Hello Everyone,

My name is Norma  (Username: Normrivmat), and I am very grateful to be accepted into the Nuestros Ranchos community. My research focuses heavily on the border regions of eastern Aguascalientes and southeastern Zacatecas, specifically around Real de Asientos, Ojo Caliente, and Bimbaletes.

My Fully Documented Lineage:

• Grandmother: M. Leonor Rosales Saldívar (b. May 14, 1908, Real de Asientos, AGS).Her birthday is also known as April 11, 1908 She married J. Rafael Dueñas Valadez on February 9, 1928, at Las Norias de Guadalupe, Bimbaletes, ZAC.
• Great-Grandparents: Susano Rosales & Ambrosia Saldívar. I have verified their parentage via their March 16, 1895, Marriage Investigation file from Ojo Caliente, ZAC.
• Great-Great-Grandparents: Genaro Rosales & Dionisia Vázquez. Genaro passed away on April 6, 1906, in Real de Asientos, AGS (calculated birth year ~1846).

What I Am Searching For & Why:

My primary brick wall is finding the parentage of my great-great-grandfather, Genaro Rosales (b. ~1846). His 1906 civil death certificate unfortunately omitted his parents' names, and his 1895 son's marriage investigation only names him as a surviving parent, not going back another generation.

I am actively searching for Genaro Rosales’s own marriage record to Dionisia Vázquez (likely between 1865–1876) or his baptism record around 1846.

The Reason for Precision:

There is a strong family oral tradition suggesting our Rosales branch is related to the family of Saint Román Adame Rosales (b. 1859, Teocaltiche, Jalisco). Some online public family trees assert that Genaro was a sibling to the Saint's mother, Manuela Rosales, meaning his parents would be Martín Rosales and Juana Antonia Gutiérrez. However, I want to keep my tree strictly verified and do not want to merge these lines without primary source verification.

If anyone has indexed or browsed the parish books for Asientos, Pinos, Ojo Caliente, or neighboring areas from the 1840s–1870s and has run across this Rosales-Vázquez branch, I would be incredibly grateful for any guidance, microfilm roll suggestions, or record lookups.

Thank you all for your time and for welcoming me to the group!

Best regards,

Norma Rivera-Matheson