.tumblr.com/ by Katy Brecht. I wasn't aware of
> this post until last week. Thank you Katy Brecht!
>
> One that I used before last week was :
> http://www.guadalajaradispensas.com/ by Claudia Casillas
>
> Happy Hunting.
>
> Saludos,
>
> Juan Aguayo
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Alicia Carrillo
> wrote:
>
> > Danny,
> >
> > Now it's your turn to teach your teachers a little something about
> Mexican
> > history. There are many wonderful books but one exceptional book in
> English
> > is the War for Mexico's West, by Professor and Historian, Ida Altman. It
> > can be purchased at Better World Books, Abe's Books, Amazon and Barnes
> and
> > Noble.
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 11:28 PM, Danny Alonso
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hello Nuestros Ranchos Forum,
> > >
> > > I'm in high school and I never knew any of this and the teachers don't
> > know
> > > about Mexico at all. The only time Mexico ever was mentioned they told
> us
> > > that Mexico was just Spanish people and Aztec people. I told my teacher
> > > there was lots of tribes and even Aftrican Americans in Mexico and she
> > said
> > > that was silly, just Spanish People and Aztecs.
> > >
> > > Danny C. Alonso
> > > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
> > > Nuestros Ranchos Research Mailing List
> > >
> > > To post, send email to:
> > > research(at)nuestrosranchos.org
> > >
> > > To change your subscription, log on to:
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> > >
> > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
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Danny,

I know how you feel. My nephrologist (kidney doctor) is young enough to be my son (I am 77) and he goes all over the country doing seminars, etc since he is a highly respected expert in his field. He has really helped me, save my life you might say. But one time for some reason we were discussing Texas and I told him it had once belonged to Mexico. He said, "Oh, no, Texas never belonged to anybody". Arrrgh. That from one of the most highly educated people. He knows medicine, but nothing about American history.

Emilie
Port Orchard, WA

> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 09:29:44 -0700
> From: allieavelar@gmail.com
> To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
> Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Getting History Straight
>
> Danny,
>
> Now it's your turn to teach your teachers a little something about Mexican
> history. There are many wonderful books but one exceptional book in English
> is the War for Mexico's West, by Professor and Historian, Ida Altman. It
> can be purchased at Better World Books, Abe's Books, Amazon and Barnes and
> Noble.
>
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 11:28 PM, Danny Alonso wrote:
>
> > Hello Nuestros Ranchos Forum,
> >
> > I'm in high school and I never knew any of this and the teachers don't know
> > about Mexico at all. The only time Mexico ever was mentioned they told us
> > that Mexico was just Spanish people and Aztec people. I told my teacher
> > there was lots of tribes and even Aftrican Americans in Mexico and she said
> > that was silly, just Spanish People and Aztecs.
> >
> > Danny C. Alonso
> > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
> > Nuestros Ranchos Research Mailing List
> >
> > To post, send email to:
> > research(at)nuestrosranchos.org
> >
> > To change your subscription, log on to:
> > http://www.nuestrosranchos.org
> >

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Danny,

There are also maps online that show the territory now in the US that was once Mexico. By 1846 Mexico lost half its territory to the US.

There are also maps that show the locations of the more than 200 Native tribes in Mexico. Bet your teacher also didn't know that Mexico in the 1500s and 1600s also imported black slaves. My research shows that some of my father's ancestors were "mulato".

Emilie
Port Orchard, WA

> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 09:29:44 -0700
> From: allieavelar@gmail.com > To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
> Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Getting History Straight
>
> Danny,
>
> Now it's your turn to teach your teachers a little something about Mexican
> history. There are many wonderful books but one exceptional book in English
> is the War for Mexico's West, by Professor and Historian, Ida Altman. It
> can be purchased at Better World Books, Abe's Books, Amazon and Barnes and
> Noble.
>
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 11:28 PM, Danny Alonso wrote:
>
> > Hello Nuestros Ranchos Forum,
> >
> > I'm in high school and I never knew any of this and the teachers don't know
> > about Mexico at all. The only time Mexico ever was mentioned they told us
> > that Mexico was just Spanish people and Aztec people. I told my teacher
> > there was lots of tribes and even Aftrican Americans in Mexico and she said
> > that was silly, just Spanish People and Aztecs.
> >
> > Danny C. Alonso
> > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
> > Nuestros Ranchos Research Mailing List
> >
> > To post, send email to:
> > research(at)nuestrosranchos.org
> >
> > To change your subscription, log on to:
> > http://www.nuestrosranchos.org
> >

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As an avid fan of history since a very early age, I have always been curious about the traditions and stories my parents, grandparents, and family would tell me. My father and mother were indeed my first teachers - teaching me Spanish, math, history, and so much more. Learning from them and then learning in american schools I quickly figured out that american schools are laboratories for assimilation, bullying, and native cultural self-loathing. I grew up with a different perspective...an educated perspective, one of an outsider looking in.

Danny, your experiences with "silly" teachers that don't know about Mexico at all, are very well known to me and my brothers who have also pursued higher-level education and graduate school. In many ways I am self-taught on many subjects (I am fluent in Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese...and English) and always looking for sources of authentic history - hidden history. Just like Rick Ricci said, I have learned more about Mexican history and my own family's history from my own genealogical research, than I have learned in schools.

Having bad teachers is what propelled me to become a good teacher myself. I teach high school Spanish levels 1, 2, and 3. Although I don't actually teach history I actually do, in my Spanish classes.

While I was pursuing my BA in History, I came across many books and their authors that many of you NR readers may enjoy.

- "Lies My Teacher Told Me", by James W. Loewen
- "Lies Across America", by James W. Loewen (and others by Mr. Loewen)
- "A People's History of the United States", by Howard Zinn
- "The Truth Must Be Told: How Spain and Hispanics helped build the United States", by Carlos B. Vega [GREAT BOOK!!]
- "Bernardo de Galvez (Latinos in American History)", by Russell Roberts
- "The holy war in Los Altos", by Jim Tuck (I did my BA thesis on the Cristero War)

- Also check out any books that talk about the covert privateers who undermined Tejas and led to it's conquest and annexation, the Alamo, and subsequently the Mexican War to fulfill Manifest Destiny.
- Any book about the 1898 explosion of the USS Maine, a deliberate act which led to the Spanish-American War and it acquisition of the former Spanish empire (Cuba, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, etc.) [It was an inside job just like 9/11 and blamed on Spanish "terrorists" attacking the US].
- Any book about the life and beliefs of Cesar Chavez, the UFC farm labor/civil rights activist who protested against pesticide use.

And that is only the tip of the iceberg. There is so much more hidden history beneath the surface of the illusory waters of our present-day corporate mainstream society.

The truth wants to be known
SFHL

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My family discover Florida in 1512. The Zambrano were nobleman and worked
with the Ponce the Leon. Hernando de soto with his army march and kill
cannibal tribes all over florida to the mississippi river. After California
was discovered they build the Spanish road. A road that connects all
spanish colonies from florida to texas to new mexico to California. They
never teach this in HIstory class or culture

Jose Luis Zambrano De Santiago "El Euforia".

On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 12:10 PM, wrote:

>
>
>
> Are your children learning that a Spanish/Latino/creole army and navy ran
> the British out of most of what became the southern U.S. during the
> Revolutionary War? Check their U.S. history books! If the index doesn't
> list ”Galvez” and the “Siege of Pensacola” write your school board!
>
>
> Any book that lists Lafayette but not Galvez is distorting history. IMO.

Comentario

(Normally I only discuss genealogy...so I apologize for my soap-boxing here. First and only time, I promise)

So true...despite american plurality, there is an overwhelming right-wing ultra-nationalist "patriotic" sentiment that desires to silence by threat and violence any dissenting voice of history. The government's laws make it easy to criminalize protest take away free speech and assembly. So much of this land's real history is unknown or willfully concealed, I believe, as part of a greater agenda of assimilation and racial division. Where is the history of the Native peoples, Spanish/Mexican settlers, Africans, women, and so many others, who with their blood built the foundations of this country?? Concealed...obliterated.

Everywhere you turn - school, books, television shows, movies, magazines, newspapers, popular culture, media feeds, etc. - we are purposefully left out of the history of "America". Bernardo de Gálvez aided the Thirteen Colonies in their quest for independence and led Spanish forces against Britain in the Revolutionary War, defeating the British at the Siege of Peñascola/Pensacola (1781) and reconquering Florida for Spain. He spent the last two years of his life as Viceroy of New Spain, succeeding his father Matías de Gálvez y Gallardo. The city of Galveston, Texas, was named for him. Under him New Orleans' "Spanish" quarter was rebuilt after flooding - the architecture of the French Quarter is really Spanish. You're right, although Gálvez contributed way more, Lafayette occupies more space in history books. It's because Lafayette was French and Gálvez was Spanish. French...good, Spanish...bad. Really!!

Perhaps it is shame over the fact that the U.S. was founded on military conquest, slavery, genocide, segregation, oppression, subjugation, and is actually a police-state, that so much fact is left out of american history books. They don't want to be reminded of the horror. I have actually heard people say they wish american history could be rewritten, and so they do. The truth of history cannot be erased, it can only be covered up and hidden, by shifting attention onto some fake political non-issue...like illegal immigration or Islamic terrorism. Merely distractions from corporate-sponsored power-hungry war-mongering politicians seeking to stoke the flames of patriotism in their favor.

I remember history books used to cover lots of interesting thought-provoking material. Now they are so one-sided, simply focused on "Standards". Future history books may altogether neglect to mention the Native American genocide and forced removal (ie. Tippencanoe, Trail of Tears, Sand Creek and Wounded Knee massacres, policy of extermination, just to name a few), African slavery and segregation, or Spanish-Mexican history and accomplishments. We have been bombarded by explicit and implicit shaming of our cultures, to the point where our people believe the lies, feel a certain shame for their own culture and identity. Many Hispanic families have succumbed and lost their roots in this fashion.

Hopefully people will wake up, take their head out of the sand (I mean "smart" phones), and look up at reality. You might notice that US history is not "OUR" history. We get no respect. That is why I actually seek out the truth of my real history, my real heritage, and my real language - Español. If corporate books, TV history shows, or movies do not convey our voices and perspectives, then we must be the instruments of education for our younger generation at risk of losing their heritage and identity. We are fighting an arduous up-hill war against a powerful adversary...David and Goliath ring a bell.

No pierdan su historia e identidad. Enséñenles español a sus hijos y aprendan más sobre sus propias raíces. No se dejen vencer. ¡Sí se puede! ¡He dicho!

OK done venting. Now back to genealogy...
SFHL

Genealogía de Nochistlán antiguo reino de la Nueva Galicia en el siglo XVII según sus archivos parroquiales

I noticed many members requesting or looking for the book "Genealogía de Nochistlán antiguo reino de la Nueva Galicia en el siglo XVII según sus archivos parroquiales"

Comentarios

Comentario

Hola primos,

I recently discovered that my copy of "Genealogía de Nochistlán antiguo reino de la Nueva Galicia en el siglo XVII según sus archivos parroquiales" by José Luis Vásquez y Rodríguez de Frías is missing. It was stolen.

Suffice it to say, I discovered it was stolen along with a priceless binder of my most treasured certificates and pictures I kept in a large bag. I have gone crazy looking for them but they are gone. This was an act of pure evil.

If anybody here in NR has a "nice" copy "Genealogía de Nochistlán", could we make a deal or make a trade for an out-of-print book from my collection? These are some of the out-of-print books I have in my personal library.

1. "Ameca: Protofundación Mexicana" - Jesús Amaya Topete [1951, 1983]
2. "Los Protocolos de Rodrigo Hernández Cordero, 1585-1591: Escribano público de Guadalajara" - Jorge Palomino y Cañedo [1972]
3. "Genealogical Journal", Volume I [1994], SHHAR press
4. "Genealogical Journal", Volume II [1995], SHHAR press
5. "Genealogical Journal", Volume III [1996], SHHAR press
6. "Genealogical Journal", Volume IV [1998], SHHAR press
7. "Genealogical Journal", Volume V [2003], SHHAR press

I am trying to rebuild what I have lost from the beginning and I am saddened by the scope of it all. Sorry, but I am desperate and I am hoping someone here could help me recover a copy of "Genealogía de Nochistlán". Please, I humbly request your help.

You may contact me at PacoHernandez73@msn.com (or https://www.facebook.com/steven.f.hernandez.5) to make arrangements.

SFHL

Comentario

Hello Steve,

I am sorry that your book and other genealogy material was stolen. I won't part with my copy of the book but I can provide information from the book.

I know how it feels to lose valuable information that was accumulated only after many hours of research.

To make up for losing such valuable material, I will be sending you an email with very valuable information from my unfinished book.

Hopefully the email will cheer you up,

Rick A. Ricci

Comentario

Thank you very much Rick. And thanks for the email. Very interesting stuff there.

And I would never never ask you to part with your Nochistlan book, not for a second...not for a minute. What I was asking for was a complete copy, from somebody. Just a copy. Later I could just bind it together (plastic comb binding).

In exchange I would provide a complete copy of one of my old books. That is all.

De nuevo...gracias Rick y Alicia.
Steven H.

Comentario

Is it not available through InterlibraryLoan? I once had a copy of a book I really wanted that was out of print, but a University in Arizona had a copy. When it arrived, I took it to Staples and copied hundreds of pages, then returned the book to the library to send back to the University. Emilie GarciaPort Orchard, WA
> To: research@lists.nuestrosranchos.org
> From: PacoHernandez73@msn.com
> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 17:29:33 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Libro de Genealogia de
>
> Thank you very much Rick. And thanks for the email. Very interesting stuff
> there. And I would never never ask you to part with your Nochistlan book, not
> for a second...not for a minute. What I was asking for was a complete copy,
> from somebody. Just a copy. Later I could just bind it together (plastic comb
> binding). In exchange I would provide a complete copy of one of my old books.
> That is all. De nuevo...gracias Rick y Alicia. Steven H.
>

Research Digest, Vol 115, Issue 2

I teach American history in a college in Central Texas.

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That is neat that your a history teacher in Texas. Do the text books mention the time period of Nuevo Espana (Mexico). A Conde of A Hacienda in Zacatecas, Mexico by the name of "Don Fernando De La Campa y Cos (1676 - 1734) had financed expeditions from Zacatecas to Texas where he had paid 70,000 pesos. His youngest daughter "Juliana De La Campa" was married to Capitan Juan Olivan Rebolledo who was elected Governor of Texas in 1723 by the Real Audencia of Guadalajara.

Calzada/Briones/Colunga in Fresnillo, Zacatecas

Hello Everyone,
Just registerd for the site and have spent a couple of days reviewing the lists. So excited about the possibility of finding my mothers family! Have spent many years researching my father's side, but didn't have much (and still don't) on my mom's side. So here goes:

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So much for my theory that Juan Briones Colunga was such a rare name. Now that we have gotten the surname order sorted out... There is a Juan Briones Colunga that was born in Zacatecas in 1870... much more likely to be your great-grandfather than the Juan Colunga Briones I sent you earlier:

JUAN COLUNGA BRIONES
Male
Christening: 02 JAN 1870 San Matias, Pinos, Zacatecas, Mexico
Parents:
Father: CRECENCIO COLUNGA
Mother: SERAPIA BRIONES
Source Information:
Batch No.: C606315 Film 1095675

As far as surnames, it was equally common for children to take their mother's surname as to take their father's prior to the 18th Century. Often, the children would even take a grandparent's surname or a prominent townperson's surname to honor them so they would not share either of their parent's surnames.

As Daniel mentions, the choice was often based on which family was more prominent, sort of how the Kennedy women keep their surname even after they get married. Often if both families were prominent, as Daniel mentions, they would combine the surnames and the "composed" surname would continue to be passed on over generation in it composed form.

The Bourbon reforms introduced the mandatory use of both parents' surnames, father's first and mother's second. So from the children's names in your listing, it is clear that the father's first surname was Colunga and so Briones must have been his maternal surname.

Another clue to this being your family is that in Pino, Zacatecas there were a couple of Calzada families having children around the correct time for one of the families to be Josefa's family. She is likely too young to appear in the LDS databases but you may find her on the subsequent films.

1. VICTORIANA CALZADA RUIS - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Female Christening: 18 DEC 1870 San Matias, Pinos, Zacatecas, Mexico

2. ELIGIA CALZADA NAVA - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Female Christening: 08 DEC 1871 San Matias, Pinos, Zacatecas, Mexico

3. TOMASA CALZADA NAVA - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Female Christening: 09 JAN 1869 San Matias, Pinos, Zacatecas, Mexico

Title Registros parroquiales, 1640-1920
Authors Iglesia Católica. San Matías (Pinos, Zacatecas) (Main Author)

Bautismos de hijos legítimos 1881-1885 FHL INTL Film 1095678
Bautismos de hijos legítimos 1885-1888 FHL INTL Film 1095679
Bautismos de hijos legítimos 1888-1891 FHL INTL Film 1095680

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Catherine Wood
Found my grandmothers bautismos, Hermelinda Colunga and her Padrinos were Crecencio Colunga and Serapia Briones! Finally have confirmation from Arturo's lead in earlier email...Thank you Arturo. I found her in San Matias, Pinos, Zacatecas. The certificate says she was born in 1903, which is far different than what the 1930 census shows for her age while living in Santa Barbara, Chih., Now I can prove the following information:
1. Vicente Colunga m. Guadelupe Rodriguez
2. Juan Jose Colunga abt.1802 San Matias, Pinos m. 10 May 1826 Maria Dionicia Gallegos b. abt 1803,, daughter of Mariano Gallegos
and Maria Victoriana Gutierrez of Pinos
3. Jose Crecencio Colunga bpt 23 Apr 1843 San Matias, Pinos m. Serapia Briones bpt 17 Nov 1844, daughter of Gregorio Briones and
Maria Natividad Lugo (of Jose Leocadio Briones y Maria Josefa Valentina Macias and of Guillermo Lugo y Maria Salas)
4. Juan Briones Colunga bpt 2 Jan 1870 San Matias, Pinos m. Josefa Hernandez-Calzada.
My mother and her cousins believe that one of these relatives was French. Not sure which one as they all sound spanish to me. My great grandfather,, Juan Briones Colunga was blond with blue eyes, but so are many spanish people.They are not sure if it is one of these families or one on the Hernandez-Calzada side (I have not researched much on that side....yet). Back to searching images! Thanks again Nuestrosranchos!

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Hi Catherine,

Nice to meet you even if it is through these means. We may end up being related. The spanish
Colunga were in fact the Colunga y Cortes family who settled in Pinos and Aguascalientes in the
mid XVII century. They were closely related to the Ruiz de Esparza, Anso y Tellez, and
Torres y Rivera clans. The Torres y Rivera were a family that held a mayorazgo, a document
of merits of Diego de Torres y Rivera which explains about his paternal lineage. Lots of interesting
facts with all these close knit families. For what ever reason lots of people believe blue eyes=french
I don't know where they get that but it is very ignorant. Any european can have these traits.

Let me know how I can help I would want to know if we connect through the Colunga line. My mother
is a descendant of Juan de Colunga Cortes.

Daniel Méndez Camino

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Hello Daniel,
I hope we can find a connection. Interesting facts about the Colunga Family. Do
you know where I can find more of this information? I haven't yet come across
any of he names you mentioned in relation to the Colunga's but it's still early
in my research. I was able to find many of the children of my Juan Jose Colunga
y Dionicia Gallegos and have posted them to my tree on Ancestry.com. Happy to
share what I have to see if we can find a connection. I am now in the process of
scanning through all films beginning with the first one to pull as many Colunga
or Briones members I can find in San Matias, Pinos, Zacatecas.
My mother said that she thought some of the family were from Santa Maria de los
Logos, Jalisco, so will look there when done with Zacatecas. I did do a
precursory look in Jalisco and the only French sounding connection to the
Colunga's was Limon. Of course that doesn't mean it actually is french...it just
sounds french....:) But not sure if there is a connection there or not.
Cathy

________________________________
From: Daniel Méndez de Torres y Camino
To: Nuestros Ranchos
Sent: Tue, July 5, 2011 1:53:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Briones-Colunga

Hi Catherine,

Nice to meet you even if it is through these means. We may end up being related.
The spanish
Colunga were in fact the Colunga y Cortes family who settled in Pinos and
Aguascalientes in the
mid XVII century. They were closely related to the Ruiz de Esparza, Anso y
Tellez, and
Torres y Rivera clans. The Torres y Rivera were a family that held a mayorazgo,
a document
of merits of Diego de Torres y Rivera which explains about his paternal lineage.
Lots of interesting
facts with all these close knit families. For what ever reason lots of people
believe blue eyes=french
I don't know where they get that but it is very ignorant. Any european can have
these traits.

Let me know how I can help I would want to know if we connect through the
Colunga line. My mother
is a descendant of Juan de Colunga Cortes.

Daniel Méndez Camino

Comentario

Hi Catherine,

This is good news, I wish you the best on your search. You will learn things about your family that may have been lost
in the midst of time as you study your family. I did a quick lookup. I found Juana Maria de la Asuncion Colunga
baptized 7 May 1807 in Capilla de la Santisima Trinidad, Pinos, Zacatecas, Mexico. She was born on 5 May 1807,
spaniard, born to Vicente Colunga and Guadalupe Rodriguez. Grandaughter of Juan Colunga and Gertrudis Quesada,
Gervasia Rodriguez. This probably means Guadalupe was a hija natural or born out of wedlock, since it does not mention
the maternal grandfather.

Your Colunga line may have came from San Luis Potosi, there was rapid movement between sites in SLP and Pinos.
I have noticed many times the scribes in these areas do no include the mother's or bride's las name, I had to search
in baptisms to find their last name. I tell you this because I found a Juan Paulin Colunga married to a Maria Gertrudis
on 12 Oct 1755 in San Francisco, Villa de Reyes, San Luis Potosi. You may want to order this record to see if they
are spanish. My Colunga Cortes line came from San Luis Potosi, precisley Villa de Reyes, so it looks we could
very well be related. My line was interesting because it included my Chavez Fragoso line traveling to San Luis Potosi
to marry a Colunga Cortes. These families were not that close geographically. You will probably end being descendant
of Joseph de Colunga Cortes and Isabel Mendez Paez.

In case you did not find this. Leocadio Briones and Josefa Macias married 7 Oct 1815 in San Matias, Pinos, record which I did not find
but you may want to search for it or the baptisms which could very well include grandparents' names.

Guillermo Lugo and Maria de los Santos Salas were from San Luis Potosi from a nearby town named Charcas (I also have a line
going there from and to Pinos) They were married 30 Jul 1817 in Charcas, SLP son of Apolinario Lugo and Albina Rosalia Gomez, Gregoria Salas.

I hope I could be of service,

Daniel Méndez Camino

Comentario

Hello Catherine,

What used to be called Santa María de los Lagos is now called Lagos de
Moreno in honor of the insurgent Pedro Moreno. He was one of the first
people to fight for independence from Spain. It's shortened form is simply
Lagos. A majority of my Mexican ancestors on my fathers side are from Lagos
and I still have a lot of close relatives there. I have been doing a lot of
research for the town so let me know if there is a family from Lagos you
want info on. I might be able to help.

As far the story of your ancestors being French it is probably from the myth
of the lost legion of French soldiers from Napoleon's army during their
occupation of Mexico causing the people of Los Altos to have blond hair,
blue eyes, and white skin. This myth has become so widespread that people
repeat it as if it were factual truth. The myth is so common it caused Dr.
Mariano González Leal to write a chapter on disproving the myth in one of
his Retoños de España en la Nueva Galicia.

Since I have started researching heavily in the past couple of years I have
learned many of the families that intermarried were from central and
northern Spain such as Lope Ruiz de Esparza was from Navarra, the González
de Hermosillo were from Burgos, Diego Romo de Vivar was likely from Vivar in
Burgos, Diego de Villaseñor y Tovar was from Burgos, Bartolome Martín del
Campo was from Revilla de Campos, Palencia, Castilla y León, Rubalcaba was
probably from that town of the same name in in Liérganes, Cantabría, Azuela
is a surname that originated in Burgos, Luebana is a Basque word and
surname, and so on. Nueva Galicia could as well have been named Nueva
Castilla. I descend from almost all of those families, as many of us do, and
it would explain why my grandfather's brother, and many other people of Los
Altos, had blue eyes and light skin. There weren't any French that created a
significant descendancy to be able to attribute the northern European
features to them. As far as our the European side, we are descendants of
Spaniards. As is most likely the case with other Jaliscience's such as Saul
"El Canelo" Alvarez, Guillermo del Toro, and Javier "El Chicharo" Hernández
Gutiérrez (the father of Chicharito), .

Saludos,
Armando

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:09 PM, wrote:

> Catherine Wood
> Found my grandmothers bautismos, Hermelinda Colunga and her Padrinos were
> Crecencio Colunga and Serapia Briones! Finally have confirmation from
> Arturo's lead in earlier email...Thank you Arturo. I found her in San
> Matias, Pinos, Zacatecas. The certificate says she was born in 1903, which
> is far different than what the 1930 census shows for her age while living
> in Santa Barbara, Chih., Now I can prove the following information:
> 1. Vicente Colunga m. Guadelupe Rodriguez
> 2. Juan Jose Colunga abt.1802 San Matias, Pinos m. 10 May 1826 Maria
> Dionicia Gallegos b. abt 1803,, daughter of Mariano Gallegos
> and Maria Victoriana Gutierrez of Pinos 3. Jose Crecencio Colunga bpt
> 23 Apr 1843 San Matias, Pinos m. Serapia Briones bpt 17 Nov 1844, daughter
> of Gregorio Briones and
> Maria Natividad Lugo (of Jose Leocadio Briones y Maria Josefa
> Valentina Macias and of Guillermo Lugo y Maria Salas)
> 4. Juan Briones Colunga bpt 2 Jan 1870 San Matias, Pinos m. Josefa
> Hernandez-Calzada.
> My mother and her cousins believe that one of these relatives was French.
> Not sure which one as they all sound spanish to me. My great grandfather,,
> Juan Briones Colunga was blond with blue eyes, but so are many spanish
> people.They are not sure if it is one of these families or one on the
> Hernandez-Calzada side (I have not researched much on that side....yet).
> Back to searching images! Thanks again Nuestrosranchos! -- -- -- -- --

Comentario

Interesting....with the family  name I am researching Casillas Y Cabrera, the whole family keeps asking me where is the  "French Connection", because our Grandfather and a few a unts were blond haired   and blue-eyed from Jalostotitlan, and I keep telling them I have found nothing like that so far.  No French connection,  but any European country has folks who are also fair ,  with blond hair  and blue eyes. My father's family who are entirely French, all the way back in our ancestry, are mostly dark haired and dark eyed, but he  had one blond sister as well.   

Nancy Casillas

Saint Clair, Michgian 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Armando"
To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
Sent: Wednesday, July 6, 2011 7:22:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Briones-Colunga

Hello Catherine,

What used to be called Santa María de los Lagos is now called Lagos de
Moreno in honor of the insurgent Pedro Moreno. He was one of the first
people to fight for independence from Spain. It's shortened form is simply
Lagos. A majority of my Mexican ancestors on my fathers side are from Lagos
and I still have a lot of close relatives there. I have been doing a lot of
research for the town so let me know if there is a family from Lagos you
want info on. I might be able to help.

As far the story of your ancestors being French it is probably from the myth
of the lost legion of French soldiers from Napoleon's army during their
occupation of Mexico causing the people of Los Altos to have blond hair,
blue eyes, and white skin. This myth has become so widespread that people
repeat it as if it were factual truth. The myth is so common it caused Dr.
Mariano González Leal to write a chapter on disproving the myth in one of
his Retoños de España en la Nueva Galicia.

Since I have started researching heavily in the past couple of years I have
learned many of the families that intermarried were from central and
northern Spain such as Lope Ruiz de Esparza was from Navarra, the González
de Hermosillo were from Burgos, Diego Romo de Vivar was likely from Vivar in
Burgos, Diego de Villaseñor y Tovar was from Burgos, Bartolome Martín del
Campo was from Revilla de Campos, Palencia, Castilla y León, Rubalcaba was
probably from that town of the same name in in Liérganes, Cantabría, Azuela
is a surname that originated in Burgos, Luebana is a Basque word and
surname, and so on. Nueva Galicia could as well have been named Nueva
Castilla. I descend from almost all of those families, as many of us do, and
it would explain why my grandfather's brother, and many other people of Los
Altos, had blue eyes and light skin. There weren't any French that created a
significant descendancy to be able to attribute the northern European
features to them. As far as our the European side, we are descendants of
Spaniards. As is most likely the case with other Jaliscience's such as Saul
"El Canelo" Alvarez, Guillermo del Toro, and Javier "El Chicharo" Hernández
Gutiérrez (the father of Chicharito), .

Saludos,
Armando

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:09 PM, wrote:

> Catherine Wood
> Found my grandmothers bautismos, Hermelinda Colunga  and her Padrinos were
> Crecencio Colunga and Serapia Briones! Finally have confirmation  from
> Arturo's lead in earlier email...Thank you Arturo.  I found her in San
> Matias, Pinos,   Zacatecas. The certificate says she was born in 1903, which
>  is far different than what the 1930 census shows for her age while living
> in Santa Barbara, Chih., Now I can prove the following information:
> 1. Vicente Colunga m. Guadelupe Rodriguez
>  2. Juan Jose Colunga abt.1802 San Matias, Pinos m. 10 May 1826 Maria
> Dionicia Gallegos b. abt 1803,, daughter of Mariano Gallegos
>  and Maria Victoriana Gutierrez of Pinos     3. Jose Crecencio Colunga bpt
> 23 Apr 1843 San Matias, Pinos m. Serapia Briones bpt 17 Nov 1844, daughter
> of Gregorio Briones and
>         Maria Natividad Lugo (of Jose Leocadio Briones y Maria Josefa
> Valentina Macias and of Guillermo Lugo y Maria Salas)
>      4. Juan Briones Colunga bpt  2 Jan 1870 San Matias, Pinos m. Josefa
> Hernandez-Calzada.
> My mother and her cousins believe that one  of these relatives was French.
> Not sure which one as they all sound spanish to me.  My great grandfather,,
> Juan Briones Colunga was blond with blue eyes, but so are many spanish
> people.They are not sure if it is one of these families or one on the
> Hernandez-Calzada side (I have not researched much on that side....yet).
> Back to searching images!  Thanks again Nuestrosranchos!      -- -- -- -- --

Comentario

Like I said, it is a most likely false story that stems from the myth of the
lost legion of French soldiers. It's only through these genealogical studies
that we'll get to the point where everyone fully understands it was only a
myth. Jalos (Jalostotiltán) is part of Los Altos and is the area included in
this myth.

What are the names and dates of your ancestors from Jalos?

Armando

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 8:06 AM, wrote:

>
>
> Interesting....with the family name I am researching Casillas Y Cabrera,
> the whole family keeps asking me where is the "French Connection", because
> our Grandfather and a few a unts were blond haired and blue-eyed from
> Jalostotitlan, and I keep telling them I have found nothing like that so
> far. No French connection, but any European country has folks who are also
> fair , with blond hair and blue eyes. My father's family who are entirely
> French, all the way back in our ancestry, are mostly dark haired and dark
> eyed, but he had one blond sister as well.
>
> Nancy Casillas
>
> Saint Clair, Michgian
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>
> From: "Armando"
> To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
> Sent: Wednesday, July 6, 2011 7:22:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Briones-Colunga
>
> Hello Catherine,
>
> What used to be called Santa María de los Lagos is now called Lagos de
> Moreno in honor of the insurgent Pedro Moreno. He was one of the first
> people to fight for independence from Spain. It's shortened form is simply
> Lagos. A majority of my Mexican ancestors on my fathers side are from Lagos
> and I still have a lot of close relatives there. I have been doing a lot of
> research for the town so let me know if there is a family from Lagos you
> want info on. I might be able to help.
>
> As far the story of your ancestors being French it is probably from the
> myth
> of the lost legion of French soldiers from Napoleon's army during their
> occupation of Mexico causing the people of Los Altos to have blond hair,
> blue eyes, and white skin. This myth has become so widespread that people
> repeat it as if it were factual truth. The myth is so common it caused Dr.
> Mariano González Leal to write a chapter on disproving the myth in one of
> his Retoños de España en la Nueva Galicia.
>
> Since I have started researching heavily in the past couple of years I have
> learned many of the families that intermarried were from central and
> northern Spain such as Lope Ruiz de Esparza was from Navarra, the González
> de Hermosillo were from Burgos, Diego Romo de Vivar was likely from Vivar
> in
> Burgos, Diego de Villaseñor y Tovar was from Burgos, Bartolome Martín del
> Campo was from Revilla de Campos, Palencia, Castilla y León, Rubalcaba was
> probably from that town of the same name in in Liérganes, Cantabría, Azuela
> is a surname that originated in Burgos, Luebana is a Basque word and
> surname, and so on. Nueva Galicia could as well have been named Nueva
> Castilla. I descend from almost all of those families, as many of us do,
> and
> it would explain why my grandfather's brother, and many other people of Los
> Altos, had blue eyes and light skin. There weren't any French that created
> a
> significant descendancy to be able to attribute the northern European
> features to them. As far as our the European side, we are descendants of
> Spaniards. As is most likely the case with other Jaliscience's such as Saul
> "El Canelo" Alvarez, Guillermo del Toro, and Javier "El Chicharo" Hernández
> Gutiérrez (the father of Chicharito), .
>
> Saludos,
> Armando
>
> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:09 PM, wrote:
>
> > Catherine Wood
> > Found my grandmothers bautismos, Hermelinda Colunga and her Padrinos
> were
> > Crecencio Colunga and Serapia Briones! Finally have confirmation from
> > Arturo's lead in earlier email...Thank you Arturo. I found her in San
> > Matias, Pinos, Zacatecas. The certificate says she was born in 1903,
> which
> > is far different than what the 1930 census shows for her age while
> living
> > in Santa Barbara, Chih., Now I can prove the following information:
> > 1. Vicente Colunga m. Guadelupe Rodriguez
> > 2. Juan Jose Colunga abt.1802 San Matias, Pinos m. 10 May 1826 Maria
> > Dionicia Gallegos b. abt 1803,, daughter of Mariano Gallegos
> > and Maria Victoriana Gutierrez of Pinos 3. Jose Crecencio Colunga
> bpt
> > 23 Apr 1843 San Matias, Pinos m. Serapia Briones bpt 17 Nov 1844,
> daughter
> > of Gregorio Briones and
> > Maria Natividad Lugo (of Jose Leocadio Briones y Maria Josefa
> > Valentina Macias and of Guillermo Lugo y Maria Salas)
> > 4. Juan Briones Colunga bpt 2 Jan 1870 San Matias, Pinos m. Josefa
> > Hernandez-Calzada.
> > My mother and her cousins believe that one of these relatives was
> French.
> > Not sure which one as they all sound spanish to me. My great
> grandfather,,
> > Juan Briones Colunga was blond with blue eyes, but so are many spanish
> > people.They are not sure if it is one of these families or one on the
> > Hernandez-Calzada side (I have not researched much on that side....yet).
> > Back to searching images! Thanks again Nuestrosranchos! -- -- -- --
> --
> > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
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Comentario

Armando -

I guess the myth about the supposed French ancestry exists not only in Jalisco, but in Zacatecas as well. When I went once to Mexico with my parents (in the 1960s) as we passed through a small village on our way to where my father was born (Jerez) we encountered many people in that small place who were dark-skinned but their eyes were strikingly blue. I finally asked a gas station attendant why they had blue eyes, and he smiled shyly and said "the French were here". I wanted to know more, but my father scolded me for asking such a rude (personal) question. I wish I could remember the name of that town, but it was so long ago. My father himself said that his great-grandfather had blue eyes and was called "el Frances", but in records I found only "espanoles", no frances or other European. He was descended from Basques who were with the Onate Party in the late 1500s who had settled in Pinos, Zacatecas.

Emilie
Port Orchard, WA

> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 08:34:38 -0500
> From: fandemma@gmail.com
> To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
> Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Briones-Colunga
>
> Like I said, it is a most likely false story that stems from the myth of the
> lost legion of French soldiers. It's only through these genealogical studies
> that we'll get to the point where everyone fully understands it was only a
> myth. Jalos (Jalostotiltán) is part of Los Altos and is the area included in
> this myth.
>
> What are the names and dates of your ancestors from Jalos?
>
> Armando
>
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 8:06 AM, wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Interesting....with the family name I am researching Casillas Y Cabrera,
> > the whole family keeps asking me where is the "French Connection", because
> > our Grandfather and a few a unts were blond haired and blue-eyed from
> > Jalostotitlan, and I keep telling them I have found nothing like that so
> > far. No French connection, but any European country has folks who are also
> > fair , with blond hair and blue eyes. My father's family who are entirely
> > French, all the way back in our ancestry, are mostly dark haired and dark
> > eyed, but he had one blond sister as well.
> >
> > Nancy Casillas
> >
> > Saint Clair, Michgian
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >
> >
> > From: "Armando"
> > To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 6, 2011 7:22:39 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Briones-Colunga
> >
> > Hello Catherine,
> >
> > What used to be called Santa María de los Lagos is now called Lagos de
> > Moreno in honor of the insurgent Pedro Moreno. He was one of the first
> > people to fight for independence from Spain. It's shortened form is simply
> > Lagos. A majority of my Mexican ancestors on my fathers side are from Lagos
> > and I still have a lot of close relatives there. I have been doing a lot of
> > research for the town so let me know if there is a family from Lagos you
> > want info on. I might be able to help.
> >
> > As far the story of your ancestors being French it is probably from the
> > myth
> > of the lost legion of French soldiers from Napoleon's army during their
> > occupation of Mexico causing the people of Los Altos to have blond hair,
> > blue eyes, and white skin. This myth has become so widespread that people
> > repeat it as if it were factual truth. The myth is so common it caused Dr.
> > Mariano González Leal to write a chapter on disproving the myth in one of
> > his Retoños de España en la Nueva Galicia.
> >
> > Since I have started researching heavily in the past couple of years I have
> > learned many of the families that intermarried were from central and
> > northern Spain such as Lope Ruiz de Esparza was from Navarra, the González
> > de Hermosillo were from Burgos, Diego Romo de Vivar was likely from Vivar
> > in
> > Burgos, Diego de Villaseñor y Tovar was from Burgos, Bartolome Martín del
> > Campo was from Revilla de Campos, Palencia, Castilla y León, Rubalcaba was
> > probably from that town of the same name in in Liérganes, Cantabría, Azuela
> > is a surname that originated in Burgos, Luebana is a Basque word and
> > surname, and so on. Nueva Galicia could as well have been named Nueva
> > Castilla. I descend from almost all of those families, as many of us do,
> > and
> > it would explain why my grandfather's brother, and many other people of Los
> > Altos, had blue eyes and light skin. There weren't any French that created
> > a
> > significant descendancy to be able to attribute the northern European
> > features to them. As far as our the European side, we are descendants of
> > Spaniards. As is most likely the case with other Jaliscience's such as Saul
> > "El Canelo" Alvarez, Guillermo del Toro, and Javier "El Chicharo" Hernández
> > Gutiérrez (the father of Chicharito), .
> >
> > Saludos,
> > Armando
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:09 PM, wrote:
> >
> > > Catherine Wood
> > > Found my grandmothers bautismos, Hermelinda Colunga and her Padrinos
> > were
> > > Crecencio Colunga and Serapia Briones! Finally have confirmation from
> > > Arturo's lead in earlier email...Thank you Arturo. I found her in San
> > > Matias, Pinos, Zacatecas. The certificate says she was born in 1903,
> > which
> > > is far different than what the 1930 census shows for her age while
> > living
> > > in Santa Barbara, Chih., Now I can prove the following information:
> > > 1. Vicente Colunga m. Guadelupe Rodriguez
> > > 2. Juan Jose Colunga abt.1802 San Matias, Pinos m. 10 May 1826 Maria
> > > Dionicia Gallegos b. abt 1803,, daughter of Mariano Gallegos
> > > and Maria Victoriana Gutierrez of Pinos 3. Jose Crecencio Colunga
> > bpt
> > > 23 Apr 1843 San Matias, Pinos m. Serapia Briones bpt 17 Nov 1844,
> > daughter
> > > of Gregorio Briones and
> > > Maria Natividad Lugo (of Jose Leocadio Briones y Maria Josefa
> > > Valentina Macias and of Guillermo Lugo y Maria Salas)
> > > 4. Juan Briones Colunga bpt 2 Jan 1870 San Matias, Pinos m. Josefa
> > > Hernandez-Calzada.
> > > My mother and her cousins believe that one of these relatives was
> > French.
> > > Not sure which one as they all sound spanish to me. My great
> > grandfather,,
> > > Juan Briones Colunga was blond with blue eyes, but so are many spanish
> > > people.They are not sure if it is one of these families or one on the
> > > Hernandez-Calzada side (I have not researched much on that side....yet).
> > > Back to searching images! Thanks again Nuestrosranchos! -- -- -- --
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Comentario

Hello Emilie,

Thanks for sharing your experience. It would take more than one ancestor for
your 2nd ggrandfather to have blue eyes. It's not just the Basque ancestor,
it's also the families he married into, which is why I had mentioned the
origins of many of the founding families of Los Altos, which many had been
in Zacatecas first or ended up there. There were many more that I don't even
know about or remember to mention.
There is a famous charro from Nochistlán, Zacatecas that is güero and has
blue eyes, I forget his name at the moment. I met another person from Jerez,
Zacatecas that has shown me photos of his grandfather with blue eyes. So,
there are people all over Zacatecas with blue eyes, or ancestors with blue
eyes. Unfortunately, for some people, their genealogy can't be traced until
we get a huge database of Y-DNA of 111 markers.
As far as the myth making it to Zacatecas, that is easily believable. It was
the easy answer for people in the past that didn't want to spend time
calculating the possibility, which would have shown it wasn't. The numbers,
dates, and locations don't match up. Apart from that genealogical research
back then was very difficult.

Saludos,
Armando

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Emilie Garcia
wrote:

>
> Armando -
>
> I guess the myth about the supposed French ancestry exists not only in
> Jalisco, but in Zacatecas as well. When I went once to Mexico with my
> parents (in the 1960s) as we passed through a small village on our way to
> where my father was born (Jerez) we encountered many people in that small
> place who were dark-skinned but their eyes were strikingly blue. I finally
> asked a gas station attendant why they had blue eyes, and he smiled shyly
> and said "the French were here". I wanted to know more, but my father
> scolded me for asking such a rude (personal) question. I wish I could
> remember the name of that town, but it was so long ago. My father himself
> said that his great-grandfather had blue eyes and was called "el Frances",
> but in records I found only "espanoles", no frances or other European. He
> was descended from Basques who were with the Onate Party in the late 1500s
> who had settled in Pinos, Zacatecas.
>
> Emilie
> Port Orchard, WA
>
>
> > Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 08:34:38 -0500
> > From: fandemma@gmail.com
> > To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
> > Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Briones-Colunga
> >
> > Like I said, it is a most likely false story that stems from the myth of
> the
> > lost legion of French soldiers. It's only through these genealogical
> studies
> > that we'll get to the point where everyone fully understands it was only
> a
> > myth. Jalos (Jalostotiltán) is part of Los Altos and is the area included
> in
> > this myth.
> >
> > What are the names and dates of your ancestors from Jalos?
> >
> > Armando
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 8:06 AM, wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Interesting....with the family name I am researching Casillas Y
> Cabrera,
> > > the whole family keeps asking me where is the "French Connection",
> because
> > > our Grandfather and a few a unts were blond haired and blue-eyed from
> > > Jalostotitlan, and I keep telling them I have found nothing like that
> so
> > > far. No French connection, but any European country has folks who are
> also
> > > fair , with blond hair and blue eyes. My father's family who are
> entirely
> > > French, all the way back in our ancestry, are mostly dark haired and
> dark
> > > eyed, but he had one blond sister as well.
> > >
> > > Nancy Casillas
> > >
> > > Saint Clair, Michgian
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > >
> > >
> > > From: "Armando"
> > > To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
> > > Sent: Wednesday, July 6, 2011 7:22:39 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Briones-Colunga
> > >
> > > Hello Catherine,
> > >
> > > What used to be called Santa María de los Lagos is now called Lagos de
> > > Moreno in honor of the insurgent Pedro Moreno. He was one of the first
> > > people to fight for independence from Spain. It's shortened form is
> simply
> > > Lagos. A majority of my Mexican ancestors on my fathers side are from
> Lagos
> > > and I still have a lot of close relatives there. I have been doing a
> lot of
> > > research for the town so let me know if there is a family from Lagos
> you
> > > want info on. I might be able to help.
> > >
> > > As far the story of your ancestors being French it is probably from the
> > > myth
> > > of the lost legion of French soldiers from Napoleon's army during their
> > > occupation of Mexico causing the people of Los Altos to have blond
> hair,
> > > blue eyes, and white skin. This myth has become so widespread that
> people
> > > repeat it as if it were factual truth. The myth is so common it caused
> Dr.
> > > Mariano González Leal to write a chapter on disproving the myth in one
> of
> > > his Retoños de España en la Nueva Galicia.
> > >
> > > Since I have started researching heavily in the past couple of years I
> have
> > > learned many of the families that intermarried were from central and
> > > northern Spain such as Lope Ruiz de Esparza was from Navarra, the
> González
> > > de Hermosillo were from Burgos, Diego Romo de Vivar was likely from
> Vivar
> > > in
> > > Burgos, Diego de Villaseñor y Tovar was from Burgos, Bartolome Martín
> del
> > > Campo was from Revilla de Campos, Palencia, Castilla y León, Rubalcaba
> was
> > > probably from that town of the same name in in Liérganes, Cantabría,
> Azuela
> > > is a surname that originated in Burgos, Luebana is a Basque word and
> > > surname, and so on. Nueva Galicia could as well have been named Nueva
> > > Castilla. I descend from almost all of those families, as many of us
> do,
> > > and
> > > it would explain why my grandfather's brother, and many other people of
> Los
> > > Altos, had blue eyes and light skin. There weren't any French that
> created
> > > a
> > > significant descendancy to be able to attribute the northern European
> > > features to them. As far as our the European side, we are descendants
> of
> > > Spaniards. As is most likely the case with other Jaliscience's such as
> Saul
> > > "El Canelo" Alvarez, Guillermo del Toro, and Javier "El Chicharo"
> Hernández
> > > Gutiérrez (the father of Chicharito), .
> > >
> > > Saludos,
> > > Armando
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:09 PM, wrote:
> > >
> > > > Catherine Wood
> > > > Found my grandmothers bautismos, Hermelinda Colunga and her Padrinos
> > > were
> > > > Crecencio Colunga and Serapia Briones! Finally have confirmation from
> > > > Arturo's lead in earlier email...Thank you Arturo. I found her in San
> > > > Matias, Pinos, Zacatecas. The certificate says she was born in 1903,
> > > which
> > > > is far different than what the 1930 census shows for her age while
> > > living
> > > > in Santa Barbara, Chih., Now I can prove the following information:
> > > > 1. Vicente Colunga m. Guadelupe Rodriguez
> > > > 2. Juan Jose Colunga abt.1802 San Matias, Pinos m. 10 May 1826 Maria
> > > > Dionicia Gallegos b. abt 1803,, daughter of Mariano Gallegos
> > > > and Maria Victoriana Gutierrez of Pinos 3. Jose Crecencio Colunga
> > > bpt
> > > > 23 Apr 1843 San Matias, Pinos m. Serapia Briones bpt 17 Nov 1844,
> > > daughter
> > > > of Gregorio Briones and
> > > > Maria Natividad Lugo (of Jose Leocadio Briones y Maria Josefa
> > > > Valentina Macias and of Guillermo Lugo y Maria Salas)
> > > > 4. Juan Briones Colunga bpt 2 Jan 1870 San Matias, Pinos m. Josefa
> > > > Hernandez-Calzada.
> > > > My mother and her cousins believe that one of these relatives was
> > > French.
> > > > Not sure which one as they all sound spanish to me. My great
> > > grandfather,,
> > > > Juan Briones Colunga was blond with blue eyes, but so are many
> spanish
> > > > people.They are not sure if it is one of these families or one on the
> > > > Hernandez-Calzada side (I have not researched much on that
> side....yet).
> > > > Back to searching images! Thanks again Nuestrosranchos! -- -- -- --
> > > --
> > > > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
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Comentario

Armando,

Yes, my father's lines also include the Felix de Arellano and Llanos de Valdez, as well as Olague Etulain. I think other lines also came from a place called Cienega de Mata. I don't really know where that was then, but it was owned by a famous espanol family, whose name I can't recall right now.

Emilie
Port Orchard, WA

> Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 12:44:49 -0500
> From: fandemma@gmail.com
> To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
> Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Briones-Colunga
>
> Hello Emilie,
>
> Thanks for sharing your experience. It would take more than one ancestor for
> your 2nd ggrandfather to have blue eyes. It's not just the Basque ancestor,
> it's also the families he married into, which is why I had mentioned the
> origins of many of the founding families of Los Altos, which many had been
> in Zacatecas first or ended up there. There were many more that I don't even
> know about or remember to mention.
> There is a famous charro from Nochistlán, Zacatecas that is güero and has
> blue eyes, I forget his name at the moment. I met another person from Jerez,
> Zacatecas that has shown me photos of his grandfather with blue eyes. So,
> there are people all over Zacatecas with blue eyes, or ancestors with blue
> eyes. Unfortunately, for some people, their genealogy can't be traced until
> we get a huge database of Y-DNA of 111 markers.
> As far as the myth making it to Zacatecas, that is easily believable. It was
> the easy answer for people in the past that didn't want to spend time
> calculating the possibility, which would have shown it wasn't. The numbers,
> dates, and locations don't match up. Apart from that genealogical research
> back then was very difficult.
>
> Saludos,
> Armando
>
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Emilie Garcia
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Armando -
> >
> > I guess the myth about the supposed French ancestry exists not only in
> > Jalisco, but in Zacatecas as well. When I went once to Mexico with my
> > parents (in the 1960s) as we passed through a small village on our way to
> > where my father was born (Jerez) we encountered many people in that small
> > place who were dark-skinned but their eyes were strikingly blue. I finally
> > asked a gas station attendant why they had blue eyes, and he smiled shyly
> > and said "the French were here". I wanted to know more, but my father
> > scolded me for asking such a rude (personal) question. I wish I could
> > remember the name of that town, but it was so long ago. My father himself
> > said that his great-grandfather had blue eyes and was called "el Frances",
> > but in records I found only "espanoles", no frances or other European. He
> > was descended from Basques who were with the Onate Party in the late 1500s
> > who had settled in Pinos, Zacatecas.
> >
> > Emilie
> > Port Orchard, WA
> >
> >
> > > Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 08:34:38 -0500
> > > From: fandemma@gmail.com
> > > To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
> > > Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Briones-Colunga
> > >
> > > Like I said, it is a most likely false story that stems from the myth of
> > the
> > > lost legion of French soldiers. It's only through these genealogical
> > studies
> > > that we'll get to the point where everyone fully understands it was only
> > a
> > > myth. Jalos (Jalostotiltán) is part of Los Altos and is the area included
> > in
> > > this myth.
> > >
> > > What are the names and dates of your ancestors from Jalos?
> > >
> > > Armando
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 8:06 AM, wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Interesting....with the family name I am researching Casillas Y
> > Cabrera,
> > > > the whole family keeps asking me where is the "French Connection",
> > because
> > > > our Grandfather and a few a unts were blond haired and blue-eyed from
> > > > Jalostotitlan, and I keep telling them I have found nothing like that
> > so
> > > > far. No French connection, but any European country has folks who are
> > also
> > > > fair , with blond hair and blue eyes. My father's family who are
> > entirely
> > > > French, all the way back in our ancestry, are mostly dark haired and
> > dark
> > > > eyed, but he had one blond sister as well.
> > > >
> > > > Nancy Casillas
> > > >
> > > > Saint Clair, Michgian
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > From: "Armando"
> > > > To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, July 6, 2011 7:22:39 AM
> > > > Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Briones-Colunga
> > > >
> > > > Hello Catherine,
> > > >
> > > > What used to be called Santa María de los Lagos is now called Lagos de
> > > > Moreno in honor of the insurgent Pedro Moreno. He was one of the first
> > > > people to fight for independence from Spain. It's shortened form is
> > simply
> > > > Lagos. A majority of my Mexican ancestors on my fathers side are from
> > Lagos
> > > > and I still have a lot of close relatives there. I have been doing a
> > lot of
> > > > research for the town so let me know if there is a family from Lagos
> > you
> > > > want info on. I might be able to help.
> > > >
> > > > As far the story of your ancestors being French it is probably from the
> > > > myth
> > > > of the lost legion of French soldiers from Napoleon's army during their
> > > > occupation of Mexico causing the people of Los Altos to have blond
> > hair,
> > > > blue eyes, and white skin. This myth has become so widespread that
> > people
> > > > repeat it as if it were factual truth. The myth is so common it caused
> > Dr.
> > > > Mariano González Leal to write a chapter on disproving the myth in one
> > of
> > > > his Retoños de España en la Nueva Galicia.
> > > >
> > > > Since I have started researching heavily in the past couple of years I
> > have
> > > > learned many of the families that intermarried were from central and
> > > > northern Spain such as Lope Ruiz de Esparza was from Navarra, the
> > González
> > > > de Hermosillo were from Burgos, Diego Romo de Vivar was likely from
> > Vivar
> > > > in
> > > > Burgos, Diego de Villaseñor y Tovar was from Burgos, Bartolome Martín
> > del
> > > > Campo was from Revilla de Campos, Palencia, Castilla y León, Rubalcaba
> > was
> > > > probably from that town of the same name in in Liérganes, Cantabría,
> > Azuela
> > > > is a surname that originated in Burgos, Luebana is a Basque word and
> > > > surname, and so on. Nueva Galicia could as well have been named Nueva
> > > > Castilla. I descend from almost all of those families, as many of us
> > do,
> > > > and
> > > > it would explain why my grandfather's brother, and many other people of
> > Los
> > > > Altos, had blue eyes and light skin. There weren't any French that
> > created
> > > > a
> > > > significant descendancy to be able to attribute the northern European
> > > > features to them. As far as our the European side, we are descendants
> > of
> > > > Spaniards. As is most likely the case with other Jaliscience's such as
> > Saul
> > > > "El Canelo" Alvarez, Guillermo del Toro, and Javier "El Chicharo"
> > Hernández
> > > > Gutiérrez (the father of Chicharito), .
> > > >
> > > > Saludos,
> > > > Armando
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:09 PM, wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Catherine Wood
> > > > > Found my grandmothers bautismos, Hermelinda Colunga and her Padrinos
> > > > were
> > > > > Crecencio Colunga and Serapia Briones! Finally have confirmation from
> > > > > Arturo's lead in earlier email...Thank you Arturo. I found her in San
> > > > > Matias, Pinos, Zacatecas. The certificate says she was born in 1903,
> > > > which
> > > > > is far different than what the 1930 census shows for her age while
> > > > living
> > > > > in Santa Barbara, Chih., Now I can prove the following information:
> > > > > 1. Vicente Colunga m. Guadelupe Rodriguez
> > > > > 2. Juan Jose Colunga abt.1802 San Matias, Pinos m. 10 May 1826 Maria
> > > > > Dionicia Gallegos b. abt 1803,, daughter of Mariano Gallegos
> > > > > and Maria Victoriana Gutierrez of Pinos 3. Jose Crecencio Colunga
> > > > bpt
> > > > > 23 Apr 1843 San Matias, Pinos m. Serapia Briones bpt 17 Nov 1844,
> > > > daughter
> > > > > of Gregorio Briones and
> > > > > Maria Natividad Lugo (of Jose Leocadio Briones y Maria Josefa
> > > > > Valentina Macias and of Guillermo Lugo y Maria Salas)
> > > > > 4. Juan Briones Colunga bpt 2 Jan 1870 San Matias, Pinos m. Josefa
> > > > > Hernandez-Calzada.
> > > > > My mother and her cousins believe that one of these relatives was
> > > > French.
> > > > > Not sure which one as they all sound spanish to me. My great
> > > > grandfather,,
> > > > > Juan Briones Colunga was blond with blue eyes, but so are many
> > spanish
> > > > > people.They are not sure if it is one of these families or one on the
> > > > > Hernandez-Calzada side (I have not researched much on that
> > side....yet).
> > > > > Back to searching images! Thanks again Nuestrosranchos! -- -- -- --
> > > > --
> > > > > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
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Comentario

Emilie,

Cienega de Mata was owned by the Rincón-Gallardo family. It was part of one
of the largest haciendas Mexico ever had. It's located in the muncipality of
Lagos de Moreno and the capilla pertained in the ecclesiastic to the
parroquia of Aguascalientes. We spoke about this before when you asked about
Matheo de Arteaga and the meaning of laguense.
Unfortunately I am not familiar with your Felix de Arellano and Llanos de
Valdez lines but they most likey also had an ancestor or two with blue eyes
also.

Armando

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Emilie Garcia wrote:

>
> Armando,
>
> Yes, my father's lines also include the Felix de Arellano and Llanos de
> Valdez, as well as Olague Etulain. I think other lines also came from a
> place called Cienega de Mata. I don't really know where that was then, but
> it was owned by a famous espanol family, whose name I can't recall right
> now.
>
> Emilie
> Port Orchard, WA
>
>
> > Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 12:44:49 -0500
> > From: fandemma@gmail.com
> > To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
> > Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Briones-Colunga
> >
> > Hello Emilie,
> >
> > Thanks for sharing your experience. It would take more than one ancestor
> for
> > your 2nd ggrandfather to have blue eyes. It's not just the Basque
> ancestor,
> > it's also the families he married into, which is why I had mentioned the
> > origins of many of the founding families of Los Altos, which many had
> been
> > in Zacatecas first or ended up there. There were many more that I don't
> even
> > know about or remember to mention.
> > There is a famous charro from Nochistlán, Zacatecas that is güero and has
> > blue eyes, I forget his name at the moment. I met another person from
> Jerez,
> > Zacatecas that has shown me photos of his grandfather with blue eyes. So,
> > there are people all over Zacatecas with blue eyes, or ancestors with
> blue
> > eyes. Unfortunately, for some people, their genealogy can't be traced
> until
> > we get a huge database of Y-DNA of 111 markers.
> > As far as the myth making it to Zacatecas, that is easily believable. It
> was
> > the easy answer for people in the past that didn't want to spend time
> > calculating the possibility, which would have shown it wasn't. The
> numbers,
> > dates, and locations don't match up. Apart from that genealogical
> research
> > back then was very difficult.
> >
> > Saludos,
> > Armando
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Emilie Garcia
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Armando -
> > >
> > > I guess the myth about the supposed French ancestry exists not only in
> > > Jalisco, but in Zacatecas as well. When I went once to Mexico with my
> > > parents (in the 1960s) as we passed through a small village on our way
> to
> > > where my father was born (Jerez) we encountered many people in that
> small
> > > place who were dark-skinned but their eyes were strikingly blue. I
> finally
> > > asked a gas station attendant why they had blue eyes, and he smiled
> shyly
> > > and said "the French were here". I wanted to know more, but my father
> > > scolded me for asking such a rude (personal) question. I wish I could
> > > remember the name of that town, but it was so long ago. My father
> himself
> > > said that his great-grandfather had blue eyes and was called "el
> Frances",
> > > but in records I found only "espanoles", no frances or other European.
> He
> > > was descended from Basques who were with the Onate Party in the late
> 1500s
> > > who had settled in Pinos, Zacatecas.
> > >
> > > Emilie
> > > Port Orchard, WA
> > >
> > >
> > > > Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 08:34:38 -0500
> > > > From: fandemma@gmail.com
> > > > To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
> > > > Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Briones-Colunga
> > > >
> > > > Like I said, it is a most likely false story that stems from the myth
> of
> > > the
> > > > lost legion of French soldiers. It's only through these genealogical
> > > studies
> > > > that we'll get to the point where everyone fully understands it was
> only
> > > a
> > > > myth. Jalos (Jalostotiltán) is part of Los Altos and is the area
> included
> > > in
> > > > this myth.
> > > >
> > > > What are the names and dates of your ancestors from Jalos?
> > > >
> > > > Armando
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 8:06 AM, wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Interesting....with the family name I am researching Casillas Y
> > > Cabrera,
> > > > > the whole family keeps asking me where is the "French Connection",
> > > because
> > > > > our Grandfather and a few a unts were blond haired and blue-eyed
> from
> > > > > Jalostotitlan, and I keep telling them I have found nothing like
> that
> > > so
> > > > > far. No French connection, but any European country has folks who
> are
> > > also
> > > > > fair , with blond hair and blue eyes. My father's family who are
> > > entirely
> > > > > French, all the way back in our ancestry, are mostly dark haired
> and
> > > dark
> > > > > eyed, but he had one blond sister as well.
> > > > >
> > > > > Nancy Casillas
> > > > >
> > > > > Saint Clair, Michgian
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > From: "Armando"
> > > > > To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
> > > > > Sent: Wednesday, July 6, 2011 7:22:39 AM
> > > > > Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Briones-Colunga
> > > > >
> > > > > Hello Catherine,
> > > > >
> > > > > What used to be called Santa María de los Lagos is now called Lagos
> de
> > > > > Moreno in honor of the insurgent Pedro Moreno. He was one of the
> first
> > > > > people to fight for independence from Spain. It's shortened form is
> > > simply
> > > > > Lagos. A majority of my Mexican ancestors on my fathers side are
> from
> > > Lagos
> > > > > and I still have a lot of close relatives there. I have been doing
> a
> > > lot of
> > > > > research for the town so let me know if there is a family from
> Lagos
> > > you
> > > > > want info on. I might be able to help.
> > > > >
> > > > > As far the story of your ancestors being French it is probably from
> the
> > > > > myth
> > > > > of the lost legion of French soldiers from Napoleon's army during
> their
> > > > > occupation of Mexico causing the people of Los Altos to have blond
> > > hair,
> > > > > blue eyes, and white skin. This myth has become so widespread that
> > > people
> > > > > repeat it as if it were factual truth. The myth is so common it
> caused
> > > Dr.
> > > > > Mariano González Leal to write a chapter on disproving the myth in
> one
> > > of
> > > > > his Retoños de España en la Nueva Galicia.
> > > > >
> > > > > Since I have started researching heavily in the past couple of
> years I
> > > have
> > > > > learned many of the families that intermarried were from central
> and
> > > > > northern Spain such as Lope Ruiz de Esparza was from Navarra, the
> > > González
> > > > > de Hermosillo were from Burgos, Diego Romo de Vivar was likely from
> > > Vivar
> > > > > in
> > > > > Burgos, Diego de Villaseñor y Tovar was from Burgos, Bartolome
> Martín
> > > del
> > > > > Campo was from Revilla de Campos, Palencia, Castilla y León,
> Rubalcaba
> > > was
> > > > > probably from that town of the same name in in Liérganes,
> Cantabría,
> > > Azuela
> > > > > is a surname that originated in Burgos, Luebana is a Basque word
> and
> > > > > surname, and so on. Nueva Galicia could as well have been named
> Nueva
> > > > > Castilla. I descend from almost all of those families, as many of
> us
> > > do,
> > > > > and
> > > > > it would explain why my grandfather's brother, and many other
> people of
> > > Los
> > > > > Altos, had blue eyes and light skin. There weren't any French that
> > > created
> > > > > a
> > > > > significant descendancy to be able to attribute the northern
> European
> > > > > features to them. As far as our the European side, we are
> descendants
> > > of
> > > > > Spaniards. As is most likely the case with other Jaliscience's such
> as
> > > Saul
> > > > > "El Canelo" Alvarez, Guillermo del Toro, and Javier "El Chicharo"
> > > Hernández
> > > > > Gutiérrez (the father of Chicharito), .
> > > > >
> > > > > Saludos,
> > > > > Armando
> > > > >
> > > > > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:09 PM, wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Catherine Wood
> > > > > > Found my grandmothers bautismos, Hermelinda Colunga and her
> Padrinos
> > > > > were
> > > > > > Crecencio Colunga and Serapia Briones! Finally have confirmation
> from
> > > > > > Arturo's lead in earlier email...Thank you Arturo. I found her in
> San
> > > > > > Matias, Pinos, Zacatecas. The certificate says she was born in
> 1903,
> > > > > which
> > > > > > is far different than what the 1930 census shows for her age
> while
> > > > > living
> > > > > > in Santa Barbara, Chih., Now I can prove the following
> information:
> > > > > > 1. Vicente Colunga m. Guadelupe Rodriguez
> > > > > > 2. Juan Jose Colunga abt.1802 San Matias, Pinos m. 10 May 1826
> Maria
> > > > > > Dionicia Gallegos b. abt 1803,, daughter of Mariano Gallegos
> > > > > > and Maria Victoriana Gutierrez of Pinos 3. Jose Crecencio Colunga
> > > > > bpt
> > > > > > 23 Apr 1843 San Matias, Pinos m. Serapia Briones bpt 17 Nov 1844,
> > > > > daughter
> > > > > > of Gregorio Briones and
> > > > > > Maria Natividad Lugo (of Jose Leocadio Briones y Maria Josefa
> > > > > > Valentina Macias and of Guillermo Lugo y Maria Salas)
> > > > > > 4. Juan Briones Colunga bpt 2 Jan 1870 San Matias, Pinos m.
> Josefa
> > > > > > Hernandez-Calzada.
> > > > > > My mother and her cousins believe that one of these relatives was
> > > > > French.
> > > > > > Not sure which one as they all sound spanish to me. My great
> > > > > grandfather,,
> > > > > > Juan Briones Colunga was blond with blue eyes, but so are many
> > > spanish
> > > > > > people.They are not sure if it is one of these families or one on
> the
> > > > > > Hernandez-Calzada side (I have not researched much on that
> > > side....yet).
> > > > > > Back to searching images! Thanks again Nuestrosranchos! -- -- --
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Comentario

I've been researching Jerez, Zacatecas for abt 15 years now and have found only
2 marriage records where the men were from France and married local girls in the
1800's.  They stated they came with the French army but appeared to have taken
their Mexican wives somewhere else since I can't find children for them. My
grandparents also claimed French ancestry but there are none in my research. 
They did live in el Durasno, Jerez for 3 hundred years and when I went there the
majority of the rancho of 200 or so homes had green eyes.. just like my sister,
brother and me! I have to admit my grandfather and gr-grandfather had blue eyes
but their wives did not.
Genetics are a facinating thing!
Linda in B.C.

________________________________
From: Armando
To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
Sent: Thu, July 7, 2011 10:44:49 AM
Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Briones-Colunga

Hello Emilie,

Thanks for sharing your experience. It would take more than one ancestor for
your 2nd ggrandfather to have blue eyes. It's not just the Basque ancestor,
it's also the families he married into, which is why I had mentioned the
origins of many of the founding families of Los Altos, which many had been
in Zacatecas first or ended up there. There were many more that I don't even
know about or remember to mention.
There is a famous charro from Nochistlán, Zacatecas that is güero and has
blue eyes, I forget his name at the moment. I met another person from Jerez,
Zacatecas that has shown me photos of his grandfather with blue eyes. So,
there are people all over Zacatecas with blue eyes, or ancestors with blue
eyes. Unfortunately, for some people, their genealogy can't be traced until
we get a huge database of Y-DNA of 111 markers.
As far as the myth making it to Zacatecas, that is easily believable. It was
the easy answer for people in the past that didn't want to spend time
calculating the possibility, which would have shown it wasn't. The numbers,
dates, and locations don't match up. Apart from that genealogical research
back then was very difficult.

Saludos,
Armando

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Emilie Garcia
wrote:

>
> Armando -
>
> I guess the myth about the supposed French ancestry exists not only in
> Jalisco, but in Zacatecas as well.  When I went once to Mexico with my
> parents (in the 1960s) as we passed through a small village on our way to
> where my father was born (Jerez) we encountered many people in that small
> place who were dark-skinned but their eyes were strikingly blue.  I finally
> asked a gas station attendant why they had blue eyes, and he smiled shyly
> and said "the French were here".  I wanted to know more, but my father
> scolded me for asking such a rude (personal) question.  I wish I could
> remember the name of that town, but it was so long ago. My father himself
> said that his great-grandfather had blue eyes and was called "el Frances",
> but in records I found only "espanoles", no frances or other European.  He
> was descended from Basques who were with the Onate Party in the late 1500s
> who had settled in Pinos, Zacatecas.
>
> Emilie
> Port Orchard, WA
>
>
> > Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 08:34:38 -0500
> > From: fandemma@gmail.com
> > To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
> > Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Briones-Colunga
> >
> > Like I said, it is a most likely false story that stems from the myth of
> the
> > lost legion of French soldiers. It's only through these genealogical
> studies
> > that we'll get to the point where everyone fully understands it was only
> a
> > myth. Jalos (Jalostotiltán) is part of Los Altos and is the area included
> in
> > this myth.
> >
> > What are the names and dates of your ancestors from Jalos?
> >
> > Armando
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 8:06 AM, wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Interesting....with the family name I am researching Casillas Y
> Cabrera,
> > > the whole family keeps asking me where is the "French Connection",
> because
> > > our Grandfather and a few a unts were blond haired and blue-eyed from
> > > Jalostotitlan, and I keep telling them I have found nothing like that
> so
> > > far. No French connection, but any European country has folks who are
> also
> > > fair , with blond hair and blue eyes. My father's family who are
> entirely
> > > French, all the way back in our ancestry, are mostly dark haired and
> dark
> > > eyed, but he had one blond sister as well.
> > >
> > > Nancy Casillas
> > >
> > > Saint Clair, Michgian
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > >
> > >
> > > From: "Armando"
> > > To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
> > > Sent: Wednesday, July 6, 2011 7:22:39 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Briones-Colunga
> > >
> > > Hello Catherine,
> > >
> > > What used to be called Santa María de los Lagos is now called Lagos de
> > > Moreno in honor of the insurgent Pedro Moreno. He was one of the first
> > > people to fight for independence from Spain. It's shortened form is
> simply
> > > Lagos. A majority of my Mexican ancestors on my fathers side are from
> Lagos
> > > and I still have a lot of close relatives there. I have been doing a
> lot of
> > > research for the town so let me know if there is a family from Lagos
> you
> > > want info on. I might be able to help.
> > >
> > > As far the story of your ancestors being French it is probably from the
> > > myth
> > > of the lost legion of French soldiers from Napoleon's army during their
> > > occupation of Mexico causing the people of Los Altos to have blond
> hair,
> > > blue eyes, and white skin. This myth has become so widespread that
> people
> > > repeat it as if it were factual truth. The myth is so common it caused
> Dr.
> > > Mariano González Leal to write a chapter on disproving the myth in one
> of
> > > his Retoños de España en la Nueva Galicia.
> > >
> > > Since I have started researching heavily in the past couple of years I
> have
> > > learned many of the families that intermarried were from central and
> > > northern Spain such as Lope Ruiz de Esparza was from Navarra, the
> González
> > > de Hermosillo were from Burgos, Diego Romo de Vivar was likely from
> Vivar
> > > in
> > > Burgos, Diego de Villaseñor y Tovar was from Burgos, Bartolome Martín
> del
> > > Campo was from Revilla de Campos, Palencia, Castilla y León, Rubalcaba
> was
> > > probably from that town of the same name in in Liérganes, Cantabría,
> Azuela
> > > is a surname that originated in Burgos, Luebana is a Basque word and
> > > surname, and so on. Nueva Galicia could as well have been named Nueva
> > > Castilla. I descend from almost all of those families, as many of us
> do,
> > > and
> > > it would explain why my grandfather's brother, and many other people of
> Los
> > > Altos, had blue eyes and light skin. There weren't any French that
> created
> > > a
> > > significant descendancy to be able to attribute the northern European
> > > features to them. As far as our the European side, we are descendants
> of
> > > Spaniards. As is most likely the case with other Jaliscience's such as
> Saul
> > > "El Canelo" Alvarez, Guillermo del Toro, and Javier "El Chicharo"
> Hernández
> > > Gutiérrez (the father of Chicharito), .
> > >
> > > Saludos,
> > > Armando
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:09 PM, wrote:
> > >
> > > > Catherine Wood
> > > > Found my grandmothers bautismos, Hermelinda Colunga and her Padrinos
> > > were
> > > > Crecencio Colunga and Serapia Briones! Finally have confirmation from
> > > > Arturo's lead in earlier email...Thank you Arturo. I found her in San
> > > > Matias, Pinos, Zacatecas. The certificate says she was born in 1903,
> > > which
> > > > is far different than what the 1930 census shows for her age while
> > > living
> > > > in Santa Barbara, Chih., Now I can prove the following information:
> > > > 1. Vicente Colunga m. Guadelupe Rodriguez
> > > > 2. Juan Jose Colunga abt.1802 San Matias, Pinos m. 10 May 1826 Maria
> > > > Dionicia Gallegos b. abt 1803,, daughter of Mariano Gallegos
> > > > and Maria Victoriana Gutierrez of Pinos 3. Jose Crecencio Colunga
> > > bpt
> > > > 23 Apr 1843 San Matias, Pinos m. Serapia Briones bpt 17 Nov 1844,
> > > daughter
> > > > of Gregorio Briones and
> > > > Maria Natividad Lugo (of Jose Leocadio Briones y Maria Josefa
> > > > Valentina Macias and of Guillermo Lugo y Maria Salas)
> > > > 4. Juan Briones Colunga bpt 2 Jan 1870 San Matias, Pinos m. Josefa
> > > > Hernandez-Calzada.
> > > > My mother and her cousins believe that one of these relatives was
> > > French.
> > > > Not sure which one as they all sound spanish to me. My great
> > > grandfather,,
> > > > Juan Briones Colunga was blond with blue eyes, but so are many
> spanish
> > > > people.They are not sure if it is one of these families or one on the
> > > > Hernandez-Calzada side (I have not researched much on that
> side....yet).
> > > > Back to searching images! Thanks again Nuestrosranchos! -- -- -- --
> > > --
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Comentario

Erlinda,

It's another nail in the coffin of the French myth causing blue eyes in
Jalisco and Zacatecas. Some day it will be laid to rest forever. Thank you
for sharing.

Armando

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Erlinda Castanon-Long <
longsjourney@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I've been researching Jerez, Zacatecas for abt 15 years now and have found
> only
> 2 marriage records where the men were from France and married local girls
> in the
> 1800's. They stated they came with the French army but appeared to have
> taken
> their Mexican wives somewhere else since I can't find children for them. My
> grandparents also claimed French ancestry but there are none in my
> research.
> They did live in el Durasno, Jerez for 3 hundred years and when I went
> there the
> majority of the rancho of 200 or so homes had green eyes.. just like my
> sister,
> brother and me! I have to admit my grandfather and gr-grandfather had blue
> eyes
> but their wives did not.
> Genetics are a facinating thing!
> Linda in B.C.
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Armando
> To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
> Sent: Thu, July 7, 2011 10:44:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Briones-Colunga
>
> Hello Emilie,
>
> Thanks for sharing your experience. It would take more than one ancestor
> for
> your 2nd ggrandfather to have blue eyes. It's not just the Basque ancestor,
> it's also the families he married into, which is why I had mentioned the
> origins of many of the founding families of Los Altos, which many had been
> in Zacatecas first or ended up there. There were many more that I don't
> even
> know about or remember to mention.
> There is a famous charro from Nochistlán, Zacatecas that is güero and has
> blue eyes, I forget his name at the moment. I met another person from
> Jerez,
> Zacatecas that has shown me photos of his grandfather with blue eyes. So,
> there are people all over Zacatecas with blue eyes, or ancestors with blue
> eyes. Unfortunately, for some people, their genealogy can't be traced until
> we get a huge database of Y-DNA of 111 markers.
> As far as the myth making it to Zacatecas, that is easily believable. It
> was
> the easy answer for people in the past that didn't want to spend time
> calculating the possibility, which would have shown it wasn't. The numbers,
> dates, and locations don't match up. Apart from that genealogical research
> back then was very difficult.
>
> Saludos,
> Armando
>
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Emilie Garcia
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Armando -
> >
> > I guess the myth about the supposed French ancestry exists not only in
> > Jalisco, but in Zacatecas as well. When I went once to Mexico with my
> > parents (in the 1960s) as we passed through a small village on our way to
> > where my father was born (Jerez) we encountered many people in that small
> > place who were dark-skinned but their eyes were strikingly blue. I
> finally
> > asked a gas station attendant why they had blue eyes, and he smiled shyly
> > and said "the French were here". I wanted to know more, but my father
> > scolded me for asking such a rude (personal) question. I wish I could
> > remember the name of that town, but it was so long ago. My father himself
> > said that his great-grandfather had blue eyes and was called "el
> Frances",
> > but in records I found only "espanoles", no frances or other European.
> He
> > was descended from Basques who were with the Onate Party in the late
> 1500s
> > who had settled in Pinos, Zacatecas.
> >
> > Emilie
> > Port Orchard, WA
> >
> >
> > > Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 08:34:38 -0500
> > > From: fandemma@gmail.com
> > > To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
> > > Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Briones-Colunga
> > >
> > > Like I said, it is a most likely false story that stems from the myth
> of
> > the
> > > lost legion of French soldiers. It's only through these genealogical
> > studies
> > > that we'll get to the point where everyone fully understands it was
> only
> > a
> > > myth. Jalos (Jalostotiltán) is part of Los Altos and is the area
> included
> > in
> > > this myth.
> > >
> > > What are the names and dates of your ancestors from Jalos?
> > >
> > > Armando
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 8:06 AM, wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Interesting....with the family name I am researching Casillas Y
> > Cabrera,
> > > > the whole family keeps asking me where is the "French Connection",
> > because
> > > > our Grandfather and a few a unts were blond haired and blue-eyed from
> > > > Jalostotitlan, and I keep telling them I have found nothing like that
> > so
> > > > far. No French connection, but any European country has folks who are
> > also
> > > > fair , with blond hair and blue eyes. My father's family who are
> > entirely
> > > > French, all the way back in our ancestry, are mostly dark haired and
> > dark
> > > > eyed, but he had one blond sister as well.
> > > >
> > > > Nancy Casillas
> > > >
> > > > Saint Clair, Michgian
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > From: "Armando"
> > > > To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, July 6, 2011 7:22:39 AM
> > > > Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Briones-Colunga
> > > >
> > > > Hello Catherine,
> > > >
> > > > What used to be called Santa María de los Lagos is now called Lagos
> de
> > > > Moreno in honor of the insurgent Pedro Moreno. He was one of the
> first
> > > > people to fight for independence from Spain. It's shortened form is
> > simply
> > > > Lagos. A majority of my Mexican ancestors on my fathers side are from
> > Lagos
> > > > and I still have a lot of close relatives there. I have been doing a
> > lot of
> > > > research for the town so let me know if there is a family from Lagos
> > you
> > > > want info on. I might be able to help.
> > > >
> > > > As far the story of your ancestors being French it is probably from
> the
> > > > myth
> > > > of the lost legion of French soldiers from Napoleon's army during
> their
> > > > occupation of Mexico causing the people of Los Altos to have blond
> > hair,
> > > > blue eyes, and white skin. This myth has become so widespread that
> > people
> > > > repeat it as if it were factual truth. The myth is so common it
> caused
> > Dr.
> > > > Mariano González Leal to write a chapter on disproving the myth in
> one
> > of
> > > > his Retoños de España en la Nueva Galicia.
> > > >
> > > > Since I have started researching heavily in the past couple of years
> I
> > have
> > > > learned many of the families that intermarried were from central and
> > > > northern Spain such as Lope Ruiz de Esparza was from Navarra, the
> > González
> > > > de Hermosillo were from Burgos, Diego Romo de Vivar was likely from
> > Vivar
> > > > in
> > > > Burgos, Diego de Villaseñor y Tovar was from Burgos, Bartolome Martín
> > del
> > > > Campo was from Revilla de Campos, Palencia, Castilla y León,
> Rubalcaba
> > was
> > > > probably from that town of the same name in in Liérganes, Cantabría,
> > Azuela
> > > > is a surname that originated in Burgos, Luebana is a Basque word and
> > > > surname, and so on. Nueva Galicia could as well have been named Nueva
> > > > Castilla. I descend from almost all of those families, as many of us
> > do,
> > > > and
> > > > it would explain why my grandfather's brother, and many other people
> of
> > Los
> > > > Altos, had blue eyes and light skin. There weren't any French that
> > created
> > > > a
> > > > significant descendancy to be able to attribute the northern European
> > > > features to them. As far as our the European side, we are descendants
> > of
> > > > Spaniards. As is most likely the case with other Jaliscience's such
> as
> > Saul
> > > > "El Canelo" Alvarez, Guillermo del Toro, and Javier "El Chicharo"
> > Hernández
> > > > Gutiérrez (the father of Chicharito), .
> > > >
> > > > Saludos,
> > > > Armando
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:09 PM, wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Catherine Wood
> > > > > Found my grandmothers bautismos, Hermelinda Colunga and her
> Padrinos
> > > > were
> > > > > Crecencio Colunga and Serapia Briones! Finally have confirmation
> from
> > > > > Arturo's lead in earlier email...Thank you Arturo. I found her in
> San
> > > > > Matias, Pinos, Zacatecas. The certificate says she was born in
> 1903,
> > > > which
> > > > > is far different than what the 1930 census shows for her age while
> > > > living
> > > > > in Santa Barbara, Chih., Now I can prove the following information:
> > > > > 1. Vicente Colunga m. Guadelupe Rodriguez
> > > > > 2. Juan Jose Colunga abt.1802 San Matias, Pinos m. 10 May 1826
> Maria
> > > > > Dionicia Gallegos b. abt 1803,, daughter of Mariano Gallegos
> > > > > and Maria Victoriana Gutierrez of Pinos 3. Jose Crecencio Colunga
> > > > bpt
> > > > > 23 Apr 1843 San Matias, Pinos m. Serapia Briones bpt 17 Nov 1844,
> > > > daughter
> > > > > of Gregorio Briones and
> > > > > Maria Natividad Lugo (of Jose Leocadio Briones y Maria Josefa
> > > > > Valentina Macias and of Guillermo Lugo y Maria Salas)
> > > > > 4. Juan Briones Colunga bpt 2 Jan 1870 San Matias, Pinos m. Josefa
> > > > > Hernandez-Calzada.
> > > > > My mother and her cousins believe that one of these relatives was
> > > > French.
> > > > > Not sure which one as they all sound spanish to me. My great
> > > > grandfather,,
> > > > > Juan Briones Colunga was blond with blue eyes, but so are many
> > spanish
> > > > > people.They are not sure if it is one of these families or one on
> the
> > > > > Hernandez-Calzada side (I have not researched much on that
> > side....yet).
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I don't know if this is the same family but since Fresnillo is so close to Jerez and this Colunga family is from Guanajuato I thought I'd submit it to you.  My records are posted on Rootsweb.com so you may want to check there for anything that might be of interest to you on the Colunga family in my records.
 
good luck in your search, Linda in Everett Wa.
 

#845 baptism 29 July 1888 in Jerez
 Antonia Colunga born in Jerez 24 July 1888 6pm
parents: Carlos Colunga and Juana Avila
pat grn: Andres and Severiana Lopez
mat grn: Barbaro and Agapita Caldera
pad: Cenovio Gonsales and Francisca Saldivar
source: 0439862 Jerez baptism
 

  MARIA DE LAS NIEVEZ FRANCISCA COLUNGA LOPEZ Pedigree
  Female
  Christening:  06 AUG 1862   Santa Fe, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
  Father:  ANDRES COLUNGA  Family
  Mother:  SEVERIANA LOPEZ    
  Source Information:
  Batch No.:  Dates:  Source Call No.:  Type:  Printout Call No.:  Type: 
  K608057  1862 - 1864  0668852   Film  NONE   
 

--- On Thu, 1/8/09, cwood1411 wrote:

From: cwood1411
Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] Calzada/Briones/Colunga in Fresnillo, Zacatecas
To: research@lists.nuestrosranchos.org
Date: Thursday, January 8, 2009, 2:48 AM

Hello Everyone,
Just registerd for the site and have spent a couple of days reviewing the
lists. So excited about the possibility of finding my mothers family! Have spent
many years researching my father's side, but didn't have much (and still
don't) on my mom's side. So here goes:

Looking for the Calzada-Briones-Colunga family possibly in Fresnillo. They
seemed to have moved quite a bit, but found the 1930 Mexico census that listed
my grandmother and her parents in Santa Barbara, CHI, MX. The census listed my
great grandparents as having been born in Zacatecas, no city listed. Just
yesterday, I learned that they may have been from or lived in Fresnillo,
Zacatecas, as this was the birth place of one of their children but not
necessarily the city where my great grand parents were born, but it's a
starting point! My mother's memory is not so good but this is the info I
have so far and hoping to make a connection:

Juan Briones-Colunga b. abt 1884 Zacatecas
m. Josefa Calzada b. abt 1887 Zacatecas
ch: 1. Filiberto/Alberto Colunga b. 1900 Fresnillo, Zacatecas d. 1989, buried
Parral Cemetery, CHI, MX
m. Isiidra (Ciri) L. Terrazas
ch: Abigail, Savina, Genaro, Benedicto, Hiliberto, Concepcion, Ester
2. Federico Colunga b. abt 1910 CHI
m. Justina Unknown
3. Refugia Colunga b. est 1913 4. Miguel Colunga b. abt 1912
5. Luis Colunga b. abt 1914
6. Erlinda/Hermelinda Colunga b. abt 1916 (my grandmother) d. abt 1940/41
m. Samuel Reyes-Marquez
ch: 2 daughters
7. Rebeca Colunga b. abt 1918
m. Jesus Menarrez
8. Ambrosio Colunga b. abt 1923 d. abt 1941/42
9. Salvador 'Chava' Colunga b. abt 1926

> From memory, my mother and her cousin say that an Enrique Colunga was
either a son of Juan or a brother of Juan Colunga. Enrique was a governor of
Guanajuato, very short term. Family lore says that Juan and son, Filiberto, rode
with Pancho Villa and Filiberto was buried in the same cemetery as Pancho Villa.

Juan Colunga and sons were wealthy entreprenuers holding occupations as
'Zapatero's', (shoemakers?) and they owned shoe stores. I have one
family picture of my great grandparents and some of their children.

My grandparents, Hermelinda and Samuel were divorced with two daughters. Samuel
Marquez removed to El Paso, TX. Hermelinda died about one year after my mother
was born and the two sisters were separated. They have only met once since then
(1979). Last known, my Aunt was in Mexico City, but attempts to reach her have
been unsuccesful. My grandfather made several attempts to regain custody of his
two daughters, but the maternal uncles would run him out of town at each
attempt. My grandfather was finally able to get my mother (long story about how
this was done) when she was 15 and brought her to the US. He was not able to
find her sister.

Any help on this family would be greatly appreciated.
Cathy

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Many people with the last name Briones are found in the Zacatecas, San Luis Potosi, and Jalisco. My Briones line originates in San Luis Potosi.> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:49:13 -0800> From: longsjourney@yahoo.com> To: research@nuestrosranchos.org> Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Calzada/Briones/Colunga in Fresnillo, Zacatecas> > > I don't know if this is the same family but since Fresnillo is so close to Jerez and this Colunga family is from Guanajuato I thought I'd submit it to you. My records are posted on Rootsweb.com so you may want to check there for anything that might be of interest to you on the Colunga family in my records.> > good luck in your search, Linda in Everett Wa.> > > #845 baptism 29 July 1888 in Jerez> Antonia Colunga born in Jerez 24 July 1888 6pm> parents: Carlos Colunga and Juana Avila> pat grn: Andres and Severiana Lopez> mat grn: Barbaro and Agapita Caldera> pad: Cenovio Gonsales and Francisca Saldivar> source: 0439862 Jerez baptism> > > MARIA DE LAS NIEVEZ FRANCISCA COLUNGA LOPEZ Pedigree > Female > Christening: 06 AUG 1862 Santa Fe, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico > Father: ANDRES COLUNGA Family > Mother: SEVERIANA LOPEZ > Source Information: > Batch No.: Dates: Source Call No.: Type: Printout Call No.: Type: > K608057 1862 - 1864 0668852 Film NONE > > > > --- On Thu, 1/8/09, cwood1411 wrote:> > From: cwood1411 > Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] Calzada/Briones/Colunga in Fresnillo, Zacatecas> To: research@lists.nuestrosranchos.org> Date: Thursday, January 8, 2009, 2:48 AM> > Hello Everyone,> Just registerd for the site and have spent a couple of days reviewing the> lists. So excited about the possibility of finding my mothers family! Have spent> many years researching my father's side, but didn't have much (and still> don't) on my mom's side. So here goes:> > Looking for the Calzada-Briones-Colunga family possibly in Fresnillo. They> seemed to have moved quite a bit, but found the 1930 Mexico census that listed> my grandmother and her parents in Santa Barbara, CHI, MX. The census listed my> great grandparents as having been born in Zacatecas, no city listed. Just> yesterday, I learned that they may have been from or lived in Fresnillo,> Zacatecas, as this was the birth place of one of their children but not> necessarily the city where my great grand parents were born, but it's a> starting point! My mother's memory is not so good but this is the info I> have so far and hoping to make a connection:> > Juan Briones-Colunga b. abt 1884 Zacatecas> m. Josefa Calzada b. abt 1887 Zacatecas> ch: 1. Filiberto/Alberto Colunga b. 1900 Fresnillo, Zacatecas d. 1989, buried> Parral Cemetery, CHI, MX> m. Isiidra (Ciri) L. Terrazas> ch: Abigail, Savina, Genaro, Benedicto, Hiliberto, Concepcion, Ester> 2. Federico Colunga b. abt 1910 CHI> m. Justina Unknown> 3. Refugia Colunga b. est 1913 4. Miguel Colunga b. abt 1912> 5. Luis Colunga b. abt 1914> 6. Erlinda/Hermelinda Colunga b. abt 1916 (my grandmother) d. abt 1940/41> m. Samuel Reyes-Marquez> ch: 2 daughters> 7. Rebeca Colunga b. abt 1918> m. Jesus Menarrez> 8. Ambrosio Colunga b. abt 1923 d. abt 1941/42> 9. Salvador 'Chava' Colunga b. abt 1926> > > From memory, my mother and her cousin say that an Enrique Colunga was> either a son of Juan or a brother of Juan Colunga. Enrique was a governor of> Guanajuato, very short term. Family lore says that Juan and son, Filiberto, rode> with Pancho Villa and Filiberto was buried in the same cemetery as Pancho Villa.> > Juan Colunga and sons were wealthy entreprenuers holding occupations as> 'Zapatero's', (shoemakers?) and they owned shoe stores. I have one> family picture of my great grandparents and some of their children.> > My grandparents, Hermelinda and Samuel were divorced with two daughters. Samuel> Marquez removed to El Paso, TX. Hermelinda died about one year after my mother> was born and the two sisters were separated. They have only met once since then> (1979). Last known, my Aunt was in Mexico City, but attempts to reach her have> been unsuccesful. My grandfather made several attempts to regain custody of his> two daughters, but the maternal uncles would run him out of town at each> attempt. My grandfather was finally able to get my mother (long story about how> this was done) when she was 15 and brought her to the US. He was not able to> find her sister.> > Any help on this family would be greatly appreciated.> Cathy> > > > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --> Nuestros Ranchos Research Mailing List> > To post, send email to:> research(at)nuestrosranchos.org> > To change your subscription, log on to:> http://www.nuestrosranchos.org&gt; > > > > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --> Nuestros Ranchos Research Mailing List> > To post, send email to:> research(at)nuestrosranchos.org> > To change your subscription, log on to:> http://www.nuestrosranchos.org
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This response is somewhat late (6 years) but I just noticed it. Anyway, I wanted to comment on the record that Linda presented in response to your query. The padrinos are Cenobio Gonzalez and Francisca Saldivar, who are my paternal great-grandparents. Cenobio was also listed in a record (maybe this one?) as a zapatero. Lastly, my grandmother, their daughter, has a corrected baptismal record because rather than listing her in the margin with her proper surname Gonzalez, it was written as Calzada. isn't that interesting? The families were probably well acquainted. Sincerely, Marge Vallazza

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Cathy:

I believe this is your great-grandfather... the name is so unique, it would be difficult for this to be a coincidence. The estimated birthdates that you have for them appear to be a little too late. It is improbable (but not impossible) that they had a child when the father was 16 and the mother 13... then again the mother was having children until 1926 so she could not have been born before 1880 or so...

JUAN BRIONES COLUNGA
Male
Christening: 20 JUN 1862 Cienega De Mata, Ojuelos, Jalisco, Mexico
Parents:
Father: MANUEL BRIONES Family
Mother: TOMAZA COLUNGA
Source Information:
Batch No.: C607048
Dates: 1853 - 1862
Source Call No.:0640159 Film

This is a possible hit for your great-grandmother though the name is very common and the birthdate appears to be far too early... There are really no CALZADA in Ojuelos, Jalisco.

JOSEFA CALZADA NERI
Female
Christening: 20 MAR 1873 Fresnillo De Gonzalez Echeverria, Zacatecas, Mexico
Parents:
Father: PABLO CALZADA Family
Mother: PONCIANA NERI
Source Information
Batch No.:K600823 Film 0439822

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Thanks for the info, it very well could be them. I guestimated the year of birth based on the 1930 Mexico census in Santa Barbara and the place of birth for both was Zacatecas... And as we all know the census info can be incorrect in some cases. This is a good lead for me to follow. Thank you again for responding.

Catherine Wood

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Welcome to the group Cathy.

Quick question for you. In reference to Juan Briones-Colunga. Is his surname
Briones or Colunga? At first glance I assumed that Briones was his father's
surname and Colunga was his mothers surname, which is pretty standard in
hispanic names. However, your family seems to have carried on with the
Colunga name instead.

-Angelina-

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Hello Angelia,

Thank you for responding. I always wondered about the surnames and which one was the fathers vs. mothers surnames. I didn't know that it was standard to list the fathers name first and mothers surname second. I always assumed Briones was his mothers name and Colunga the father's surname. This is an interesting discovery. Thank you. Now a question or two for you if you would be so kind:

Josefa Calzada Colunga....would her mother's name be Calzada or fathers surname? And do you know what the history is behind the hyphenated names?

Catherine Wood

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Hi Cathy,

I would say that in the case of Josefa Calzada Colunga, Calzada is the
father's surname and Colunga is the mother's surname (father first, mother
last). However, I have to admit that names are tricky. If you are lucky to
go back far enough in your research you will find that beyond a certain
point there was no "standard" for surnames, it was not uncommon for full
siblings to use different surnames,that of a grandparent instead of either
parent's name.

As far as hyphenated names ... Maybe someone else in the group knows about
them.

Good luck,
-Angelina-

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Welcome to the group Cathy! Hi, im Daniel Camino, aka Daniel Méndez...Angelina is correct there was no rule for surnames I have a family much earlier that of 7 siblings, that all but three used different last names. this could be for many reasons, one to honor a ancestor or grandparent, like Lorenza Ruiz de Esparza eventhough her father was Tiscareño de Molina she took on her mother's name and really let go her father's. I think it was her daughter who was also Lorenza Ruiz de Esparza III, (someone correct me). nother reason was "family importance" I've learned that some were more "prominant than others" dont know why or how. I do know that the Ruiz de Velasco were one of them (in Ayo El Chico who were relatives of the Viceroy Velasco, not sure how but assuming a 2nd cousin or so. I have gone back to 1580 or so back to Mexico City. Pedro Ruiz de Velasco y Haro married Ana Núñez y Bohórrquez and had Pedro Ruiz de Velasco born in 1618 in D.F. They eventually moved to Los Altos where the other children were born. I did find a Pedro Ruiz de Velasco in Valladolid Spain married 1605 so around the same time frame but his wife is Ana Valadés so prob not them but its still worth ordering and see if it is them or not. Anyway...Ruiz de Velasco any time a daughter of this family all the way up to 1720 or so the children of her would always take her name and not the fathers except when the name of son pertains to the man
s side of the family, so you can have a REALLY long maternal name of Velascos! I get my Ruiz de Velasco
with my gg grandmother María Jesús Ruiz de Velasco born 1883 in Calvillo, Ags. Compound surnames or what you said hypenated (usually there was no hyphen, they just added that on family search to note that the surname goes together, we as Hispanics know that the surname goes together so I disregard the hyphen. This compound surname came about when two (possibly rival families) as I see it "went at it" boom boom is what I refer it to couldnt decide which surname to use or one side mother or father would not let their side of the house be forgotten and wanted their last name to continue. This is different than the rest of Europe, I think this is more common for Spaniards and Portguese. An example would be my Ornellas y Hurtado de Mendoza or the rival branch the Gómez de Mendoza, Álvaro do Ornellas, portuguese married Isabel Hurtado de Mendoza II her grandchildren used Ornellas Mendoza (same thing as Ornellas y Hurtado de Mendoza just shorter). I noticed this when I found Benito de Serrano married to
Juana Alvina Ornellas y Mendoza I had no idea what the last name would lead to this was when I was still a beginner! ANYWAY what would happen at the end the two sides of the family would find a away to combine both last names (it had to sound good, I think, it is a joke that Ive been told) and combine to make a new name! I hope this helps! -Daniel Méndez del Camino
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Records of Tenamaxtlan prior to 1757

Has anybody researched in the area around Tenamaxtlan, Jalisco?

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I have been searching through the Sanchez family in Ayutla and Tenamaxtlan as well and had gotten back to the 4th ggrandfather: Pablo Luis Maria who was married to Agustina Macedo Rodriguez, which are familiar names in that area. However, then I found a slew of documents showing that Pablo, who mostly went by Luis or Luis Maria, also used the name Bernal. I have found several children for this couple and some used Bernal and others used Sanchez. Any thoughts?

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I'm sorry, I just started research on this family so I haven't gone that far. So you mention that Pablo Luis Maria Sanchez is 4th greatgrandfather to whom? Nicolas Sanchez, or Manuel Sanchez?

Saludos.

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I've gone through pretty much all of the Tenamaxtlan records and certainly share your frustration. I've found many in Tecolotlan and Ameca. Also Autlan, Ameca, and Moscota. I have a few minor sources that might be helpful; although you probably already have them.

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1971-29506-14076-32?cc=1937239…

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-18455-52836-24?cc=1874591&wc…

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-18457-89183-51?cc=1874591&wc…

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Thanks for your reply Mr. Corona Arechiga. I'll follow your advice and search in those parishes once I get stuck in Tenamaxtlan. I was lucky to find this marriage record in Guadalajara and it clearly shows that at least the groom was from Tenamaxtlan. Thanks for the links. I did not have the second, and I appreciate it. On the third link, I was not able to find a familiar name in any of the entries, which one do you think is related to this couple?

For the first film, I did have that dispensa. I was able to find it thanks to one of the two dispensation indexes provided by two of our members. However, I notice that the film number for this is 168107 : https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-18411-66140-84?cc=1874591&wc…

The link you provide belongs to another film, but it is exactly the same record! It looks like these dispensation records were microfilmed twice?

By the way, do you have the Macedo Sanchez family in your own family tree?

Saludos.

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Hello,
I apologize for giving you the wrong link on the baptism for the grandchild of Juan Baptista Macedo which was actually on the following page:
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-18457-88909-95?cc=1874591

I found entries for other children of you ancestors: Manuel Sanchez and Maria Ocarranza in Autlan. It seems many of the records for Guachinango have never been indexed.

I do have this family in my tree, but none are direct descendants.
Deedra Corona

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Indeed, the Guachinango films have not been indexed and I've had to do most of my research in this parish the old fashioned way, page by page, reading every single entry. Fortunately I've been lucky to find some fellow genealogists who have provided me with some links to specific records and suggestions.

Thanks for the tip on Manuel Sanchez and Maria Ocarranza.

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Steve! We aren't only related through Curiel, apparently we are related through Sanchez as well. I've been trying to find information on Andres Sanchez (son of J. Manuel Sanchez and Maria de Ocarranza). That's who I descend from. I've found Maria Jacinta Sanchez (from Tenamaxtlan), daughter of J. Manuel Sanchez and Maria de Ocarranza, married in Autlan on 27 April 1758 to Clemente Phelip Quintero (from Ameca). They settled (and had children) in Tecolotlan.
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-18522-1667-37?treeref=MY4K-4…

I found information on the children of J Antonio Sanchez (son of J. Manuel Sanchez and Mairia de Ocarranza) and Gregoria Aguilar born in Ameca
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NVTT-SJ5?treeref=MY4R-Y4M%3Bhtt…

For Andres (son of Manuel Sanchez and Maria Ocarranza) I haven't found his baptism cert nor his marriage cert (but I'm guessing he was born around 1750, give or take 5 years). He married Feliciana Banuelos and had a daughter in Jerez, Zacatecas:
Maria de San Juan Sanches JUl 17, 1783
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939N-LV9S-ZK?cc=1804458&wc=MC78…

and the rest of his children were born from 1788-1804 in Ameca, Jalisco. I'm only missing the information for my great-grandfather Jose de la Luz Sanchez (Sanchis on some documents). I found his marriage cert:
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-18568-36893-99?cc=1874591&wc….

There's a Juan Maria (son of Manuel Sanches de Mendoza and Maria Ocarransa) that married Rosa Ortis de Tapia on 16 Feb 1744 in Autlan... but I'm not sure if this is still the same family. I'm guessing Andres was one of the youngest children and Juan Maria one of the oldest.

Now I can add Nicolas Sanchez as a sibling of Andres Sanchez. Slowly but surely the pieces
to the puzzle fall into place thanks to everyone's contributions.

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Well, I just found this marriage record:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-18380-16775-28?cc=1874591&wc…

It seems that this couple was married in Guadalajara on January 28, 1750. Nicolas parents were Manuel Sanches y Ma. de Ocarraza(?). Manuela's parents were Antonio de Espinosa and Josepha Dias.

If any of these names sound familiar to someone, let me know.

Steve in NC

Sons of Francisco Gutierrez Rubio (II, El Viejo) en Jalostotitlan, Jal

According to Marianos Gonzalez Leal "Retoños de España en la Nueva Galicia Tomo II", in the diagram Esquema Numero I, Francisco Gutierrez Rubio (II, El Viejo) and Ana Gonzalea-Florida (I) had three

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Dear Sergio et al,

First of all, congratulations Sergio for all the great work you are doing with the series of books on your family, Jalostotitlán, and Los Altos. I enjoy them and find them very illuminating. ¡Felicidades y gracias!

Thanks to your publication of the Padrones de Jalostotitlán (1649 & 1650) you inadvertently led to the answer to your two primary questions based on your doubting of a quote by Mariano González Leal. Don Mariano was in error...he got his facts wrong in that prologue and correct in Retoños de España en la Nueva Galicia. He must have been writing the prologue off the top of his head and dropped the ball.

Your first question was if someone had verified that Francisco Gutiérrez-Rubio “El Mozo” actually married Francisca Hurtado de Mendoza? And second question…If Francisco Gutiérrez-Rubio “El Mozo” actually married Leonor de Hermosillo, then who did Capitan Miguel Gutiérrez-Rubio marry?

Amongst modern Alteño genealogists, I believe Jaime Holcombe-Isunza was one of the first to verify that Francisco Gutiérrez-Rubio “El Mozo” actually married Francisca Hurtado de Mendoza. Even if he was not the first, certainly his vast body of work, which was integrated into the Mormon database since the 1970s, has contributed to EVERYBODY’s basic understanding of Alteño genealogy...errors and all. We all owe it to Jaime Holcombe because his family group sheets were microfilmed and inputted into the International Genealogical Index (IGI) during the late 1980s onto CDs. I still remember using those old CD-ROM case things. These CDs and the IGI database were then made accessible online when FamilySearch.org came of age in the 1990s.

Jaime Holcombe cites the Padrones (Censuses) of Jalostotitlán many times in his family group sheets. In particular are the very detailed and highly useful Padrones de 1649 and 1650. In these two padrones lies the answer to your questions.

Sergio, if you may permit me to briefly quote from one of your books, I can show you…but I’m sure you have figured it out over the five years since. The 1649 padrón mentions Francisco Gutiérrez-Rubio II is married to Francisca (Hurtado) de Mendoza. On page 24…
[El padrón de Jalostotitlán 1649 - Página 24]

Casa y estancia de Francisco Gutiérrez español, que está de la cabecera 2 leguas
* Francisco Gutiérrez ††
* Francisca de Mendoza, española su mujer ††
* Diego Gutiérrez, su hijo solt. de 18 años ††
* Juan Gutiérrez, español ††
* Ana Camacho, española su mujer ††
* Teresa, su hija de 3 años
* Francisco Gutiérrez, español ††
* Catalina Mejía, su mujer ††
* Sebastián Gutiérrez, español de 24 años, †† hijo de padres no conocidos
* Josefa Gutiérrez, española solt. 14 años, †† hija de padres no conocidos
* Ana Gutiérrez, mestiza solt. 18 años, †† hija de padres no conocidos
* Marcos Ortiz, español de 4 años, hijo de padres no conocidos
[...et cetera...]

[Fuente: Sergio Gutiérrez, "Jalostotitlán - Padrones Parroquiales Volumen 1: 1649, 1650 y 1670", (2014)]

By the next year however, Francisco Gutiérrez-Rubio II is a widower. That was fast! In 1649 he is married to Francisca de Mendoza and in 1650 he is a widower. Francisca de Mendoza died in the interim year between 1649 and 1650. The exact same family as above in 1650, on page 70…

[El padrón de Jalostotitlán 1650 - Página 70]

Casa y estancia de Francisco Gutiérrez, que está de la cabecera 2 leguas
* Francisco Gutiérrez viudo †† español
* Diego Gutiérrez su hijo de 22 años ††
* Juan Gutiérrez español ††
* Ana Camacho española su mujer ††
* Teresa su hija de 5 años
* Francisco Gutiérrez español ††
* Catalina Mejía su mujer ††
* Luisa su hija de 3 años
* Sebastián Gutiérrez español de 25 años †† de padres no conocidos
* Ana Gutiérrez mestiza solt. hija de padres no conocidos †† 15 años
* Marcos español de padres no conocidos 6 años
[...et cetera...]

[Fuente: Sergio Gutiérrez, "Jalostotitlán - Padrones Parroquiales Volumen 1: 1649, 1650 y 1670", (2014)]
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Although neither the 1649 nor the 1650 mentions Miguel Gutiérrez-Rubio, brother of Francisco II, by name…it does mention his widowed wife, Leonor de Hermosillo. So it is logical to conclude that Miguel Gutiérrez-Rubio was deceased before 1649. In the 1649 padrón, pg. 26…

[El padrón de Jalostotitlán 1649 - Página 26]

"Casa y estancia de Leonor de Hermosillo española viuda, que está de la cabecera 3 leguas
* Leonor de Hermosillo, española viuda ††
* El Bachiller Lázaro Gutiérrez, su hijo presbítero ††
* Juan de Aceves, español solt. de 20 años ††
* Catalina Mejía, española de 15 años †† hijos de Juan de Aceves y de Beatriz de Hermosillo españoles difuntos.
* Leonor de Hermosillo, española de 7 años † hija de padres no conocidos "
[...et cetera...]

[Fuente: Sergio Gutiérrez, "Jalostotitlán - Padrones Parroquiales Volumen 1: 1649, 1650 y 1670", (2014)]

Same family, same story one year later. In the 1650 padrón, pg. 72…

[El padrón de Jalostotitlán 1650 - Página 72]

"Casa y estancia de Leonor de Hermosillo española viuda, que está de la cabecera 3 leguas
* Leonor de Hermosillo viuda ††
* Bachiller Lázaro Gutiérrez presbítero ††
* Juan de Aceves español solt. de 22 años ††
* Catalina Mejía española de 17 años ††
* Leonor de Hermosillo española de 9 años † [hija de padres no conocidos]"
[...et cetera...]

[Fuente: Sergio Gutiérrez, "Jalostotitlán - Padrones Parroquiales Volumen 1: 1649, 1650 y 1670", (2014)]

So there you go. What I would like to know now is who are all these españoles “hijos de padres no conocidos” with the last name Gutiérrez living in their family households??? Are these Gutiérrez “orphans” grandchildren of Francisco Gutiérrez-Rubio I and Ana González-Florida I??? Do any of you know who was having all these “hijos de padres no conocidos”??? [Ya mero no conocían quienes eran los padres de estos niños.]

My research has shown me that there were several cases of children born out of wedlock, more than we could imagine. “Hijos naturales”, both identified as Españoles and Mestizos, seem to be prevalent in several of the foundational families…González de Hermosillo, Ornelas, Gutiérrez Rubio, Casillas, Mendoza, etc. For some of these wealthy Spanish land-owners, there must have been ample temptation and opportunity amongst the native, servant, and slave population to sire bastard offspring. I am currently studying one of these illegitimate lines…a combination of González de Hermosillo and Gutiérrez Rubio which eventually became simply Gutiérrez.

And seriously, all of you guys need to buy Sergio Gutiérrez’s books. Can I plug your books? I guess I just did. They are priceless!!!

Hasta pronto a todos mis primos.

SFHL

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HOLA SERGIO.
 
 CREO QUE ESTAS CONFUNDIDO EL FRANCISCO QUE TU HABLAS ES HIJO DE EL CAPITAN MIGUEL GUTIERRES HERMANO DE EL CAPITAN FRANCISCO GUTIERREZ EL MOZO.
 
POR LO TANTO ES NIETO DE FRANCISCO GUTIERRES EL VIEJO Y ANA GONZALEZ FLORIDA.
 
SON TRES FRANCISCOS:
 
FRANCISCO EL VIEJO SU HIJO FRANCISCO EL CAPITAN (HERMANO DE MIGUEL) CASADO CON FRANCISCA HURTADO DE MENDOZAY FRANCISCO GUTIERREZ CASADO CON JUANA LOMELI.(HIJO DE EL CAPITAN MIGUEL GUTIERREZ Y LEONOR DE HERMOSILLO).
 
LUIS MIGUEL GONZALEZ JIMENEZ

http://www.nuestrosranchos.org

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Gracias Luis,

Pero sigo confundido, Mariano Gonzalez Leal dice en un libro (Los Duran de Nochistlan) que Francisco Gtz de Hermosillo (esposo de Juana de Lomelin) fue hijo del Capitan Francisco Gtz Rubio (El Mozo) y Leonor de Hermosillo. Y en el libro de Retoños, Mariano dice que el Capitan Francisco Gtz Rubio (EL Mozo) fue casado Francisca Hurtado de Mendoza.

Será que hay un error en el libro Los Duran de Nochistlan. Luis en que basas tu informacion que el esposo de Juana de Lomelin es hijo de Miguel Gutierrez Rubio y no de Francisco Gtz Rubio (EL Mozo)?

Se que Francisco Gtz de Hermosillo y Juana de Lomelin murieron en la hacienda del Salto en Tepatitlan. Por casualidad no tienes la acta de defuncion de ellos? Esa acta puede darnos la informacion para conectar a Fco Gtz de Hermosillo y Miguel Gtz Rubio.

Sergio Gtz

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HOLA SERGIO,
 
YO CREO QUE HAY UN ERROR EN ALGUNO DE LOS LIBROS, LA INFORMACION QUE YO TENGO VIENE DE FAMILY SEACH EN BATCH NUMBERS:
 
NACIMIENTO DE FRANCISCO 1610 HIJO DE MIGUEL Y LEONOR:8680206
 
MATRIMONIO DE FRANCISCO Y JUANA NOCHISTLAN ZAC. SOBRE 1651 F868025
 
AHORA QUE TAMBIEN HAY UN HIJO DE EL CAPITAN FRANCISCO LLAMADO TAMBIEN FRANCISCO CASADO CON CATALINA MEJIA,
 
UNO DE LOS LIBROS ESTA MAL O EL FAMILY SEARCH,
ESPERO ESTO TE SIRVA,
 
SALUDOS;
 
LUIS MIGUEL GONZALEZ JIMENEZ

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Mandé pedir el rollo de defunciones de Tepatitlan donde está registrado la muerte de Francisco Gutierrez der Hermosillo en 1691 o 1962. Ojala que ahí salgan los padres de él para confirmar si su padre fue Miguel o Francisco Gtz Rubio.

Adiós,

Sergio Gutiérrez.

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Habia dos Francisco Gutierrez Rubio, eran de la misma epoca. El primero nacio en 1595hijo de Francisco Gutierrez de la Vega y Ana Gonzalez Florida. Este tuvo al Francisco GutierrezRubio que caso a Catalina de Mejia en 1646. El segundo Francisco Gutierrez Rubio erahijo del Capitan Miguel Gutierrez Rubio y Leonor Munoz de Hermosillo. Quien caso a Juanade Lomelin. Entre sus relaciones el primer Francisco es tio y el otro es sobrino. Losdos llamado Francisco Gutierrez Rubio.
Daniel
Ningun fuente esta incorrecto.

> Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 09:23:30 -0800
> From: gonzalez4336@bellsouth.net
> To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
> Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Sons of Francisco
>
> HOLA SERGIO,
>
> YO CREO QUE HAY UN ERROR EN ALGUNO DE LOS LIBROS, LA INFORMACION QUE YO TENGO VIENE DE FAMILY SEACH EN BATCH NUMBERS:tro
>
> NACIMIENTO DE FRANCISCO 1610 HIJO DE MIGUEL Y LEONOR:8680206
>
> MATRIMONIO DE FRANCISCO Y JUANA NOCHISTLAN ZAC. SOBRE 1651 F868025
>
> AHORA QUE TAMBIEN HAY UN HIJO DE EL CAPITAN FRANCISCO LLAMADO TAMBIEN FRANCISCO CASADO CON CATALINA MEJIA,
>
> UNO DE LOS LIBROS ESTA MAL O EL FAMILY SEARCH,
> ESPERO ESTO TE SIRVA,
>
> SALUDOS;
>
> LUIS MIGUEL GONZALEZ JIMENEZ

Felipe Diaz de Santiago escribano publico Tlaltenango y Jerez 1640-1650

Alguien ha tenido exito buscando los testamentos de Tlaltenango de la epoca de 1640-1650 de Tlaltenango?

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Can anyone decipher defunto record of Juan Madera Year 1730?

This is the original copy of document of defunto record of Juan Madera year 1730:

http://oi61.tinypic.com/2wp6udx.jpg

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Sorry I wasn't around and didn't have a chance to read this earlier, well as you may notice this is a marriage record, is quite difficult to read and I am not certain of the names and last names but to the best of my guest I could read that in "San Andres del Astillero de Escobedo" Don Juan de la Madera Married (and a widow already) Doña Gertrudis de Medina, he the son of D. Antonio Madera and María de la Candelaria, she daughter of D. ? Medina (couldn't' read the name but it looks like a "J" at the beginning) and D. Juana de Villalobos. the bottom part looks like the usual wording for marriages and the last sentences are likely cut off where the godparents probably were noted.

In the following I leave a double question mark for full word(s) and a single where I am not sure of the word.

En el año del S. de mill setesientos y treinta en esta Parochia de S. A-
ndres del Astillero de Escobedo yo Melchor Errera?: Habiendo precedido
las diligencias que manda el Sto. Concilio de Trento: amonestados y ?? y
velados ?? ?? ?? resultado ante mi despose
?? ?? a Dn. Juan de la Madera? español viudo por muerte
... Roble orig-o. de Guacaxco? y residente? de minillas de la jurisdiccion de A
... ligitimo? de Antonio Madera y de Maria de la Candelaria, españoles
difuntos, Ca?? a Da. Gertrudis de Medina? española Doncella de
taconastle? del ?? ?? y vna. desde pequeña de Sta. ??
ta feligsa. h.l. de Dn. J?? Medina? y de Da. Juana Villalobos

Hope it helps a little.

an interesting page i came accross

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Hi Katy,

In the past, this has not been the right forum for a post of this kind. However, it is important to somehow share these posts among genealogists that are truly looking for the truth about their ancestors. I believe that I have discovered the parents of Toribio Hernandez Arellano and am working on finding more data to defend this find. If I am correct, then the idea that the French and Jewish ancestral fallacy that many of us heard growing up was not a fallacy after all as Toribio's paternal ancestral line descended from a Jew that I find living in Avignon France in the 1300's. I also have other lines through his mother coming from France but they are not jewish.

Bona Astruga,
Thanks for your post,
Rick A Ricci

PS. The Bona Astruga was the name of an ancestor that was living with her husband in Avignon. It means Good Fortune (http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/juetta/navarra.html)

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yeah i wasn't sure which category to put this in but what caught my eye the most was the lopez luna part of his grandma's last name. i wonder if he's a descendent of bartolome lopez de luna in tlaltenango. if so, maybe that line is jewish also

my research

I would like to share my research and records and hopefully someone in the group can help fill in the holes where I only have on spouse named in a dispensation.

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Linda,

I've done research on your site hundreds of times. We have tons of mutual anestors and I can

help you find your single parents's mates.

Joseph de Leon

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Katy thank you.. I am a bit confused though. Is Thomasa de Olague, natural child married to Joseph Carrillo and Leonor de Avila her Mother?
I have Joseph Carrillo as Leonor's second husband!
thanks again.
Linda

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i don't know if tomasa olague is a 'natural' child or not, but that document i linked too seems to believe juan olague is her father regardless if he's her bio-father or not. i do know that after having 2 'natural' children, tomasa married bartolome de luna (i'm like 99.9% sure he's not the 'father' of either of those two 'natural' kids)

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Katy in the dispensation it says they 4th degree igual related, How did you do that since with no Teresa its 3rd degree with 4th degree. Any help appreciated and I have Ayala as the hijo natural of Tomasa Olague and married to Bartolome Luna but nothing to prove it's the same Tomasa de Olague married to Bartolome.

marriage dispensation 4th degree
Juan Olague........
Joseph Olague ......xxxxxx.. 1st degree
Francisca Cid......Joseph Carrillo ..2nd degree
Ygnacia De Casas...Marcos Carrillo....3rd degree
Silvestre Ortis.............Petronila Rita Carrillo 4th degree

HELP...

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here's a marriage record that link francisco ayala and a son of tomasa olague and bartolome olague as half brothers.
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-18426-81029-37?cc=1874591&wc…

plus you made a mistake on that tree diagram. here's the correct one
Juan Olague........
Joseph Olague ......tomasa olague.. 1st degree
Francisca Cid......leonor olague o avila ..2nd degree
Ygnacia De Casas...Marcos Carrillo....3rd degree
Silvestre Ortis.............Petronila Rita Carrillo 4th degree

here's another marriage dispensation related to tomasa olague as well
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-18415-43097-20?cc=1874591&wc…

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Katy you are a God send. I appreciate you sharing all your work and allowing me to go back and discover new ancestors. How proud the ancestors must be at how hard and diligently we work to keep their memories and stories alive. They make me proud
thank you again.
Linda in Olympia

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your welcome. in fact i've been focusing on capellenias and ordenes lately since they have been neglected for a while and sometimes they have useful genealoogical info.

also if you wanna volunteer for my index blog, you could either do an index from scratch of a collection from the diosceis de guadalajara not on my blog or claudia's and send it to me by my email detective1920@yahoo.com or by asking me for one of my incomplete indexes and finishing it up.

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it's ok, i just felt like mentining that.

on another note, my spanish isn't that good either. i find getting the names, locations etc. in these records much easier than actually trying to converse with others in spanish.

Libro verde

I have long believed that the "Libro verde" would be a great source of information. I want to share my recent experience with a Libro verde.

Probada: Las Ana González de Hermosillo o las Ana González Florida

Estimado Señores:

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Estimado Daniel,

Fue el Dr. Victoriano Navarro quien transribió la dispensa. Yo lo copié de otro hilo y cuando lo hice incluí su nombre para reconocer que el era quien habia aportado los datos. Es a el que tenemos que agradecer por ese aporte. Lo que yo si habia hecho es precipitar ese hilo que empezó Miguel Beltran donde el Dr. aportó la información y lo repetí en el hilo que empezaste.

Gracias Daniel, Miguel y Dr. Navarro

Armando

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Lo que yo creo que te interesa mas es el nódulo con el titulo INFORMACION DE DIEGO SANCHEZ CARRANZA encontrado en http://www.nuestrosranchos.org/es/node/19311

Las transcripciones por Victoriano Navarro son de entradas del libro de María de la Luz Montejano Hilton, Sagrada Mitra de Guadalajara. Antiguo Obispado de la Nueva Galicia. Expedientes de la Serie de Matrimonios. Extractos Siglos XVII-XVIII, México, DF, 1999 y se encuentran en http://www.nuestrosranchos.org/node/19107 y en http://www.nuestrosranchos.org/es/node/19304 Las dispensas ahora se encuentran en linea en https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-18427-15251-15 y en https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-18405-7104-7 Las dos dispensas comprueban que Mariana de Hermosillo, casada con Nicolás Moreno de Ortega, era hija de Juan González de Hermosillo y de Ana González Florida II no de Francisco Muñoz de la Barba y Catalina Gutiérrez Rubio ni de Sebastián Gutiérrez de Hermosillo y de María Galindo Becerra como la tenia, según Daniel, don Jaime Holcombe porque Juan González de Hermosillo era hermano de Teresa de Hermosillo.

También hay una dispensa de mis antepasados Pedro González de Rubalcava y Gallegos cc Ana Petra Moreno de Ortega Gamiño en https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-18413-16628-8 con un árbol en https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-18413-16519-4 y dice "Da María Ana González Hermosillo y Da Anna González Hermosillo hermanas tuvieron por hijos la dicha Da María Ana González a Dn Miguel Moreno de Ortega y la expresada Da Anna González a Dn Melchor González primos hermanos que es segundo grado y el dicho Dn Melchor tuvo por hijo a Dn Nicolás González de Rubalcaba y el expresado Dn Nicolás me tubo a mi que soy el pretenso y el referido Dn Miguel Moreno de Ortega tuvo por su hijo legitimo a Dn Nicolás Moreno de Ortega Gallardo primos segundos de dicho mi padre que es tercer grado de consanguinidad y del referido Dn Nicolás Moreno tiene por hija legitima a Da Anna Petra Moreno Gamiño y es la pretensa con quien es por ligado de parentesco en cuarto grado igual como lo es de primos terceros" Con esta dispensa sabemos que Ana González Florida casada con Joseph González de Rubalcava fue hermana de Mariana o María Ana casada con Nicolás Moreno de Ortega.

Agregando datos al mensaje original de este, en Retoños de España, Tomo IV Vol. 1 pp. 213-214, don Mariano González menciona a tres hermanas con nombres parecidos, Ana González Florida III casada con Joseph González de Rubalcava y de Rodas teniente de Alcalde Mayor Procuradory Depositario General de la villa de Lagos, Mariana González de Hermosillo casada con el Capitán Nicolás Moreno de Ortega, y Ana María González de Hermosillo casada con Luis de Ayllón y Córdoba. Todas hijas de Juan González de Hermosillo II (hijo de Juan González de Hermosillo y de María Muñoz) y de Ana González Florida II (hija de Francisco Gutiérrez Rubio y de Ana González Florida I).

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Muchas gracias Armando por tu respuesta tan aclaradora. Revisé el nódulo del Dr. Victoriano Navarro y sus preguntas y dudas. Creo que sus preguntas fueron resueltas hace mucho tiempo. Además tus datos y fuentes concuerdan plenamente con los míos. Estoy de acuerdo contigo. Mariana de Hermosillo (o Mariana González de Hermosillo), esposa de Nicolás Moreno de Ortega, fue hija de Juan González II de Hermosillo y de Ana González Florida II. Últimamente he estado hablando sobre Juan y Ana y su enlaces familiares e investigándolos en dispensas un poco más de lo normal. He estado revisando muchos documentos de defunción y dispensas que los mencionan...y también por supuesto lo que las grandes mentes de Nuestros Ranchos han comentado al respecto.

Creo que la confusión surge a través de varias personas con nombres algo similares en el contorno genealógico de la época. Hubo muchas Anas y Marías en las primeras generaciones de los González de Hermosillo que fácilmente confundirían a algunos. Todas están comprobadas documentalmente, pero avísenme si en algo me equivoco.
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* Ana Muñoz (o María Muñoz) - nacida ca. 1550-1555, de origen aun desconocido; casada ca. 1570-1590 con Juan González de Hermosillo I, hija de Gonzalo Garía de Hermosillo. Patriarcas de todas las ramas de Hermosillo de los Los Altos de Jalisco (González de Hermosillo, Muñoz de Hermosillo, Ramírez de Hermosillo, García de Hermosillo, Gutiérrez de Hermosillo, Sánchez de Hermosillo y, simplemente, de Hermosillo).

* Ana González Florida I - "La Primera" - [alias Ana González] - nacida ca. 1555, de origen aun desconocido; casada hacia 1573 con Francisco Gutiérrez Rubio (o Francisco Gutiérrez de la Vega), hijo de Diego González de la Reguera y de María Rubio. Patriarcas de los Gutiérrez Rubio, González Rubio y Gutiérrez de Mendoza.

* Ana González Florida II - "La Segunda" - [alias Ana González] - nacida ca. 1594, en Jalostotitlán y fallecida el 7 de mayo de 1672, en Jalostotitlán; hija de Francisco Gutiérrez Rubio y de Ana González Florida I. Casada hacia 1616-1617 con Juan González de Hermosillo II (ca. 1592 - 1666), hijo de Juan González de Hermosillo I y de Ana-María Muñoz.

* Ana González Florida III - "La Tercera" - [alias Ana González / posiblemente Ana ¿Gutiérrez? por ser nieta de Francisco Gutiérrez] - nacida ca. 1624, en Jalostotitlán y fallecida el 10 de mayo de 1666 en Lagos; hija de Juan González de Hermosillo II y de Ana González Florida II. Casada ca. 1647 en Lagos con el Capitán don Joseph González de Rubalcava (1620-1679), teniente de Alcalde Mayor, procurador y depositario general de la villa de Lagos; hijo de don Fulgencio González de Rubalcava y de doña Luisa Villegas de Rodas.

* Ana Muñoz (o Ana González / Ana Muñoz de Hermosillo) - Homónima de su abuela paterna Ana Muñoz - mestiza, nacida ca. 1614, sin duda en el pueblo de Tonallan (Tonalá), jurisdicción de San Juan de Juanacatlán, y fallecida allí mismo en Juanaclatlán pero traída a sepultar el 7 de enero de 1665, en Jalostotitlán; hija natural de Juan González de Hermosillo II, español, y de María Magdalena (o Magdalena María), india natural de Tonallan (Tonalá). En “Retoños de España en la Nueva Galicia”, Tomo IV Vol. 1 p. 214, don Mariano González Leal añade la nota, No. 359, sobre Juan González de Hermosillo II - “aunque era casado y hombre de buena vida, había adulterado de su matrimonio con una india cacique de el pueblo de Xalostotitlán”. Casada ca. 1632 con Diego Sánchez Carranza (ca. 1610 - 1669), también mestizo, originario y vecino de la jurisdicción de San Juan de Juanacatlán; sepultado en Jalostotitlán. Patriarcas de la familia Carranza.

* María de Hermosillo - nacida ca. 1615, en Jalostotitlán; hija de Juan de Aceves y de Beatriz de Hermosillo, nieta materna de Juan González de Hermosillo y Ana-María Muñoz. Casada ca. 1633 con Sebastián Ramírez de Mendoza, hijo de Gonzalo Ramírez de Arellano-Cantillana e Isabel Hurtado de Mendoza.

* Ana Muñoz de Hermosillo (o Ana Muñoz / Ana de Hermosillo) - nacida ca. 1619, en Jalostotitlán; hija de Juan de Aceves y de Beatriz de Hermosillo, nieta materna de Juan González de Hermosillo y Ana-María Muñoz. Casada ca. 1640 con Joseph Ramírez de Mendoza, hijo de Gonzalo Ramírez de Arellano-Cantillana e Isabel Hurtado de Mendoza.

* María González de Hermosillo (o María de Hermosillo) - nacida ca. 1620, en Jalostotitlán, y fallecida el 8 de mayo de 1682, en La Estancia de los Hermosillos, jur. de Jalostotitlán; hija de Juan González de Hermosillo II y Ana González Florida II. Casada ca. 1635 [en Guadalajara, Juanacatlán o Jalostotitlán], con Francisco Casillas y Cabrera (bau. 20 de octubre de 1609, en Guadalajara), hijo del Lic. Francisco Casillas y Cabrera y de Francisca Gutiérrez de Escobar, y nieto paterno del alarife Martín Casillas, arquitecto de la Catedral de Guadalajara.

* Mariana González de Hermosillo (o Mariana de Hermosillo) - nacida ca. 1637, en Jalostotitlán, y fallecida el 28 de noviembre de 1694, en Lagos; hija de Juan González de Hermosillo II y Ana González Florida II. Casada ca. 1658 en Lagos, con Nicolás Moreno de Ortega (1629 - 8 Jul 1701), hijo de Alonso Moreno de Ortega y de Luisa Villegas de Rodas, hija esta de Hernando Solano de Villegas y de Inés López de Nava.

* Ana María González de Hermosillo - nacida ca. 1640, en Jalostotitlán; hija de Juan González de Hermosillo II y Ana González Florida II. Casada ca. 1660 con Luis de Ayllón y Córdoba, originario de Etzatlán y luego vecino de Jalostotitlán.
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En las hojas de Holcombe que poseo, él hace constar claramente que María, Ana, Ana María y Mariana - todas hermanas - González de Hermosillo (o Ana González Florida III), fueron hijas de Juan González de Hermosillo II y Ana González Florida II, y nietas por lado materno de Francisco Gutiérrez Rubio y Ana González Florida I.

Pero surge la duda...son vástagos de Juan González de Hermosillo II pero, ¿también hijos de Ana González Florida II? Ya he comprobado que Juan González de Hermosillo II tuvo hijos naturales en otras mujeres y se ha documentado que “aunque era casado y hombre de buena vida, había adulterado de su matrimonio...”. Juan González de Hermosillo II tuvo una relación ilícita con su cuñada, hermana de su legítima mujer Ana González Florida II - próximamente comprobaré este vínculo documentalmente - siendo Juan II y la "fulana" Gutiérrez padres de Pedro Gutiérrez de Hermosillo, o Gutiérrez Rubio. ¿Pudieron haber sido hijos de otras mujeres algunos de los hijos de Juan González de Hermosillo II que pensamos son hijos también de Ana González Florida II?

Interesante pregunta hace el colega Dr. Victoriano Navarro, ¿no?

Atentamente,
Su primo Paco

Mariana de Hermosillo esposa de Nicolás Moreno de Ortega

Existen en el archivo parroquial de Lagos de Moreno al menos los siguientes registros en los que aparece esa pareja:

Comentarios

Comentario

Muchas gracias Armando por tu excelente trabajo sobre los hijos e hijas de Nicolás Moreno de Ortega y de Mariana González de Hermosillo. Ellos son mis antepasados - décimos bisabuelos. Especificamente desciendo de su hijo Miguel Moreno de Ortega, quien se casó en 1698 con Catarina Gallardo.

Revisé el nódulo del Dr. Victoriano Navarro y sus preguntas y dudas. Creo que sus preguntas fueron resueltas hace mucho tiempo. Además tus datos y fuentes concuerdan plenamente con los míos. Estoy de acuerdo contigo. Mariana de Hermosillo (o Mariana González de Hermosillo), esposa de Nicolás Moreno de Ortega, fue hija de Juan González II de Hermosillo y de Ana González Florida II. Últimamente he estado hablando sobre Juan y Ana y su enlaces familiares e investigándolos en dispensas un poco más de lo normal. He estado revisando muchos documentos de defunción y dispensas que los mencionan...y también por supuesto lo que las grandes mentes de Nuestros Ranchos han comentado al respecto.

Creo que la confusión surge a través de varias personas con nombres algo similares en el contorno genealógico de la época. Hubo muchas Anas y Marías en las primeras generaciones de los González de Hermosillo que fácilmente confundirían a algunos. Todas están comprobadas documentalmente, pero avísenme si en algo me equivoco.
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* Ana Muñoz (o María Muñoz) - nacida ca. 1550-1555, de origen aun desconocido; casada ca. 1570-1590 con Juan González de Hermosillo I, hija de Gonzalo Garía de Hermosillo. Patriarcas de todas las ramas de Hermosillo de los Los Altos de Jalisco (González de Hermosillo, Muñoz de Hermosillo, Ramírez de Hermosillo, García de Hermosillo, Gutiérrez de Hermosillo, Sánchez de Hermosillo y, simplemente, de Hermosillo).

* Ana González Florida I - "La Primera" - [alias Ana González] - nacida ca. 1555, de origen aun desconocido; casada hacia 1573 con Francisco Gutiérrez Rubio (o Francisco Gutiérrez de la Vega), hijo de Diego González de la Reguera y de María Rubio. Patriarcas de los Gutiérrez Rubio, González Rubio y Gutiérrez de Mendoza.

* Ana González Florida II - "La Segunda" - [alias Ana González] - nacida ca. 1594, en Jalostotitlán y fallecida el 7 de mayo de 1672, en Jalostotitlán; hija de Francisco Gutiérrez Rubio y de Ana González Florida I. Casada hacia 1616-1617 con Juan González de Hermosillo II (ca. 1592 - 1666), hijo de Juan González de Hermosillo I y de Ana-María Muñoz.

* Ana González Florida III - "La Tercera" - [alias Ana González / posiblemente Ana ¿Gutiérrez? por ser nieta de Francisco Gutiérrez] - nacida ca. 1624, en Jalostotitlán y fallecida el 10 de mayo de 1666 en Lagos; hija de Juan González de Hermosillo II y de Ana González Florida II. Casada ca. 1647 en Lagos con el Capitán don Joseph González de Rubalcava (1620-1679), teniente de Alcalde Mayor, procurador y depositario general de la villa de Lagos; hijo de don Fulgencio González de Rubalcava y de doña Luisa Villegas de Rodas.

* Ana Muñoz (o Ana González / Ana Muñoz de Hermosillo) - Homónima de su abuela paterna Ana Muñoz - mestiza, nacida ca. 1614, sin duda en el pueblo de Tonallan (Tonalá), jurisdicción de San Juan de Juanacatlán, y fallecida allí mismo en Juanaclatlán pero traída a sepultar el 7 de enero de 1665, en Jalostotitlán; hija natural de Juan González de Hermosillo II, español, y de María Magdalena (o Magdalena María), india natural de Tonallan (Tonalá). En “Retoños de España en la Nueva Galicia”, Tomo IV Vol. 1 p. 214, don Mariano González Leal añade la nota, No. 359, sobre Juan González de Hermosillo II - “aunque era casado y hombre de buena vida, había adulterado de su matrimonio con una india cacique de el pueblo de Xalostotitlán”. Casada ca. 1632 con Diego Sánchez Carranza (ca. 1610 - 1669), también mestizo, originario y vecino de la jurisdicción de San Juan de Juanacatlán; sepultado en Jalostotitlán. Patriarcas de la familia Carranza.

* María de Hermosillo - nacida ca. 1615, en Jalostotitlán; hija de Juan de Aceves y de Beatriz de Hermosillo, nieta materna de Juan González de Hermosillo y Ana-María Muñoz. Casada ca. 1633 con Sebastián Ramírez de Mendoza, hijo de Gonzalo Ramírez de Arellano-Cantillana e Isabel Hurtado de Mendoza.

* Ana Muñoz de Hermosillo (o Ana Muñoz / Ana de Hermosillo) - nacida ca. 1619, en Jalostotitlán; hija de Juan de Aceves y de Beatriz de Hermosillo, nieta materna de Juan González de Hermosillo y Ana-María Muñoz. Casada ca. 1640 con Joseph Ramírez de Mendoza, hijo de Gonzalo Ramírez de Arellano-Cantillana e Isabel Hurtado de Mendoza.

* María González de Hermosillo (o María de Hermosillo) - nacida ca. 1620, en Jalostotitlán, y fallecida el 8 de mayo de 1682, en La Estancia de los Hermosillos, jur. de Jalostotitlán; hija de Juan González de Hermosillo II y Ana González Florida II. Casada ca. 1635 [en Guadalajara, Juanacatlán o Jalostotitlán], con Francisco Casillas y Cabrera (bau. 20 de octubre de 1609, en Guadalajara), hijo del Lic. Francisco Casillas y Cabrera y de Francisca Gutiérrez de Escobar, y nieto paterno del alarife Martín Casillas, arquitecto de la Catedral de Guadalajara.

* Mariana González de Hermosillo (o Mariana de Hermosillo) - nacida ca. 1637, en Jalostotitlán, y fallecida el 28 de noviembre de 1694, en Lagos; hija de Juan González de Hermosillo II y Ana González Florida II. Casada ca. 1658 en Lagos, con Nicolás Moreno de Ortega (1629 - 8 Jul 1701), hijo de Alonso Moreno de Ortega y de Luisa Villegas de Rodas, hija esta de Hernando Solano de Villegas y de Inés López de Nava.

* Ana María González de Hermosillo - nacida ca. 1640, en Jalostotitlán; hija de Juan González de Hermosillo II y Ana González Florida II. Casada ca. 1660 con Luis de Ayllón y Córdoba, originario de Etzatlán y luego vecino de Jalostotitlán.
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En las hojas de Holcombe que poseo, él hace constar claramente que María, Ana, Ana María y Mariana - todas hermanas - González de Hermosillo (o Ana González Florida III), fueron hijas de Juan González de Hermosillo II y Ana González Florida II, y nietas por lado materno de Francisco Gutiérrez Rubio y Ana González Florida I.

Pero surge la duda...son vástagos de Juan González de Hermosillo II pero, ¿también hijos de Ana González Florida II? Ya he comprobado que Juan González de Hermosillo II tuvo hijos naturales en otras mujeres y se ha documentado que “aunque era casado y hombre de buena vida, había adulterado de su matrimonio...”. Juan González de Hermosillo II tuvo una relación ilícita con su cuñada, hermana de su legítima mujer Ana González Florida II - próximamente comprobaré este vínculo documentalmente - siendo padres de Pedro Gutiérrez de Hermosillo, o Gutiérrez Rubio. ¿Pudieron haber sido hijos de otras mujeres algunos de los hijos de Juan González de Hermosillo II que pensamos son hijos también de Ana González Florida II?

Interesante presunta hace el colega Dr. Victoriano Navarro, ¿no?

Atentamente,
Su primo Paco

Comentario

El siguiente libro trae los siguientes datos:

MLMH) María de la Luz Montejano Hilton, Sagrada Mitra de Guadalajara. Antiguo Obispado de la Nueva Galicia. Expedientes de la Serie de Matrimonios. Extractos Siglos XVII-XVIII, México, DF, 1999

MLMH 2755: Lagos de Moreno, Jal. Diciembre 26 de 1697. Exp. 95-.
Dispensa de tercero grado con cuarto grado de consanguinidad.-
Miguel de Moreno Ortega, de 34 años, natural y vecino de esta Villa de Santa maría de los Lagos, viudo de Doña Juana de Marmolejo y Pedraza, hijo legítimo de Nicolás Moreno de Ortega y de Doña Mariana González Hermosillo (abuelo materno: Juan González de Hermosillo); pretende casarse con Doña Cathalina Martínez Gallardo, natural y vecina de la feligresía de Xalostotitlan, hija legítima de Don Joseph Martínez Gallardo y de Doña Theresa Camacho (abuelo paterno: Juan Camacho Riquelme, hijo de Theresa González de Hermosillo).
Los dichos Juan González de Hermosillo y Theresa González de Hermosillo fueron hemanos.

MLMH 1622: Lagos de Moreno, Jal. Julio 15 de 1730. Exp. 23-.
Don Miguel Moreno Ortega casado con Doña Catharina Gallardo era hijo de Don Nicolás Moreno de Ortega, a su vez Nicolás era hijo de Doña Josepha de Villegas, hermana legítima de Doña María González.

Victoriano Navarro

Comentario

Corrección:
Juan Camacho Riquelme, hijo de Theresa González de Hermosillo sería el abuelo materno de Doña Cathalina Martínez Gallardo y padre de Doña Theresa Camacho. Por otra parte en estos records no aparece Ana Gzlz. Florida; tal vez en algún otro aparezca como esposa de Juan González, pero no creo que aparezca como madre de Mariana Gzlz. en el libro de Montejano Hilton.

Victoriano Navarro

Comentario

Victoriano,

Muchísimas gracias por las aportaciones. Con eso tengo nuevas preguntas. ¿Quien fue la madre de Mariana y esposa de Juan González de Hermosillo? Si la madre de Mariana y la esposa de Juan era Ana Glz Florida II entonces, como tengo entendido, Mariana era nieta de Francisco Gutiérrez Rubio y Ana Glz Florida I. Seria por eso que a veces Mariana usa Gutiérrez. ¿Mariana que fue esposa de Nicolás que menciona Jaime Holcombe es la misma que fue madre de Miguel? Son todos los hijos de ese Nicolás con la misma esposa?

Armando

Comentario

Armando,

Pues en esas épocas era común que la gente con hijos enviudara, se volviera a casar y tuviera más hijos legítimos, por lo que yo prefiero no asumir que dos hermanos compartían tanto padre como madre si no hay documentos que lo avalen. Habrá que seguir buscando la respuesta a las preguntas que plantea. Por otra parte, tal vez en otro record del libro de Montejano Hilton aparezca Ana González Florida como madre de Mariana González, sin que venga el nombre de Juan González.
Saludos cordiales,

Victoriano Navarro

Comentario

Hola Victoriano,

No solamente en esa época se volvían a casar después de enviudarse, sino en
todas. Un tío, un tío abuelo, una tía abuela, un tatarabuelo, y un quinto
abuelo también lo hicieron. En pocas palabras, sucedió en casi todas las
épocas y generaciones de mi familia y ya estaba consciente de eso. Es por
eso que hice algunas de mi preguntas. Pero en el momento que yo había hecho
esas preguntas yo no sabia que Juan González Hermosillo nunca se enviudó de
Ana González Florida. Pasó lo contrario, Juan murió en 1666 y Ana en 1672.
Eso acabo de encontrar en http://www.nuestrosranchos.org/node/16928.
Sabemos por la dispensa que usted nos transcribió que Juan González de
Hermosillo y Theresa González de Hermosillo fueron hermanos y que Theresa
González de Hermosillo era madre de Juan Camacho Riquelme. Asi que podemos
decir que Mariana si era hija de Ana González Florida. Ahora lo que no queda
claro es cual fue la razón que don Jaime Holcombe apuntó a Mariana como hija
de Sebastián Gutiérrez de Hermosillo y María Galindo Becerra. En todas las
partidas de nacimiento y matrimonio de los hijos de Nicolás Moreno de Ortega
y Mariana (Gutierrez) de Hermosillo ocurren en Lagos e incluyen a las
personas que mencionó don Jaime y también a Miguel cuya fecha de nacimiento
es después de la de Josefa y parece que es antes de la de mas de los
hermanos. Así que con esa dispensa y viendo las relaciones y fechas de los
familiares pienso que ya encontré las respuestas a mis preguntas. También
creo ya que todos los hijos de Nicolás también eran hijos de Mariana que fue
hija de Juan González de Hermosillo y Ana González Florida.

Bautismo de Miguel Moreno de Ortega -
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=recordimage&c=f…
Bautismo de Teresa Moreno de Ortega -
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=recordimage&c=f…
Bautismo de Josefa Moreno de Ortega -
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=recordimage&c=f…
Matrimonio de Luis Moreno de Ortega -
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=recordimage&c=f…
Matrimonio de Juan Moreno de Ortega -
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=recordimage&c=f…
Matrimonio de Alonso Moreno de Ortega -
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=recordimage&c=f…
Matrimonio de Josefa Moreno de Ortega con Esteban de Anda -
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=recordimage&c=f…
Primer matrimonio de Miguel Moreno de Ortega -
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=recordimage&c=f…

Hola Daniel,

Se fijó que allí sale el matrimonio de Josefa que no encontrabas, Ella usó
el apellido Moreno de Villegas aunque es claro que sus padres eran Nicolás
Moreno de Ortega y Mariana de Hermosillo.

Saludos cordiales,

Armando

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2010/11/27

> Armando,
>
> Pues en esas épocas era común que la gente con hijos enviudara, se volviera
> a casar y tuviera más hijos legítimos, por lo que yo prefiero no asumir que
> dos hermanos compartían tanto padre como madre si no hay documentos que lo
> avalen. Habrá que seguir buscando la respuesta a las preguntas que plantea.
> Por otra parte, tal vez en otro record del libro de Montejano Hilton
> aparezca Ana González Florida como madre de Mariana González, sin que venga
> el nombre de Juan González.
> Saludos cordiales,
>
>
> Victoriano Navarro

Comentario

Los referidos Miguel Moreno de Ortega y Catalina Martínez Gallardo son mis antepasados (novenos bisabuelos), y por lo tal son personas que he investigado con algún interés personal. Tengo la costumbre de integrar en mis notas una transcripción íntegra de todos los documentos de importancia genealógica e histórica que mencionen a mis antepasados. Agradezco que los hayan tomado en cuenta como tema de discusión.

Como aporte al tema reciente sobre la Dispensa Matrimonial de Miguel Moreno de Ortega y Catalina Martínez Gallardo, aquí les presento una transcripción de la diligencia matrimonial que de ellos tengo en mis notas. Miguel y Catalina necesitaron ser dispensados de un parentesco de consanguinidad en tercero con cuarto grado. La siguiente Dispensa Matrimonial es mencionada en el libro de María de la Luz Montejano Hilton, “Sagrada Mitra de Guadalajara. Antiguo Obispado de la Nueva Galicia. Expedientes de la Serie de Matrimonios. Extractos Siglos XVII-XVIII” (México, DF, 1999 - página 551, No. 2755). 16 fojas. De particular interés para mi son las dos firmas que deja grabadas en la dicha dispensa Miguel Moreno de Ortega.

Me parece como curioso la referencia que el padre de la pretensa, “D.n Joseph Gallardo [tiene] muchas Cortedades de Calidad, que fuera de esta Jurisdiz.on no hallará casamiento desente para la dha su hija por no tener con que dotarla...”. En mi opiníon, “cortedades de calidad” significa algo como “falta de abilidades, talentos o virtudes” y que era muy pobre no tenía dote para ofrecer con su hija para casarla. Al final llaman a la pretensa “doña M.a Chatarina de gusmán gallardo”, aparentemente una referencia a su abuela homónima Catarina de Guzmán Manríque de Lara. Por eso me gusta paleografiar con detalle actas y documentos porque salen cositas interesantes como estas.

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-18427-15251-15?cc=1874591&wc…
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"Lagos y diz.e 26 de 1697 a.s =

Miguel Moreno de Ortega, Vez.o de esta Villa Viudo de D.ña Juana Marmolexo y Pedrasa, hijo lejítimo de Nicolás Moreno y de D.ña Mariana Gonsáles de Hermosillo, difunta; Paresco ante Vm. en la forma que por dro aya lugar y al mío combenga y Digo que yo tengo tratado y Concertado el contraer matrimonio según el horden de nra Santa Madre Yglesia con D.ña Cathalina Martínez Gallardo, Vez.a de la feligresía de Xalostotitlán, hija lexítima de D.n Joseph Martínez Gallardo y de D.ña Theresa Camacho; Para lo qual se a de servir Vm. de mandar se me rresiva Ynformaz.on de ser suelto libre y Capaz para poder Contraer dho Matrimonio Para cuio efecto nesesito de que el Yll.mo y R.mo S.r Ob.po de este Obpado se digne de dispensarnos en el Ympedimento que entre nosotros rresulta de parentesco de consanguinidad en tercero con quarto grado: porque Ju.o Gonsález de hermosillo fue herm.o de Theresa Gonsáles de Ermosillo; y el dho Ju.o Gonzáles tubo por hija a D.ña Mariana Gonsáles de hermosillo mi madre; y la dha theresa Gonsáles tubo por hijo a Juan Camacho Riquelme; y la dha D.ña Mariana Gonsáles de hermosillo me tubo por su hijo; y el dho Juo.o Camacho tubo por su hija a D.ña Theresa Camacho; y esta d D.ña Cathalina Martínez Gallardo pretensa; de suerte que la suso dha está en quarto grado conmigo yo en tercero con la dha y para que dha mi pretensión tenga el efecto que pido se ade servir - Vmd. de mandar se me rresiva Ynformaz.on del rreferido parentesco según y como llevo expresado; y así mismo se a de servir Vm que mandar que los testigos presentados Juren y declaren si saben que las causas que me motivan a solicitar dha dispensación, para contraer dho matrimonio con dha D.ña Chatalina Martínes Gallardo son el que en esta Jurisdición somos todos parientes y que no puediera yo dentro de dha Jurisdición allar casam.to con ninguna Vez.a de ella en quien no subsistiera el Ynpedimento de consaguinidad y afinidad, y aun en más ynmediatos Grado, y tanbién a sido y es costumbre de esta Jurisdiz.on y de todos nros. projenitores que los hijos de esta Jurisdición casen dentro de ella por el lustre que de ello rresulta a la Conservaz.on y Continuación de la esclaresida y conosida noblesa en los linajes; y solo de esta suerte an observado siempre el desposarse a que es Consg.te atendidas, Vnas y otras cincunstancias el que Vno y otro que daramos sin esperanzas de conseguir el estado del santo matrimonio o de adquirirle con mui grave dificultad siendo tan comformes a dro los buenos progresos que de el rrefutan a las almas y a las rrepúblicas; y fuera del rreferido porque se halla el dho D.n Joseph Gallardo con muchas Cortedades de Calidad, que fuera de esta Jurisdiz.on no hallará casamiento desente para la dha su hija por no tener con que dotarla causas todas para que su señoría Yll.ma con su acostumbrada piedad se digne de conceder la dispensa que pretendo, y ovtenida que proseda a todas las demás diligencias nesesarias asta la selebrasión de dho matrimonio por todo qual =
- A Vm. Pido y sup.co se a servido de mandar según que pido y que los testigos se examinen al thenor de este escripto en que rresciviré bien y mrd. con justicia, Juro en devida forma este mi escripto y en lo ness.o, ett.a = . . . Mig.l M.no de ortega (rúbrica)."

"autto ----- En la villa de Santa María de los Lagos en Veinte y seis días del mes de diziembre de Mill seis sientso y nobenta y siete a.s Ante su mrd. el Señor Liz.do Joseph Moreno de Ortega, Vicario y Jues Exlesi.co en ella y su felig.a por el Yll.mo y R.mo Señor M.o Don Fr. Ph.e Galindo y cháves de el Orden de Predicadores de el Consejo de su Mag.d obpo de Guadalaxara nuebos Reynos de la Galicia y de León, Provinçias de el nayarit, Californias y Coagüila ; a mi sseñor se leyó esta petición que la presentó el contenido en ella = y por su mrd. bista la hubo por presentada y mandó que el Contenido en Más paresca ante su mrd. a haser su declaraçión y a dar la Ynform.on que ofrese Y que los ttgos que presentase. Se exsaminen al thenor de este esCripto, Así lo decretó su mrd, mandó y firmó = . . . fr. Joseph Mor.o de Ortega (rúbrica) . . .
Ante mí
Damián de Medellín
nott.lo pu.co (rúbrica)."

"declarasión de el pretensso ----- En la villa de Ss.ta María de los Lagos en Veinte y seis días del mes de diz.e de mill seis sientos y nobenta y siete años en Cumplimiento de lo mandado en el autto de arriva por su mrd dho Señor Vicario y jues Ecless.co pareció ante su mrd. Vn hombre del qual se rresivió juram.to que lo hiso por Dios nro. Señor - y la señal de la Cruz según forma de dro en Cargo del qual prometió desir Verdad de lo que supiere y le fuere preguntado y siéndolo al tenor de el escripto de la foxa antes de esta = Dijo que es Vez.o y originario de esta dha villa donde siempre a tenido su asistencia que es Viudo de Doña Juana de Marmolexo y Pedrasa; y que por esta Rasón es soltero Libre y capaz para el matrimonio que pretende; y que no ha dado palabra de casamiento a persona alguna; y que con Doña Catt.a Gallardo con quien pretende contraer dho matrimonio no tiene parentesco de afinidad ni espiritual solo El que Refiere en suscripto de Consanguinidad en tersero y quarto grado poque Juan Gonzáles de hermosillo, su agüelo fue herm.o de Teresa Gonz.s de hermosillo, y el dho Juan Gonz.s tubo por hija a Doña Mariana Gonz.s de hermosillo, y la dha Theresa Gonz.s a Juan Camacho Riquelme, y la dha Doña Mariana de hermosillo tubo por hijo a este declarante, y el dho Juan Camacho Riquelme tubo por hija a Doña theresa Camacho, y esta a Doña Catt.a Gallardo pretensa Contrayente, de suerte que la suso dha esta en quarto grado por Consanguinidad con este declarante, y está con la suso dha en tersero, y que las Causas que le mueben a solisitar dho matriomonio y la dispensa en los grados es la costumbre Ynmemorial que an tenido todos los Vez.s de esta jurisdiçión de Casarse dentro de ella, así por su aumento y de la boçión, como por el conosimiento que se tienen de las familias y que con dificultad hallan - fuera de dha Jurisdiçión Casam.to con estas sircunstancias y así mismo la notoriedad de que en esta villa ni en su jurisdiçión se alla familia que no esté ligada con parentesco y en nra ynmediatos grados = y lo otro que muebe a este deClarante a solisitar dho matrimonio es la calidad, Virtud, y rrecoxim.to de la dha Doña Catt.a Gallardo, Cuyos padres se allan en suma cortedad y por esta Rasón no hallarán casam.to con ygualdad para la suso dha, todas causas para que el Yll.mo y R.mo Señor Obpo de este obpado se digne de dispensar en dhos grados, y que no a hecho boto de Castidad ni de rrelixión ni tiene otro ympedim.to ympediente ni dirim.te de que fue adbertido por su mrd. dho Señor Vicario y que esta es la Verdad en cargo del juram.to que a fecho en que se afirmó y siéndole leída esta su declaraçión se Ratificó en ella, dijo se de edad de treinta y quatro a.s y lo firmó con su mrd dho Señor Vicario y jues Ecless.co = . . . Fr. Joseph Mor.o de Ortega (rúbrica) . . . Mig.l M.no de ortega (rúbrica) . . .

Ante mí
Damián de Medellín
nott.lo pu.co (rúbrica)."

Primer testigo - "tt.go Bar.mé días Ynfante español ----- En la villa de ss.ta María de los lagos en Veinte y seis días del mes de diz.e de mill seis sientos y nobenta y siete a.s, Miguel moreno de Ortega pretenso para la Ynformación que ofrese presentó por ttgo. a Bar.mé días Ynfante, Español Vez.o de esta dha villa...= Dijo que conose a miguel moreno de ortega desde mui niño y que saue es Vez.o y originario de esta villa y que es biudo de Doña Juana de Marmolejo y Pedrasa y por esta Rasón soltero Libre y capaz para el matrimonio que pretende con doña Catt.a Gallardo y que no save ni a oído desir que el suso dho pre.nso aya dado palabra de Casam.to a persona alguna ni que para el que pretende contraer con la suso dha tenga parentesco de afinidad ni espiritual y que es o lo save tiene el de Consanguinidad en tersero y quarto grado que en la dha petiçión Refiere porque save este ttgo que Juan Gonz.s de hermosillo fuer herm.o de Theresa Gonsáles de hermosillo, y que el dho Juan Gonz.s tubo por hija a Doña Mariana Gonz.s de hermosillo, y la dha Teresa Gonzáles tubo por hijo a Juan Camacho Requelme, y la dha Doña Mariana de hermosillo tubo por hijo a miguel moreno de ortega pretenso Contrayente, y el dho Ju.o Camacho tubo por hija a Doña Theresa Camacho, y esta por su hija a Doña Catt.a martínes Gallardo, pretensa Contrayente, de manera que la suso dha Está en quarto grado con el dho pretenso y est en tersero con la suso dha...y así mismo save este ttgo que la dha Doña Catt.a Gallardo es una donsella de calidad, Virtud y Recoximiento y que por allarse sus padres con cortedades, no podrán fásilm.te allar casam.to ygual fuera de dha jurisdiçión...dijo ser de Edad de sesenta y dos a.s y aunque este tt.go es pariente por afinidad del suso dho y no por eso a faltado a la Verdad, Y lo firmó con su mrd dho Señor Vicario y jues Ecles.co = . . . Fr. Joseph Mor.o de Ortega (rúbrica) . . . Bart.mé Días Infante (rúbrica) . . .
Ante mí
Damián de Medellín
nott.lo pu.co (rúbrica)."

Segundo testigo - "tt.go Sebastián Gonz.s español ----- En la villa de ss.ta María de los lagos en Veinte y seis días del mes de diz.e de Mill seis sientos y nobenta y siete años El dho Miguel moreno de Ortega para la dha Ynformaçión ptresentó por ttgo al Cap.n Sebastián Gonzáles de Robalcava, Español y Vez.o de esta dha villa...Dijo que conose al dho Miguel moreno que lo presenta desde mui niño y lo ha bisto vibir y morar en esta dha Villa y save es buido de Doña Juana Marmolejo y Pedrassa por Cuya Rasón es soltero Libre y Capás para el matrimonio que pretende contraer con Doña Catt.a Martínez Gallardo, con la qual no sabe tenga algún Ympedimento de parentesco de afinidad ni espiritual que solo sabe tiene el de consanguinidad en tersero y quarto grado que en su petiçión Refiere porque save este ttgo que Juan Gonz.s de Hermosillo fue herm.o de Theresa Gonz.s de Hermosillo, y que el dho Juan Gonz.s tubo por hija a Doña Mariana González de hermosillo y la dha Theresa Gonz.s tubo por hijo a Ju.o Camacho Riquelme, y la dha Doña Mariana de Hermosillo tubo por hijo al Contenido pretenso Miguel moreno de Ortega, y el dho Ju.o Camacho tubo por hija a Doña Theresa Camacho, y esta por su hija d Doña Catt.a Martínez Gallardo, pretensa Contrayente; de manera que ésta está en quarto grado con el dho pretenso, y este con la suso dha en tersero...dijo ser de quarenta y ocho años y aunque es pariente del dho pretenso no por eso a faltado a la Verdad. Y lo firmó con su mrd dho Señor Vicario y jues Ecless.co = . . . fr. Joseph Mor.o de Ortega (rúbrica) . . . Sebastián gonsáles de robalcaba (rúbrica) . . .
Ante mí
Damián de Medellín
nott.lo pu.co (rúbrica)."

Tercer testigo - "tt.go fulgencio Gonz.s español ----- En la villa de ss.ta María de lagos en beinte y seis días del mes de diz.e de mill seis sientos y nobenta y siete a.s El dho Miguel moreno Para la dha Ynformaçión que está dando, presentó por ttto. al Cap.n Fulgençio Gonz.s de Robalcaba, español Vez.o de esta dha villa...= Dijo que conose a Miguel moreno de Ortega pretenso que lo presenta desde mui tierna Edad, y lo ha bisto bibir y morar en esta villa, y que es biudo de Doña Juana marmolejo y pedrasa, y por esta Rasón, soltero libre y Capaz para el matrimonio que pretende con doña Catt.a Gallardo, y que no sabe que el suso dho aya dado palabra de Casam.to a persona alguna ni que para el que pretende contraer con la suso dha tenga parentesco de afinidad ni espiritual solo si sabe tiene el de Consanguinidad en tersero y quarto grado que dha petiçión Refiere porque save este ttgo que Juan Gonz.s de hermosillo fue herm.o de Theresa Gonz.s de hermosillo, y que el dho Ju.o Gonz.s tubo por hija a doña Mariana de Hermosillo, y la dha Theresa Gonz.s tubo por hijo a Ju.o Camacho Riquelme, y la dha Doña Mariana de hermosillo tubo por hijo a Miguel moreno de Ortega pretenso Contrayente, y el dho Juan Camacho Riquelme tubo por hija a Doña Theresa Camacho, y esta por su hija a D.a Catt.a Martínez Gallardo pretensa, de suerte que la suso dha está en quarto grado con dho pretenso, y este en tersero con la suso dha...dijo ser de treinta y ocho a.s y que aunque es deudo del dho pretenso no por eso a faltdo a la Verdad y lo firmó con su mrd dho Señor Vicario y jues Ecless.co = . . . Fr. Joseph Mor.o de Ortega (rúbrica) . . . Fulgensio Gonsáles de robalcava (rúbrica)."
Ante mí
Damián de Medellín
nott.lo pu.co (rúbrica)."

“Auto de Remiçión ----- En el pueblo de X.an en treinta días del mes de diciembre de mil seiscientos y noventa y siete años el señor Lic.do Don Fran.co de montemayor y prado, Vicario y Juez ec.co de dho Pueblo y su partido aviendo visto la ynform.on de libertad dada por parte de doña M.a Chatarina de gusmán gallardo, contenida en los autos y el ympedim.to que Resulta contra su libertad, de parentesco de tersero con Cuarto grado de Consanguinidad con miguel moreno de ortega quien pretende

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Hola Miguel:

Ojalá puedo ayuarte. Pienso que tengo información sobre esta pareja, no sé si son los mismos pero por lo menos puedes utilizarlo como pista. Lo saqué de los datos del don Jaime Holcombe, aunque oficialmente no sé si existe un partido matrimonial si probó los padres de Nicolás Moreno de Ortega, cuya defunción era 8 de enero de 1701 en Santa María de los Lagos, casado con Juana Mariana Gutiérrez de Hermosillo (o simplemente Hermosillo), Jaime Holcombe la puso como hija de Sebastián Gutiérrez de Hermosillo y María Galindo Becerra.

Si existe dos otros partidos matrimoniales de hijos de Nicolás Moreno de Ortega y Juana Mariana Gutiérrez de Hermosillo. Alonso Moreno de Ortega casado el 8 de octubre de 1691 en Lagos de Moreno con Ana Rodríguez de Portugal hija del Alférez mayor Francisco Rodríguez, natural de Puebla de los Ángeles y doña Ana Gómez de Portugal, bautizada 7 de agosto de 1639 en Lagos e hija del capitán Juan Gómez de Portugal y María de Ysasi.

El otro hijo casado que tengo es Luis Moreno de Ortega el 25 de junio de 1688 en Lagos con Teresa de Alcalá y Hurtado de Mendoza (Alcalá-Mendoza) hija de Carolos de Alcalá Mendoza y Ana García de Lara, casados 14 de mayo de 1661 en Lagos.

Otra hija de ellos era Josepha Moreno de Ortega y aunque yo no he encontrado partido de ella, Jaime Holcombe la puso como hija de éstos, ya como mencionaste bautizada 1 de noviembre de 1661 en Lagos con el capitán Esteban de Anda Altamirano hijo del capitan Pedro de Anda Altamirano y Catalina Sáenz de Vidaurre hija del tesorero de Lagos Juan Sáenz de Vidaurre.

Otra hija que Jaime Holcombe nombró era Nicolasa Moreno de Ortega casado con Francisco Rodríguez de Portugal bautizado 18 de marzo de 1658 en Puebla. hija del Alférez mayor Francisco Rodríguez y doña Ana Gómez de Portugal. Por lo menos tuvieron este hijo bautizado en Pueblo, he pensado que luego del matrimonio en Lagos el alférez llevó su mujer a Puebla donde se efectuó esta bautismo de Francisco, segundo de su nombre. Otro también bautizado en puebla era Bernardino Rodríguez de Portugal el 13 de marzo de 1661 ya para 1662 vuelven la familia a Lagos de Moreno. Nunca encontré partida matrimonial de Nicolasa y Francisco Rodríguez de Portugal, II pero pienso que Jaime Holcombe dedujó que dos hermanos casándose con dos hermanos de una otra familia, no lo sé que pensó, pero aún tengo los datos así en caso.

La identidad de los padres de Nicolás Moreno de Ortega eran probados pero no lo sé sobre Juana Mariana (o Mariana) Gutierrez de Hermosillo o Hermosillo.

Ojalá ayuda en algo Miguel.

Saludos,
Daniel Méndez y Camino

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Tambien me interesaba esta información. En otra página mencionan a Miguel Moreno de Ortega como hijo de Nicolas Moreno de Ortega y Ana María González de Hermosillo González Florida. Cita a Luz Montejano Hilton, Expedientes de la Serie de Matrimonios. Extractos siglos XVII-XVIII como referencia. Este Miguel Moreno de Ortega casó con Catalina Guzmán Gallardo hija de José Martín Gallardo y Teresa Riquelme. Miguel Moreno y Catalina Guzmán tuvieron a Nicolás Moreno de Ortega que casó con María Getrudis Moreno de Ortega hija de Nicolás Moreno de Ortega y María Manuela Hernández Gamiño Liébano. Nicolas Moreno de Ortega y María Getrudis Moreno de Ortega tuvieron a Ana Petra Moreno de Ortega que casó con Pedro González de Rubalcava. Ellos tuvieron a la Ignacia González Moreno que casó con Juan José Villalobos Galván. Esa pareja es la misma que acabo de mencionar en el hilo de Juana Pérez de Ortega.

Armando

Anyone have or know to find Defunciones Years 1705 - 1709 of Mezquitic, Jalisco, Mexico?

Does anyone know where to get access to the Defunciones records of Mezquitic, Jalisco, Mexico during the years of 1705 - 1709?

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According to the Family History library catalog, there are no death records for the period 1687-1711. Thus the records either do not exist (more likely), or if they do exist, they were not filmed (less likely).

Sometimes a record type will be mixed with other records, such as the first volume for Mezquitic which includes baptisms, marriages, and deaths. The catalog will often, but not always state this. Considering the gap is so large, I suspect these records are lost.

I have come against the same problem in other communities (San Fancisco del Rincon, GTO), where the more important records (marriages and baptisms) do not exist for a critical time period for some families I am researching.

Nonetheless, I continue to be amazed at the vast quantity of records that do exist for Mexico.

George Fulton
Pleasanton, CA