VAULUS, VAULUZ, BAULUZ, BALDUZ

Dear colleagues,

I do not know whether any of you have already verified the following (if this has already been established, I apologise for not being aware of it, but I discovered two days ago that Pedro Fernández de Balduz and María Gabay are my ancestors): Pedro Fernández de Vaulús’s surname was in fact BALDUZ, a Navarrese surname which is not particularly widespread, but which still exists today. Indeed, the first mayor of Pamplona after the restoration of democracy in Spain was a BALDUZ.

I have also found the following information concerning Pedro’s parents, from which it can be inferred that:

  • The paternal surname was BALDUZ and the maternal surname CIORDIA. The distinction between C/Z and S was significant, as the former had a different sound from the latter. This distinction disappeared in the American territories, since many of the immigrants came from Andalusia, where, for the most part, C/Z and S were not distinguished in pronunciation.
  • Pedro Fernández de Balduz the Elder had

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Estimado Héctor,

Mil gracias. Me adelanto sobre Juan de Padilla. Aún ignoro quiénes fueron sus padres, era natural de las Minas de Jerez y tengo algunas hipótesis pero nada firme. Actualmente estoy trabajando sobre los extractos del Archivo Histórico de Zacatecas para subirlos a mi página, es posible que venga algo allí. 

Por cierto, deseo hacerte un regalo. Por favor envíame tu correo o escríbeme a erik@ekgenealogy.com para enviarte el manuscrito completo del pleito de los Fernández de Balduz y los Mirafuentes. 

Un cordial saludo,

Erik

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Estimado Héctor,

La genealogía ascendente hasta el genearca documentado de los Fernández de Balduz está en mi libro "De Nobleza Inmemorial"

Amazon MX: De Nobleza Inmemorial: Genealogía y poder en los linajes de Nueva Galicia, Nueva España y el obispado de Michoacán (Spanish Edition) : Reynoso y Márquez, Erik Andrés: Amazon.com.mx: Libros

Amazon USA: De Nobleza Inmemorial: Genealogía y poder en los linajes de Nueva Galicia, Nueva España y el obispado de Michoacán (Spanish Edition): Reynoso y Márquez, Erik Andrés: 9798251121155: Amazon.com: Books

Hay dos pleitos de nobleza donde se consigna la información y tengo copia de ambos. Tanto los Fernández de Balduz como los Ciordia son una rama cadete de los Señores de Mirafuentes aunque no dicen exactamente cómo. 

Los Ruiz de Esparza, Fernández de Balduz, Navarro y Gabadi son todos hijosdalgos notorios y de nobleza inmemorial, con probanzas y sentencias favorables ante la Real Corte de Navarra. En el caso de los dos últimos, su origen primitivo es roncalés, por lo que tenían derecho al uso de armas y al famoso privilegio de hidalguía colectiva otorgado a todos los habitantes del Valle de Roncal. Los privilegios se custodiaban en la iglesia de Isaba y fueron confirmados posteriormente por Carlos III de Navarra. Además, tengo copia del escudo de armas de ellos, certificado por Remón de Oscáriz/Ozcáriz (Rey de Armas), el cual deriva de un pleito de 1609 donde figuran varios roncaleses vecinos de Ablitas. De los Ruiz de Esparza, por su parte, cuento con la copia de la ejecutoria de hidalguía más antigua que se les conoce.

Lo que me parece fascinante -y que he comentado ampliamente con Jorge Barba Gómez y Mariano González-Leal a quienes he compartido los documentos completos- es ver cómo todas estas familias fundacionales de Aguascalientes ya se conocían desde Navarra. Una prueba clara de esto es que Juan de Gabadi, abuelo materno de Martín Navarro, fue juez receptor en el pleito de hidalguía de Martín Ruiz de Esparza y su firma aparece en el expediente mencionado que hoy se custodia en el Archivo Real y General de Navarra. Este fenómeno se repite incontables veces en las redes familiares novohispanas. Por ejemplo, en el testamento de Juan de Reinoso y González, padre del capitán Francisco de Reynoso y San Pedro, otorgado en Boadilla de Rioseco (Palencia), se menciona a los Guerra (dos de ellos fueron hijastros de Juan) los cuales como sabemos fueron una antigua familia pobladora de Santa María de los Lagos y, en la probanza Ad Perpetuam Rei Memoriam de su hidalguía que promovió ante la Real Chancillería de Valladolid, figura como testigo en Boadilla de Rioseco Alonso de Temiño. Los Temiño, burgaleses, como bien sabemos emparentaron en Nueva España con los Padilla Dávila y nuevamente con los Reinoso, cerrándose así el círculo. Jorge Barba Gómez también ha documentado ampliamente en sus obras las redes familiares que había entre los habitantes de Guadalcanal y que terminaban por trasladarse y repetirse en territorios ultramarinos. 

Espero que tengas oportunidad de leerlo en mi libro porque la red familiar de las familias fundacionales de Aguascalientes es muy interesante. Todos están conectados de una manera u otra desde Navarra. Por ejemplo:

  1. Juan de Gabadi es juez receptor del pleito de hidalguía de Martín Ruiz de Esparza.
  2. Lope Ruiz de Esparza, bisnieto de Martín Ruiz de Esparza, casó con Ana Francisca de Gabadi, bisnieta de Juan de Gabadi. 
  3. Los Navarro y Gabadi usan las mismas armas y tienen el mismo privilegio de hidalguía colectiva por ser originarios del Valle de Roncal, precisamente de Garde y Urzainqui (posteriormente se trasladaron a Villafranca, Valtierra, Pamplona, Olite y Ablitas). En Villafranca y Valtierra litigaron los Navarro y en Ablitas fue donde litigaron los Gabadi sobre su hidalguía y presentaron certificación de armas. En el expediente de Guardia Marina de Mariano Navarro y Navarro se menciona su primitivo origen, privilegio de armas, nobleza y parentesco con el célebre militar Pedro Navarro, hijo de Pedro del Roncal, señor de la Casa de Navarro. Tengo copia completa también de este expediente. 
  4. María de Gabadi, hija de Martín Navarro y Petronila de Moctezuma, casó con Pedro Fernández de Balduz. 
  5. Los Fernández de Balduz, a pesar de ser una rama cadete de los Señores de Mirafuentes, mencionan que su antiguo solar está en Marcilla. Cuando sucedió el pleito contra Miguel de Mirafuentes, el licenciado Antonio Fernández de Balduz estaba avecindado en Pamplona coincidiendo geográficamente con Juan de Gabadi y con los Ruiz de Esparza. La razón del pleito entre Balduz y Mirafuentes no fue solo sobre difamación, fue más complicado, lo menciono en mi libro. Básicamente era porque el hermano de Miguel, Martín de Mirafuentes, había sido sentenciado a doscientos azotes por Pedro Fernández de Balduz (padre de Antonio) y por eso Miguel, por puro coraje, llamó bellacos a los Fernández de Balduz aludiendo a su propia calidad, aunque el propio Miguel de Mirafuentes venía de una rama bastarda de esta casa. De todas formas los azotes habían sido bien merecidos, los dos hermanos Mirafuentes eran unos criminales, gente vulgar y sin escrúpulos.
  6. Los Navarro, a los cuales pertenece Martín Navarro, también estuvieron en Marcilla. Puedo citar a sus deudos Pedro y Martín Navarro y Remón (que litigaron siendo menores de edad sobre su hidalguía junto con otros deudos suyos de Villafranca y su tío el cura Juan Navarro y Añorbe), Joseph de Gabirondo Navarro (hijo de Miguel de Gabirondo y Francisca Navarro Malo, fue bautizado en su iglesia el 27 de marzo de 1597), entre otros. 
  7. Miguel Fernández de Balduz, a quien ya mencionaste, fue cura beneficiado de la iglesia parroquial de San Bartolomé de Marcilla y Familiar del S.O. 

Por otra parte deseo comentarte que a pesar de la proliferación de la deformación lingüística en redes, el apellido es Gabadi/Gabari/Gavari, no Gabay/Gabai. Si bien esta deformación aparece en algunos documentos de Nueva Galicia, un análisis exhaustivo del corpus documental de esta familia revela que la grafía predominante, superior al 80%, es Gabadi y sus variantes ortográficas. En contraste, las formas Gabay o Gabai representan una fracción minoritaria y se consideran anomalías dentro del conjunto. El toponímico Gabadi y sus variaciones (que significan pastizal/pastizales) usados por los antepasados maternos de Martín Navarro, se refieren a un despoblado llamado Gabari ubicado en la zona de otros que fueron Urdayeta, Eguince, Larrabea y Lapazarra en Roncal. Algunos miembros de esta familia en Lantz usaron el apellido compuesto Gabari de Garde haciendo referencia a su antiguo solar (Garde) que compartían con los Navarro los cuales poseían otra casa solar que actuaba como domus en Urzainqui (a una distancia de 5 km aproximadamente uno del otro). Esta deformación en Nueva Galicia tiene una explicación: era la tendencia de los escribanos a normalizar sonidos que les resultaban ajenos, transformando la estructura del apellido vasco-navarro en una forma más acorde a la ortografía y los usos habituales de los registros americanos (cuya ortografía fue fuertemente influenciada por Extremadura, Andalucía, León y Castilla). Esto se debe al debilitamiento de la consonante intervocálica. En apellidos como Gabadi o Gabari, la consonante central (la d o la r) tiende a pronunciarse de forma muy suave en el habla rápida o en ciertos dialectos. En el caso de la d de Gabadi, se convierte en una consonante fricativa muy débil. Si el escribano no la percibía con claridad, el sonido terminaba desapareciendo. Al desaparecer la consonante, las dos vocales restantes (la a y la i) entran en contacto directo: De Gaba-di pasamos a Gaba-i y en ese punto, la i deja de ser una vocal plena con su propia fuerza silábica y se convierte en una semivocal [i]. Al unirse a la a anterior, forman el diptongo decreciente ay. 

El escribano, al percibir la secuencia sonora final (la a abierta seguida de la i breve y átona), tendía a identificarla con la terminación -ay, una grafía sumamente familiar en el castellano de la época (presente en términos como "hay" o apellidos como "Garay" y "Godoy"). Esto también pone punto final a la hipótesis, altamente especulativa, del querido Memo Tovar de Teresa sobre este apellido. Lo suyo fue un error bien intencionado al igual que ocurrió con los Balduz llamándoles erróneamente Valdoux, forma que no aparece en ningún documento. Habiendo conocido y tratado mucho a Guillermo, ambos sabemos que habría estado feliz de que se corrigiera su hipótesis sobre los Navarro y los Balduz. 

Un cordial saludo,

Erik

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Estimado Erik,

Muchísimas gracias por la información. He preferido escribirte a tu correo electrónico ya que me lo has confiado, cosa que te agradezco enormemente.

Recibe un cordial saludo,

Héctor

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Estimado Erik,

Muy interesante lo que mencionas. Sabía que ibas publicar el libro De Nobleza Inmemorial, pero no que ya estaba publicado. Intentaré comprarlo por Amazon. Lo de Gabadi lo sabía, pero no sabía que el marido de Petronila de Moctezuma hubiese llevado ambos apellidos, asumiendo la tesis de que Navarro quizás era un sobrenombre. En fin, espero encontrar grandes sorpresas en tu obra.

Imagino que en él tratarás algo de Juan de Padilla, o Delgadillo, de quien no he podido encontrar nada concreto.

Recibe un cordial saludo,

Héctor

Arriaga in Villanueva, Zacatecas

Hello, I am searching for the line of Felipe Arriaga who was married to Regina Cervantes - also listed as Sandoval - from Villanueva, Zacatecas.

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Update: looking over my family tree records I had not noticed earlier that Miguel Servantes; Regina's grandfather and also her grandmother Josepha Vasques were Otomi Indians. I found this information on their children's baptism records; which includes twins Juan and Juana who were born in Irapuato, Guanajuato in the very early 1700s. After reading about these Indigenous people I learned some groups inhabited in Guanajuato. I never thought I would find the name of one of the many Indian people I derived from since it does not show up on our DNA profiles. This tie to the Otomi people leads down to our Mercando and Arriaga lines from Zacatecas. Regina was married to Felipe Arriaga and their son was Sostenes Arriaga from Villanueva, Zacatecas.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otomi

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Dear Cynthia,

This person seems to fit the timeline for the Felipe Arriaga married to Regina Servantes Sandoval.

Jose Felipe De Santiago Arriaga
Gender Male
Christening Date 13 May 1785
Christening Place San Miguel Arcángel, San Miguel de Allenda, Guanajuato, Mexico
Birth Date 01 May 1785
Birthplace San Benito
Father's Name Luis Antonio Arriaga
Mother's Name Maria Encarnacion
Citing this Record
"México bautismos, 1560-1950," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NGV9-HH1 : 12 December 2014), Jose Felipe De Santiago Arriaga, 13 May 1785; citing San Benito, reference ; FHL microfilm 797,208.

Good luck in your research,
Rick A. Ricci

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Your welcome Cynthia. You have more information on Regina then you do on Felipe so I would work on finding a connection between the Sevantes and the Sandoval families and see if you can find a Regina in that line.

Good Luck,
Rick

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I found Felipe Arriaga and Regina Cervantes' marriage record. I had to step back for awhile and then take another look at the records to see if I had missed anything. I had. One of their son's marriage record listed he originated from Silao. I had assumed that was a town in Villanueva until I searched Villanueva's marriage records again page by page and I found another sibling saying she was from Silao and she was born in 1807. She seemed to be the earliest born sibling so far, so I checked out the marriage records in Silao, Guanajuato which are not indexed and searched a couple of years before her birth and I found their 1805 marriage record listing parents. Felipe Arriaga's parents are Joseph Maria de Arriaga and Concepcion Vierra. Felipe Arriaga was born in San Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco. Joseph Maria was born in Leon, Guanajuato and his father was Joseph Antonio Arriaga married to Teresa Torres.

Cynthia

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Congratulations Cynthia,

Here are a four more records that you should look at and add to your research. The first is Felipe’s baptismal record. The second is a marriage record for Felipe so he was most likely married more than once. The third record record is his parents marriage record. The fourth and last record is a baptismal record of María Concepcion Viera daughter of Xavier (Francisco Xavier?) Viera and María Gertrudis (De la Candaleria?) (Vicente onHernandez ?). This last record is search for possibilities.

Name Phelipe De Jesus Arriaga Viera
Gender Male
Christening Date 18 Feb 1777
Christening Place SANTA MARIA DE LOS LAGOS,LAGOS DE MORENO,JALISCO,MEXICO
Father's Name Josef Arriaga
Mother's Name Maria Concepon. Viera
Citing this Record
"México bautismos, 1560-1950," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N1TR-43X : 10 February 2018), Phelipe De Jesus Arriaga Viera, 18 Feb 1777; citing SANTA MARIA DE LOS LAGOS,LAGOS DE MORENO,JALISCO,MEXICO, reference ; FHL microfilm 221,416.

Jose Felipe De Jesus Arriaga
Birth Date 1778
Age 20
Spouse's Name Maria Dolores Ortis
Spouse's Birth Date 1778
Spouse's Age 20
Event Date 13 Jun 1798
Event Place Nuestra Senora De Guanajuato,Guanajuato,Guanajuato,Mexico
Father's Name Jose Maria De Arriaga
Mother's Name Maria Concepcion Vieyra
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"México matrimonios, 1570-1950," database, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JCMC-VPK : 10 February 2018), Jose Maria De Arriaga in entry for Jose Felipe De Jesus Arriaga and Maria Dolores Ortis, 13 Jun 1798; citing Nuestra Senora De Guanajuato,Guanajuato,Guanajuato,Mexico, reference ; FHL microfilm 799,487

De La Concepsion Viera
Name Joseph Maria De Arriaga
Spouse's Name Maria De La Concepsion Viera
Event Date 24 Feb 1777
Event Place Santa Maria De Los Lagos,Lagos De Moreno,Jalisco,Mexico
Citing this Record
"México matrimonios, 1570-1950," database, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JCXJ-7VC : 10 February 2018), Joseph Maria De Arriaga and Maria De La Concepsion Viera, 24 Feb 1777; citing Santa Maria De Los Lagos,Lagos De Moreno,Jalisco,Mexico, reference ; FHL microfilm 221,516.

Possible record for you María De la Concepcion Viera:

Name Ma. De La Consepcion Viera
Gender Female
Christening Date 25 Dec 1751
Christening Place SANTA MARIA DE LOS LAGOS,LAGOS DE MORENO,JALISCO,MEXICO
Father's Name Xaver. De Viera
Mother's Name Ma. Getrus.
Citing this Record
"México bautismos, 1560-1950," database, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NVTM-86T : 10 February 2018), Ma. De La Consepcion Viera, 25 Dec 1751; citing SANTA MARIA DE LOS LAGOS,LAGOS DE MORENO,JALISCO,MEXICO, reference ; FHL microfilm 221,411.

Good luck hunting,
Rick A. Ricci

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could you provide dates and wives to get a clearer picture of them and the timeline. I have one Lopes de Arriaga married with 6th great uncle in 1728 in Pinos Zacatecas.

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Yes, I found Sostenes Arriaga's marriage record dated April 17, 1839 to Francisca de los Santos in Villanueava, Zacatecas; listing him as 19 years old; making his birth year 1820. I found these siblings death records in Jerez - Mariano, Pedro and Juana - listing their birth ages from 1810 thru 1828 - varies. I searched for his parents marriage records in Villanueva from 1794 thru 1818 page by page, but I did not find one Arriaga in Villanueva even though the records say they are from this area. His father was Felipe Arriaga and his mother was Regina Servantes.

Los primeros pobladores de Santa María de los Lagos

Dear colleagues,

I would like to share my latest historical study: "Los primeros pobladores de Santa María de los Lagos: una aproximación histórica a través de sus listados más antiguos" (The First Settlers of Santa María de los Lagos: A Historical Approach Through Its Earliest Records).

Using a prosopographical framework based on 16th and early 17th-century primary sources, including original registers, Cabildo memorials, and early censuses, this paper traces the rapid transformation of Santa María de los Lagos from a frontier defense outpost during the Chichimeca War into a consolidated landowning elite.

The research highlights the central role of matrilineages and marriage networks in preserving territorial holdings, alongside a quantitative reconstruction of the settlement's U-shaped demographic trajectory during its first four decades.

Los primeros pobladores de Santa María de los Lagos : Erik Andrés Reynoso y Márquez : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Best

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Dear Travis,

Thank you for your message and your interest in the study! I am always pleased when the work proves useful to fellow researchers.

The published material contains the full scope of my findings on the subject including the documents that were used to make the study. While my current schedule prevents me from taking on extensive follow-up questions or custom analysis, I hope the documented information serve as a helpful roadmap for your further exploration.

Best regards,

Erik

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Hello Erik,

Thank you for sharing your historical study.

I have spent much of the past few hours attempting to read and translate various passages. I am sure I will have many questions once I have had a chance to digest all of this information.

Thank you again for sharing your work. I greatly appreciate it.

Best regards,

Travis

Ana de Quesada m. Miguel Hernández Rubio

Recently I posted about the three women named Ana de Quesada who were living in Lagos during roughly the same period.

One of these women was Ana de Quesada, who married Miguel Hernández Rubio in 1632. A WikiTree listing proposes that this Ana de Quesada may possibly have been the daughter of Juan López de Lizalde and Ana de Quesada. I assume this identification was based on her using the name “Ana Mendoza” in her daughter's parish marriage record.

I later posted a reply to my own message with an update after finding a possible candidate for this Ana de Quesada.

A Lagos burial record states:

4 Jan 1628: "died Diego Hurtado, son of Pedro Hurtado, vecino del Fresnillo, husband of Ana de Quesada, daughter of the elder Alonso de Quesada."

It establishes that Alonso de Quesada and, probably, Juana Bautista Hernández de Arellano had a daughter named Ana de Quesada.

This record also establishes that she was widowed in 1628, approximately four years before the marriage of Ana de Quesada (also known

Ortiz de Pantoja

Estimados colegas:

El día de ayer retomé la investigación sobre un linaje que había dejado en el tintero tras el fallecimiento de mi querido tío Paco Castaños y Cañedo: los Morelos.

Como indicó Paco en sus obras, la cabeza de este linaje en Michoacán es Tomás de Santoyo, vecino de Celaya (también conocido como Tomás de Morelos), registrado como hijo de padres no conocidos, aunque posteriormente se ha argumentado que era hijo natural del regidor Hipólito de Santoyo y de la viuda Gertrudis Morelos (Morelia. Informaciones matrimoniales 1706). En su información matrimonial se consigna que su esposa, Teresa Ortiz de Pantoja, era hija de Francisco Ortiz de Pantoja y de Mariana Ramos de Rojas.

Gracias a las magníficas investigaciones de Héctor Félix Aizcorbe, que tuve el gusto de leer ayer en este foro, hoy sabemos que Francisco Ortiz de Pantoja era hijo del regidor Francisco Ortiz de Pantoja y de Juana García de León. Por su parte, los padres de Mariana Ramos de Rojas fueron Miguel Rico de

Triple Proof of Hidalguía: The Rarity of Three Pruebas Plenas and Contemporary Nobility Recognition in the Reinoso Family

The Legal Significance of Three Pruebas Plenas in Hispanic Nobiliary Law: The Case of the Reinoso Lineage

In the legal tradition of the Crown of Castile and the wider Iberian Peninsula, demonstrating hidalguía (blood nobility) required navigating a complex system of evidence under the jurisdiction of the Salas de los Hijosdalgo within the Reales Chancillerías (Valladolid and Granada).

Within Spanish nobiliary law (Derecho Nobiliario), proof of status fell broadly into two categories:

  1. Tres Actos Positivos (Presumptive Proof): In the absence of definitive judicial sentences, a family could establish noble status by presenting evidence of three consecutive generations exercising privileges exclusive to the noble estate, such as exemption from pechos (personal taxes), holding offices restricted to hidalgos, or serving in military campaigns. While legally valid, actos positivos represented administrative recognition rather than a definitive judicial ruling.
  2. Prueba Plena (Full Judicial Proof): A

Maria Carrillo Davila - Secret Child

I want to share this finding. It's a story about Maria Carrillo Davila found in: Matrimonios 1690-1695, 1707, 1709 Page 566.
It is the marriage of Joseph Ramon and Josepha Cid Caldera. Marriage dispensation requested February 7, 1690, in Xerez, Zacatecas.
Dispensation for fourth-degree consanguinity.—
Joseph Román, resident of the City of Zacatecas, son of unknown parents, having been abandoned at the home of Don Joseph Román de Cabrera; with Josepha Sid, a 19-year-old Spaniard born and raised in the Villa de Xerez de la Frontera;
parents: Pedro Sid Caldera (Spaniard Josepha Sid; and Juana Rosales).
The prospective groom was informed of the kinship and asked that the matter be kept secret, given that Doña María Carrillo de Avila—who is said to have been his mother and is now deceased—had been a woman of high social standing and had been married to a prominent man who is still alive.
Declaration of Doña María de Arellano, a 50-year-old Spaniard and widow of Captain Don Pedro Carrillo Dávila:
S

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Hello Cynthia,

Thank you for sharing this information. I'm not decended to any of the parties mentioned in the dispensa you cited, but I do love hearing these sordid and interesting tales from yesteryear.

At a recent family gathering, we entertained everyone with stories about distant ancestors and relatives, including the lecherous Sebastián Pérez, Beatriz de Padilla's entanglement with the Inquisition, and the romance across the social divide between José Moreno de Ortega and Petrolina Ramírez.

I never would have known about these stories if it weren't for this forum.

So please, keep them coming!

Thank you,

Travis

Juan de Padilla Davila? Delgadillo? horro?

Hello everyone,
Back in Galveston after Ike, attempting to do a little genealogical research. I have been inspecting carefully the marriage record of Juan de Padilla and Petronila de Siordia (Thanks, Connie for the copy). Although as Connie mentioned, the copy is not good, I was able to digitally enhance it, and I am convinced that neither 'Davila' (suggested by Daniel) nor 'Delgadillo' (suggested by Connie) appear in the document after "Juan de Padilla". Instead, in my opinion it reads 'herro' or 'horro' -Note that at the time the letter 'h' was written more like a "S", thus in not uncommon to find transcriptions of surnames as 'Hinojosa' as 'Sinojosa'. I tried several searches for Herro (a Basque surname) in the "Catalogo de Pasajeros de Indias" en PARES, given that Juan is identified as 'Natural de Xerez' (Thus, Jerez de la Frontera, Spain). No matches. I entered 'Horro', and I found numerous records, all of them as far I could tell, linked to the racial descriptions of black

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Hola Jaime , I contacted a prima Marylou Montaga who assisted the author Jose Luis Vazquez -Genealogia de Nochistlan- she was asking for a copy of the acta you possess.
Ronnie Reynoso> To: research@lists.nuestrosranchos.org> From: alvaradj@comcast.net> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:01:46 -0700> Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] Juan de Padilla Davila? Delgadillo? horro?> > > Hello everyone,> Back in Galveston after Ike, attempting to do a little genealogical research. I have been inspecting carefully the marriage record of Juan de Padilla and Petronila de Siordia (Thanks, Connie for the copy). Although as Connie mentioned, the copy is not good, I was able to digitally enhance it, and I am convinced that neither 'Davila' (suggested by Daniel) nor 'Delgadillo' (suggested by Connie) appear in the document after "Juan de Padilla". Instead, in my opinion it reads 'herro' or 'horro' -Note that at the time the letter 'h' was written more like a "S", thus in not uncommon to find transcriptions of surnames as 'Hinojosa' as 'Sinojosa'. I tried several searches for Herro (a Basque surname) in the "Catalogo de Pasajeros de Indias" en PARES, given that Juan is identified as 'Natural de Xerez' (Thus, Jerez de la Frontera, Spain). No matches. I entered 'Horro', and I found numerous records, all of them as far I could tell, linked to the racial descriptions of black (negros> , de color loro) followed by the qualification of their status as freedmen (horro=slave that was set free). The complete description generally reads 'horro, libre'.> The question then is: was Juan de Padilla a freedman? What gives some support to this hypothesis is the same document, the next record is the marriage of Juan de Escalante, Espanol, con Maria Magdalena (no surname)". In the case of Juan de Padilla, the word 'horro' or herro? appears just below his name, in the same place where we generally find the racial description. 'horro or herro' is entered again in the text body after his name.> Finally, I was thinking of Xerez as the famous one in Spain. However, 80 miles north of the City of Aguascalientes, there is the mining town of Xerez (Jerez) de la Frontera, Zacatecas (Founded 1569, and since 1952 known as 'Jerez de Garcia Salinas'). We should probably set our efforts to trace Juan de Padilla there. > > Jaime> -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --> Nuestros Ranchos Research Mailing List> > To post, send email to:> research(at)nuestrosranchos.org> > To change your subscription, log on to:> http://www.nuestrosranchos.org
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Hello Jaime,

The reference to “Xeres” is most likely to Jerez de la Frontera, in Andalusia, which had already been a city since 1267. In my experience, all references to Jerez (in the present-day state of Zacatecas) were made as “villa de Xeres” or “Xeres de la Nueva Galicia”, never simply “Xeres”. Although its official name was Xeres de la Frontera, “de la Nueva Galicia” was added to distinguish it from the Andalusian city and from a town in Central America with the same name.

On the other hand, it should be clarified that, despite its relative proximity to major mining centres such as Zacatecas, Fresnillo and Sombrerete, Jerez (Zacatecas) was not a mining town, but rather an agricultural one that supplied these three mining centres with agricultural produce.

Best regards,

Héctor Félix Aizcorbe

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Hola Jaime ,In Jose Luis Vazquez 's book Genealogia de Nochistlan -chapter 58 page 191 -the author Jose Luis Vazquez has written I would think he wrote from the acta de matrimonio-EN 14 DE FEBRERO DE 1616 ANOS DESPOSSE A JUAN DE PADILLA(Y DELGADILLO),NATURAL DE XERES CON DONA PETRONA DE SIORDIA ECT. SIENDO TESTIGOS ALONSO PERES Y NICOLAS MORILLO Y JUAN GIL,ESTANTES EN ESTA VILLA DE AGUASCALIENTES.VELARONSE A 13 DE ENERO ANOS FUERON PADRINOS LOPE RUIS DE ESPARZA DONA MARIA DE SIORDIA CUNADA DEL DICHO JUAN DE PADILLA
I don't know what to think. I would gather that the author Jose Luis Vazquez did his home work. Can't call it.
Ronnie Reynoso> To: research@lists.nuestrosranchos.org> From: alvaradj@comcast.net> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:01:46 -0700> Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] Juan de Padilla Davila? Delgadillo? horro?> > > Hello everyone,> Back in Galveston after Ike, attempting to do a little genealogical research. I have been inspecting carefully the marriage record of Juan de Padilla and Petronila de Siordia (Thanks, Connie for the copy). Although as Connie mentioned, the copy is not good, I was able to digitally enhance it, and I am convinced that neither 'Davila' (suggested by Daniel) nor 'Delgadillo' (suggested by Connie) appear in the document after "Juan de Padilla". Instead, in my opinion it reads 'herro' or 'horro' -Note that at the time the letter 'h' was written more like a "S", thus in not uncommon to find transcriptions of surnames as 'Hinojosa' as 'Sinojosa'. I tried several searches for Herro (a Basque surname) in the "Catalogo de Pasajeros de Indias" en PARES, given that Juan is ide
ntified as 'Natural de Xerez' (Thus, Jerez de la Frontera, Spain). No matches. I entered 'Horro', and I found numerous records, all of them as far I could tell, linked to the racial descriptions of black (negros> , de color loro) followed by the qualification of their status as freedmen (horro=slave that was set free). The complete description generally reads 'horro, libre'.> The question then is: was Juan de Padilla a freedman? What gives some support to this hypothesis is the same document, the next record is the marriage of Juan de Escalante, Espanol, con Maria Magdalena (no surname)". In the case of Juan de Padilla, the word 'horro' or herro? appears just below his name, in the same place where we generally find the racial description. 'horro or herro' is entered again in the text body after his name.> Finally, I was thinking of Xerez as the famous one in Spain. However, 80 miles north of the City of Aguascalientes, there is the mining town of Xerez (Jerez) de la Fronter
a, Zacatecas (Founded 1569, and since 1952 known as 'Jerez de Garcia Salinas'). We should probably set our efforts to trace Juan de Padilla there. > > Jaime> -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --> Nuestros Ranchos Research Mailing List> > To post, send email to:> research(at)nuestrosranchos.org> > To change your subscription, log on to:> http://www.nuestrosranchos.org
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Ronnie,
    I am posting this edited version of the message I sent you this morning so that others at Nuestros Ranchos can also read it.  
Earlier today, I sent you and Mary Lou a copy of the marriage document of Juan de Padilla and Petrona de Siordia to hear what she thinks. For my part, I can see where the "y Davila" may have come from. At the margin it reads "Juan de Padilla 'horro'? y Doña Petrona." Because of the writting style, the "y Doña" can easily be confused with "y Davila". If anyone would like to inspect a copy, please let me know.

Jaime

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I would like to see a copy if possible, ive studied some bit older documents, usually have beautiful writing
but sometimes horrible dpending on the place or Priest in the 15-16 centuries.
Daniel Méndez del Camino
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Petrona de Siordia and Juan de Padilla

A month ago I found and requested the IGI record for the marriage of Juan de Padilla Sorro to Petrona de Siordia (misspelled Giordia in the IGI record), hoping to find additional information on this couple. The marriage took place in El Sagrario, Aguascalientes on 14 February 1616 (Batch M604761 Source Call 0299421). After an anxious wait today I received the reply that this record could not be found. I do not have access to that film at the local center to search it myself. Has anyone been able to locate this record? I would certainly appreciate a copy of the image or a transcript of the entire text.

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Jaime,

I don't have an image but here is the transcription:

"En 14 de febro. de 616 años desposse a Juan de Padilla ___ natural de Xerez
con Doña Petrona de siordia, Premissas las moniciones y demás diligencias
establecidas Testigos Alonso Perez, Nicolas Morillo, y Juan Gil estantes en
esta villa. - Velaronse a 13 de enero de 617 años fueron Padrinos Lope Ruiz
de Esparza y Doña María de Siordia cuñada del dicho Juan de Padilla i al
cassamiento fueron Padrinos Doña Juana de Siordia, y Martín Fernandez de
Vaulus su hermano el cual quiso despues descasar a su hermana por no tener
edad, Pero le valió poco la malicia. [firma] Lorezo Rodriguez."

I could not read the complete surname, but it should be Juan de Padilla y
Delgadillo.

Saludos,
Bill Figueroa

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Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] Petrona de Siordia and Juan de Padilla

A month ago I found and requested the IGI record for the marriage of Juan de
Padilla Sorro to Petrona de Siordia (misspelled Giordia in the IGI record),
hoping to find additional information on this couple. The marriage took
place in El Sagrario, Aguascalientes on 14 February 1616 (Batch M604761
Source Call 0299421). After an anxious wait today I received the reply that
this record could not be found. I do not have access to that film at the
local center to search it myself. Has anyone been able to locate this
record? I would certainly appreciate a copy of the image or a transcript of
the entire text.

Thanks

Jaime

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Jaime,

The entry reads like this (except for the religious sacramental info common to most marriage entries). I have checked both my copy and that in Jose Luis Vazquez's book (p. 191).

En 14 de febrero de 616 (1616) anos desposse a Juan de Padilla (y Delgadillo), Natural de xeres con Dona Petrona de siordia premisas...(common sacramental info)...
siendo testigos Alonso Peres y Nicolas Morillo y Juan Gil, estantes en esta villa (de Aguascalientes). Velaronse a 13 de Enero de 617 (1617) anos, fueron padrinos Lope Ruis de esparsa y dona Maria de siordia cunada del dicho Juan de Padilla; y al cassamiento fueron Padrinos dona juana de sirodia y Martin fernandes de Vaulus su hermano, el qual quiso despues descasar a su hermana por no tener hedad, pero le valio poco la malicia.

By the way, I have already extracted this entire film, so if you need another look-up, perhaps I can help.Likewise, if you need an actual copy, let me know. Hope this is what you needed.

Connie Dominguez

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A month ago I found and requested the IGI record for the marriage of Juan de Padilla Sorro to Petrona de Siordia (misspelled Giordia in the IGI record), hoping to find additional information on this couple. The marriage took place in El Sagrario, Aguascalientes on 14 February 1616 (Batch M604761 Source Call 0299421). After an anxious wait today I received the reply that this record could not be found. I do not have access to that film at the local center to search it myself. Has anyone been able to locate this record? I would certainly appreciate a copy of the image or a transcript of the entire text.

Thanks

Jaime

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Jaime,

The entry reads like this (except for the religious sacramental info common to most marriage entries). I have checked both my copy and that in Jose Luis Vazquez's book (p. 191).

En 14 de febrero de 616 (1616) anos desposse a Juan de Padilla (y Delgadillo), Natural de xeres con Dona Petrona de siordia premisas...(common sacramental info)...
siendo testigos Alonso Peres y Nicolas Morillo y Juan Gil, estantes en esta villa (de Aguascalientes). Velaronse a 13 de Enero de 617 (1617) anos, fueron padrinos Lope Ruis de esparsa y dona Maria de siordia cunada del dicho Juan de Padilla; y al cassamiento fueron Padrinos dona juana de sirodia y Martin fernandes de Vaulus su hermano, el qual quiso despues descasar a su hermana por no tener hedad, pero le valio poco la malicia.

By the way, I have already extracted this entire film, so if you need another look-up, perhaps I can help.Likewise, if you need an actual copy, let me know. Hope this is what you needed.

Connie Dominguez

---- Jaime Alvarado wrote:

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A month ago I found and requested the IGI record for the marriage of Juan de Padilla Sorro to Petrona de Siordia (misspelled Giordia in the IGI record), hoping to find additional information on this couple. The marriage took place in El Sagrario, Aguascalientes on 14 February 1616 (Batch M604761 Source Call 0299421). After an anxious wait today I received the reply that this record could not be found. I do not have access to that film at the local center to search it myself. Has anyone been able to locate this record? I would certainly appreciate a copy of the image or a transcript of the entire text.

Thanks

Jaime

Question about Ana de Quesada (cc Miguel Hernández Rubio)

Hello, everyone!

I have a question concerning ancestor Ana de Quesada (born c. 1615, died before 22 November 1660), who married Miguel Hernández Rubio.

WikiTree suggests that her parents may have been Juan López de Lizalde and Ana de Quesada. Is there any evidence supporting this possible identification beyond her approximate date of birth and the fact that she is referred to as “Ana de Mendoza” in the marriage record of her daughter, María Rubio?

I'm trying to sort this out because we appear to have three ancestors named Ana de Quesada, all from Lagos and all living within approximately the same time period. It is becoming a bit confusing!

The three women are:

  • Ana de Quesada, married c. 1634 to Miguel Hernández Rubio
  • Ana de Quesada, whose first proven child was born in 1649 (Pedro b. 4 Nov 1649, padrinos: Pedro Gómez Portugal y Isabel Ortiz). This Ana de Quesada is possibly about ten years younger than the other two Anas or perhaps this was her second marriage; she married Gaspar Gómez de

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Just found this. 

4 Jan 1628: "died Diego Hurtado, son of Pedro Hurtado, vecino del Fresnillo, husband of Ana de Quesada, daughter of the elder Alonso de Quesada."

I'm assuming this refers to the Alonso de Quesada who married Juana Bautista Hernández de Arellano. 

I believe I found the most likely candidate for the wife of Miguel Hernández Rubio.

Thank you

Travis

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Postscript:

I'm especially interested to discover more about Ana de Quesada (cc Miguel Hernández Rubio). If she is indeed the daughter of Juan López de Lizalde and Ana de Quesada, then we will officially be descended from ALL the known daughters of Toribio Hernández de Arellano and Isabel de Mendoza. 

That would be amazing. 

Also, this may not mean anything but could be a clue to her identity, but I'm fairly certain the Ana de Quesada, who married Juan de Saavedra, was Española as their daughter, María de Saavedra , is referred to as Española in her baptismal record (1 October 1634). Ana de Quesada is referred to in that record as "Ana Alonso."

Thank you,

Travis

I need some clarity on Gómez Dispensas Confusion

Hello all!

I'm trying to untangle the relationship between three individuals: Joaquín Gómez, Gertrudis Gómez, and Antonio Gómez. WikiTree currently presents them as siblings—the children of an Unknown Gómez. The proposed relationships appear to be based primarily upon two dispensas from 1798 and 1780.

Gertrudis Gómez appears in both dispensas.

The first dispensa, dated November 1798, concerns the marriage of José Mariano Ysas and María Francisca Gómez. It gives the following relationships:

Gertrudis Gómez, hermana de Antonio Gómez
José Ysas, primo hermano de Gregorio Gómez
Andrés Ysas, primo segundo de Vicente Gómez
Pretenso José Mariano Ysas, primo tercero de María Francisca Gómez

The Gertrudis Gómez mentioned here is identified as the Gertrudis Gómez who married Ignacio de Isassi sometime before the 8 May 1710 baptism of their first documented child, Juan Antonio de Isassi.

Her purported brother, Antonio Gómez, is identified as Antonio Gómez, son of Gaspar Gómez and Magdalena de Gutiérrez AKA

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Hola a todos, me llamo Miguel y soy originario de Aguascalientes. Adjunto el árbol genealógico de mi tatarabuelo. Como verán, él tiene vínculos con varias familias de Los Altos, aunque desciende principalmente de las familias Hernández-Gamiño y Ascensio de León. Él nació en Pénjamo, al igual que sus padres, pero sus cuatro abuelos eran de la zona de Arandas-Ayotlán. Irónicamente, aunque yo soy de Aguascalientes, esta rama de mi árbol genealógico llegó a través de la ruta Arandas-Pénjamo-Angamacutiro (donde nació mi papá).

Hello everyone, my name is Miguel and I am originally from Aguascalientes. I am attaching my great-great-grandfather's family tree. As you will see, he has ties to several families from Los Altos, although he descends primarily from the Hernández-Gamiño and Ascensio de León families. He was born in Pénjamo, as were his parents, but all four of his grandparents were from the Arandas-Ayotlán area. Ironically, even though I am from Aguascalientes, this branch of my family

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Hello Miguel,

Welcome to Nuestros Ranchos! I don't see any overlap between our family trees, but I'm sure there are others here who may share some of your ancestry.

I hope you find the answers you're looking for and enjoy being part of the group.

Thank you,

Travis

FLÓREZ-OSORIO / ERIK ANDRÉS REYNIOSO Y RENTERIA

Estimado Erik,

Hace algunos años publicaste un post sobre Hernán Flores y su ascendencia (o posible ascendencia). En alguna parte de tu publicación mencionas al linaje Flórez-Osorio y a los vizcondes de Quintanilla de Flórez.

En la primera mitad del siglo XVII vivió en celaya Diego Flórez de Robles Osorio, nacido en Valdepeñas alrededor de 1600, hijo de Francisco Flórez-Osorio y de doña Francisca de Cuéllar. No he podido encontrar información más allá de su lugar de nacimiento (bastante retirado de Quintanilla de Flórez) y los nombres de sus padres. He querido suponer que está relacionado con los ancestros del primer vizconde, pero no lo he podido probar. Parece ser que el primer señor de Quintanilla de Flórez fue el primero en apellidarse Flórez-Osorio, como hijo de Francisco Flórez García de Ríjoles y de doña Ana Osorio, señora de Cobrana Dentro de tus investigaciones ¿te has topado con algunos Flórez-Osorio que pudiesen haber marchado a Valdepeñas?

Diego es ancestro de muchas personas

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Estimado Erik,

Estaba preparando una respuesta y, por algún error que comúnmente cometo, he perdido el enlace a NR. Así que comienzo otra vez:

Interesante lo que mencionas de Felipe de Huete. Yo solo lo trato de pasada, pues estuvo casado con una señora miembro de una de las familias de fundadores de Celaya. Vengo preparando, desde hace muchods años, un libro sobre los fundadores formales de Celaya pero, cada vez que me pongo a la tarea de revisarlo antes de registrarlo y publicarlo, encuentro hilos de información de los que tiro y tiro y no me permiten acabarlo.

Por otra parte, tu faceta de investigador me interesa. Yo no he podido remontar mi línea de varonía (Félix de Arellano) más allá de Nicolás Félix, quien debió nacer alrededor de 1620 y vivió en Pánuco (Zacatecas), casado con Francisca de Peralta´(a quien un error que yo, involuntariamente, atyudé a propagar, llaman en las genealogías en línea como "doña" -nunca fue doña- Francisca de Peralta y Arellano -información que me pasaron de Jerez). Su hija mayor se llamó doña María de Arellano y, como a la mayoría de las hijas mayores llamaban como a la abuela paterna, he pensado que Nicolás pudo ser hijo de una doña María Díaz de Arellano casada en Zacatecas en 1605 con Juan Álvarez Gómez (como la famosa agua de colonia española). Hubo un Sebastián de Arellano en Zacatecas entre el XVI y XVII que ocupó varios cargo de república y que pudo haber sido el padre de doña María Díaz de Arellano. También hubo una Catalina Félix que llegó a Guadalajara, casó allí hacia finales del XVI y tuvo hijos (678. ALONSO FELIX, natural de Villalar, hijo de Juan Félix y de Baltasara Ramírez, con Catalina, hija suya y de Juana Gutiérrez, a Nueva Galicia como criado del licenciado Antonio Maldo nado, oidor de la Audiencia.—11 julio. 1-119 V.-120) -creo que los varones fueron religiosos). Si la investigaciónn de esta familia entra dentro de tu enfoque profesional, me agradecería que me lo dijeses y me informases las condiciones económicas.

Ahora me tengo que marchar - que vinene a por mí para ir a comer-, pero luego continúo con dos o tres casos que han sido difíciles para mí y que no quiero abandonar. Uno -o dos- especialmente porque es mi ancestro unas 120 veces, y sus suegros unas 150 veces.

Un saludo,

Héctor

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Estimado Héctor,

Es muy interesante. A quien buscaba era a Juan Maldonado de Cuéllar, esposo de Sancha de Reynoso y Padilla Dávila. En su testamento, otorgado ante Hernando Enríquez del Castillo, consigna que era natural y originario de la villa de Valdepeñas, marquesado de Santa Cruz, Arzobispado de Toledo, reynos de Castilla, hijo legítimo de Diego Maldonado de Cuéllar y Juana de Ureña su legítima mujer. También de interés es que estuvo casado en segundas nupcias con Gabriela Fernández de Sepúlveda (hija de Gonzalo Fernández de Sepúlveda y Luisa Beltrán, también conocida por el apellido Sánchez) y que un primo suyo fue Gerónimo de Merlo. 

Por cierto, un cliente me contrató el año pasado para conocer la ascendencia del Felipe de Huete que indicas, remontándolo hasta 1350 de acuerdo con las probanzas de hidalguía de esa familia. Caso muy interesante.

Un cordial saludo,

Erik

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Estimado Héctor,

Disculpa la respuesta tardía. Voy a mirar si hay algo sobre los de Valdepeñas, los Flores/Flórez de Salamanca reclamaban parentesco con los marqueses de Astorga en sus pleitos de hidalguía y el marqués, que por las fechas debió haber sido Alvar Pérez Osorio, los trataba como primos. Esa fórmula Flórez + Osorio fue característica de esa rama cuyo solar estaba en las montañas de León. 

Por cierto hace unos años me zambullí en Valdepeñas buscando a unos Cuéllar/Maldonado pero no retomé el hilo. Volveré al tema y te comento.

Saludos cordiales,

Erik

 

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Estimado Erik,

De Valdepeñas era Roque Alonso Maldonado, vecino de Celaya:

Doña Isabel de Herrera, o Gutiérrez. Debió nacer en Celaya hacia finales del siglo XVI. Fue mujer en primeras nupcias de Roque Alonso Maldonado, regidor de Celaya, natural de la villa de Valdepeñas, en la región de La Mancha, reinos de Castilla, quien ya era viudo de Antonia de Torquemada.

En 1614 se le expidió a Roque confirmación del oficio de regidor de Celaya (1). Fue también procurador de la villa y, en 1632, Roque solicitó al virrey, a través del bachiller Rafael de Estrada, la confirmación de la merced de dos y media caballerías de tierra que el cabildo, justicia y regimiento de Celaya le había en el año de 1622 por su residencia en ella, vecinas de tierras de Antonio Tello, Alonso de Almansa y Alejos de Losa (2).

  1. ^  5 de noviembre de 1614. Expediente de Confirmación del oficio de regidor de Zelaya a Roque Alonso. AGI, México, 180, No. 34.
  2. ^  AGN, Tierras, Vol. 2705, Exp. 3

De Valdepeñas fue, también, Felipe de Huete, otro vecino de Celaya:

Catalina Bravo de Aguilar. Fue mujer de Felipe de Huete, hidalgo, natural de Valdepeñas, en Castilla -donde nació alrededor de 1585 (1)- hijo de Alonso de Huete y de Francisca de Cuéllar, y sobrino de dos importantes vecinos de Celaya: Roque Alonso Maldonado (la abuela materna de Felipe era María López Maldonado) y Diego de Cuéllar. A Felipe de Huete se concedió licencia para pasar a Nueva España el año de 1615 (2).

  1. ^  Según su propia declaración dada el 7 de abril de 1650, en Celaya, era de 65 años de edad. Celaya, 4 de abril de 1650. Averiguación y probanza de los milagros que Dios nuestro Señor ha obiado mediante una hechura suya de un cristo crucificado que está depositado en el hospital y convento de San Juan de Dios de esta villa de Celaya. AHCM, Diocesano, Religiosos, Juaninos, Caja 13, Exp. 1.
  2. ^  AGI, Indiferente, Vol. 2075, No. 104.

 Espero que la anterior información te pueda servir.

Recibe un cordial saludo,

Héctor

Beyond Internet Trees: Introducing Genuspedia.com and EK Geneascore™

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Anyone who has researched family history on platforms like FamilySearch, Ancestry, MyHeritage, or Geni understands the double-edged sword: while they provide access to digitized records, they have also spread widespread and massive errors, mislinked namesakes, and unverified user trees. Accepting automated "hints" without consulting primary records has led many to build ancestral lines on shaky ground, to say the least.

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For those tracking our repository expansions, I also published the first official ingestion log:

Archival Ingestion Log I: Noble Lawsuits, Peerage Disputes & Notarial Protocols

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Are Sebastián Pérez (m. Isabel de Ávalos) & Sebastián Pérez (m. Leanor Ruvalcaba) the same person?

I’d really appreciate serious researchers’ thoughts on this Sebastián Pérez question.

Having reviewed the reconstructed family trees, baptism and marriage dates, and the various dispensas, it has become increasingly apparent to me that Sebastián Pérez, husband of Isabel de Ávalos, and Sebastián Pérez, husband of Leanor Ruvalcaba, were likely the same individual.

A father-and-son relationship has been proposed for these two men, but the chronology makes that relationship difficult to accept. Based on the estimated birth dates of Sebastián Pérez's sisters, Ana Pérez and María Burgueño, both of whom appear to have been born before 1600 (having children born as early as 1615), the Sebastián Pérez who married Isabel de Ávalos would have been too young to have been the father of all three siblings if the two Sebastiáns were separate generations.

A more plausible explanation is that there was only one Sebastián Pérez. He first married Isabel de Ávalos and, following her death, subsequently

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I have long held the belief that Sebastián Pérez (born ~1600) married to Isabel de Ávalos and Sebastián Pérez married to Leonor González de Ruvalcaba are the same person. We know from various dispensas that the latter Sebastián's sisters were María Burgueño (b. ~1590) and Ana Pérez (b. ~1595) which would support the assumption that Sebastián married twice. Unfortunately, as you said, a supporting document has not yet been found to prove that they are the same person. Similarly, it seems reasonable that the parents of María Burgueño, Ana Pérez and Sebastián are Diego Pérez and Beatriz Burgueño, however, supporting documents have not yet been found to prove this.

Un cordial saludo,

Austin Pérez

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Hello Austin,

I'm relatively new to Colonial genealogy and still make mistakes, so I appreciate your thoughts on this subject, and I agree with your take. 

In my own tree, I've merged the two Sebastians, with a note explaining that, while the circumstantial evidence for identifying them as the same person is quite strong, the identification has not been definitively proven.

I have particular interest in this family. We are descended from Juana Burgeño (married to Hernando Medel), Ana Pérez (married to Bartolomé Martín), and, of course, Sebastian Pérez. We also have other Pérez ancestors from Lagos during the same period (1620-1670), some of whom may be connected to the family of Diego Pérez.

 

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Hello Austin, 

The craziest thing happened today...

I was scrolling through 1670s marriage records on FamilySearch when I stumbled upon the marriage record of my 7th great-grandmother. That discovery led to the identity of her parents—and then her grandparents: the infamous philanderer Sebastián Pérez and his wife, Josefa de Casteñeda!

It’s truly a small world (in the 1600s at least).

Thank you,

Travis

 

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Nice!

I too recently located additional information on Sebastián's second marriage to María Garcia, daughter of José García Rodríguez and Margarita Gutiérrez del Castillo.

 

Donaciano Diaz de Leon

Greetings to all.

Trying to fully understand and find what Diaz de Leon branch I come from.

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Hello, 

I have been researching the Díaz de León roots for more than a decade. The only information we currently have about Juan Díaz de León and Inés Domínguez de Garfiascomes from the two wills of their son Juan, both of which were indeed located thanks to Manny. The surname González does not appear in either document, so I am unsure where this information originates. My advice would be to ignore it. 

I do have a few leads that could potentially extend the lineage further back, but so far I have not found any documentary evidence to support them.

Last winter, I visited Ayamonte and tried to access the local archives but unfortunately I did not have enough time. It is a charming small town on the Guadiana River with two beautiful churches in which one of them Juan may have been baptised in the last decades of the 16th century. If you are interested in the history of Ayamonte, the city hosts an annual Jornada de Historia, during which several historians present their research on the history of the town and the surrounding region. You can find them online.

Best regards,

Tristán Díaz de León

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Congratulations Alex on finding the correct lineage.   I also have Diaz de Leon in my ancestral lines. I descend from one of Andres Diaz de Leon’s brothers. I heavily studied your branch before Manny Diez Hermosillo informed me that I descend from his brother. Manny’s research into this line has been very rewarding. 

Good luck in your continuing research,

Rick A. Ricci

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After several years of searching, I was finally able to confirm my ancestry using marriage documents, death certificates, child christenings, and every record I could get my hands on. It has been a long journey, but being able to connect the generations and verify the Díaz de León my lineage has been incredibly rewarding.

Juan Díaz de León - b.1550
don Juan Díaz de León Domínguez-Grafias - b.1580
Juan Díaz-deLeón Ortega "el Mozo" - b.1621
Jacinto Díaz de León - b.1655
Andrés Díaz de León y Gil - b.1686
Andres Díaz de León y Durón - b.1728
Joseph Aquilino Diaz de Leon Carillo - b. 1748
Jose Hilario Diaz de Leon López - b. 1784
Jose de la Rosa Díaz de León Delgadillo - b. 1820
Agustin Díaz de León Leos - b. 1843
Rodrigo Diaz de Leon - b. 1869
Donaciano Diaz de Leon - b. 1894
Ismael Diaz de Leon - b. 1926
Refugio Alejandro Diaz de Leon  Sr - b. 1950
Alejandro Diaz de Leon Jr - b. 1971

 

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The Díaz de León Family History 

Compiled by

Alejandro Díaz de León Mejía

A family is not measured solely by the years it has existed, but by the character, faith and perseverance it passes from one generation to the next.

For several years I searched not simply for names and dates, but for the stories behind them. Who were these people? Where did they live? What hardships did they endure? Why did they leave Spain? How did they help build communities in New Spain (Mexico)? What legacy did they leave for future generations?

The answers were not found in a single document or family tree. They emerged gradually through historical records, church registers, land records, wills, family documents, oral history, and the patient work of comparing one source against another.

This family history record represents the beginning not the conclusion of that journey. 

Its purpose is to preserve what I have learned and share it with our family. Genealogical research is constantly evolving as new records become available and existing information is verified or corrected. 

I hope future generations will continue this work by adding new discoveries while preserving the integrity of those who came before us.

Research Sources

This summary is based on information gathered from a variety of sources, including:

FamilySearch.org, Ancestry.com, Nuestros Ranchos, Historical church records, Civil registration records, Wills and probate records, Historical publications, Cemetery records, Census Records, Newspaper archives, Information shared by family members, Other online Genealogy resources.

Whenever possible, I have compared information from multiple sources before including it in this summary.

Our Earliest Known Ancestors

Based on the research currently available, the earliest documented ancestor in our direct Díaz de León paternal line is Juan Díaz de León.

Estimated Birth: 1550 - 1555

Birthplace: Ayamonte, Huelva, Andalusia, Spain

Spouse: Inés Domínguez de Garfias

Ayamonte is located in the province of Huelva in Andalusia, Spain, on the border with Portugal. During the sixteenth century it was an active fishing, trading, and maritime community connected to the expanding Spanish Empire.

Based on the research currently available, Ayamonte is the earliest documented location associated with our Díaz de León family line.

Migration to New Spain (Mexico)

By the early seventeenth century, members of the Díaz de León family were living in New Spain (Mexico). One of the strongest pieces of evidence is a reported transcription of the testament of Juan Díaz de León ("El Viejo"), who also identified himself as a native of Ayamonte while living in New Spain (Mexico).

The reported transcriptions of his legal declarations from 1636 and 1655 provide valuable information about our family's early history.

According to those documents:

Juan identified himself as a native of Ayamonte.

He identified his parents as Juan Díaz de León and Inés Domínguez de Garfias.

He noted his wife was Francisca de Ortega.

He also named several of his children including our direct ancestor (Juan Díaz de León Ortega) "el Mozo". So, we have Juan his father, his name was Juan (el Viejo) and his son was also named Juan (el Mozo).

He described property accumulated during his marriage to Francisca de Ortega.

These documents provide one of the strongest known links between our family's Spanish origins and its establishment in New Spain (Mexico).

Pinos, Zacatecas

Pinos appears more frequently than any other location in the records I reviewed.

Birth records, marriage records, and family histories consistently connect multiple generations of the Díaz de León family to Pinos and the surrounding communities.

Pinos became one of the earliest communities where I could consistently follow our family's history from one generation to the next.

Several other families frequently appear alongside the Díaz de León family in this region, including the Gonzalez, Carrillo, Sotomayor, Dávila, Leos, Gil de La Mancha and Ibarra.

These repeated connections indicate that many of these families became closely linked through marriage over several generations.

Pinos represents one of the most important locations in our family's history in northern New Spain (Mexico).

La Montesa, Zacatecas

As I continued researching our family name, another location repeatedly appeared in both family records and historical accounts—La Montesa.

While Pinos helped establish our family's presence in northern New Spain, La Montesa became one of the communities most closely associated with later generations of the Díaz de León family.

Several family histories describe members of the Díaz de León family as being connected to La Montesa through ranching, agriculture, and later land ownership.

One historical account that I found states that members of the Díaz de León family, who had previously worked and leased grazing lands on the Rincón Gallardo estates, began purchasing land in La Montesa around the 1840s. This transition marked an important milestone in the family's history.

Although I continue to research the original land records, multiple sources consistently identify La Montesa as one of the most important communities associated with our family.

Family Migration

Based on my research, our family's migration can currently be summarized as follows:

Ayamonte, Huelva, Spain to New Spain (present-day Mexico) to San Luis Potosí to Pinos, Zacatecas to La Montesa / Villa García, Zacatecas to Aguascalientes to El Paso, Texas.

 

My Diaz de Leon Family Lineage

Juan Díaz de León 

b. 1550 Villa de Ayamonte, Huelva, Andalusia, Reinos de Castilla 

Married Inés Domínguez deGarfias.

 

Juan Díaz de León Domínguez-Grafias (el Viejo) 

b. 1580 Ayamonte, Huelva, Andalucia, Reinos del Castilla, España 

Married María Francisca de Ortega.

 

Juan Díaz de León Ortega "el Mozo" 

b. 1621 Pinos, Zacatecas, Mexico

Married Jacinta de Sotomayor Islas.

 

Jacinto Díaz de León Sotomayor 

b. 1655 Aguascalientes, Reino de Nueva Galicia 

Married María Sebastiana Gil de la Mancha.

 

Andrés Díaz de León y Gil 

b.1686 

Married Dionicia Gutiérrez Durón y de Alvarado.

 

Andres Díaz de León y Durón 

b. Pinos, Zacatecas, Mexico b. 1728 

Married María Estefanía Gertrudis Carrillo Díaz de León.

 

Joseph Aquilino Diaz de Leon Carillo 

b. 1748 Pinos, Zacatecas 

Married Anna María Lopez Ruelas.

 

Jose Hilario Diaz de Leon López 

b. 1784 Pinos, Zacatecas 

Married Maria del Refugio Delgadillo Alvarez.

 

Jose de la Rosa Díaz de León Delgadillo 

b. 1820 

Married María Maxima Leos Campos.

 

Agustin Díaz de León Leos 

b. 1843 Pinos, Zacatecas 

Married María San Juan Ibarra.

 

Jose Rodrigo Diaz de Leon Ibarra 

b. 1869 Pinos, Zacatecas 

Married María Filibérta Gonzalez Ortega.

 

Donaciano Diaz de Leon Gonzalez 

b. 1894 Montesa, Villa García, Zacatecas 

Married María Romo.

 

Ismael Diaz de Leon Romo 

b. 1926 El Paso, Texas 

Married Sara Fernandez

 

Refugio Alejandro Diaz de Leon Fernandez 

b. 1950 Aguascalientes, Mexico 

Married Enriqueta Mejia.

 

Alejandro Diaz de Leon Mejia 

b. 1971 El Paso, Texas 

Married Ivonne Torres Lagunas

 

Questions I Hope Someone Will Answer:

Although this summary documents everything I have been able to learn so far, there are still several questions I hope someone can eventually answer.

Who were the parents of Juan Díaz de León?

When did the first member of our family leave Spain for New Spain?

Are there additional Díaz de León records in Ayamonte that have not yet been digitized?

Can the family's land purchases in La Montesa be documented through original property records? 

Are there photographs, letters, family Bibles, or documents still held by relatives that should be preserved?

I hope someone reading this summary years from now will be able to answer one or more of these questions.

If they do, I hope they add those discoveries to this document so our family's history continues to grow.

 

My Thoughts on Family History

When I first started researching our family's history, I expected to learn a little more about my grandparents and perhaps discover another generation or two.

Instead, I found a family history that stretches back nearly five centuries.

One of the biggest lessons I learned during this project is that family history is never finished. Every year, additional records are digitized. New documents become available. Old assumptions are corrected. For that reason, I don't consider this family history record to be complete.

This family history record represents my research as it exists today. I hope future generations continue building on it, preserving our family name and sharing new discoveries with those who come after them.

 

 

Ruiz Esparza names and titles in the 1500s

When I cleaned up several generations on the Esparaza tree on Family Search to reflect the accurate relationships I was very careful to include the correct mother’s maiden name on each record which was especially important on generations with the same name, like Lope Ruiz Esparza Espinosa and Lope Ruíz de Esparza Diaz. However, the same Family Search user who had deleted the couple relationship mentioned on my previous post changed a number of the names, including some, but not all of the wives by adding long extensions like these: 

Lic. Lope Ruíz De Esparza Espinoza Sr. De Esparza de Galar y Zariquiegui 
Lic. Pedro Ruíz De Esparza Caparroso Sr. De Esparza de Galar y Zariquiegui - Lope Ruiz Esparza Espinosa’s son Martin Ruíz De Esparza Huici Sr. De Esparza de Galar y Zariquiegui - Lope Ruiz Esparza Espinosa’s father 
María de Larrasoaña Sra. Del Palacio de Zariquiegui – One of Martin Ruíz De Esparza Huici’s wives (Not Lope’s mother)

This extended version of the name was obviously taken

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Hello Travis,

I took another look at Bartolome de Mesquita.  His wife Lucia Torres doesn’t show any Silva ancestry.  In looking for Bartolome de Mesquita’s ancestry. I would first search his name with a mother surnamed Silva.   Next I would replace the Mesquita with Silva and look for a Bartolome Silva.   Mesquita may be a location from where he was from and took it as a surname replacing Silva.  Amesquita is a variation of Mesquita so also search with that spelling.  

Good luck in your research,

Rick A. Ricci

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Hello Rick,

Thank you for the info and tips. I'll implement them during my searches.

I agree that the Silba/Silva is probably on Bartolomé's side. I charted 2 possible families to which he may belong. One of these families is documented with Converso affiliations. 

Our Gómez line features 5% Sephardic DNA according to ancestry (tested by a very close relative) and Bartolomé Mesquita and Luisa de Torres are ancestors about 7 times over (our family is descended from them through multiple children, sometimes multiple times). So I've been concentrating on the aforementioned converso Mesquita/Amesquita group.

I hope progress can be made as this couple represents such a large part of our family history. 

Thanks again. 

Best,

Travis

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I found the post that I wrote that I referenced but it focused on surnames changes according to location. Here it is:


“Published by R.A.Ricci (not verified) - Mon, 2016-05-30 20:47 | Permalink

Change in surnames according to location given

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Someone asked me to explain the change in surnames in the Ochoa-Garibay pedigree.

If someone here in West Los Angeles asked where I live I would say Mar Vista. If I was in Northern California I would answer Los Angeles. if I was in another state, let's say a state clear across the country on the eastern coast, I would answer California. If I was in another country, I would answer the United States of America. This is how the surname sometimes changed from one generation to the next for Spaniards in the 15th and 16th centuries. The surnames didn't always change permanently. This was a naming pattern in these basque provinces. Some families kept their same surname even if they moved around. Some other families changed their surname often. In some families everyone changed their surname if one person changed his surname, in other families, every sibling may have a different surname.

Juan Martinez de Uncella de Mondragon de Aramayona de Alava
Ivan (Juan) son of Martin residing in the church jurisdiction of Uncella in the Villa Mondragon, from the valley Aramayona, from the Alava province, Basque Country, Spain.

Iglesia de Uncella from the Valle Aramayona, provincia Alava,
Villa de Mondragon

Later! Ybarlucea and Garibay show up as part of the surname. We have Martin Ochoa Ybarlucea becoming Martin Ochoa Garibay. The change is Ybarlucea to Garibay, from the banks of the river where the fern grows in Elorrio (Ybarlucea) to the valley where Elorrio is located (Garibay)
The banks where the fern grows in Elorrio= Ybarlucea
Valle de Elorrio= Garibay
Provincia de Guipozcoa
Basque Country

I hope this helps,
R.A. Ricci”


The reason that I wrote this originally was to explain why many of the family members had different surnames from their siblings, parents, or other relatives.

Rick A Ricci
 

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Hello Rick,

Thank you for posting this comment. Your modern parallel using Mar Vista, LA and CA is excellent. It helped.

Yes, 17th century Colonial surnames are challenging for a novice like myself but much more preferable - from a genealogical perspective - over Anglo naming practices, where these valuable clues are lost after marriage! 

Connected story: using the 1669 Padron of Santa María de los Lagos, I charted out the family of Juan Días Toribio and Inés de Abrego. Most of their children assumed the surname Días, but some daughters opted to occasionally use "Abrego." 

For almost a year I assumed that the "Antonia Rodrígues," who lived on the same Hacienda was a worker or servant. She is listed among the servants further down the list from the family. Later, I discovered her serving as madrina in multiple baptisms alongside her father "Juan Días Toribio" as padrino. 

I learned a lesson. Never make assumptions based upon surnames in Colonial records.

This brings me to a surname question:

What is the function of "Toribio" at the end of Juan Días's name? Toribio is a personal name. I have never seen it used as a surname.

If it's not a surname; why did he place it at the end of his name? To distinguish himself from another Juan Días?

Thank you. 

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Hello Travis,

Toribio, as many other names in Spanish, may be a personal name or a surname. By coincidence, I recently had a medical proceeding and the doctor's name happens to be Héctor (like myself) Toribio. My own first surname is Félix, and I have Carlos and Felipe, among others, as surnames in my family tree. Common surnames are Jaime, Lorenzo, Santiago, Miguel, Juan, etc. In Spain, at the introduction of the Civil Registration (ca 1860), most people with this kind of surname were added the preposition "de" to make clear that it was a surname.

Best regards,

H

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Hello again, Travis,

By the way, have you find any info on the ancestors of Juan Díaz Toribio and Inés de Ábrego. I only know that he was Spanish and she was mestiza.

Best regards,

H

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Hello Hector!

I have not been able to identify the parents of either Juan or Inés.

Here is what I know so far:

Juan Díaz Toribio and Inés de Abrego appear to have moved from Teocaltiche to Lagos sometime between the baptisms of their daughters Inés de Abrego, on 8 June 1641 in Teocaltiche, and Micaela Díaz, on 16 October 1643 in Lagos.

According to 1748 property records, Juan Díaz Toribio purchased the Estancia de Buenavista from Pedro Arias Pardo. There is no date given for the purchase, but I suspect it may have occurred sometime around 1641–1643, coinciding with their move from Teocaltiche to Lagos. After Juan Díaz Toribio's death (abt. 17 Aug 1669), his hacienda, the Estancia de Buenavista, was divided among his four youngest children: Nicolás, Elvira, Tomás, and Ana. Unfortunately, I cannot understand all the information in the record and AI isn't much help, so I am not sure how the property passed out of their hands.

I have tried to determine the location of the Estancia de Buenavista without success. I am fairly certain, however, that it was located somewhere in Jalisco, probably in the area between Lagos and León. In some records, it is also referred to as a hacienda.

Yes, Juan Díaz Toribio is identified as Español in the records, but Inés is specifically identified as mulata in at least one record. Their ten documented children are variously classified in the records as Español, mulato, mestizo, and morisco. Given these classifications, I think it is reasonable to conclude that Inés was most likely mulata rather than mestiza.

I have heard that an early padrón of Teocaltiche exists that may shed some light on Juan and Inés, although I have not been able to locate a copy or examine it yet.

We are descended from this couple through multiple lines, so if you happen to uncover anything further or have any suggestions for additional avenues of research, I would be extremely interested to hear them.

Thank you,

Travis

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The 1748 property record: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSD2-RVG3

Baptism of Inés de Abrego, on 8 June 1641 in Teocaltiche: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9392-GRS3-C1

Baptism of Micaela Díaz, on 16 October 1643 in Lagos: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9392-G5R2-L

 

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Hello Travis,

The information you have found is quite interesting. It tells where they came from and the time frame. I will and try to find the Teocaltiche padrón you have mentioned and keep looking. Toribio is a rather uncommon surname and Ábrego isn't either very common, although we know that the transmision of surnames didn't follow any logic at the time and it was rather capricious.

Best regards,

Héctor

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Hello Hector, 

Since our last exchange here, I looked back over my notes for Juan Díaz Toribio and noticed the padrinos for the 26 Feb 1656 baptism of his son Tomás are Nicolás Díaz and his wife Ana Nuñez.

What I've found so far on Nicolás Díaz:

Nicolás Díaz cc Ana Nuñez, children:

  1. Baptism 9 Aug 1646 Nicolás Díaz
  2. Baptism Sep 1648 Agustín Díaz

The dates of their sons' baptisms indicate Nicolás Díaz and Ana Nuñez are in the same age set as Juan Díaz Toribio and Inés de Abrego. 

Maybe Juan and Nicolás are brothers? Cousins? 

It's a clue for a potential new avenue of research on the family's origins.

Thank you, 

Travis

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Hi Dana, 

I'm going through a similar dilemma and settled on a similar solution. Thanks for your perspective. 

Everything is standardized today compared to the past so it's taken me a long time to get my mind around this. Even relatives who recently lived in Mexico don't understand naming customs from the colonial period.

Here's a question - not just for you - but for anyone who can answer: what about those with two completely different names?

Example: Ignacío (b c1630) son of Bartolomé de Mesquita and Luisa de Torres, was obviously named after someone, probably a relative, named Ignacío de Silva. So we have some records naming him Ignacío de Silva and others referring to him as Ignacío de Mesquita.

Thank you, 

Travis

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Ignacio was probably named after a grandparent or greatgrandparent that was surnamed Silva. I have even seen a surname skip even more generations.   I few years ago I wrote about surnames in a post about the Ochoa Garbay family surnames.   I will look for it and add it here.

Rick A. Ricci

The Essential Bookshelf for Nueva Galicia and Viceregal Research: Canonical Works & Community Recommendations

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Following the recent synthesis on researchers who have shaped colonial lineage historiography (A Compendium of Essential Genealogists and Historical Researchers of New Spain), and based on the interesting comments of our colleague Héctor Félix Aizcorbe, it is time we turn our attention to the physical and digital toolkit: the canonical reference works, published genealogical collections, and regional monographs that serve as our daily analytical baseline.

Whether investigating 16th-century lineages or 17th-century notary protocols, certain works remain indispensable.

I invite all members to reply with their most relied-upon books, using the suggested layout below.

For example:

1)Retoños de España en la Nueva Galicia (10 Volumes) Author: Dr. Mariano González-Leal, Knight of the Royal Brotherhood of Infanzones de Illescas, Knight of the Noble Chapter of the Order of our Lady of Mercy (Orden de la Merced), Hidalgo de España, and a long etc. Scope & Significance: An

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Erik, 

A small, but very good publication.

1)Cofradia de las Benditas Animas del Purgatorio de Jalostotitlan: Instituida en 1627(167 Pages) Author: Sergio Gutierrez, a engineer by profession and an enthusiast of the history and genealogy of the Los Altos region of Jalisco, Mexico. For over a decade, he has been studying and analyzing ancient manuscripts related to these fields of research. This short publication includes the paleography of the manuscripts, as well as the records of the proceedings for founding the confraternity, the elections of stewards, the official records of visits by the ecclesiastical authorities of the Bishopric of Guadalajara, the accounting records, and the membership lists. To support the main text, the genealogical trees of the principal founding families are appended, along with a representative selection of photographs of the manuscripts, and finally, a table summarizing the administrators who led the confraternity during its first century of existence. It is an essential book in understanding the evolution of Jalostotitlan during its early formation.

INTRODUCTION TO THE VAZQUEZ DEL MERCADO FAMILY

Hello everyone,

I don't remember having seen before a post by ramon sanchez, made onTue, 2022-09-27, and a comment by Alex Mercado re the Vazquez del Mercado family, so I want to give a partial answer to their concerns.

For what I have studied, there are at least two branches of Vázquez de Mercado: One descending from Ginés, nephew of Bernardino Vázquez de Tapia, and  another one descending from doña Ana Vázquez de Mercado y Tapia (daughter of Pedro (II) Carrillo de Ávila and doña Sancha de Belmar -who, mistakenly, many people make a daughter of Bernardino Vázquez de Tapia, the conqueror), herself a great-granddaughter of Bernardino Vázquez de Tapia, married to Mateo de Río de Losa, many of whose descendants, male and female, bore the surname Vázquez de Mercado or, simply, Mercado. I know for sure some of doña Ana's descendants, and I have the feeling that some of the Vázquez de Mercado from Fresnillo are descendants of doña Ana, but I haven't been able to establish the exact connection

Pérez de Ornelas

Decided to start a new thread on this: 

in an earlier post, Daniel Méndez Camino said: 

"Sebastián Pérez de Ornelas, my tenth great-grandfather, married Leonor González de Ruvalcaba, daughter of Juan González de Ruvalcaba and Leonor Franco de Paredes. I don't know if this Ornelas is related to the same family that settled in Los Altos, but I've only seen a few people with the surname Pérez de Ornelas; I don't know its origin."

My ancestor, Juan Pérez, AKA Juan de Santoyo, born about (or before) 1624 (probably in Lagos), had a probable relative named Gerónima de Ornelas. 

Listed in Juan's household in the 1669 Padron de Santa María de los Lagos is Gerónima de Ornelas, Viuda, living with Juan's widow, Antonia de Villegas, AKA Antonia de Mendoza, and their children (all of Juan and Antonia's known and suspected children assumed surnames of Santoyo, Pérez, Villegas and/or Mendoza).

I have no idea how Gerónima de Ornelas is related to Juan Pérez (AKA Juan de Santoyo). Sister? Mother? Daughter

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Hello Hector,

I'm so appreciative of your reply and of the information you've shared.

We are descended from Juan Pérez de Santoyo and his wife, Antonia de Villegas, AKA Mendoza, through multiple lines.

In my research, I had come across the Pérez de Santoyo family of Salamanca and wondered whether there might be a connection between that family and our Juan Pérez de Santoyo. Given the information you've now provided, it seems increasingly likely that there may indeed be a connection.

I have to admit that I'm saddened that the trail appears to have gone cold and that we may never discover more about Juan. He represents such a significant part of our ancestry, and it would be wonderful to know more about where he came from and how he came to be in Lagos.

Would you possibly be able to point me toward any resources that might help me learn more about the Pérez de Santoyo family of Salamanca?

Thank you again for taking the time to share what you've found. I truly appreciate it.

Travis

 

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Hola Travis,

Los Pérez de Santoyo (Pérez de Hoyos, Pérez Quintana, Pérez Quintana de Hoyos, etc.) son una familia española que se estableció en Salmanca (Guanajuato) en su fundación (1602) en la figura de Juan Pérez Quintana, de quien tu Juan podría ser hijo o nieto. Fue una familia muy prolífica y destacada en la region de El Bajío. Muy probablemente tu Juan haya nacido en Salamanca. Lamentablemente, los registros de bautismos de esa villa empiezan en 1651 y los matrimonios en 1689 (Juan debió nacer alrededor de 1620) y no hay registros parroquiales de esos fechas en los principales lugares de la región en donde estuvieron los Pérez de Santoyo (Celaya, Salamanca, Salvatierra, Valle de Santiago). Como cosa curiosa, el cura José María Morelos y Pavón era, por varonía, un Pérez de Santoyo.

Juan y Antonia de Mendoza casaron en Santa María de los Lagos el 3 de agosto de 1643 ( Santa María de los Lagos. Bautismos 1634–1665).

El primer Ornelas en Salamanca aparece en 1685 en la figura de María de Ornelas, mujer de Juan Pérez Quintana, ambos mestizos, padres de Melchora.

Es más probable que Jerónima de Ornelas sea pariente de Antonia de Villegas / Mendoza.

Saludos,

Héctor

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Hello Hector,

I'm so appreciative of your reply and of the information you've shared.

We are descended from Juan Pérez de Santoyo and his wife, Antonia de Villegas, AKA Mendoza, through multiple lines.

In my research, I had come across the Pérez de Santoyo family of Salamanca and wondered whether there might be a connection between that family and our Juan Pérez de Santoyo. Given the information you've now provided, it seems increasingly likely that there may indeed be a connection.

I have to admit that I'm saddened that the trail appears to have gone cold and that we may never discover more about Juan. He represents such a significant part of our ancestry, and it would be wonderful to know more about where he came from and how he came to be in Lagos.

Would you possibly be able to point me toward any resources that might help me learn more about the Pérez de Santoyo family of Salamanca?

Thank you again for taking the time to share what you've found. I truly appreciate it.

Travis

 

A Compendium of Essential Genealogists and Historical Researchers of New Spain

The study of genealogy within the historical framework of New Spain and modern Mexico represents a critical, specialized branch of Latin American historiography. Far from being a mere collection of ancestral lists, colonial Mexican genealogy serves as an essential lens through which scholars examine social stratification, economic structures, land distribution, and the transmission of political power from the early viceregal era through the nineteenth century. The research produced in this domain relies heavily on rigorous archival paleography, the critical analysis of notary protocols (protocolos notariales), ecclesiastical records, and inquisitorial proceedings, bridging family history with broader socio-economic and demographic realities.

To synthesize a truly comprehensive overview of this field, this compendium integrates a cross-model AI consensus, drawing upon comparative evaluations from Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT to evaluate figures based on archival discoveries, published

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Dear Erik,

Thank you for publishing such an extraordinary and comprehensive synthesis of the giants in our field. As a fellow researcher mapping the human terrain of Nueva Galicia, reading your master summary was deeply inspiring. I completely agree with your closing sentiment: we are indeed links in a continuous chain, standing on the shoulders of the master archivists and paleographers you so beautifully chronicled.

To answer your closing question—my journey was largely inspired by the profound oral histories passed down by my grandfather, Joe Segoviano Muñoz, who migrated from San Julián, Jalisco, to California in 1923, narrowly escaping the Cristero War. My desire to verify his stories led me to the works of Dr. Mariano González-Leal (whose Retoños volumes sit in my home office) and propelled me into the incredibly complex, interwoven genearca lineages of Los Altos.

In my professional life, I am a former Special Operations Civil Affairs Soldier, and I currently serve as an Integration Lead for U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM). In the military, my mission was to "Map the Human Terrain" in places like Iraq, Kosovo, and Ukraine. Today, I apply that exact same investigative methodology to historical records, reconstructing the complex social and economic networks of our ancestors.

On July 22, 2026, I had the honor of briefing community leaders at a local Rotary Club here in the U.S. on this exact concept. My presentation focused heavily on the founding families of Los Altos, specifically tracing my direct descents through the Muñoz de la Barba, Padilla-Dávila, Gómez de Portugal, and Álvarez lineages, all the way back to Conquistador Juan de Baeza.  I visisted Baeza, Jaen, Spain in August 2025 to do ancestral research.

Given your unparalleled expertise and your focus on 16th- and 17th-century notary protocols and European origins, I was hoping to ask you for your guidance on three highly specific "brick walls" based off July's presentation:

The Haciendas: In documenting the 18th-century landholdings of my 7th-great-grandfather, Don Salvador Manuel Muñoz de la Barba (husband to Josefa Rodríguez de Portugal), have you ever come across a Croquis (map), Testamento, or Título de Composición for the Hacienda de Tecameca or La Ciénega in Jalostotitlán?

The San Julián Founders: I am searching for any visual history of the town's founders. Have you ever encountered a historical portrait or painting of Don Lino Padilla Hurtado or Pablo Padilla Hurtado? Or possibly of any Munoz de la Barba members?

The Conquistador: Since you research the noble lineages from Europe into Nueva Galicia, are you aware of any Hoja de Servicios (military service record) or pasajeros a Indias manifest for Captain Juan de Baeza (b. 1518 in Baeza, Spain)?

I would be incredibly grateful for any insight, document exchange, or guidance you might be willing to share. Thank you again for your magnificent contribution to the community, and for reminding us all that true historical preservation is a shared, fraternal endeavor.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,

Mario Franco
[St. Louis, Missouri, USA]

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Buenas tardes (en Madrid), Erik,

Veo con agrado que has incluido a don Fernando Muñoz Altea en la relación que has propuesto en este forum (y quizás en algunos otros) de estudiosos y autores genealogistas del virreinato de la Nueva España. 

Fernando, añorado gran amigo, trabajó incansablemente hasta la avanzada edad de 93 años en la genealogía y en la heráldica, ciencia auxiliar de la historia de la que en México existen muy pocos estudiosos. Fue Rey de Armas de la Casa de Borbón-Dos Sicilias y una colaborador clave para la rehabilitación/recuperación del título de Conde de Gustarredondo (llevada a cabo por el también entrañable Guillermo Tovar quien, por el caballeroso gesto que tuvo con quien ese momento ostentaba irregularmente el título y por su inesperada muerte, se vió impidido de  ostentarlo. Ahora lo ostenta su sobrino) y la sucesión del título de Conde Santa María de Guadalupe del Peñasco, coautor de las monografías relativas a ambos títulos y autor de muchas obras más. Tengo a mucha honra el haber sido la última persona para quien se dignó pintar en pergamino y certificar sus armas.

Por otra parte, me atrevo a proponerte a las siguientes personas para ser incluidas en la relación que has llevado a cabo:

Ricardo Ortega y Pérez-Gallardo, autor de la monumental obra Historia Genealógica de las Familias más Antiguas de México;

Augusto Vallejo de Villa, incansable genealogista, sorjuanista, guadalupanista  y estudioso del arte, autor de numerosos artículos sobre arte virreinal, sobre la verdadera historia de la imagen de la virgen de Guadalupe, y sobre Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz y su obra; descubridor de la partida de bautismo de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz y de su verdadero apellido paterno, que era Azuaje (versión castellanizada del apellido italiano Zoagli), aunque la testarudez de historiadores oficiales insisten en seguir atribuyéndole un apellido -Asbaje- que únicamente existe en sus mentes; director, dentro del Consejo de la Crónica de la Ciudad de México, como colaborador de su gran amigo, Guillermo Tovar de Teresa, del proyecto de ordenación de absolutamente toda la información de las actas sacramentales de las parroquias de españoles de la ciudad de México en el siglo XVI, que incluye la interpolación de información y la identificación de personas que, en ocasiones, usaban diferentes apellidos (este proyecto, inicialmente por problemas de presupuesto y posteriormente por desinterés de las autoridades una vez que Guillermo dejó el Consejo de la Crónica, no ha podido llegar a ver la luz. Afortunadamente, tanto Augusto como yo somos poseedores de los pocos -si no es que únicos- ejemplares impresos de la información objeto del proyecto, que es una herramienta utilísima, aunque no tanto como sería deseable si se lograse la sistematización del mismo). Augusto tiene, además, el grandísimo mérito de haber introducido a Guillermo Tovar de Teresa al estudio de la genealogía, con respecto a lo cual Guillermo le decía que no sabía si bendecirlo o maldecirlo, pues el estudiar genealogía se le había convertido en un verdadero vicio.

Javier Sanchiz Ruiz, doctor en historia, investigador de tiempo completo en el Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas de la UNAM, profesor del seminario de paleografía y diplomática en el posgrado en Historia de la propia UNAM, miembro de número de numerosas academias de genealogía y miembro de otras asociaciones dedicadas al estudio de la historia, la genealogía y la heráldica, autor de incontables libros, capítulos en libros y artículos en revistas especializados sobre genealogía;  coautor, iniciador y coordinador del proyecto de Familias Novohispanas. Un Sistema de Redes; y coautor, con el fallecido José Ignacio Conde y Díaz Rubín, de Historia genealógica de los títulos y dignidades nobiliarias en Nueva España.

Otros nombres destacadísimos en la investigación genealógica en la Nueva España y en la publicación de libros y artículos incluyen a Amaya Garritz, Ivonne Ramírez Mijares y Alejandro Mayagoitia Hagelstein.

Te saluda cordialmente,

Héctor Félix Aizcorbe

 

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Estimado Héctor,

Gracias por expandir y enriquecer la lista de manera tan importante; lo de Ricardo Ortega y Pérez-Gallardo era una omisión imperdonable. Todos ellos han contribuido de manera sustancial a la investigación genealógica y, por ello, veo en este hilo una excelente oportunidad para hacer una petición pública.

El Seminario de Genealogía Mexicana del Dr. Sánchiz es consultado ampliamente y, como sabemos, constituye un valioso esfuerzo compilatorio en el cual se ha vaciado el contenido de diversas obras de investigación, como la de Mariano (Retoños de España en Nueva Galicia). Sin embargo, al tratarse de una compilación fundamentada en su mayoría en obras secundarias y no en repositorios documentales originales, existen incontables inconsistencias que terminan replicándose en otras plataformas, perpetuando el error.

En el caso de los Reynoso, llevo años consignando la genealogía correcta basada en fuentes primarias (y que constituye mi expediente de ingreso al Capítulo Noble de la Orden de la Merced); sin embargo, en el Seminario aún se menciona a una «Catarina Gutiérrez» inexistente, producto de una errónea lectura paleográfica, cuando el nombre consignado en varios manuscritos originales del corpus documental y nobiliario de los Reynoso es Toribia González (del linaje de los Moro, de Olmedo), además de omitirse varias generaciones ascendentes y descendientes.

De igual forma, referir a Petronila de Moctezuma como «Sotelo» constituye un desacierto categórico derivado de una antigua hipótesis de Guillermo Tovar de Teresa que carecía de sustento probatorio (y de la cual ni él mismo estaba convencido), con consecuencias nefastas para la investigación. La de su marido ni se diga, fatal. El caso de los Pantoja de Pátzcuaro, a pesar de haber quedado resuelto documentalmente su origen hidalgo en Medellín, se continúa perpetuando el error en dicha base atribuyéndole otro linaje. Asimismo, la ascendencia presentada para los Romo de Vivar resulta completamente errónea. Una fantasía que no tiene ni pies ni cabeza.

Por otro lado, en mi obra De Nobleza Inmemorial demostré documentalmente que la hidalguía atribuida al licenciado Diego Téllez por el Dr. Sánchiz y por Isaac Luis Velázquez Morales en sus respectivos trabajos, fue en realidad una fabricación realizada en Ocaña, estableciendo que el linaje no corresponde a los Téllez-Girón, sino a los Téllez de condición pechera. Desconozco si dicha filiación ha sido actualizada en la plataforma.

La filiación de Mariana de Vera, sobrina del presidente de la Real Audiencia de Guadalajara Santiago de Vera, totalmente equivocada. Se demostró gracias a Jorge Barba Gómez, que era hija de Hernando de Medina y de Nufla de Vera. Más adelante, hallé otro documento en AGI confirmando el descubrimiento de Jorge, en dicho documento se indica que Gaspar de Vera y Medina (hermano de Mariana) «...era sobrino suyo (refiriéndose a Santiago de Vera) hijo de su hermana...». La filiación que ahí se consigna del capitán Lázaro Martín del Campo es completamente errónea. Gracias a Alfonso Martín del Campo Loza y a Jorge Barba Gómez se descubrió el verdadero origen de los Martín del Campo con las respectivas pruebas documentales (incluyendo la prueba plena de hidalguía). Gracias a la investigación de Alfonso y Jorge puede remontarse su origen a Herencia.

Considero urgente y necesario corregir la información del Seminario. Como en su momento me señaló en diversas ocasiones Francisco Javier Castaños y Cañedo, la falta de actualización y revisión crítica en estas compilaciones genera un impacto sumamente severo en la investigación genealógica rigurosa. Ojalá el proyecto contemple una revisión de fondo en su base de Geneanet para evitar, como decía Guillermo Tovar de Teresa «sacar a la gente de la ignorancia para meterlos en la confusión»

Volviendo al tema principal del hilo, me permito sumar a la lista a mi tío el Ing. José López-Portillo y Weber (y sus obras sobre la Nueva Galicia), al actual Marqués de Salvatierra de Peralta y su trabajo sobre los caballeros maestrantes, al P. Gabriel Ibarrola Arriaga y su obra Familias y Casas en la Vieja Valladolid, a Torsten Dahl por Linajes en México, Matías Ángel de la Mota Padilla (Historia de la conquista de la Nueva Galicia) así como a José Luis Razo Zaragoza, Claudio Jiménez Vizcarra y Armando Mauricio Escobar y Olmedo con sus respectivos y muy importantes trabajos de investigación histórica y genealógica.

Recibe un cordial saludo,

Erik

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Estimado Erik,

No puedo estar menos que de acuerdo contigo en lo que se refiere al Seminario de Genealogía Mexicana. Es tanta la información errónea que su corrección me parece una tarea casi imposible. La idea del Seminario es magnífica, desafortunadamente, creo que cualquiera puede entrar, insertar infortmación -con o sin respaldo documental- y originar o perpetuar errores, y parece que el equipo que trabaja en ello carece de la capacidad o el tiempo para revisar todos y cada uno de los datos ingresados. Desde mi punto de vista, debería exigirse la comprobación documental o, por lo menos, la deducción razonable basada en triangulación de información documental (y la aclaración de que se trata de una deducción) antes de que la información sea hecha pública. Sería ideal enderezar la idea original del Seminario y eliminar errores o información sin fundamento.

Te envío un cordial saludo.

Héctor

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Estimado Erik,

Por otra parte, aplaudo la inclusión de los historiadores que has mencionado en tu relación de reconocidos especialistas en genealogía.

Saludos cordiales,

Héctor

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  • Gabriel Agraz García de Alba (1926–2009)

    Legacy: Prolific historian, biographer, genealogist, and long-time Director of the Biblioteca de la República in Mexico City. Author of landmark historical-genealogical works including Los García de Alba and extensive bio-bibliographical studies of Jalisco figures.

    Focus: Exhaustive primary-source extraction of Tecolotlán, Autlán, and central-western Jalisco lineages, bridging familial genealogies with broader regional bio-history and political iconography.

  • Dr. Tomas Hillerkuss

    Legacy: Historian and professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas; author of the multi-volume Diccionario biográfico del Occidente novohispano del siglo XVI.

    Focus: Early 16th-century prosopography, notary protocols, and elite socio-economic networks of Nueva Galicia and Nueva Vizcaya (specifically Zacatecas, Guadalajara, and Compostela).

  • Jorge Barba Gómez
  • Legacy: Local historian and genealogist, author of key regional monographs on Alteño lineages, including Con el nombre... de la Barba.
  • Focus: Exhaustive extraction of parish and civil records across Tepatitlán and Los Altos de Jalisco, specializing in the Barba family branches and early settlement dynamics of Nueva Galicia.

     

  • Fernando Muñoz Altea (1925–2018)
  • Legacy: Prolific Spanish-Mexican historian, heraldist, King of Arms (Rey de Armas) of the Royal House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and President Ad Vitam of the Academia Mexicana de Genealogía y Heráldica. Author of fundamental works including Blasones y Apellidos and Los Virreyes de la Nueva España: Perfiles genealógico-biográficos.
  • Focus: European and viceregal nobility titles (títulos novohispanos), heraldic certification, inquisitorial lineage studies, and genealogical biographies of Mexico's viceroys and independence signers.

Personally, I have a memorable anecdote with the late Fernando Muñoz Altea and our common friend, Milagro Llórens Casani, the late Countess of Santa Cruz de los Manueles and Marquise of Navamorcuende, both great genealogists.

Tempus fugit.

Seeking Donativo List for Don Salvador Muñoz de la Barba (Jalostotitlán / La Ciénega, 1780)

Hello friends,

I hope everyone is doing well. I’m reaching out to the community because I’m working on a historical‑genealogical project that intersects both Los Altos de Jalisco research and American Revolutionary War lineage documentation.

Over the past year, I’ve been in active communication with both the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) and the SAR (Sons of the American Revolution) regarding my ancestor:

Don Salvador Manuel Muñoz de la Barba

(Vecino español of Jalostotitlán, Resident of Rancho La Ciénega, Comisario de la Acordada, Documented in 18th‑century parish and notarial records)

As many of you know, Spain supported the American Revolution through the Royal Donativo of 1780, ordered by King Carlos III, requiring heads of household, titled Spaniards, landowners, and Crown officials to contribute funds (typically dos pesos in rural Nueva Galicia).

Recently, the National SAR Lead Genealogist, Travis Franklin, reviewed my ancestor’s dossier. His official response clarified

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Estimado Francisco Javier,

Muchas gracias por tomarse el tiempo de responder a mi publicación sobre el Donativo de Don Salvador Muñoz de la Barba. Vi que apareció su nombre como respuesta, así que quise escribirle directamente.

Estoy investigando a profundidad la familia Muñoz de la Barba en Los Altos de Jalisco, especialmente el periodo de 1760–1800, y recientemente encontré un documento de 1781 donde aparece un Comisario de la Acordada llamado Don Salvador Barba, que podría corresponder a Salvador Manuel Muñoz de la Barba.

Me encantaría colaborar con usted si está interesado. Tengo:

el expediente eclesiástico de 1781,

notas sobre la familia en Jalostotitlán y La Ciénega,

análisis del libro Los Barba de Los Altos de Jalisco,

y otros documentos coloniales relacionados.

Con gusto comparto todo lo que tengo, y me encantaría saber si usted posee información adicional, documentos, o líneas familiares que puedan ayudar a confirmar esta conexión.

Quedo a sus órdenes y con mucho gusto seguimos la conversación.

Atentamente,
Mario Franco

Honor, Diplomacia y Memoria: Japón en la crónica familiar de la Casa de Reynoso (1589–2026)

Dear Colleagues:

I would like to share the abstract and link of my recent article for those interested in transcontinental history, genealogical ties (adding what I discovered about the Melgar, ancestors of the Reinoso of Boadilla de Rioseco), and the historical intersections between the Hispanic world and Japan. Below is the English summary of the monograph, which is also available in full on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/honor-diplomacia-y-memoria/page/n5/mode/1up (Spanish)

"The present article examines the long-standing and profound historical connection between the House of Reynoso and the Empire of Japan spanning four centuries (1589–2026). Through a rigorous genealogical, historiographical, and testimonial analysis, the work traces the roots of this Castilian lineage and its transcontinental evolution, structured around three key figures: Captain Francisco de Reynoso y San Pedro, who in the 17th century forged a distinguished mercantile alliance with the

Toribio Hernández de Arellano

Dear colleagues,

I am sharing the following article, which may be of interest to you. It references a Mexico City notarial protocol mentioning Sebastián Hernández de Arellano, whose lineage I have previously examined: 

El origen de Toribio Hernández de Arellano: Análisis genealógico e hipótesis de adscripción filiativa de un genearca neogallego : Erik Andrés Reynoso y Márquez : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Best regards,

Erik Reynoso

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Hello Erik,

I read all of your posts with great interest, but those featuring Toribio Hernández de Arellano especially catch my attention. I have a short list of ancestors who seem to appear over and over again in our family tree, and Toribio Hernández de Arellano and Isabel de Mendoza are two of those individuals.

Thank you for sharing your research. I know it means a great deal to many people, myself included, and I truly appreciate the time and effort that goes into it.

Thank you again,

Travis

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Hello Travis,

Thank you so much for the kind words! It’s always rewarding to connect with fellow researchers who share these same brick walls and foundational lineages.

Toribio Hernández de Arellano and Isabel de Mendoza are an important couple in New Galicia genealogy, and like you, I find them appearing constantly across multiple branches! I'm glad the research resonates with you and aids in your own family tree.

Best regards,

Erik

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Congratulations again Erik on your excellent work on Toribio Hernandez Arellano. You were also correct that Carlos Lomelin that we descend from is not the same Carlo Lomellini that is the son of Vincenzo Lomelini and Porzia.  The Carlo Lomelin, son of Vincenzo Lomellini and Porzia was proven to not be the same Carlos Lomelin married to Maria Benavides.

I hope to have a book published next year on Carlos Lomelin’s ancestry. The first part of the book is on Carlos Lomellin ancestors and descendants, so I still have many descendants to add to the book.    The second part of the book is about another person in the family tree that is a well known historical figure.  The two parts are connected which is why they will be in the same book, yet many people who don’t descend from Carlos Lomelin may only be interested in the second part.

Your last book was so filled with information that I was surprised that you didn’t include the information of the most famous historical figure in the Nuñez family tree. Since this historical figure was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean, I thought you would write about him.  But I assume that you didn’t write more about him because you already had a large amount of information in the book.  

Saludos y un abrazo,

Rick A.Ricci

PS.  I will later send you my nephew’s mother’s ancestry so you can add it to your Palomar family tree.

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Hello Rick,

As I was typing everything into a post, I happened to locate the information I needed in FamilySearch. I appreciate your kind offer, but my question has now been answered.

Thank you again,

Travis

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Hello Travis, 

Don’t believe everything you see in familysearch family trees.   Many people add or change information on the trees without providing any sources.   When I add or change information on familysearch I try to also add sources explaining the change or the addition. 
Good luck,

Rick 

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Thank you, Rick! I look forward to read your book so much. About the Nuñez family tree, one of the issues I had was the rising production costs of Amazon. I had to limit the extent of the book because it was getting pricier and the vast majority of what is earned goes to them.

However, I would feel deeply honored if you and others would continue what is written and expand it in your own works. I would be very happy if any of you found "De Nobleza Inmemorial" useful. 

At the end, we are all part of the same long chain and these grains of sand are what make genealogy so exciting.

Un fuerte abrazo,

Erik

Francisco Torres Montelongo de Calera

Este artículo menciona al abuelito de mi primo. Se llama Francisco Torres Montelongo.

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