My grandmother went thru tough times in Totatiche, Jalisco, including
the Mexican revolution during the early 1900s and then the Cristero
Wars some years later. She used to tell us stories of many of the
hardships she and my grandfather had to endure. As my grandfather was
a professor at the catholic seminary he was considered an enemy of the
state during the Cristero Wars. Several attempts were made to kill
him. We were told that during those times they always had a guard
posted at the top of the church, day and night, whose job was to alert
the town whenever any soldiers were approaching. When that happened
they had to flee and hide in the hills for weeks at a time until the
troops left the town. My grandmother recalled how she had to give
birth in the wilderness while they were hiding and how she lost one of
her children consequently. Another one was lost by drowning in the
river. And some other of her children died by disease and lack of
medicines. Out of 18 births only 12 survived

I just looked at my first informacion matrimonial film recently and 
there is a wealth of information in those... a bit of a waste of 
paper and ink, since a lot of it is the declarations of the husband 
and wife to be, which are obviously dictated by the priest and then 
the witnesses who attest to the verbatim same thing about the non-
consanguinity, single state of the couple, etc.  However, if the 
marriage record does not list parents, the informacion most 
definitely will... because of the consnguinity issue.

My problem with Marcos LEMUS and Maria Barbara YBARRA is that I 
cannot find their marriage record at all.  I don't even know what 
parrish they were married in.  Almost definitely not in Colotlan, 
where I would expect, because I have gone through the entire IGI 
extract for the relevant film and there is nothing that remotely 
approaches their names... a few Marcos with no last name but not 
married to any Marias or Barbaras.

There also appears to be no baptismal record