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Isabel de Anda Altamirano

Hola,

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Need help reading a document

I need help reading a document. The handwriting in this document is very difficult to read. Is there someone that could help me?

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Hi Anita

Below is a transcription of the marriage record with some edits.

Best Regards
Austin Perez

Blas Esteban Franco y Margarita de Aiala Liberata Diaz de Abrego, mestizos de esta feligresía en San Diego

En el pueblo de San Francisco de Tepatitlan en ocho días del mes de octubre de mil setecientos treinta y seis años, case por palabras de presente y vele in facie ecclesiae a Blas Esteban Franco, mestizo de esta feligresía en el puesto de San Diego, hijo legitimo de Pedro Franco y de Micaela Beserra, difunta, y a Margarita Liberata así mismo mestiza de dicha feligresía en el citado puesto, hija legitima de Augustin de Aiala y de Antonia Diaz de Abrego, difuntos…padrinos Luis Franco y Francisca Gonzales, su esposa

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Anita Rodriguez
Thank you for you help. I believe that Blas Esteban is my 6X great-grandfather. I have the marriage document of my 5X great-grandfather Juan Christobal Franco and it states that his parents were Esteban Franco and Margarita Ramires. Could they be the same people? Could you please transcribe what is written in the margin of this marriage document. It's found in the lower right hand side. Thank you.

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-18570-66490-29?cc=1874591&wc…

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Can't say for sure if they are the same couple. Locating additional baptism records for Blas Esteban's children and marriage records for Juan Cristobal's siblings will help answer whether they are same people.

Below is a transcription of the second margin note which appears to have been added after the marriage record was written.

Salió impedimento de consanguinidad, pero seguida información Vicaría en el que hizo <?> Guadalajara, resulto falso, como conste del despacho que esta en este archivo

Hasta pronto
Austin Perez

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It translates loosely as "an impediment of consanguinity was discovered, however following the Parrish investigation that was done < ? > Guadalajara, the impediment of consanguinity was determined to be false, as recorded in the dispatch which can be found in this archive"

So, at some time, probably after the marriage, it was discovered that the couple were related by blood (consanguinidad) within the grade (3rd cousins or closer relation) that required a marriage dispensation from the Bishop of Nueva Galicia in Guadalajara. After investigations, which typically consists of testimony of 3 or more witnesses, it was determined that there was no impediment of consanguinity.

I'm not that familiar with the Tepatitlan church records but I would guess that the document of the marriage dispensation is probably in the Informacion Matrimonial records for this time period.

Good luck with your search!
Austin Perez

Moctezuma's daughter

I am very interested in this information.  I have worked on my Femat tree that brought me to Monica Romo de Vivar.  Going through her line I came across some of this information but I became confuse

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Calvillo native son, Appointed to the Cathedral in Aguascalientes. Designado a la catedral en Aguascalientes.

Congratulations ! Padre Casimiro Serna Esqueda, best wishes and prayers.

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Ahora que mencionan al Obispo de Aguascalientes, el Sr. José María de la Torre Martín, me gustaría decir que el es originario de Pegueros, una delegación del municipio de Tepatitlán de Morelos, Jalisco.

Saludos.
Jorge Luis Ramírez Gómez.

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Mi hermana me acaba de informar que el obispo Jose Maria De La Torre Martin es pariente y amigo de nuestro tio Panataleon Casillas Alvarez. Mi tio Pantaleone Casillas Alvarez tiene 102 Anos y tiene sabe historias de la familia. Busco los nombres de los padres y abuelos del obispo.
Gracias
R.A.Ricci

Translation Assistance - 1757 Family Drama

On January 28, 1757, Maria Antonia de Carrion (wife of Vicente Gonzalez de Solis) provided testimony - I believe it is in response to the pending marriage of Lugarda Gonzalez de Solis to Joseph Rodrig

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Here is the transcription of a couple of sections, using modern spelling:

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Declaración de María Antonia Carrión, mujer legítima de Vicente González de Solís.
Allá por principio de estos autos, por la media noche, estando yo dormida y en mi propia cama y cuarto, acostadas juntas estaba Lusgarda. González de Solís entre ambas dormidas, y mi puerta cerrada porque así mi dicho esposo la había dejado, y se había ido a Parcaz. Y además de la referida Lusgarda estaban María del Carmen y Joseph González de Solís, y su madre, y Gertrudis de Alarcón. Y estando como dicho todos, entró Joseph Rodríguez y empezó a tentar a los ya dichos. Y quien primero le habló fue Lusgarda Gonzales de Solís diciéndole quién era, y el citado Rodríguez dijo era Pacheco, y que el haber entrado fue en persecución de su legítima --- esposa suya y que se le dio por razón estaba su mujer en el cuarto donde dormía su suegro

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Declaración de María Silbestra, mujer legítima de Joseph Antonio González de Solís.
Que es verdad que la noche que se cita en el ya dicho escrito, es verdad que estuvo en el cuarto de la mencionada María Antonia, acostada con su marido legítimo. Y estando durmiendo entró Joseph Rodríguez y habló con Lusgarda González de solís, ya contenida en estas diligencias. Y que la dicha Lusgarda le habló diciéndole quién era, y el dicho Rodrigue le preguntó que era Joseph Pacheco y que andaba en persecución de la mulata Xacintila y que a mencionada Lusgarda lo hizo sentar sobre una caja, la que está al lado del siniestro de la cama de María Antonia Carrión. Y en ese intermedio -------- García y visto ----- se tapó la cabeza y se arrimó con su esposo y no oyó más ni menos.

So, there were a bunch of people sleeping in a room at midnight when Joseph Rodríguez came in and started touching them. Lusgarda asked him who he was and he claimed to be Joseph Pacheco, and that he was chasing either his wife or the mulatta Xacintilla.

I'm not sure how all this ended.
Regards,
Victoriano Navarro

Dom-05.Oct-2014 Muerte del Padre de Rick Rodriguez, Presidente de la Sociedad de Genealogia e Historia de los Altos de Jalisco

Lupita Gonzalez‎Genealogía e Historia de Los Altos de Jalisco
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El nombre del Padre de Ricardo era el Señor Jose Rosario Rodriguez Gonzalez, nacido el 06-Sep-1948 en Capilla de Guadalupe, Jalisco y muerto el Dom-05-Oct-2014.

Saludos desde Guadalajara, Jalisco:
Tomás Alejandro Villegas Gómez.

Castanon in Valparaiso, Zac

Barbara my Castanon line came from Valparaiso, Zac to Jerez, Zac in abt 1750 but I haven't found any records for them before that. I do not have the Gertrudis Castanon you ask abt in my records.

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Walking in Two Worlds

I've been reading through some of the wonderful posts in regards to struggling with speaking Spanish and the challenges of living in two cultures , just some thoughts ;

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This.

The discussion reminded me of one of my very favorite scenes in the movie "Selena," where Abraham Quintanilla, the father, is telling Selena and her brother, AB, about being Mexican-American as opposed to Mexican or American:

"We have to know John Wayne AND Pedro Infante. We have to know about Frank Sinatra AND Agustin Lara... We've got to prove to the Mexicans how Mexican we are, and we've got to prove to the Americans how American we are...both at the same time. It's exhausting!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw5bA8cVF-E

Recently, I saw another clip by Mexican-American comedian, Eddie G., about being "ni de aqui, ni de alla" while actually being from both backgrounds, living both cultures. I loved how he put it: "We're a force to be reckoned with. We don't fit in because we were BORN TO STAND OUT."

Sandra Velez

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Gandalf3, Ha! You sound just like me. I grew up in the 50s, born in the 30s, mother of native NM stock, Piro tribe, and her people used that term "los del otro lado", Dad from Jerez. I remember no Spanish allowed in schools, and in California when my husband was a teenager, some "chicano" guys beat up a coach who seemed racist towards them, etc. Some cops were bad to them also, pulling them over for no reason. A cousin of mine in NM was told he couldn't use the swimming pool in the motel they were staying in, etc. and the stories go on and on. In order to fit in and progress, you have to immerse yourself in the dominant culture and language, and work to bring about changes, and the Mexicans south of the border don't understand that about us. We have progressed to the point that we can elect an African-American to our highest office, and they have not.

When I visited Mexico City with my husband to see his aunt, she would correct me about how to pronounce "Sears", that it was Seh-ahrs, not Seers, that they would label me as a pocha if they heard me say Seers. So what? They chose to live in Mexico and thought it was so good because they were born and bred there, but I preferred the US because I was born and grew up there. Where you were born and where you grow up is your patria and you don't have to call the land of your ancestors your patria. The US took over the Pueblos of New Mexico in 1852, so we have been Americans for over 150 years now, and I don't ever intend moving to Mexico. I've had to learn more Spanish to help me read Mexican records, but had my ancestors been from France, I would be struggling with French.

Emilie
Port Orchard, WA
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From: gandalf3.1@netzero.com
To: general@lists.nuestrosranchos.org
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 5:19 PM
Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] Walking in Two Worlds

I've been reading through some of the wonderful posts in regards to struggling with speaking Spanish and the challenges of living in two cultures , just some thoughts ;

I grew up in the U.S. in a small mining town located in southeastern Arizona . When my father's family left the villa in Los Altos , they settled in Miami and Jerome Arizona. He came to the states when he was just 2 years old. All of the men in my fathers family were miners, as was my father when he returned to AZ after a stint in the military. My father's first language at home was Spanish, he said he really didn't start speaking English until after he began elementary school. He knew first hand the challenges of not being able to speak english well so he always stressed to my sister and I how important it was to know BOTH languages, it was he said , to our benefit to know more than one language and he was right.

The trouble was, growing up in the Southwest the early 70's, we were not allowed to speak Spanish at school. If you did, you got a trip to the principle's office, or sent home...sad but all too true. We still spoke it at home, but as we continued in school and made non Spanish speaking friends, we used it less and less. That was my first brush with the idea that there was an US and a THEM. Many of you can relate to this I'm sure. Growing up in the States I was just like any other American kid, I listened to Rock and Roll, not corridas , had long hair and loved hot rods. I played football not soccer . Although I loved to hear stories about my family history , I knew nothing of Los Altos...it was another world to me. Many of my friends were in the same boat, some of our familes had been in the US for three or more generations. My mother's people were some of the first settlers in the Tucson area, before Arizona was even a state, who had the right to tell me I didn't belong ?
We
kidded each other in Spanglish...mixing both languages, a hybrid, just like the culture we were growing up in. Back then there was no lable like Hispanic, or even worse, Latino...if you were a Mexican American , you were a Chicano or, if you came from Spanish stock like we did, you were a Hispano, which is a Southwestern term to denote ties to Spain, not a Spanish version of Hispanic.

My home town is 8 or so miles from the Mexican frontera of Sonora. As my friends and I entered high school, we came into contact with other kids who lived right on the border of Sonora and AZ in a small town called Naco. These kids roots were in Sonora proper, their familes were in the US for maybe a genration at the most, they still had strong ties to Mexico and towns like Agua Prieta , Hermosillo and Nogales. Once again I got a taste of US and THEM. We were told by some, not all, that we were not Mexicans, we were pochos, we were lost people who's parents sold out and wanted to be gringos. It had nothing to do with a difference of appearence,it had everything to do with the side of the border you happened to be born on...you were from Mexico or el otro lado, the motherland or the other side, and there was no way to change it, period.

So not only did we have challenges in the Anglo world , constant reminders that we were different . Things like not being able to go swimming at the local Elk's Club pool, or not being able to date certain non Mexican girls, even though many of us, myself included ,were constantly confused with being anything but Mexican because of our light skin . We also had to deal with what I call reverse racism, from other Mexicans who felt we didn't have the right to call ourselves Mexicans , not all of them of course, I must stess this, but to a good amount of Mexicanos we were just pochos.

That is what put me on the path to learning about my family's roots, I was no longer content with what I learned from text books, none of it fit...and forget about movies or pop culture ! To this day everyone with a Spanish surname in a movie is either the bad guy or the girl that gets bedded by the Anglo hero, it's getting better, but not by much. I came to understand totally why people do family research, why I do research... to find MY ancestors. The group that I belong to and cannot deny me entry by right of blood, WHO EVER and WHAT EVER they were...is what I AM.

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Great post! It brought tears to my eyes. I was born and raised in a border town in Sonora and later moved a few yards North of the fence and live in a border city in Arizona. This is a wonderful safe heaven for new immigrants like me. More than 95% of the population speaks Spanish, including the post office and city hall. However, I have worked in other areas in Arizona and California and have seen dealt with stereotypes and discrimination for being a woman in management and for speaking English with a Mexican accent.

Other interesting issues related to our own discrimination is embarrassment for being Mexican or having dark skin and New Mexicans. My husband is a pocho from New Mexico. He thinks he is Spanish and his family gets offended if they are called Mexicans. He is more Mexican than me! Ha Ha! His family has been in New Mexico for more than two hundred years and married the natives and Mexicans there. This was before New Mexico became part of the US. He is from Taos, NM, and I call it the land that time forgot. His family is the Cordovas, one of the founding families of Taos. The traditions and the Spanish that they speak is from two hundred years ago. The people there are very proud of their heritage, which they attribute to Spanish and Native Americans--not Mexicans.

From my mother's side of the family, discrimination against dark skin (brown not black) and against Mexican traditions was strong. My mother and her family were from Tamazula, Jalisco and she moved to Sonora by the border as a pre-teen. My own family looked down on their own traditions. I grew up having turkey for Christmas instead of tamales, and my mother was quick to adapt any new American tradition like Thanksgiving. Being the rebel that I have always been, I live in this Arizona dessert and my skin is now darker as I tan easily (our weather is 110 degrees now!). I like a variety of music including corridos and corriditas to my mother's dismay. I wear rebosos and have a good collection of them.

I feel very fortunate and have assimilated the American culture well. The US is my country, and I am a proud American. Mexico is a part of me and Mexican traditions are part of my life. I have two different cultures that I balance and have found a comfortable mixture of both of them. I am looking for my roots because it is who I am.

Excellente comentario! Se me salieron las lagrimas al leerlo. Naci en Sonora en una frontera y despues me mude unos cuantos metros al norte a una frontera de Arizona. Esta ciudad es como un paraiso para los nuevos emigrantes como yo. Mas del 95% de la poblacion habla espanol, incluyendo el correo y el ayuntamiento. Sin embargo he enfrentado descriminacion en otros lugares de Arizona y de California por ser una mujer en administracion de negocios y por hablar ingles con acento.

Por parte del lado de mi mama la discriminacion era fuerte por el tono de la piel (moreno, no negro) y por las costumbres de Mexico. Mi mama y su familia son de Tamazula, Jalisco y mi mama se mudo a la frontera de Sonora antes de ser una adolecente. Mi propia familia desdenaba sus propias tradiciones. Yo creci teniendo pavo para navidad en lugar de tamales, y mi mama adoptaba rapidamente las costumbres americanas como el dia de accion de gracias. Debido a que siempre he sido rebelde y viviendo en Arizona mi piel se ha hecho mas obscura (tenemos ahorita temperaturas de mas de 110 grados F). Me gustan algunos corridos y las corriditas para admiracion de mi mama. Tambien me gustan y uso rebozos y tengo una colleccion de ellos.

Me siento muy afortunada y he asimilado la cultura americana muy bien. Estados Unidos es mi patria y estoy orgullosa de ser estadounidense. Mexico forma parte de mi misma y las tradiciones mexicanas son parte de mi vida. Tengo dos culturas y he encontrado un buen balance para combinarlas. Estoy buscando mis raices porque esas raices me formaron y son lo que yo soy.

Rosie Cordova

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Thanks Rosie and great post back at you ! Funny you mention turkey, that was the test if you were raised speaking Old Castillian as we were , or Mexican Spanish with it's Nahatul loan words. If you said pavo for turkey you spoke Castillian, if you said guahalote (sp.) you were a Mexicano, or gocho for pig as opposed to coche, which to us was a car ! but caro was a car (auto) for Chicanos...man, are the memories coming back now. Robert ~

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Hi Robert, I a remember my friends and I joking about this, since they always asked why do you speak like that? I always tell thats how I was taught, for me

pavo=turkey

car=coche

cart=carro

pig=cerdo

peach=melecotón not Durazno

Even in Mexico we all speak differently, I think really it just depends, like English we all learn it differently, I sometimes have a small North CArolina ring when I speak because my kindergarten teacher was from North Carolina. like the words Sentence, I pronounce the "t" differently. Thanks teacher! -Daniel

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We all know that racial discrimination is a form of ignornance/fear and a means of making oneself feel superior at someone else's expense. Unfortunately, it's not surprising to find it alive and well in every corner of the world--only the target changes.

I am eternally grateful that my parents immigrated and that I was born and raised in San Antonio, yet I have always felt that culturally, I stradle two worlds. I know that they suffered indignities, endured, and overcame misfortunes in order to give us a better life. I therefore owed it to them and myself to take advantage of what this country has to offer, and I have. In the era that I grew up, to no small degree did having English as my first language allow me to accomplish this. In San Antonio there are many, many others in my position that are community leaders, professionals, and have advanced degrees from prestigious universities. We have had Mexican mayors in the past and have just recently elected an other--Julian Castro. His twin brother, Joaquin Castro is a state representative and both are Harvard grads. I firmly believe that in San Antonio, we are working from within the system to change the wrongs that our fathers endured in the past.

--- rcordovamba@aol.com wrote:

From: rcordovamba@aol.com
To: general@lists.nuestrosranchos.org
Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] Who we are
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 20:40:57 -0700 (PDT)

Great post! It brought tears to my eyes. I was born and raised in a border town in Sonora and later moved a few yards North of the fence and live in a border city in Arizona. This is a wonderful safe heaven for new immigrants like me. More than 95% of the population speaks Spanish, including the post office and city hall. However, I have worked in other areas in Arizona and California and have seen dealt with stereotypes and discrimination for being a woman in management and for speaking English with a Mexican accent.

Other interesting issues related to our own discrimination is embarrassment for being Mexican or having dark skin and New Mexicans. My husband is a pocho from New Mexico. He thinks he is Spanish and his family gets offended if they are called Mexicans. He is more Mexican than me! Ha Ha! His family has been in New Mexico for more than two hundred years and married the natives and Mexicans there. This was before New Mexico became part of the US. He is from Taos, NM, and I call it the land that time forgot. His family is the Cordovas, one of the founding families of Taos. The traditions and the Spanish that they speak is from two hundred years ago. The people there are very proud of their heritage, which they attribute to Spanish and Native Americans--not Mexicans.

>From my mother's side of the family, discrimination against dark skin (brown not black) and against Mexican traditions was strong. My mother and her family were from Tamazula, Jalisco and she moved to Sonora by the border as a pre-teen. My own family looked down on their own traditions. I grew up having turkey for Christmas instead of tamales, and my mother was quick to adapt any new American tradition like Thanksgiving. Being the rebel that I have always been, I live in this Arizona dessert and my skin is now darker as I tan easily (our weather is 110 degrees now!). I like a variety of music including corridos and corriditas to my mother's dismay. I wear rebosos and have a good collection of them.

I feel very fortunate and have assimilated the American culture well. The US is my country, and I am a proud American. Mexico is a part of me and Mexican traditions are part of my life. I have two different cultures that I balance and have found a comfortable mixture of both of them. I am looking for my roots because it is who I am.

Excellente comentario! Se me salieron las lagrimas al leerlo. Naci en Sonora en una frontera y despues me mude unos cuantos metros al norte a una frontera de Arizona. Esta ciudad es como un paraiso para los nuevos emigrantes como yo. Mas del 95% de la poblacion habla espanol, incluyendo el correo y el ayuntamiento. Sin embargo he enfrentado descriminacion en otros lugares de Arizona y de California por ser una mujer en administracion de negocios y por hablar ingles con acento.

Por parte del lado de mi mama la discriminacion era fuerte por el tono de la piel (moreno, no negro) y por las costumbres de Mexico. Mi mama y su familia son de Tamazula, Jalisco y mi mama se mudo a la frontera de Sonora antes de ser una adolecente. Mi propia familia desdenaba sus propias tradiciones. Yo creci teniendo pavo para navidad en lugar de tamales, y mi mama adoptaba rapidamente las costumbres americanas como el dia de accion de gracias. Debido a que siempre he sido rebelde y viviendo en Arizona mi piel se ha hecho mas obscura (tenemos ahorita temperaturas de mas de 110 grados F). Me gustan algunos corridos y las corriditas para admiracion de mi mama. Tambien me gustan y uso rebozos y tengo una colleccion de ellos.

Me siento muy afortunada y he asimilado la cultura americana muy bien. Estados Unidos es mi patria y estoy orgullosa de ser estadounidense. Mexico forma parte de mi misma y las tradiciones mexicanas son parte de mi vida. Tengo dos culturas y he encontrado un buen balance para combinarlas. Estoy buscando mis raices porque esas raices me formaron y son lo que yo soy.

Rosie Cordova

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A esto es a lo que me referia mi comentario de escribir en español, no era para contar historias muy bonitas por cierto, solo de participar en los dos idiomas y mas señalandoles que aqui se llama NUESTROS RANCHOS en español.

Saludos cordiales y felicidades al que comparte su historia y utiliza el español e ingles en su narracion

Antonio Santillan

> To: general@lists.nuestrosranchos.org
> From: rcordovamba@aol.com
> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 20:40:57 -0700
> Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] Who we are
>
> Great post! It brought tears to my eyes. I was born and raised in a border town in Sonora and later moved a few yards North of the fence and live in a border city in Arizona. This is a wonderful safe heaven for new immigrants like me. More than 95% of the population speaks Spanish, including the post office and city hall. However, I have worked in other areas in Arizona and California and have seen dealt with stereotypes and discrimination for being a woman in management and for speaking English with a Mexican accent.
>
> Other interesting issues related to our own discrimination is embarrassment for being Mexican or having dark skin and New Mexicans. My husband is a pocho from New Mexico. He thinks he is Spanish and his family gets offended if they are called Mexicans. He is more Mexican than me! Ha Ha! His family has been in New Mexico for more than two hundred years and married the natives and Mexicans there. This was before New Mexico became part of the US. He is from Taos, NM, and I call it the land that time forgot. His family is the Cordovas, one of the founding families of Taos. The traditions and the Spanish that they speak is from two hundred years ago. The people there are very proud of their heritage, which they attribute to Spanish and Native Americans--not Mexicans.
>
> >From my mother's side of the family, discrimination against dark skin (brown not black) and against Mexican traditions was strong. My mother and her family were from Tamazula, Jalisco and she moved to Sonora by the border as a pre-teen. My own family looked down on their own traditions. I grew up having turkey for Christmas instead of tamales, and my mother was quick to adapt any new American tradition like Thanksgiving. Being the rebel that I have always been, I live in this Arizona dessert and my skin is now darker as I tan easily (our weather is 110 degrees now!). I like a variety of music including corridos and corriditas to my mother's dismay. I wear rebosos and have a good collection of them.
>
> I feel very fortunate and have assimilated the American culture well. The US is my country, and I am a proud American. Mexico is a part of me and Mexican traditions are part of my life. I have two different cultures that I balance and have found a comfortable mixture of both of them. I am looking for my roots because it is who I am.
>
>
>
> Excellente comentario! Se me salieron las lagrimas al leerlo. Naci en Sonora en una frontera y despues me mude unos cuantos metros al norte a una frontera de Arizona. Esta ciudad es como un paraiso para los nuevos emigrantes como yo. Mas del 95% de la poblacion habla espanol, incluyendo el correo y el ayuntamiento. Sin embargo he enfrentado descriminacion en otros lugares de Arizona y de California por ser una mujer en administracion de negocios y por hablar ingles con acento.
>
> Por parte del lado de mi mama la discriminacion era fuerte por el tono de la piel (moreno, no negro) y por las costumbres de Mexico. Mi mama y su familia son de Tamazula, Jalisco y mi mama se mudo a la frontera de Sonora antes de ser una adolecente. Mi propia familia desdenaba sus propias tradiciones. Yo creci teniendo pavo para navidad en lugar de tamales, y mi mama adoptaba rapidamente las costumbres americanas como el dia de accion de gracias. Debido a que siempre he sido rebelde y viviendo en Arizona mi piel se ha hecho mas obscura (tenemos ahorita temperaturas de mas de 110 grados F). Me gustan algunos corridos y las corriditas para admiracion de mi mama. Tambien me gustan y uso rebozos y tengo una colleccion de ellos.
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> Me siento muy afortunada y he asimilado la cultura americana muy bien. Estados Unidos es mi patria y estoy orgullosa de ser estadounidense. Mexico forma parte de mi misma y las tradiciones mexicanas son parte de mi vida. Tengo dos culturas y he encontrado un buen balance para combinarlas. Estoy buscando mis raices porque esas raices me formaron y son lo que yo soy.
>
> Rosie Cordova

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Antonio,

A que te refieres? No me gusta tu tono. Tu vas a participar en las dos idiomas!? Yo no puedo participar como tu en espanol. Si tu no puedes participar en ingles, voy a usar un servicio de traduccion como del Google, etc. para leer tus e-mails.

Si, aqui se llama NUESTROS RANCHOS porque nuestros antecedentes tal vez vinieron de ranchos de mexico, pero el webmaster Arturo y el moderator Joseph son estadounidenses y pusieron este site sin pedir ninguna cosa de nosotros, y los primeros participantes aqui somos estadounidense. Unos podemos participar en dos idiomas, otros solamente en ingles o solamente en espanol como tu. Yo creo que puedes escribir en ingles, no? Sera interesante cuantos del grupo hablan solamente una idioma, sea ingles o espanol. Yo so miembro en otras sites de genealogia en mexico donde se habla solamente espanol y no les voy a decir que tienen que escribir en ingles.

Nuestros Ranchos tiene tres nombres para los e-mails: "general" es para "contar historias muy bonitas" etc, "research" es para temas de arboles de genealogia, y "announce" es para anuncios.

Perdoname mi pobre espanol, pero este e-mail es el unico que vas ver en espanol de mi parte. Dejo a otros que son realmente bilingue que participen en las dos idiomas si quieren, y estara bien conmigo si no.

Saludos cordiales,

Emilie
Port Orchard, Estado de Washington, Estados Unidos - USA

----- Original Message -----
From: Antonio Santillan
To: general@nuestrosranchos.org
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Who we are

A esto es a lo que me referia mi comentario de escribir en español, no era para contar historias muy bonitas por cierto, solo de participar en los dos idiomas y mas señalandoles que aqui se llama NUESTROS RANCHOS en español.

Saludos cordiales y felicidades al que comparte su historia y utiliza el español e ingles en su narracion

Antonio Santillan

> To: general@lists.nuestrosranchos.org
> From: rcordovamba@aol.com
> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 20:40:57 -0700
> Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] Who we are
>
> Great post! It brought tears to my eyes. I was born and raised in a border town in Sonora and later moved a few yards North of the fence and live in a border city in Arizona. This is a wonderful safe heaven for new immigrants like me. More than 95% of the population speaks Spanish, including the post office and city hall. However, I have worked in other areas in Arizona and California and have seen dealt with stereotypes and discrimination for being a woman in management and for speaking English with a Mexican accent.
>
> Other interesting issues related to our own discrimination is embarrassment for being Mexican or having dark skin and New Mexicans. My husband is a pocho from New Mexico. He thinks he is Spanish and his family gets offended if they are called Mexicans. He is more Mexican than me! Ha Ha! His family has been in New Mexico for more than two hundred years and married the natives and Mexicans there. This was before New Mexico became part of the US. He is from Taos, NM, and I call it the land that time forgot. His family is the Cordovas, one of the founding families of Taos. The traditions and the Spanish that they speak is from two hundred years ago. The people there are very proud of their heritage, which they attribute to Spanish and Native Americans--not Mexicans.
>
> >From my mother's side of the family, discrimination against dark skin (brown not black) and against Mexican traditions was strong. My mother and her family were from Tamazula, Jalisco and she moved to Sonora by the border as a pre-teen. My own family looked down on their own traditions. I grew up having turkey for Christmas instead of tamales, and my mother was quick to adapt any new American tradition like Thanksgiving. Being the rebel that I have always been, I live in this Arizona dessert and my skin is now darker as I tan easily (our weather is 110 degrees now!). I like a variety of music including corridos and corriditas to my mother's dismay. I wear rebosos and have a good collection of them.
>
> I feel very fortunate and have assimilated the American culture well. The US is my country, and I am a proud American. Mexico is a part of me and Mexican traditions are part of my life. I have two different cultures that I balance and have found a comfortable mixture of both of them. I am looking for my roots because it is who I am.
>
>
>
> Excellente comentario! Se me salieron las lagrimas al leerlo. Naci en Sonora en una frontera y despues me mude unos cuantos metros al norte a una frontera de Arizona. Esta ciudad es como un paraiso para los nuevos emigrantes como yo. Mas del 95% de la poblacion habla espanol, incluyendo el correo y el ayuntamiento. Sin embargo he enfrentado descriminacion en otros lugares de Arizona y de California por ser una mujer en administracion de negocios y por hablar ingles con acento.
>
> Por parte del lado de mi mama la discriminacion era fuerte por el tono de la piel (moreno, no negro) y por las costumbres de Mexico. Mi mama y su familia son de Tamazula, Jalisco y mi mama se mudo a la frontera de Sonora antes de ser una adolecente. Mi propia familia desdenaba sus propias tradiciones. Yo creci teniendo pavo para navidad en lugar de tamales, y mi mama adoptaba rapidamente las costumbres americanas como el dia de accion de gracias. Debido a que siempre he sido rebelde y viviendo en Arizona mi piel se ha hecho mas obscura (tenemos ahorita temperaturas de mas de 110 grados F). Me gustan algunos corridos y las corriditas para admiracion de mi mama. Tambien me gustan y uso rebozos y tengo una colleccion de ellos.
>
> Me siento muy afortunada y he asimilado la cultura americana muy bien. Estados Unidos es mi patria y estoy orgullosa de ser estadounidense. Mexico forma parte de mi misma y las tradiciones mexicanas son parte de mi vida. Tengo dos culturas y he encontrado un buen balance para combinarlas. Estoy buscando mis raices porque esas raices me formaron y son lo que yo soy.
>
> Rosie Cordova

Comentario

Thanks, Emilie. I've taught English to students from all over the world at a local high school for nineteen years. Every year my students from Mexico are irritated by the fact that many of our US students of Mexican descent don't speak Spanish. They actually believe that they can speak Spanish and merely choose not to use it. I try to explain that most of their families have been in the US for generations, and for various unfortunate reasons, have lost the language. They still don't believe it, and respond: "como puede ser, si tienen el nopal en la frente". Alice BB

--- auntyemfaustus@hotmail.com wrote:

From: "Emilie Garcia"
To:
Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Who we are
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 10:48:43 -0700

Antonio,

A que te refieres? No me gusta tu tono. Tu vas a participar en las dos idiomas!? Yo no puedo participar como tu en espanol. Si tu no puedes participar en ingles, voy a usar un servicio de traduccion como del Google, etc. para leer tus e-mails.

Si, aqui se llama NUESTROS RANCHOS porque nuestros antecedentes tal vez vinieron de ranchos de mexico, pero el webmaster Arturo y el moderator Joseph son estadounidenses y pusieron este site sin pedir ninguna cosa de nosotros, y los primeros participantes aqui somos estadounidense. Unos podemos participar en dos idiomas, otros solamente en ingles o solamente en espanol como tu. Yo creo que puedes escribir en ingles, no? Sera interesante cuantos del grupo hablan solamente una idioma, sea ingles o espanol. Yo so miembro en otras sites de genealogia en mexico donde se habla solamente espanol y no les voy a decir que tienen que escribir en ingles.

Nuestros Ranchos tiene tres nombres para los e-mails: "general" es para "contar historias muy bonitas" etc, "research" es para temas de arboles de genealogia, y "announce" es para anuncios.

Perdoname mi pobre espanol, pero este e-mail es el unico que vas ver en espanol de mi parte. Dejo a otros que son realmente bilingue que participen en las dos idiomas si quieren, y estara bien conmigo si no.

Saludos cordiales,

Emilie
Port Orchard, Estado de Washington, Estados Unidos - USA

----- Original Message -----
From: Antonio Santillan
To: general@nuestrosranchos.org
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Who we are

A esto es a lo que me referia mi comentario de escribir en español, no era para contar historias muy bonitas por cierto, solo de participar en los dos idiomas y mas señalandoles que aqui se llama NUESTROS RANCHOS en español.

Saludos cordiales y felicidades al que comparte su historia y utiliza el español e ingles en su narracion

Antonio Santillan

> To: general@lists.nuestrosranchos.org
> From: rcordovamba@aol.com
> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 20:40:57 -0700
> Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] Who we are
>
> Great post! It brought tears to my eyes. I was born and raised in a border town in Sonora and later moved a few yards North of the fence and live in a border city in Arizona. This is a wonderful safe heaven for new immigrants like me. More than 95% of the population speaks Spanish, including the post office and city hall. However, I have worked in other areas in Arizona and California and have seen dealt with stereotypes and discrimination for being a woman in management and for speaking English with a Mexican accent.
>
> Other interesting issues related to our own discrimination is embarrassment for being Mexican or having dark skin and New Mexicans. My husband is a pocho from New Mexico. He thinks he is Spanish and his family gets offended if they are called Mexicans. He is more Mexican than me! Ha Ha! His family has been in New Mexico for more than two hundred years and married the natives and Mexicans there. This was before New Mexico became part of the US. He is from Taos, NM, and I call it the land that time forgot. His family is the Cordovas, one of the founding families of Taos. The traditions and the Spanish that they speak is from two hundred years ago. The people there are very proud of their heritage, which they attribute to Spanish and Native Americans--not Mexicans.
>
> >From my mother's side of the family, discrimination against dark skin (brown not black) and against Mexican traditions was strong. My mother and her family were from Tamazula, Jalisco and she moved to Sonora by the border as a pre-teen. My own family looked down on their own traditions. I grew up having turkey for Christmas instead of tamales, and my mother was quick to adapt any new American tradition like Thanksgiving. Being the rebel that I have always been, I live in this Arizona dessert and my skin is now darker as I tan easily (our weather is 110 degrees now!). I like a variety of music including corridos and corriditas to my mother's dismay. I wear rebosos and have a good collection of them.
>
> I feel very fortunate and have assimilated the American culture well. The US is my country, and I am a proud American. Mexico is a part of me and Mexican traditions are part of my life. I have two different cultures that I balance and have found a comfortable mixture of both of them. I am looking for my roots because it is who I am.
>
>
>
> Excellente comentario! Se me salieron las lagrimas al leerlo. Naci en Sonora en una frontera y despues me mude unos cuantos metros al norte a una frontera de Arizona. Esta ciudad es como un paraiso para los nuevos emigrantes como yo. Mas del 95% de la poblacion habla espanol, incluyendo el correo y el ayuntamiento. Sin embargo he enfrentado descriminacion en otros lugares de Arizona y de California por ser una mujer en administracion de negocios y por hablar ingles con acento.
>
> Por parte del lado de mi mama la discriminacion era fuerte por el tono de la piel (moreno, no negro) y por las costumbres de Mexico. Mi mama y su familia son de Tamazula, Jalisco y mi mama se mudo a la frontera de Sonora antes de ser una adolecente. Mi propia familia desdenaba sus propias tradiciones. Yo creci teniendo pavo para navidad en lugar de tamales, y mi mama adoptaba rapidamente las costumbres americanas como el dia de accion de gracias. Debido a que siempre he sido rebelde y viviendo en Arizona mi piel se ha hecho mas obscura (tenemos ahorita temperaturas de mas de 110 grados F). Me gustan algunos corridos y las corriditas para admiracion de mi mama. Tambien me gustan y uso rebozos y tengo una colleccion de ellos.
>
> Me siento muy afortunada y he asimilado la cultura americana muy bien. Estados Unidos es mi patria y estoy orgullosa de ser estadounidense. Mexico forma parte de mi misma y las tradiciones mexicanas son parte de mi vida. Tengo dos culturas y he encontrado un buen balance para combinarlas. Estoy buscando mis raices porque esas raices me formaron y son lo que yo soy.
>
> Rosie Cordova

Comentario

A long time ago, I learned that few of us are truly bi-lingual
(grandparents came to US during the early 1900's).. That is....our emotional language
is our first language. For example, I speak Spanish with babies and when I
am loving or embracing someone with my presence. "O, que linda....que
chula...como to de adoro"....and of course anger....(smile).

I observe my husband (born in Mexico) still do his math calculations in
Spanish, even though he came here at 10 years old.

Our second language becomes our academic and social language (for those of
us educated for the majority of our life in the US). How I wish I could
communicate as effectively in Spanish as I do in English.

The fact is that my ancestors had very little education and spoke Spanish
to communicate, but could not read or write. This translates to the
Spanish that I know....it is colloquial, limited to "ranchero" background (and as
a city dweller am often confused by the usage of verbs/nouns). Spanish is
the language of love for me, the language of my ancestors. As a young
one, I was asked to write letters to family members on their behalf - they
would dictate....and I would phonetically write.

Indeed, I am the last of the "Mohicans" on our Luna/Herrera side of the
family that can speak, read, and write Spanish....but it was not because I
studied the language...it was because of my personality....wanting to
communicate. I am deeply aware of my limitations....I feel like the "india" in
the Spanish household...especially when someone expects me to speak the
language of my ancestors with fluency....hmmm....I would argue that it is the
same process as losing our indigenous tongue....and could counter this
standard argument "why is it that you don't speak our native tongue?" (My
husband's grandmother was Tarrascan....but embarrassed to speak it because of
the dominant culture, except when she was around her people or angered or
being loving).

By the way, I am highly educated...possessing 3 masters degrees....

I suppose I could translate this....but it would not possess the strength
of someone who was truly versatile in the language....and if anyone cares
to....please translate this for the relatives left behind.....

Esperanza
Chicagoland area
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Comentario

Esperanza,

Would you be related to any of the Luna/Herrera family in Pueblo, Colorado?

----- Original Message -----
From: Latina1955@aol.com
To: general@nuestrosranchos.org
Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2009 9:25:13 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Who we are

A long time ago, I learned that few of us are truly bi-lingual  
(grandparents came to US during the early 1900's)..  That is....our  emotional language
is our first language. For example, I speak Spanish with  babies and when I
am loving or embracing someone with my presence.  "O, que  linda....que
chula...como to de adoro"....and of course anger....(smile).
 
I observe my husband (born in Mexico) still do his math calculations in  
Spanish, even though he came here at 10 years old.
 
Our second language becomes our academic and social language (for  those of
us educated for the majority of our life in the US).  How I wish I  could
communicate as effectively in Spanish as I do in English.
 
The fact is that my ancestors had very little education and spoke Spanish  
to communicate, but could not read or write.  This translates to the  
Spanish that I know....it is colloquial, limited to "ranchero" background (and  as
a city dweller am often confused by the usage of verbs/nouns).  Spanish  is
the language of love for me, the language of my ancestors.  As a young  
one, I was asked to write letters to family members on their behalf - they
would  dictate....and I would phonetically write.  
 
Indeed, I am the last of the "Mohicans"  on our Luna/Herrera side of  the
family that can speak, read, and write Spanish....but it was not because I  
studied the language...it was because of my personality....wanting to  
communicate.  I am deeply aware of my limitations....I feel like the  "india" in
the Spanish household...especially when someone expects me to speak  the
language of my ancestors with fluency....hmmm....I would argue that it is  the
same process as losing our indigenous tongue....and could counter this  
standard argument "why is it that you don't speak our native tongue?"  (My  
husband's grandmother was Tarrascan....but embarrassed to speak it because of  
the dominant culture, except when she was around her people or angered or
being  loving).
 
By the way, I am highly educated...possessing 3 masters degrees....
 
I suppose I could translate this....but it would not possess the strength  
of someone who was truly versatile in the language....and if anyone cares  
to....please translate this for the relatives left behind.....
 
Esperanza
Chicagoland area
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Comentario

I don't think so but am unsure......I have been able to trace the Herrera
side of the family in Tlaltenango, but am stunted with the Luna side - this
is what I have been able to verify:

Felix Luna married (1851)
Maria de los Angeles Trejo (b) 8/5/1825: Parents: Jose Tomas Trejo(m)
5/16/1827 & Maria Tereza de Jesus Espinoza
1) Atanacio baptized 1855
2) Maria Petra bapt 6/30/1856
3) Margarito Luna bapt 6/12/1853 married (5/24/1876) Regina Herrera
Florensina Miramontes 5/2/1849 (married previously???)
1) Atanacio Luna Trejo bapt: 8/15/1855 m(10/21/1874)
Maria Florencia Corchado bapt:2/25/1858
1) Manuel Luna Herrera b 11/22/1888 d 1/21/1944 m. Norberta Herrera
Ynigues b 1894 d 3/6/1941
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Comentario

MMM. Since we're on Luna subject.
How about Guerrero De Luna? Do you have anything on this one?
Thank advances..

Robert R
P+25

________________________________
From: "Latina1955@aol.com"
To: general@nuestrosranchos.org
Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2009 12:13:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Who we are

I don't think so but am unsure......I have been able to trace the Herrera 
side of the family in Tlaltenango, but am stunted with the Luna side - this
is  what I have been able to verify:

Felix Luna married (1851)
Maria de los Angeles Trejo (b) 8/5/1825: Parents: Jose Tomas Trejo(m) 
5/16/1827 & Maria Tereza de Jesus Espinoza
1)    Atanacio baptized 1855
2)    Maria Petra bapt 6/30/1856
3)    Margarito Luna bapt 6/12/1853 married (5/24/1876) Regina  Herrera
Florensina Miramontes 5/2/1849 (married  previously???)
1) Atanacio Luna Trejo bapt:  8/15/1855 m(10/21/1874)
Maria Florencia Corchado  bapt:2/25/1858
1)    Manuel Luna Herrera b 11/22/1888 d 1/21/1944 m. Norberta Herrera
Ynigues  b 1894 d 3/6/1941
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Comentario

Very well said Esperanza. I think the majority of us who are second to third generation born in the US fall in this profile. From birth to my very early years, when not with my parents, I spent a great deal of time with my maternal grandparents who spoke only Spanish. Because of this I was fluent in Spanish until about age nine. Once entering school much of that fluency was lost as English dominated both social and personal life. My parents were both first generation US citizens and grew up during a time when speaking Spanish resulted in punishment in school, so although they often spoke to each other in Spanish, then spoke to us in English. I was lucky enough to have my grandmother until she died in 1987 at age 93 so I was able to keep up my Spanish, however, once she passed the frequency of the use of Spanish for me became pretty limited. Like you, I too and most of the cousins of my generation, are the "last of the Mohicans" when it comes to
speaking and writing Spanish.

Olivia
Rowland Heights, CA

________________________________
From: "Latina1955@aol.com"
To: general@nuestrosranchos.org
Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2009 9:25:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Who we are

A long time ago, I learned that few of us are truly bi-lingual
(grandparents came to US during the early 1900's).. That is....our emotional language
is our first language. For example, I speak Spanish with babies and when I
am loving or embracing someone with my presence. "O, que linda....que
chula...como to de adoro"....and of course anger....(smile).

I observe my husband (born in Mexico) still do his math calculations in
Spanish, even though he came here at 10 years old.

Our second language becomes our academic and social language (for those of
us educated for the majority of our life in the US). How I wish I could
communicate as effectively in Spanish as I do in English.

The fact is that my ancestors had very little education and spoke Spanish
to communicate, but could not read or write. This translates to the
Spanish that I know....it is colloquial, limited to "ranchero" background (and as
a city dweller am often confused by the usage of verbs/nouns). Spanish is
the language of love for me, the language of my ancestors. As a young
one, I was asked to write letters to family members on their behalf - they
would dictate....and I would phonetically write.

Indeed, I am the last of the "Mohicans" on our Luna/Herrera side of the
family that can speak, read, and write Spanish....but it was not because I
studied the language...it was because of my personality....wanting to
communicate. I am deeply aware of my limitations....I feel like the "india" in
the Spanish household...especially when someone expects me to speak the
language of my ancestors with fluency....hmmm....I would argue that it is the
same process as losing our indigenous tongue....and could counter this
standard argument "why is it that you don't speak our native tongue?" (My
husband's grandmother was Tarrascan....but embarrassed to speak it because of
the dominant culture, except when she was around her people or angered or
being loving).

By the way, I am highly educated...possessing 3 masters degrees....

I suppose I could translate this....but it would not possess the strength
of someone who was truly versatile in the language....and if anyone cares
to....please translate this for the relatives left behind.....

Esperanza
Chicagoland area
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Comentario

Well said, Esperanza!

Emilie
----- Original Message -----
From: Latina1955@aol.com
To: general@nuestrosranchos.org
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Who we are

A long time ago, I learned that few of us are truly bi-lingual
(grandparents came to US during the early 1900's).. That is....our emotional language
is our first language. For example, I speak Spanish with babies and when I
am loving or embracing someone with my presence. "O, que linda....que
chula...como to de adoro"....and of course anger....(smile).

I observe my husband (born in Mexico) still do his math calculations in
Spanish, even though he came here at 10 years old.

Our second language becomes our academic and social language (for those of
us educated for the majority of our life in the US). How I wish I could
communicate as effectively in Spanish as I do in English.

The fact is that my ancestors had very little education and spoke Spanish
to communicate, but could not read or write. This translates to the
Spanish that I know....it is colloquial, limited to "ranchero" background (and as
a city dweller am often confused by the usage of verbs/nouns). Spanish is
the language of love for me, the language of my ancestors. As a young
one, I was asked to write letters to family members on their behalf - they
would dictate....and I would phonetically write.

Indeed, I am the last of the "Mohicans" on our Luna/Herrera side of the
family that can speak, read, and write Spanish....but it was not because I
studied the language...it was because of my personality....wanting to
communicate. I am deeply aware of my limitations....I feel like the "india" in
the Spanish household...especially when someone expects me to speak the
language of my ancestors with fluency....hmmm....I would argue that it is the
same process as losing our indigenous tongue....and could counter this
standard argument "why is it that you don't speak our native tongue?" (My
husband's grandmother was Tarrascan....but embarrassed to speak it because of
the dominant culture, except when she was around her people or angered or
being loving).

By the way, I am highly educated...possessing 3 masters degrees....

I suppose I could translate this....but it would not possess the strength
of someone who was truly versatile in the language....and if anyone cares
to....please translate this for the relatives left behind.....

Esperanza
Chicagoland area
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Comentario

Hi Esperanza,

I came across your post I am descended from Calletano de Luna + Barbara Marin Herrera. Are you my long lost cousin?

Harry Mercado

Comentario

Yes, Alice,

I was once told by a red-headed, blue-eyed Mexican that I should speak Spanish because of my "face". Well, I guess I should speak Nahuatl or Tewa and not Spanish, since I have a Native American face and not a Spanish face. I told that guy that by his reasoning he should speak English because he looked like an Anglo. Se nos ve en la cara que somos indijenos, pues debemos hablar Nahuatl en vez de espanol. Ha!

Emilie
----- Original Message -----
From: AliceBB
To: general@nuestrosranchos.org
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Who we are

Thanks, Emilie. I've taught English to students from all over the world at a local high school for nineteen years. Every year my students from Mexico are irritated by the fact that many of our US students of Mexican descent don't speak Spanish. They actually believe that they can speak Spanish and merely choose not to use it. I try to explain that most of their families have been in the US for generations, and for various unfortunate reasons, have lost the language. They still don't believe it, and respond: "como puede ser, si tienen el nopal en la frente". Alice BB

--- auntyemfaustus@hotmail.com wrote:

From: "Emilie Garcia" >
To: >
Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Who we are
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 10:48:43 -0700

Antonio,

A que te refieres? No me gusta tu tono. Tu vas a participar en las dos idiomas!? Yo no puedo participar como tu en espanol. Si tu no puedes participar en ingles, voy a usar un servicio de traduccion como del Google, etc. para leer tus e-mails.

Si, aqui se llama NUESTROS RANCHOS porque nuestros antecedentes tal vez vinieron de ranchos de mexico, pero el webmaster Arturo y el moderator Joseph son estadounidenses y pusieron este site sin pedir ninguna cosa de nosotros, y los primeros participantes aqui somos estadounidense. Unos podemos participar en dos idiomas, otros solamente en ingles o solamente en espanol como tu. Yo creo que puedes escribir en ingles, no? Sera interesante cuantos del grupo hablan solamente una idioma, sea ingles o espanol. Yo so miembro en otras sites de genealogia en mexico donde se habla solamente espanol y no les voy a decir que tienen que escribir en ingles.

Nuestros Ranchos tiene tres nombres para los e-mails: "general" es para "contar historias muy bonitas" etc, "research" es para temas de arboles de genealogia, y "announce" es para anuncios.

Perdoname mi pobre espanol, pero este e-mail es el unico que vas ver en espanol de mi parte. Dejo a otros que son realmente bilingue que participen en las dos idiomas si quieren, y estara bien conmigo si no.

Saludos cordiales,

Emilie
Port Orchard, Estado de Washington, Estados Unidos - USA

----- Original Message -----
From: Antonio Santillan>
To: general@nuestrosranchos.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Who we are

A esto es a lo que me referia mi comentario de escribir en español, no era para contar historias muy bonitas por cierto, solo de participar en los dos idiomas y mas señalandoles que aqui se llama NUESTROS RANCHOS en español.

Saludos cordiales y felicidades al que comparte su historia y utiliza el español e ingles en su narracion

Antonio Santillan

> To: general@lists.nuestrosranchos.org>
> From: rcordovamba@aol.com>
> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 20:40:57 -0700
> Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] Who we are
>
> Great post! It brought tears to my eyes. I was born and raised in a border town in Sonora and later moved a few yards North of the fence and live in a border city in Arizona. This is a wonderful safe heaven for new immigrants like me. More than 95% of the population speaks Spanish, including the post office and city hall. However, I have worked in other areas in Arizona and California and have seen dealt with stereotypes and discrimination for being a woman in management and for speaking English with a Mexican accent.
>
> Other interesting issues related to our own discrimination is embarrassment for being Mexican or having dark skin and New Mexicans. My husband is a pocho from New Mexico. He thinks he is Spanish and his family gets offended if they are called Mexicans. He is more Mexican than me! Ha Ha! His family has been in New Mexico for more than two hundred years and married the natives and Mexicans there. This was before New Mexico became part of the US. He is from Taos, NM, and I call it the land that time forgot. His family is the Cordovas, one of the founding families of Taos. The traditions and the Spanish that they speak is from two hundred years ago. The people there are very proud of their heritage, which they attribute to Spanish and Native Americans--not Mexicans.
>
> >From my mother's side of the family, discrimination against dark skin (brown not black) and against Mexican traditions was strong. My mother and her family were from Tamazula, Jalisco and she moved to Sonora by the border as a pre-teen. My own family looked down on their own traditions. I grew up having turkey for Christmas instead of tamales, and my mother was quick to adapt any new American tradition like Thanksgiving. Being the rebel that I have always been, I live in this Arizona dessert and my skin is now darker as I tan easily (our weather is 110 degrees now!). I like a variety of music including corridos and corriditas to my mother's dismay. I wear rebosos and have a good collection of them.
>
> I feel very fortunate and have assimilated the American culture well. The US is my country, and I am a proud American. Mexico is a part of me and Mexican traditions are part of my life. I have two different cultures that I balance and have found a comfortable mixture of both of them. I am looking for my roots because it is who I am.
>
>
>
> Excellente comentario! Se me salieron las lagrimas al leerlo. Naci en Sonora en una frontera y despues me mude unos cuantos metros al norte a una frontera de Arizona. Esta ciudad es como un paraiso para los nuevos emigrantes como yo. Mas del 95% de la poblacion habla espanol, incluyendo el correo y el ayuntamiento. Sin embargo he enfrentado descriminacion en otros lugares de Arizona y de California por ser una mujer en administracion de negocios y por hablar ingles con acento.
>
> Por parte del lado de mi mama la discriminacion era fuerte por el tono de la piel (moreno, no negro) y por las costumbres de Mexico. Mi mama y su familia son de Tamazula, Jalisco y mi mama se mudo a la frontera de Sonora antes de ser una adolecente. Mi propia familia desdenaba sus propias tradiciones. Yo creci teniendo pavo para navidad en lugar de tamales, y mi mama adoptaba rapidamente las costumbres americanas como el dia de accion de gracias. Debido a que siempre he sido rebelde y viviendo en Arizona mi piel se ha hecho mas obscura (tenemos ahorita temperaturas de mas de 110 grados F). Me gustan algunos corridos y las corriditas para admiracion de mi mama. Tambien me gustan y uso rebozos y tengo una colleccion de ellos.
>
> Me siento muy afortunada y he asimilado la cultura americana muy bien. Estados Unidos es mi patria y estoy orgullosa de ser estadounidense. Mexico forma parte de mi misma y las tradiciones mexicanas son parte de mi vida. Tengo dos culturas y he encontrado un buen balance para combinarlas. Estoy buscando mis raices porque esas raices me formaron y son lo que yo soy.
>
> Rosie Cordova

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My Canales came from Zacatecas, what was the firing squad all about?  bc
--- On Tue, 7/7/09, Emilie Garcia wrote:

From: Emilie Garcia
Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Walking in Two Worlds
To: general@nuestrosranchos.org
Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 1:11 AM

Linda,

My grandfather from Jerez and his brother and brother in law had a choice; stay in Zacatecas and face a firing squad or get on a train to the border in 1913.  None of them ever went back, and they remained in seclusion until the 1940s.  They weren't alone; thousands came over the border, and the US welcomed them, right?

Emilie
Port Orchard, WA
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Erlinda Castanon-Long
  To: general@nuestrosranchos.org ; gandalf3.1@netzero.com
  Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 5:58 PM
  Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Walking in Two Worlds

  Well said but you did not post your name? Who do we thank for sharing this line of thought that reflects so much on many of us.. I'd forgotten the word Pocho, another put down..

  When I was in my paternal ancestral home in Jerez, the locals destinguished between the families who left during the revolution, like mine, and those who stayed through the hard times. The locals who's ancestors stayed felt very proud and sad for those of us who's ancestors left.

  Linda in B.C.

  --- On Mon, 7/6/09, gandalf3.1@netzero.com > wrote:

  From: gandalf3.1@netzero.com >
  Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] Walking in Two Worlds
  To: general@lists.nuestrosranchos.org
  Date: Monday, July 6, 2009, 5:19 PM

  I've been reading through some of the wonderful posts in regards to struggling with speaking Spanish and the challenges of living in two cultures , just some thoughts ;

  I grew up in the U.S. in a small mining town located in southeastern Arizona . When my father's family left the villa in Los Altos , they settled in Miami and Jerome Arizona. He came to the states when he was just 2 years old. All of the men in my fathers family were miners, as was my father when he returned to AZ after a stint in the military. My father's first language at home was Spanish, he said he really didn't start speaking English until after he began elementary school. He knew first hand the challenges of not being able to speak english well so he always stressed to my sister and I how important it was to know BOTH languages, it was he said , to our benefit to know more than one language and he was right.

  The trouble was, growing up in the Southwest the early 70's, we were not allowed to speak Spanish at school. If you did, you got a trip to the principle's office, or sent home...sad but all too true. We still spoke it at home, but as we continued in school and made non Spanish speaking friends, we used it less and less. That was my first brush with the idea that there was an US and a THEM. Many of you can relate to this I'm sure. Growing up in the States I was just like any other American kid, I listened to Rock and Roll, not corridas , had long hair and loved hot rods. I played football not soccer . Although I loved to hear stories about my family history , I knew nothing of Los Altos...it was another world to me. Many of my friends were in the same boat, some of our familes had been in the US for three or more generations. My mother's people were some of the first settlers in the Tucson area, before Arizona was even a state, who had the right to
tell
   me I didn't belong ? We
  kidded each other in Spanglish...mixing both languages, a hybrid, just like the culture we were growing up in. Back then there was no lable like Hispanic, or even worse, Latino...if you were a Mexican American , you were a Chicano or, if you came from Spanish stock like we did, you were a Hispano, which is a Southwestern term to denote ties to Spain, not a Spanish version of Hispanic.
  My home town is 8 or so miles from the Mexican frontera of Sonora. As my friends and I entered high school, we came into contact with other kids who lived right on the border of Sonora and AZ in a small town called Naco. These kids roots were in Sonora proper, their familes were in the US for maybe a genration at the most, they still had strong ties to Mexico and towns like Agua Prieta , Hermosillo and Nogales. Once again I got a taste of US and THEM. We were told by some, not all, that we were not Mexicans, we were pochos, we were lost people who's parents sold out and wanted to be gringos. It had nothing to do with a difference of appearence,it had everything to do with the side of the border you happened to be born on...you were from Mexico or el otro lado, the motherland or the other side, and there was no way to change it, period.
  So not only did we have challenges in the Anglo world , constant reminders that we were different . Things like not being able to go swimming at the local Elk's Club pool, or not being able to date certain non Mexican girls, even though many of us, myself included ,were constantly confused with being anything but Mexican because of our light skin . We also had to deal with what I call reverse racism, from other Mexicans who felt we didn't have the right to call ourselves Mexicans , not all of them of course, I must stess this, but to a good amount of Mexicanos we were just pochos.
  That is what put me on the path to learning about my family's roots, I was no longer content with what I learned from text books, none of it fit....and forget about movies or pop culture ! To this day everyone with a Spanish surname in a movie is either the bad guy or the girl that gets bedded by the Anglo hero, it's getting better, but not by much. I came to understand totally why people do family research, why I do research... to find MY ancestors. The group that I belong to and cannot deny me entry by right of blood, WHO EVER and WHAT EVER they were...is what I AM. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
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Barbara,

I wish I knew what it was all about for my family. We can read generalized accounts of the battles in Zacatecas, but they don't mention the names of the participants at the lower levels, only the generals, and their aides. I am not even sure what side my male ancestors were on, but whichever side, it was the losing one in that particular battle. Losers in battles get executed, especially officers in order to demoralize their troops.

Somewhere in Mexico there must be records of rosters for each regiment, right down to the lowliest rifleman on foot. Only the general officers and their aides and mounted regiments had horses. The others drove teams of horses pulling supply wagons, or pulled cannons on foot, etc. It would be interesting to find out what classification in the armies my ancestors were part of, what their duties were. My husband fortunately knows which side his grand-father was on--he was a "federal", rode a horse, but he still came over the border to live like so many others that fought against him.

Emilie
Port Orchard, WA
----- Original Message -----
From: Barbara Chedester
To: general@nuestrosranchos.org
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 1:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Walking in Two Worlds

My Canales came from Zacatecas, what was the firing squad all about? bc
--- On Tue, 7/7/09, Emilie Garcia > wrote:

From: Emilie Garcia >
Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Walking in Two Worlds
To: general@nuestrosranchos.org
Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 1:11 AM

Linda,

My grandfather from Jerez and his brother and brother in law had a choice; stay in Zacatecas and face a firing squad or get on a train to the border in 1913. None of them ever went back, and they remained in seclusion until the 1940s. They weren't alone; thousands came over the border, and the US welcomed them, right?

Emilie
Port Orchard, WA

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Hi guys ,

My name is Welester G. Alvarado and I know this retired Lt. Ricardo Palmerin from the Mexican military .

He passed me the military web site that supposedly has records of all the military men dating back quite a bit .

I will contact him and get the site from him again ( because I erased it from my PC )

and forward it to you .

Who knows we could get lucky !

Welester

> Barbara,
>
> I wish I knew what it was all about for my family. We can read generalized accounts of the battles in Zacatecas, but they don't mention the names of the participants at the lower levels, only the generals, and their aides. I am not even sure what side my male ancestors were on, but whichever side, it was the losing one in that particular battle. Losers in battles get executed, especially officers in order to demoralize their troops.
>
> Somewhere in Mexico there must be records of rosters for each regiment, right down to the lowliest rifleman on foot. Only the general officers and their aides and mounted regiments had horses. The others drove teams of horses pulling supply wagons, or pulled cannons on foot, etc. It would be interesting to find out what classification in the armies my ancestors were part of, what their duties were. My husband fortunately knows which side his grand-father was on--he was a "federal", rode a horse, but he still came over the border to live like so many others that fought against him.
>
> Emilie
> Port Orchard, WA

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Well said but you did not post your name? Who do we thank for sharing this line of thought that reflects so much on many of us.. I'd forgotten the word Pocho, another put down..
 
When I was in my paternal ancestral home in Jerez, the locals destinguished between the families who left during the revolution, like mine, and those who stayed through the hard times. The locals who's ancestors stayed felt very proud and sad for those of us who's ancestors left.
 
Linda in B.C.

--- On Mon, 7/6/09, gandalf3.1@netzero.com wrote:

From: gandalf3.1@netzero.com
Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] Walking in Two Worlds
To: general@lists.nuestrosranchos.org
Date: Monday, July 6, 2009, 5:19 PM

I've been reading through some of the wonderful posts in regards to struggling with speaking Spanish and the challenges of living in two cultures , just some thoughts ;

I grew up in the U.S. in a small mining town located in southeastern Arizona . When my father's family left the villa in Los Altos , they settled in Miami and Jerome Arizona. He came to the states when he was just 2 years old. All of the men in my fathers family were miners, as was my father when he returned to AZ after a stint in the military. My father's first language at home was Spanish, he said he really didn't start speaking English until after he began elementary school. He knew first hand the challenges of not being able to speak english well so he always stressed to my sister and I how important it was to know BOTH languages, it was he said , to our benefit to know more than one language and he was right.

The trouble was, growing up in the Southwest the early 70's, we were not allowed to speak Spanish at school. If you did, you got a trip to the principle's office, or sent home...sad but all too true. We still spoke it at home, but as we continued in school and made non Spanish speaking friends, we used it less and less. That was my first brush with the idea that there was an US and a THEM. Many of you can relate to this I'm sure. Growing up in the States I was just like any other American kid, I listened to Rock and Roll, not corridas , had long hair and loved hot rods. I played football not soccer . Although I loved to hear stories about my family history , I knew nothing of Los Altos...it was another world to me. Many of my friends were in the same boat, some of our familes had been in the US for three or more generations. My mother's people were some of the first settlers in the Tucson area, before Arizona was even a state, who had the right to tell
me I didn't belong ? We
kidded each other in Spanglish...mixing both languages, a hybrid, just like the culture we were growing up in. Back then there was no lable like Hispanic, or even worse, Latino...if you were a Mexican American , you were a Chicano or, if you came from Spanish stock like we did, you were a Hispano, which is a Southwestern term to denote ties to Spain, not a Spanish version of Hispanic.
My home town is 8 or so miles from the Mexican frontera of Sonora. As my friends and I entered high school, we came into contact with other kids who lived right on the border of Sonora and AZ in a small town called Naco. These kids roots were in Sonora proper, their familes were in the US for maybe a genration at the most, they still had strong ties to Mexico and towns like Agua Prieta , Hermosillo and Nogales. Once again I got a taste of US and THEM. We were told by some, not all, that we were not Mexicans, we were pochos, we were lost people who's parents sold out and wanted to be gringos. It had nothing to do with a difference of appearence,it had everything to do with the side of the border you happened to be born on...you were from Mexico or el otro lado, the motherland or the other side, and there was no way to change it, period.
So not only did we have challenges in the Anglo world , constant reminders that we were different . Things like not being able to go swimming at the local Elk's Club pool, or not being able to date certain non Mexican girls, even though many of us, myself included ,were constantly confused with being anything but Mexican because of our light skin . We also had to deal with what I call reverse racism, from other Mexicans who felt we didn't have the right to call ourselves Mexicans , not all of them of course, I must stess this, but to a good amount of Mexicanos we were just pochos.
That is what put me on the path to learning about my family's roots, I was no longer content with what I learned from text books, none of it fit...and forget about movies or pop culture ! To this day everyone with a Spanish surname in a movie is either the bad guy or the girl that gets bedded by the Anglo hero, it's getting better, but not by much. I came to understand totally why people do family research, why I do research... to find MY ancestors. The group that I belong to and cannot deny me entry by right of blood, WHO EVER and WHAT EVER they were...is what I AM. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
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Linda,

My grandfather from Jerez and his brother and brother in law had a choice; stay in Zacatecas and face a firing squad or get on a train to the border in 1913. None of them ever went back, and they remained in seclusion until the 1940s. They weren't alone; thousands came over the border, and the US welcomed them, right?

Emilie
Port Orchard, WA
----- Original Message -----
From: Erlinda Castanon-Long
To: general@nuestrosranchos.org ; gandalf3.1@netzero.com
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Walking in Two Worlds

Well said but you did not post your name? Who do we thank for sharing this line of thought that reflects so much on many of us.. I'd forgotten the word Pocho, another put down..

When I was in my paternal ancestral home in Jerez, the locals destinguished between the families who left during the revolution, like mine, and those who stayed through the hard times. The locals who's ancestors stayed felt very proud and sad for those of us who's ancestors left.

Linda in B.C.

--- On Mon, 7/6/09, gandalf3.1@netzero.com > wrote:

From: gandalf3.1@netzero.com >
Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] Walking in Two Worlds
To: general@lists.nuestrosranchos.org
Date: Monday, July 6, 2009, 5:19 PM

I've been reading through some of the wonderful posts in regards to struggling with speaking Spanish and the challenges of living in two cultures , just some thoughts ;

I grew up in the U.S. in a small mining town located in southeastern Arizona . When my father's family left the villa in Los Altos , they settled in Miami and Jerome Arizona. He came to the states when he was just 2 years old. All of the men in my fathers family were miners, as was my father when he returned to AZ after a stint in the military. My father's first language at home was Spanish, he said he really didn't start speaking English until after he began elementary school. He knew first hand the challenges of not being able to speak english well so he always stressed to my sister and I how important it was to know BOTH languages, it was he said , to our benefit to know more than one language and he was right.

The trouble was, growing up in the Southwest the early 70's, we were not allowed to speak Spanish at school. If you did, you got a trip to the principle's office, or sent home...sad but all too true. We still spoke it at home, but as we continued in school and made non Spanish speaking friends, we used it less and less. That was my first brush with the idea that there was an US and a THEM. Many of you can relate to this I'm sure. Growing up in the States I was just like any other American kid, I listened to Rock and Roll, not corridas , had long hair and loved hot rods. I played football not soccer . Although I loved to hear stories about my family history , I knew nothing of Los Altos...it was another world to me. Many of my friends were in the same boat, some of our familes had been in the US for three or more generations. My mother's people were some of the first settlers in the Tucson area, before Arizona was even a state, who had the right to tell
me I didn't belong ? We
kidded each other in Spanglish...mixing both languages, a hybrid, just like the culture we were growing up in. Back then there was no lable like Hispanic, or even worse, Latino...if you were a Mexican American , you were a Chicano or, if you came from Spanish stock like we did, you were a Hispano, which is a Southwestern term to denote ties to Spain, not a Spanish version of Hispanic.
My home town is 8 or so miles from the Mexican frontera of Sonora. As my friends and I entered high school, we came into contact with other kids who lived right on the border of Sonora and AZ in a small town called Naco. These kids roots were in Sonora proper, their familes were in the US for maybe a genration at the most, they still had strong ties to Mexico and towns like Agua Prieta , Hermosillo and Nogales. Once again I got a taste of US and THEM. We were told by some, not all, that we were not Mexicans, we were pochos, we were lost people who's parents sold out and wanted to be gringos. It had nothing to do with a difference of appearence,it had everything to do with the side of the border you happened to be born on...you were from Mexico or el otro lado, the motherland or the other side, and there was no way to change it, period.
So not only did we have challenges in the Anglo world , constant reminders that we were different . Things like not being able to go swimming at the local Elk's Club pool, or not being able to date certain non Mexican girls, even though many of us, myself included ,were constantly confused with being anything but Mexican because of our light skin . We also had to deal with what I call reverse racism, from other Mexicans who felt we didn't have the right to call ourselves Mexicans , not all of them of course, I must stess this, but to a good amount of Mexicanos we were just pochos.
That is what put me on the path to learning about my family's roots, I was no longer content with what I learned from text books, none of it fit...and forget about movies or pop culture ! To this day everyone with a Spanish surname in a movie is either the bad guy or the girl that gets bedded by the Anglo hero, it's getting better, but not by much. I came to understand totally why people do family research, why I do research... to find MY ancestors. The group that I belong to and cannot deny me entry by right of blood, WHO EVER and WHAT EVER they were...is what I AM. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
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HOLA AMIGOS Y AMIGAS

INTERESADOS EN ESTA INVESTIGACION DE LOS PADRES DE PETRONILA DE MOCTEZUMA

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HOLA EDGAR

MUCHAS GRACIAS por los enlaces en tu post. No tenía el matrimonio de Cristóbal Sotelo y Juana Heredia. Espero con interés a leerlo! Estoy leyendo bautismos de Sagar. Metro. de la Ciudad de México al fin de los 1500s. Si encuentro algo de interés de linaje Moctezuma, yo sin duda compartirlo.

Sorry for my primitive Spanish!

Now in English...

THANK YOU VERY MUCH for the links in your post. I did not have the one for the marriage of Cristobal Sotelo and Juana Heredia. I look forward to (trying!) to read it. We know that Diego Sotelo married Maria Manuel de Portugal by 1559, so Cristobal must have been at least 35 years old when he married Juana, and they married in Mexico City. Perhaps this points to Petronila getting married in Mexico City as well??? I am browsing though baptisms in Sagr. Metro. for Mexico City in the late 1500s, on the offchance that she is mentioned as padrina for someone. If I find anything of interest for the topic of linaje Moctezuma, I will certainly share it here in Nuestros Ranchos.

Regards,
Denise

Arquelles Surname of Zacatecas?

Hi! I never realized this. But my woman partner is from the city of Zacatecas.

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Los Arguelles es una familia cuya nobleza e hidalguia fue probada ante las debidas autoridades inumerables veces. Familias como estas conocian sus origenes, y no tenian miedo de mostrarlo ante el publico. Las fechadas en las casas, los blasones, etc. Familia con origen muy antigua en Asturias desde el siglo XIV. Podemos encontrar los varios pleitos de hidalguia en la Chancelleria de Valladolid donde presentan documentos de nobleza. Ahora, las lineas mejicanas. Este documento que mencionas dice que Don Fernando de Arguelles era del "Principado de Asturias," sabemos que es jurisdicion nobiliaria que le tradicionalmente le pertenece al heredero de la corona castellana, antes era D. Felipe de Borbon y Grecia, Principe de Asturias, Viana y Gerona, ahora es Felipe VI.

Hubo bastante Arguelles en todo Mejico durante el virreinato, la mayoria de los casos son comerciantes u oficiales de gobierno, algo en comun.

Daniel Mendez de Torres Camino

Comentario

Gracias Daniel, la informacion que me dices esta muy interesante. En este PDF file hay una lista en abajo del PDF file de algunos personas que son de Asturias que radicaban en Zacatecas en 1724 - 1808:

http://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/pnovohispano/uploads/memoxviii/05_art_…

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"Don Fernando Arquelles Natural Del Prinicipado De Asturias", means he was
from Asturias in Spain
"de estado soltero" single
"de edad de beinte (sic) anos" 20 years
"no se le administraron los santos sacramentos por haber muerto
violentamente de una caída que le dio un caballo" he felt from a horse and
died :(

Julieta

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Objet : [Nuestros Ranchos] Arquelles Surname of Zacatecas?

Hi! I never realized this. But my woman partner is from the city of
Zacatecas. Her family have a friend named "Tomas Arguelles" who resides in
the City of Zacatecas but he is from "Monte Escobedo" near Mezquitic,
Jalisco

I remember people in nuestros ranchos telling me about the Arquelles Family
of Zacatecas after I had posted that I found a defunto record of Don
Fernando Arquelles Natural Del Principal de Asturias 1797 who passed away at
our village of Huejuquilla.

Now I am curious about my pareja's family friend "Tomas Arquelles" I know
him in person when I have been with my woman's family of Zacatecas. He has
a facebook page. The Arquelles of Zacatecas...are the upper class families
there. My woman's family of the city of Zacatecas are friends with them.

Since he is from Monte Escobedo....seems his long ago ancestors were in the
same area as my GGGGGGG Grandfather Antonio Madera (1660 - 1709) and Maria
De La Candelaria (1655 - 1735) at Minillas.

"I need help from someone please in that you can you tell me what it means
when this person that I found in Defuntos in our village of Huejuquilla,
Jalisco Mexico in the year 1797.

Says "Don Fernando Arquelles Natural Del Prinicipal De Asturias"

What does it say or mean about Asturias? I have no relation to him but just
curious.

http://oi62.tinypic.com/2jdjkev.jpg

Source:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-18449-54312-19?cc=1874591&wc…
-2Z3:171931201,171931202,173088501

Has anyone been hit with the geneology bug? I am doing lots of research now
I got hit with the geneology bug."

Sanchez Banales y Alcaras and Familia Tagle and Familia Castellanos y Mendoza

My Dearest Nuestro Ranchos Familia,
I am desperate for guidance; does anyone know about these families in
Mexico during the colonial times.

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Elizabeth,

I have Sanchez-Banales in my archives, they are a family that appears to be in the Avalos-Guadalajara region during the XVII century. The oldest I have is about 1660, Don Alonso Sanchez Banales and his wife, Da. Margarita Ortiz de Zarate y Velasco--she was from Colima. They married in or nearby Sayula, where they established their family of numerous children. I descend from their daughter Micaela Sanchez Banales who had Francisca Xaviera Sanchez Banales--iligitimate child--her second great grandaughter married Lic. Luis de Hijar, the Magistrate of Guadalajara, my sixth great grandfather. I have only studied these lines a bit, but I could still do more research, from this line I know they are related to Enriquez Topete, the Sanchez de Aldana, Canedo and the Farchet.

Have you been able to locate Francisca Sanchez Banales? I still have her unlinked, she married into the Mayorazgo de Porres Baranda, this would be an important link to discover.

Could you share more on Juan Sanchez Banales and Catalina de Alcaraz? Their children and possibly how they are related to my Alonso Sanchez Banales? Perhaps a grandfather or great grandfather?

Daniel Mendez de Torres Camino

FW: The DNA of Christophe​r Columbus

From: Angel R.

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I would love to attend but unfortunately I am unable to make it in time. Can the lecture be taken online? If not, will it be offered in the future? Will it be offered in the Los Angeles area. If none of these are an option, is there a way for me to attain documents on this information.
I have done much research on his genealogy and how he is related to a principal figure in my research into one of my family lines. My research fills a couple of gaps in the latest published works on his true genealogy. This research of mine also includes how his wife's family is related to our Pantoja line in Mexico.
R.A.Ricci

Defunto of My GGGGGGG Grandmother Maria De La Candelaria (1735) wife of Antonio Madera

First of all I want to give so much thankfulness to a good friend Ruben of nuestrosranchos for locating this difunto record of my GGGGGGG Grandmother Maria De La Candelaria (1655 - 1735) who is the wi

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Hello Zacatecano

"que fue SU mayor accidente" I think it means she dead of being more than
80 !

Julieta

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Candelaria (1735) wife of Antonio Madera

First of all I want to give so much thankfulness to a good friend Ruben of
nuestrosranchos for locating this difunto record of my GGGGGGG Grandmother
Maria De La Candelaria (1655 - 1735) who is the wife of my GGGGGGG
Grandfather Antonio Madera (1660 - 1709?). They were at Minillas of
Mezquitic, Jalisco, Mexico.

This is a copy of the defunto record found on page 43 of "Defunciones (1712
- 1770)" on the LDS Records of San Juan Bautista Church of Mezquitic,
Jalisco, Mexico:

http://oi57.tinypic.com/6iws2f.jpg

Says she passed away in 1735 at the age of 80 wife of Antonio Madera. Made
a testamento before La Justicia De La Jurisdicion at "Monte Escobedo"

Note: Monte Escobedo is a small village way up on the mountain that
overlooks the whole valley. When your up there at Monte Escobedo, the
panoramic view you have, Mezquitic looks like a tiny cluster of buildings in
the open field and the valley.

Says, "tenia la edad de arriba de ochenta anos que fue la mayor accidente y
recidia en la lavor de Minillas"

Seems she was older than 80 years since the comment "arriba de ochenta anos"
but I don't understand what is meant by "que fue la mayor accident"

Thank you all so much and I have so much gratitude to nuestroranchos members
for the invaluable information you have provided me with finding generations
farther back.

Censo de Revilagigedo 1790

Hola apreciados primos.. por fin logre subir a la red el censo a que hago mencion en el espacio destinado a Asunto. Esta completo.

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Rubén,

Gracias por su dedicación y amor hacia la genealogía e historia. Tengo interés en estudiar el censo, como lo puedo ver en la red?

Un saludo,

Daniel Méndez de Torres Camino

Transcripción completa de la "Confirmación de Oficio: Diego Arias de Sotelo" (1559)

Transcripción completa de la "Confirmación de Oficio: Diego Arias de Sotelo" (1559)

Archivo completo también en http://www.nuestrosranchos.org/node/21996

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Bueno, ahora ye que terminé de descifrar la paleografía de este documento, me ha sido más fácil analizarlo con calma y atención. Hay varios temas que inmediatamente resaltan:

1. Diego Arias de Sotelo tenía unos 33 o 34 años en 1559 (o sea que nació hacia 1525-1526).

2. Era natural de la “Aldea del Palo, tierra de Çamora”. La Aldea de Palo, que queda a un lado de Zamora, es un lugar que actualmente se conoce como San Miguel de la Ribera. Vean este siguiente enlace: “San Miguel de la Ribera se le conoce también como La Aldea de Palo, es un municipio que pertenece a la provincia de Zamora en la comunidad autónoma de Castilla y León en España, pertenece a la comarca de la Guareña, se ubica a una altura de 765 m.s.n.m., está a 23 km. de distancia de la capital zamorana, tiene una superficie de 26 km² y cuenta con una población de 374 habitantes. Los pobladores tienen como actividad económica la agricultura y la ganadería, en cuanto a la agricultura, la mayoría se dedica al cultivo de viñedos, la ganadería ha pasado de un nivel de autoconsumo a explotación comercial, a los habitantes de esta zona se les conoce con el gentilicio de aldeanos.” [http://www.inforural.com/vermunicipio/zamora/sanmigueldelaribera]

Algo más aquí dice: “Aldea del Palo (núcleo de poco vecindario sin jurisdicción propia) y San Miguel de la Ribera (núcleo urbano que aparece en el siglo XIV) y que se convirtió en villa en el siglo XVI. Otros mantienen que es el mismo pueblo pero que cambió su situación de aldea a villa. El convento fue erigido por San Pedro de Alcántara y auspiciado por Sta. Teresa de Jesús sobre la finca de Dña. Guiomar de Ulloa. Al convento y las casas se le conocen como “Aldea de Palo”.” http://turismoenzamora.es/index.php/es/municipios/item/785-san-miguel-d…

3. Su padre, Antonio de Sotelo, fue “hijodalgo notorio”, Capitán de hombres. El testigo Hernando Delgadillo menciona que “es cosa muy pública y notoria que su padre e agüelo estubieron sienpre en posesión de honbres hijosdalgo notorios e que nunca este testigo Vio ni oyó dezir lo contrario”. Parece que es el mismo que viajó a la Nueva España, y fue conquistador con Hernán Cortés. En “Colección bibliográfico-biográfica de noticias referentes á la provincia de Zamora” por Cesáreo Fernández Duro, página 523, aparece lo siguiente:

“1053 – SOTELO (Antonio de).
Natural de Zamora. Acompaño a Hernán Cortés en el descubrimiento y conquista de México, y construídos bergantines en la laguna para sitiar la capital, fue nombrado Capitán de uno de ellos; año 1521.
V.II, pág. 331. – Herrera, Décadas de Indias, déc. III, libro, cap. XII.

[“Colección bibliográfico-biográfica de noticias referentes á la provincia de Zamora” por Cesáreo Fernández Duro] - http://books.google.com/books?id=jDkXwsCZ8hUC&pg=PA524&lpg=PA524&dq=ant…

Un testigo, Gerónimo Delgadillo, menciona que conocía a la familia desde hace más de 20 años (antes de 1539), y que conoció a Antonio de Sotelo algunos años antes de que falleciera. O sea falleció después de 1539 pero antes de 1544.

4. Su madre, Uzenda Núñez Vela, sabemos por otra fuente que fue hija de Pero (o Pedro) Núñez Vela, natural de Cuéllar. Un testigo, Hernando Delgadillo, menciona que conocía a la familia desde hace unos 15 años (antes de 1544), y que conoció a Uzenda Núñez algunos años antes de que falleciera (“conosçió a Vzenda nuñez su madre e tubo noticia de antonio de sotelo”). Ella falleció años después que Antonio de Sotelo, su marido, más o menos después de 1544.

5. Tenía varios hermanos, ¿pero cuántos? ¿Cómo se llamaban todos? : “los otros sus hermanos … son aVidos e tenidos e comunmente Reputados”, “cosa muy pública e notoria a los hermanos del dicho Diego de Sotelo e personas que han Venido…de aquellas partes”. A ellos no se les menciona por sus nombres. Ya sabemos que tenía un hermano mayor llamado Baltasar de Sotelo, que había servido en el Perú. Esta conexión con Perú es interesante e importante porque allí aparecen otros personajes con nombres muy curiosos y obviamente relacionados a Diego Arias de Sotelo.
Estoy casi 100% seguro que Baltasar y Diego tenían un hermano llamado Gaspar Arias de Sotelo, que también era originario de Zamora. Él sirvió al Primer Virrey del Perú, Blasco Núñez Vela, quien ejerció su cargo de Virrey del 17 de mayo de 1544 al 18 de septiembre de1544. Blasco Núñez Vela, fue hijo legítimo de don Luis Núñez-Vela, señor del mayorazgo de Tabladillo, y de doña Isabel de Villalba. Investigando a los dichos don Gaspar Arias de Sotelo y don Blasco Núñez Vela, localicé lo siguiente:

...Y finalmente, mediante su s[an]to celo y ynfatigable diligencia pudo tanto que se hicieron por el Emperador n[uest]ro S[eñ]or vnas ordenanzas nuebas santíssimas y conuenientíssimas al buen, augmento y conuersión de estos naturales de este reyno, a la execuición delas quales imbió a Blasco Núñez de Vela, caullero natural de Auila, con títu[l]o de virrey de este reino e imbió audencia r[ea]l para autoridad dél y defensa delos pobres que estaban oprimidos, ensalçamiento de la justicia que andaba hollada y abatida, y nunguna cossa menos se conoscía en este reyno.

Puso el virrey Blasco Núñez Vela en execución las nuebas ordenanças, alborotóse el reino, y como eran para reprimir la insolencia de tantos hombres ricos y poderosos, leuantados y ensoberuecidos con la summa y abundancia de oro y plata, no quisieron obedeçellas ni sufrir el yugo dela ley fundada en buena razón. Leuantóse Gonçalo Pizarro en el Cuzco, donde estaba, con ánimo de yrse a Castilla con quinientos mill pesos que tenía. Con título de procurador fué a Lima y de allí a Quito, donde dando batalla al buen y leal virrey, le venció y quitó la cabeza, poniéndola en el rollo por algún tiempo por trofeo de su lealtad. Vino de España el presidente P[edr]o dela Gasca, sosegó el Pirú, venciendo a Gonçalo Pizarro en Sasca Huana, quatro leguas del Cuzco, por el año de mil y quinientos y quarenta y ocho, y degollándole, apaçiguó la tierra, boluiéndose a España, pensando que quedaba quieta y pacifica.

Por otra parte, el virrey, porque mexor se pudiese hacer la guerra y los indios viéndose acometidos por tantos lados desmayasen, embió a Gaspar Arias de Sotelo, natural de Çamora, vn cauallero delos más principales del Reyno, deudo muy çercano del virrey Blasco Núñez Vela, y que en todas ocassiones auía seruido a su Mag[esta]d desde la tiranía de Gonçalo Pizarro, hombre de gran valor y presumpçión. Fué con él por capitán suyo Nuño de Mendoza con otros muchos vecinos del Cuzco y asta cien soldados, y llebaron orden que si M[art]ín Hurtado de Arbieto muriese en la jornada fuese General Supremo el Gaspar Arias de Sotelo. Entró por Cocha Caxas y Curabamba, que es el camino r[ea]l de Lima al Cuzco, antes de llegar a Amancay, encomienda suya, y caminando por montañas çerradas y sendas fragosas, salió a Pampacomac, lugar frigidíssimo, doce leguas de Vilcabamba la vieja, donde los Incas tenían su asiento y corte, y allí hicieron alto, auiendo para ello los vecinos y consultores tratádolo y considerádolo para ver lo que comuenía haçer.”

(Historia General del Perú, Origen y Descendencia de los Incas, Fray Martin de Murúa, (Collección Joyas Bibliográficas. Bibliotheca Americana Vetus I Madrid MCMLXII), p. 227, 228, 249) [http://www.artehistoria.jcyl.es/v2/contextos/10666.htm; http://www.biblioteca-antologica.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/MURUA-H…]

Esto que… “Gaspar Arias de Sotelo, natural de Çamora, vn cauallero delos más principales del Reyno, deudo muy çercano del virrey Blasco Núñez Vela,” es muy interesante. Nos confirma que había un parentesco muy cercano entre los (Arias) de Sotelo y los Núñez Vela y que originaban de Zamora (y Cuéllar y Ávila). Como ya se había aclarado el padre de Uzenda Núñez Vela se llamaba Pero Núñez Vela y el padre de Blasco Núñez Vela, 1er Virrey del Perú, se llamaba Luis Núñez Vela. Tal vez Pero y Luis Núñez Vela eran hermanos.

6. Diego Arias de Sotelo se casó en la Ciudad de México, “e Reside alli con su muger e hijos e que enbiudó vna Bez e se bolbió a casar y esto es cosa muy pública”… Leonor de Valderrama y Moctezuma ya había fallecido, y Diego con varios hijos, se casó en segundas nupcias con María Manuel de Portugal. A ellas tampoco se les menciona por sus nombres.

7. Él “es honbre de muy buen entendimiento e aVilidad e sufiçiente e de confiançia e tal que estará muy bien en el ofiçio de Regidor de la dicha çiudad de mexico”.

8. Diego Arias de Sotelo “es hermano de un cuñado de este testigo [Francisco de Ledesma]”. Esto nos dice que uno de los hermanos de Diego, estaba casado con una hermana de Francisco de Ledesma.

9. Diego Arias de Sotelo, “tiene muchos bienes e hazienda en la dicha çiudad de mexico e sus comarcas e que es señor de dos Pueblos e honbre prinçipal e muy honrrado”. Sabemos que era Encomendero de Tarímbaro y de San Cristóbal Ecatepec y recibía tributos anuales.

Aunque no nombra a sus hijos ni a sus esposas ni a sus hermanos, este documento de la Confirmación de Oficio de Diego Arias de Sotelo como Regidor, nos abre los ojos a otras fuentes sobre las hazañas y los origenes de los personajes de la familia Sotelo.

Steven Francisco Hernández López

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A base de fechas y hechos y nombres, creo que Diego Arias de Sotelo tuvo un hermano llamado Gaspar Arias de Sotelo, quien fue Capitán, General y Conquistador del Perú. Fue el principal encomendero de Abancay a partir de 1549. Investigando a don Gaspar Arias de Sotelo aparece que tenía por hijos a Diego Arias de Sotelo, Gerónimo de Sotelo y Antonio de Sotelo, naturales del Perú, litigándose la Encomienda de Abancay, Umacata y Huayllabamba, que había sido de su padre.

En 1593, los hijos de Gaspar Arias de Sotelo, reclaman la propiedad de la estancia de Chuquibamba, señalando que el Cabildo del Cusco, entre los años 1553 y 1556, había otorgado estas tierras a su padre, así consta en un documento que obra en el Archivo Regional de Apurímac:

"..Diego Arias de Sotelo por mi y Gerónimo de Sotelo mi hermano y por los hijos y herederos de Antonio Sotelo mi hermano defunto digo que yo y mis dichos hermanos tenemos y poseemos en el valle de Auancay una estancia de tierra llamada Chuquibamba de cinquenta fanegadas…y las veinte fanegadas son desde el dicho arroyo hasta el agua quebrada de Guaillabamba que alindan por abajo el camino real que va a la puente... de las cuales dichas setentas fanegadas de tierra hizo merced el cabildo de la ciudad a Gaspar de Sotelo mi padre el trenta de enero del año cinquenta y tres (1553) y dieciseis de julio del año de cincuenta y seis (1556) ante Benito de la Peña escribano publico y del cabildo".

Un otro documento del Archivo Histórico de Apurímac del año 1594, relativo a la composición de las tierras de Chuquibamba, nos informa que esta parcialidad llegó a colindar con las tierras de los indios del Repartimiento33 de Huanipaca, es decir con las tierras ubicadas más allá del Nevado Ampay y sus inmediaciones; pasado el tiempo fueron integradas a la hacienda Patibamba y al fundo Sahuanay que fue parte integrante de la ex hacienda Illanya de Abancay, es decir que abarcó todas las tierras de la parte superior del Santuario Nacional de Ampay, que hoy comprenden el territorio del distrito de Tamburco.

De éste documento podemos leer:

"..Fernando Portocarrero, corregidor de Abancay fue a las tierras y estancias de Chuquibamba de Diego Arias de Sotelo y estando Diego en ella comenzó a medir con un cordel que tenía 288 baras de largo y 144 baras de ancho y tiene por lindero la dicha tierra de Chuquibamba por lo alto la acequia que sale del arroyo y quebrada Chinchichaca que linda la tierra de los indios del repartimiento de Guanipaca de la encomienda de Gaspar de Sotelo llamada Umacata y Huayllapampa …. abajo está el camino real que va del tambo de este dicho valle a la ciudad de los reyes y el dicho camino real arriba viniendo al tambo de Abancay hasta donde se encuentra el camino que va de este pueblo de Abancay hacia Pachachaca …."

Leer más: http://www.monografias.com/trabajos-pdf5/choquequirao-del-otro-lado-del…

Sin sonar muy descabellado parece ser que el padre de Petronila de Moctezuma, Diego Arias de Sotelo, tenía un hermano llamado Gaspar Arias de Sotelo, ambos de Zamora e hijos de Antonio de Sotelo y Cisneros y de Uzenda Núñez Vela, y que este Gaspar Arias de Sotelo vivió en Cusco, Perú, y tuvo por hijos a Diego Arias de Sotelo, Gerónimo de Sotelo y Antonio de Sotelo. Gaspar nombró un hijo como su hermano y otro como su padre. Claro todo esto es solo una hipótesis, pero una buena conjetura comienza con preguntas como estas.

Steven Francisco Hernández López

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En el libro “Noticia histórica de la conjuración del Marqués del Valle. Años de 1565-1568. Formada en vista de nuevos documentos originales y seguida de un extracto de los mismos documentos” / por Manuel Orozco y Berra. (México: Tip. de R. Rafael, 1853)
http://cdigital.dgb.uanl.mx/la/1080017723/1080017723

En “Documento núm. 4 - Contra Diego Arias y Baltasar de Sotelo.” Página 246, http://cdigital.dgb.uanl.mx/la/1080017723/1080017723_32.pdf, en la declaración de Baltasar de Sotelo narrando sus hazañas y los procesos durante sus tiempo en el Perú menciona “a los pueblos de Gaspar de Sotelo hermano de este confesante”. Esto confirma que Gaspar Arias de Sotelo fue hermano de Baltasar de Sotelo, y entonces los dos hermanos de Diego Arias de Sotelo.

Continuando la narración sobre Baltasar de Sotelo dice: “Preguntado que declare cuantos años a que pasó a esta nueva españa e vino a ella de los dichos reynos del Perú dixo que a nueue años poco mas o menos en los quales por mandado del visorrey don luis de velasco que aya gloria fue por capitán de gente de a cauallo a las provinçias de la florida con el gobernardor don tristan de arellano donde sirvió a su magestad bien y fielmente a su majestad e despues entró la tierra dentro en compañia del dicho gobernador por maestre de campo e asi en esto como en la conquista de muchos pueblos..." [pág. 246-247]

Steven Francisco Hernández López

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Carlos Peredo

Excelent Steven !!

Great information you have gathered about these Sotelos and now we can say that´s it´s almost a fact that the father of Diego Arias Sotelo (the "Mexican") was Antonio de Sotelo y Cisneros the Captain in Tenochtitlán and Panamá. This fact will be official if he mentions Usenda in his last will or if Usenda mentions him in her last will.

That will lead us to Lope de Sotelo the one that was buried in the Ancient church of San Andrés in Zamora in 1447 before it was rebuilt with his grandson´s money.

I´ve tried to look for unformation about this Lope and so far all I´ve found is in a "Novela" : El diablo en Cantillana
By Luis Vélez de Guevara
In which Pedro I de Castilla "El Cruel" is depicted as a restless womanizer and even knowing that Don Lope de Sotelo -one of his most loyal knights - is in love with Doña Esperanza de Ribera, asks him to help him "conquer" her. Off course Don Lope is much troubled between his loyalty to the King, and his love for Esperanza..... the rest of the affair I don´t know because I just saw some paragraphs in googlebooks and the rest is not shown.

Though is a "novela" it may be based in real facts, and , by the way I´ve seen some "Sotelos Ribera" mentioned in those years, which may signal that Don Lope finally married Doña Esperanza and probably Pedro Sotelo the father of Antonio Sotelo y Cisneros was a "Sotelo Ribera".

We´ll find out

Regards

Carlos

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Hi Steven

Thanks so much, this is great! Like a window onto the past to be able to read the text. Looking forward to reading it in detail after wednesday ( i have a final exam). In general after wednesday I'll have more time to go through records. I also have some questions regarding citations and posts from several contributors from the past month, but i'll post on that next weekend...

Regards
Denise

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Carlos Peredo

Hello All

I´ve tried to look for the ancestors of Diego Arias Sotelo and while not yet sure, I´ve found the following:

As we know so far, Diego´s parents were Captain Antonio Sotelo and Usenda Núñez Vela from Zamora; well, there´s an Antonio de Sotelo from Zamora that fits exactly with Diego´s father. The one I´m talking about died 14-ene-1548 in Panama City, and as we can see in the transcription of Steven, the witnesses state that some 10 years before the present resolution was made a census in Zamora and in that census Antonio was not "en el padrón" but his sons were and were among the "hidalgos and nobles"; the other two witneses say that while they´ve known Diego for around 15 years they didn´t meet Don Antonio but that they heard about him, it fits well with the fact that the Captain Antonio Sotelo (te conqueror of México and Panamá)was in America 15 years before the procedings of Diego to become "regidor" : 1559-15= 1544.

About this posible father of Diego we see in Wikipedi the following :

"La Iglesia de San Andrés, es un templo, en origen románico, ubicado en la ciudad deZamora, España.1 En el siglo XII existía un templo con la misma advocación. Fue reedificada entre 1550 y 1570 por cuenta de las indicaciones del testamento deAntonio de Sotelo Cisneros, uno de los capitanes de Hernán Cortés en la conquista de México. Es por esta razón por la que existen detalles de arquitectura gótica en su interior. De la fábrica original conserva parte de la fachada norte y la torre(desmochada)……. La pieza más destacada de su interior es el sepulcro del propio Antonio de Sotelo, con la estatua orante del difunto tallada en alabastro que fue labrada por Pompeo Leoni"

So after that information we see that Antonio Sotelo y Cisneros was the same that with Cortés conquered Tenochtitlan as we see in "Historia de la conquista de México,... escriviala Don Antonio de Solis"
By Antonio de Solís, where in one of the final coups Antonio de Sotelo is named Captain of one of 13 bergantines of the attack.

En dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/107375.pdf , encontramos : "El sepulcro de Antonio de Sotelo y Cisneros en la Iglesia de San Andrés en Zamora por Jesús María González de Zárate y Rosa Martín Vaquero."
“•……hijo de Pedro Sotelo y Beatríz de Cisneros acompañó a Hernán Cortés en la conquista de México y murió en 1548 en Panamá…la capilla de los Apostoles fue fundada por Don Antonio desde las Indias concretamente desde la ciudad de Panama …falleci’o el 14-ene-1548…”

So now we know who were Antonio´s parents and there´s more, in Memorias Historicas de la Ciudad de Zamora
archive.org/stream/memoriashistoric02fern/memoriashistoric02fern_djvu.tx
we see the following :

"Este retablo lo mandó hacer el honrado caballero Anto-
nio de Sotelo , natural de esta ciudad, porque su agüelo
Lope de Sotelo dejó dotado en este altar desde el año 1447
una misa cantada el sábado de cada semana.......

El honrado caballero Antonio de Sotelo fundó y dotó
esta capilla y reedificó esta iglesia á honra y gloria de
Dios Ntro. Sor., y mandó se enterrase en este sepulcro.
Falleció á 14: de Enero del año del Señor de 1548.

A los lados hay varios otros sepulcros de familia,
como dicen las lápidas:

...Aquí yacen los honrados caballeros Lope de Sotelo y
Pedro de Sotelo, naturales de esta ciudad, Padre y
Agüelo del fundador de esta capilla (sic, es al reves). Trasladáronse de la
mayor antigua de esta iglesia con sus mujeres y pasados.
Fundaron la memoria de Ntra. Sra. del Pilar, contigua
á esta. Fallecieron 1447 y 1514.

Aquí yace el Ilmo. Sr. Gregorio de Sotelo. Falleció el \2> de Octubre de 1565. Era hermano de Antonio de Sotelo.....Sepulcro delhonrado caballero Bernardo de Sotelo, Comendador de la orden de San Juan y hermano del fundador de esta capilla y reedificador de esta iglesia. Falleció año 1567....

All the above is in the church of San Andrés in Zamora that as we can see in Wikipedia was a romanic church from the XII century but was rebuilt with fund of the last will of Antonio de Sotelo y Cisneros.

Of course all the above is not proving that Antonio "the conqueror" is Diego´s father, but there are posibilities and hopefully we´ll know the truth some day.

I´ve tried to see Antonios last will in PARES but while it is mentioned, the digitalized document is not shown.

Regards

Carlos Peredo

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Hi Carlos

This is very very interesting! Great finds! Diego sotelos father is named as capitan in the text which steven just transcribed. which points to this being the smae person.

When I did a search with the name Sotelo in PARES, i saw that there was litigation involving Sotelos of Zamora. I believe i saw the name Antonio. I do not recall if there are images for these documents. There might be some info there.

In the letter from diego arias sotelo to i think diego manuel (or was it cristoval?) recently discussed there was also a reference to Pedrarias, which i think i commented with the question could it be an abbreviation for pedro arias. I still think it could be, and perhaps it is the same pedro mentioned above in your post.

I have found some info on mula in murcia which explains why Diego ended up there instead if dying at the oars of a galley in the mediterranean, but thats a longer post so it will have to wait a few days...however, a sotelo of the Order of St John fits with the other info i found...

Regards
Denise

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Steven, Denise, and Carlos

In Hugh Thomas's "Who's Who of the Conquistadors," p 123, there is a short biography of Antonio de Sotelo:

"Sotelo, Antonio de., either a Sevillano or a native of Zamora, who had been in Italy with the "Gran Capitan." He suggested the famous catapult at the siege which didn't work (D del C, IV, 178). Cervantes said he was captain of a brigantine. [g]"

"D del C" is Bernal Diaz del Castillo, The True History of the Conquest of New Spain, tr. by A. P. Maudslay, 5 vols.

"Cervantes" is likely Francisco Cervantes de Salazer, "Cronica de Nueva Espana," written in 1558-66; published in 1993

[g]. There is an omission in the list of abbreviations - I don't know what this refers to,

This bio is listed in the group that went to New Spain with the Cortes expedition in March 1519, rather than in one of the later group..

George Fulton
Pleasanton, CA

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Great! Naples is also mentioned in diego arias sotelos letter to his son, together with a place called Rozas...again, after wednesday i can start piecing things together with references and source citations...
Regerds
Denise

Pérez de Alencastre, Origen.

Hola a todos, primeramente que nada les deseo un feliz año.

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También desciendo de José maneul Pérez de Alencastre y su esposa Maria Rita Vasques, a través de su hija Antonioa Ubalada Pérez de Alencastre.

Yo también estoy muy intersted en la búsqueda de línea de la familia Diego Pérez de Alencastre de nuevo a rey Jorge de Portugal. Hasta ahora mi búsqueda ha sido un proceso lento de eliminación y que para proporcionar el enlace a un libro google escaneado que puede ayudar a centrar la investigación addiontional.

El libro es Arboles De Costados de Gran Parte De Las Primeras Casas De Estós Reynos: Cuyos Duenos Vivian En El Año De 1683 por Luis de Salazar y Castro y Alfonso de Manuel y Arriola.

https://play.google.com/books/reader2?id=6MwWAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcov…

Tiene muchos, muchos árboles, pero la página 20 y la página 27 son específicos de nuestra investigación para confirmar todo, desde el post de Yaomautzin Olvera.

Página 10, tiene un error en mi opinión, con el nombre de doña Violante Coutiño donde Juliana Pérez de Alencastre, esta última lo corrigió en la página 27.

Yo creo que si Alfonso de Alencastre (1505-1578) y de Violante Henriques de Coutiño también tenía del hijo siguientes en - que es uno de estos hijos que Diego Pérez de Alencastre puede descender desde.

Otra hijos de Alfonso y Violante:

Jorge
Juan
Manuel
Luis

ENGLISH:
I also descend from Jose Maneul Pérez de Alencastre and his wife Maria Rita Vasques, through their daughter Antonioa Ubalada Pérez de Alencastre.

I too am very intersted in finding Diego Pérez de Alencastre family line back to King Jorge of Portugal. So far my search has been a slow process of elimination and which to provide this link to a scanned google book that may help focus addiontional research.

The book is Árboles De Costados De Gran Parte De Las Primeras Casas De Estos Reynos: Cuyos Dueños Vivian En El Año De 1683 by Luis de Salazar y Castro and Alfonso de Manuel y Arriola.

https://play.google.com/books/reader2?id=6MwWAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcov…

It has many, many trees but page 20 and page 27 are specific to our research to confirm everything from Yaomautzin Olvera's post.

Page 10, does have an error I believe, using the name Dona Violante Coutino where Juliana Pérez de Alencastre, this appears corrected on page 27.

I believe if Alfonso de Alencastre (1505-1578) y de Violante Henriques de Coutino also had the followign son's - it is among these sons that Diego Pérez de Alencastre may descend from.

Other Children of Alfonso and Violante:

Jorge
Juan
Manuel
Luis

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De encontrar el nexo entre ambas familias, estaríamos hablando que existe un nexo directo con la Casa de Avís de Portugal, y por ende con la Casa de Capeto en Francia, con la Lancaster en Inglaterra, con las Coronas de Castilla y la de Aragón, las de Saboya, Nápoles y Sicilia, puediendo extender esa línea genealógica hasta el 700 d.C.

Yaomautzin Olvera

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Si tienen los datos, corrijanme o añadan datos de ser posible. Yo desciendo de María Josefa Teodora Corona Pérez de Alencastre (1791-?), quien casó con José Andrés Michel Corona (3 Dic 1785-1829). Ella fue hija de Ignacio Corona y de Francisca Eufrosina Guadalupe Pérez de Alencastre Vázquez (17 Feb 1773 Ejutla, Jalisco - ?), hija de José Manuel Pérez de Alencastre García de Alba y María Rita Vázquez. José Manuel fue hijo de Manuel Antonio Pérez de Alencastre Ruiz Contreras y de María Josefa García de Alba De la Madrid (a su vez hija de Francisco García de Alba y Teodora de la Madrid), quienes casaron el 25 Jul 1724 en Tecolotlán, Jalisco. Manuel Antonio fue hijo de María Ruiz Contreras y Diego Pérez de Alencastre. No estoy seguro de si Diego es hijo de Manuel Pérez de Alencastre y Juana Beltrán Dorantes, pero de ser así he encontrado que supuestamente éste fue Alférez y falleció el 16 Ene 1656 en Sayula, Jalisco.

De la rama de Juana Beltrán Dorantes tengo que ella fue hija de Pedro Beltrán Dorantes (26 Dic 1707 Guadalajara, Jalisco -?) e Isabel García Bravo (a su vez hija de Juan Garcia Bravo y Leonor Jimenez). Pedro fue hijo de Joseph Beltrán Dorantes (y éste a su vez de Andrés Fernández de Dorantes y Francisca Beltrán de San Juan) y Leonor de Ulloa.

Del Árbol genealógico de Joao II de Portugal tengo que tuvo por hijo de Ana de Mendoza a Jorge de Lencastre, quien casó con Brites de Vilhena y tuvieron 8 hijos a saber:

1.- Joao de Alencastre (1501-22 Ago 1571). Casó con Juliana de Lara y Meneses, y tuvieron por hijos a Jorge de Lancastre (-1578) y a Pedro Dionis Alencastre y Meneses (1550-). Jorge de Lancastre casó con Magdalena Téllez Girón, y tuvieron por hija a Juliana de Lancastre (-23 sep 1623), quien se casó con su tío Álvaro de Lencastre (1540-1626), hijo de Alfonso de Alencastre (1505-1578) y de Violante Henriques de Coutinho. Pedro Dionis casó con Felipa Silva y tuvieron por hija a Juliana de Alencastre y Silva.

Álvaro y Juliana tuvieron por hijos a Alfonso, Jorge, Luisa María, Magdalena, Violante, Luis e Inés.

Alfonso (1579-1654) casó con Ana de Sande (1610-1659) y tuvieron por hijos a Agustín de Alencastre y Sande (-1716) y María de Lencastre y Sande, quien casó con Pedro de Leyva y de la Cerda. Agustín casó con Juana de Noroña y Silva, y tuvieron por hijos a Fernando de Alencastre Noroña y Silva (1641-1717), Juan de la Cruz de Alencastre Noroña y Silva (-1733) y María Josefa de Alencastre Noroña y Silva (1641-1704). Fernando casó Leonor de Silva, procreando a Agustín, María Teresa e Ignacia de Alencastre y Silva; Juan de la Cruz fue religioso y no tuvo descendencia y María Josefa casó con Bernardino de Carvajal, procreando a José (1698-1754), Juan Antonio, Álvaro y Nicolás de Carvajal y Alencastre.

Jorge casó con Ana María de Cárdenas y Manrique de Lara y tuvieron por hijos a Raymundo de Lencastre y Cárdenas y a María Guadalupe de Lencastre (1630-1715).

Hasta aquí tengo de la descendencia de Joao. De los descendientes de los demás hijos no tengo información.

2.- Alfonso de Alencastre (1505-1578) casó con Violante Henriques de Coutinho, y tuvieron por hijos a Álvaro de Lencastre y Enríquez (que casó con Juliana, y su descendencia se muestra arriba), Jorge, Juan, Manuel, Felipa y Luis de Lencastre y Enríquez. No tengo más información.

3.- Luis de Alencastre casó con Magdalena de Granada y tuvieron por hija a Brites de Alencastre, que casó con Teodosio I de Portugal y Braganza .

4.- Jaime de Alencastre.

5.- Elena de Alencastre.

6.- Filipa de Alencastre.

7.- María de Alencastre.

8.- Isabel de Alencastre.

Nota: Tengo entendido que además de éstos hijos tuvo 4 hijos naturales, 3 de nombre Jorge de Alencastre y una Joana de Alencastre.

Yaomautzin Olvera

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Hola Villamichel,

No tengo más datos concretos respecto a los padres de Manuel Enríquez de Alencastre, resulta ser que el apellido Pérez de Alencastre lo utilizaron sus descendientes pero hasta donde he visto tres de sus hijas que están relacionadas conmigo utilizaban el apellido Enríquez de Alencastre o Enríquez Beltrán (Beltrán por su madre), por lo que pienso yo que el Pérez se le agrego una o dos generaciones después, ya que hasta el momento no puedo confirmar que Diego Pérez de Alencastre casado con María Ruiz de Contreras sea su hijo o nieto, estoy por analizar bien las fechas para resolverlo.

Debido a los apellidos y el nombre de nuestro antepasado, es demasiado probable que haya sido hijo de Manuel Alencastre y Enríquez, que fue Comendador de Santiago e hijo de Alonso de Alencastre y Yolante Enríquez (de dónde se forma el apellido compuesto), nieto a su vez de Jorge de Lencastre (primero del apellido) y por lo tanto bisnieto de Juan II de Portugal. Volviendo a Manuel Alencastre y Enríquez, parece que no casó y tuvo varios hijos naturales entre los que figuran varios religiosos. Proporciono a continuación el enlace a una página que presenta todos estos datos:
http://ortizdepinedo.com/f357.htm#f37700
Desconozco que tan confiable sea la información pero veo que cita varias fuentes y es una manera de darnos alguna idea de por dónde descenderiamos de esta casa noble.

Reflexionando en que no más de 5 o 6 generaciones separarían a nuestro antepasado de un Rey de Portugal, me imagino que algún historiador experto en genealogía de las familias nobles de España podría decirnos si existen datos de algún Manuel Enríquez de Alencastre que haya pasado a Nueva España, pienso que quizás se trataba de un hijo bastardo de esta familia como el caso que te presento arriba, pero el hecho de llevar el apellido nos confirma su procedencia inicial, que fue de Jorge de Lencastre, que a su vez lo obtuvo de su bisabuela Felipa de Lancaster, nieta a su vez de Eduardo III de Inglaterra.

No quito el dedo del renglón en contactar algún historiador experto en la materia, sin embargo hay muchas fuentes documentales que quizás podamos encontrar en México, apreciaría tu ayuda y la los demás miembros del foro que estén emparentados con esta familia, cualquier noticia nueva al respecto la haré llegar por este medio.

Ignacio, muchas gracias por el dato, ya lo tenía pero aprecio tu ayuda.

Enrique Agraz

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Joven Agraz encontre este documento en Familysearch espero sea de alguna ayuda , también desciendo de Angela Enríquez Beltrán de Alencastre mi 7ma Abuela hasta pronto. Manuel Antto. Pers. De Alencastro Maria Josepha Garsia De Alba Fecha del evento: 25 Jul 1724
Lugar del evento: Corazon De Jesus,Tecolotlan,Jalisco,Mexico
Nombre del padre: Diego Peres De Alencastro
Nombre de la madre: Maria Ruis De Contreras
Nombre del padre del cónyuge: Franco. Garsia De Alba
Nombre de la madre del cónyuge: Teodoro De La Madris Número de lote o batch: M60266-5
Sistema de origen: Mexico-ODM
Número de microfilm de FamilySearch: 1154559

López de Velarde

Hello,

Is there anyone in the forum that has information on Margarita López de
Velarde that's married to Antonio Alonso de Los Ynojos.

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Hello Paige,
I know that they are not the same couples because their children were born in the 1600's. Their names are extremely similar and as you know many couples named their children after ancestors. I know it isn't Kosher, but you could possibly use the information to follow the lines down.

I have Jose Alonso de los Hinojos/Theresa Ruis de Esparsa y Lopez de Lisalde (daughter of Jacinto and Juana Lopez de Lisalde) Her birth: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11824-52719-99?cc=1410092&…
Marriage in Aguascaliente: 18 June, 1666 Page 13 Image 16

I'm sure you already have Josef Alonso de los Hinojos/Theresa Ruis de Esparsa (daughter of Ignacio and Elena Sotelo de Jaen). This is the birth of their son Marcos: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12047-88063-96?cc=1410092&…

Good Luck,
Deedra Corona

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Hi Deedra,
Antonio Alonso de los Hinojos that married Margarita de los Dolores Lopez Velarde is only a few generations from your Jose Alonso de los Hinojos/Theresa Ruis de Esparsa y Lopez de Lisalde. Our Antonio Alonso de los Hinojos is the son of Pedro Alonso de los Hinojos and Gertrudis de Chávez and was 20 days old when he was baptized 13 Oct 1709.https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-13033-26309-6?cc=1502404&w…
Pedro Alonso de los Hinojos and Gertrudis de Chávez were married 5 Apr 1682 in Aguascalientes: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12446-30229-55?cc=1502404
The marriage shows that Pedro Alonso de los Hinojos was the son of Juan Alonso de los Hinojos and Isabel Ramirez and Gertrudis de Chávez was the daughter of Diego de Chávez Fragoso and Antonia de Villalobos.
Juan Alonso de los Hinojos and Isabel Ramirez were married 22 May 1652 in Santa María de los Lagos.https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-18684-25177-12?cc=1874591&wc…
The marriage record shows that Juan Alonso de los Hinojos was the son of Pedro Alonso de los Hinojos and Ana Dominguez and Isabel Ramirez was the daughter of Captain Luis Lopez Ramírez and Catalina Rubio.
This is where our Alonso de los Hinojos connect. Juan Alonso de los Hinojos that's married to Isabel Ramirez and your Jose Alonso de los Hinojos that's married to Theresa Ruiz de Esparza are brothers and both the children of Pedro Alonso de los Hinojos and Ana Dominguez.
Christopher de Cuellar

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Hi Paige,
María Margarita de los Dolores López de Velarde and Antonio Alonso de los Hinojos are my 9th Great Grandparents, but, unfortunately I don't have too much information on her. I do know that Margarita de los Dolores López de Velarde married Antonio Alonso de los Hinojos in Teocaltiche on 7 Feb 1734 and according to the marriage record her parents are Francisco López de Velarde  and Juana Marín de Peñalosa, but, beyond that I don't have any more information on her.
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-19052-57017-98?cc=1874591&wc…
Christopher de Cuellar