Sunday, August 17, 2008

Dear Corrine-

Although we do not share the same family lines, I
enjoyed reading this email of yours. I wish you good
luck on your future research.

Previously I lived in Santa Maria for a short time
while in grade school. I later graduated from Lompoc
High School in 1965. I have many pleasant memories of
this part of California.

Patricia Burton
San Diego, Ca.

--- Corrine Ardoin wrote:

> Hi, Everyone:
> I updated my genealogy file folder. I added some
> more names to my surname
> list and I placed my updated ancestral charts in the
> file, removing the old
> charts. You will note that one of these charts is
> called a "Preliminary"
> chart. This is because it is the information I am
> basing my research on. I
> put it into chart form to aid my research and show
> Nuestros Ranchos members
> more clearly the direction this body of research is
> heading.
>
> This "Preliminary Cabral Ancestral Chart" is based
> on the research I have
> done on my Cabral family history, plus what I have
> found on the IGI and
> Family Search Pilot website. I put this all
> together with the information I
> have been so fortunate to receive from my newly
> found cousins in
> Guadalajara. Using this chart, I hope to follow
> this as a guide to learning
> more about my Cabral ancestry. I cannot say enough
> kind words of gratitude
> and appreciation to Sergio Alatorre for all his hard
> work and willingness to
> share so much with me. And, I give thanks to his
> brother, Roberto Alatorre,
> and also to Eduardo and Rodrigo Cardenas. I am so
> happy to have found out
> about all of you and I hope that I will be able to
> meet all of you in
> person. Hopefully that will be sooner than later.
> I also hope that we can
> continue to help one another with our research.
>
> My Cabral family history research began with the
> stories handed down and
> certainly embellished and filled in where memory
> began to fail. It was said
> that Benigno Cabral, my great-great-grandfather, was
> a Portuguese merchant
> sea captain and that he had met Pioquinta Gonzalez
> Figueroa and eloped from
> Spain to Zacatecas, Mexico. The full account is a
> wonderful story, but its
> truth yet awaits discovery. I can imagine the
> embellishments added to
> comfort a disquieted child who can't sleep late into
> the night. Yet, fact
> or fiction, it is like a lantern that is held far
> ahead on the path and
> beckons me to follow.
>
> So far, the search has remained primarily in
> Guadalajara where the children
> of Pioquinta and Benigno lived out their lives and
> where, one by one, they
> have all been buried. Finding their birth records
> on the Family Search
> pilot website, I was led to Huejuquilla El Alto,
> Jalisco. In Pioquinta's
> death record that Sergio Alatorre found, it states
> she had come from there
> and it gave her parent's names, Ignacio Gonzalez and
> Antonia Figueroa.
> There was also found a record of one Jose Benigno
> Cabral born to Jose
> Manuel Toribio Cabral and Josefa Limas in Huejucar,
> Jalisco. So, this is
> where I am looking now. I had not been too
> successful in the past, but I
> have had so much help that I feel I am finally
> making progress.
>
> Corrine Ardoin
> Santa Maria, California

Thank you for sharing your progress...it certainly energizes me to stay
motivated in continuing my research of my ancestral lines. I have too found
that the Family Research Pilot website has been a useful tool; I found more
ancestors that my family never knew of. Again, thank you for sharing.

-----Original Message-----
From: general-bounces@lists.nuestrosranchos.org
[mailto:general-bounces@lists.nuestrosranchos.org] On Behalf Of Corrine
Ardoin
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 8:36 AM
To: general@nuestrosranchos.org
Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] Updated My File

Hi, Everyone:
I updated my genealogy file folder. I added some more names to my surname
list and I placed my updated ancestral charts in the file, removing the old
charts. You will note that one of these charts is called a "Preliminary"
chart. This is because it is the information I am basing my research on. I
put it into chart form to aid my research and show Nuestros Ranchos members
more clearly the direction this body of research is heading.

This "Preliminary Cabral Ancestral Chart" is based on the research I have
done on my Cabral family history, plus what I have found on the IGI and
Family Search Pilot website. I put this all together with the information I
have been so fortunate to receive from my newly found cousins in
Guadalajara. Using this chart, I hope to follow this as a guide to learning
more about my Cabral ancestry. I cannot say enough kind words of gratitude
and appreciation to Sergio Alatorre for all his hard work and willingness to
share so much with me. And, I give thanks to his brother, Roberto Alatorre,
and also to Eduardo and Rodrigo Cardenas. I am so happy to have found out
about all of you and I hope that I will be able to meet all of you in
person. Hopefully that will be sooner than later. I also hope that we can
continue to help one another with our research.

My Cabral family history research began with the stories handed down and
certainly embellished and filled in where memory began to fail. It was said
that Benigno Cabral, my great-great-grandfather, was a Portuguese merchant
sea captain and that he had met Pioquinta Gonzalez Figueroa and eloped from
Spain to Zacatecas, Mexico. The full account is a wonderful story, but its
truth yet awaits discovery. I can imagine the embellishments added to
comfort a disquieted child who can't sleep late into the night. Yet, fact
or fiction, it is like a lantern that is held far ahead on the path and
beckons me to follow.

So far, the search has remained primarily in Guadalajara where the children
of Pioquinta and Benigno lived out their lives and where, one by one, they
have all been buried. Finding their birth records on the Family Search
pilot website, I was led to Huejuquilla El Alto, Jalisco. In Pioquinta's
death record that Sergio Alatorre found, it states she had come from there
and it gave her parent's names, Ignacio Gonzalez and Antonia Figueroa.
There was also found a record of one Jose Benigno Cabral born to Jose
Manuel Toribio Cabral and Josefa Limas in Huejucar, Jalisco. So, this is
where I am looking now. I had not been too successful in the past, but I
have had so much help that I feel I am finally making progress.

Corrine Ardoin
Santa Maria, California