I ordered up the microfilm for Huejucar, Jalisco Catholic Church marriages for 1885-1908. I hoped that it would reveal a lot of info on our ancestors because there should be about 20+ ancestors in the records.
I went page by page scanning for DE LEONs, CARLOS, BANUELOS, FLORES, VILLANEDAs, etc. I occasionally saw some entries that "could be's" but with half of the men being Jose and half the women being Maria, it was not conclusive if I was looking at an ancestor of ours..
My main goal was to find marriage records for the DE LEON siblings of my GGF Nicolas de Leon. I especially wanted to find my grandparents Francisco de Leon and Petra Flores.
I was surprised to find the "lack" of many of those possible records. I suppose that one of 3 possiblities occurred: 1. that person died young, (a good possibility) 2. that person never got married, (unlikely but possible)and 3. that person married elsewhere (most likely).
Here's what I did find:
Librado Villaneda (my maternal grandmother Tiburcia's brother) was probably married twice. On 21 Jan 1890 he married Maria Refugio Gomes. Padrinos were Hilario Mendoza and Maria Cruz Frutos (?). On 15 Jan 1899 he married M. Paula Enriques. Padrinos were Juan de Havoy (?) and Apolonia Villaneda.
Nicolasa Villaneda (Tiburcia's sister) married Esteban Gomez on 29 Jan 1899.
Ysac Banuelos married M. Teodora Flores (Tia Lola) on 24 Jan 1901. Padrinos were Santiago Banuelos and Ramona Banuelos.
GF Francisco de Leon married Petra Flores on 26 Aug 1903. Padrinos were Severiano Lopez and Andrea Gonzalez. I was hoping for a birthdate or at least how old he was. No such luck.
Other interesting facts that I found: the witnesses for the marriage were usually always the same people. I suspect that they either worked at the Catholic Church or "hung" around the church's entrance and offered their services as witnesses (probably for a monetary fee).
For the most part it was pleasant to see such good penmanship in the marriage records.
Then I discovered that the author of the marriage records was kind enough to provide an index of those marriages listong names, dates, and numbered log entry very near the end of the marriage log! WOW! What a great concept!