>From what I have been able to gather there are two places called 
Rancho del Muerto in Mexico.

One is in Chihuahua.  The other is in Aguascalientes.  There is a 
place on modern maps in the municipality of Rincon de Romos called 
Puerta del Muerto, which may be it and the other is a place just near 
Aguascalientes (the city) called Cerro del Muerto.

Given the proximity of Tlaltenango to Aguascalientes, that is 
probably where you should search.  There is someone who refers to el 
Rancho del Muerto in their geneaology as well:

www.somosprimos.com/spsep02.htm

And a map:

http://www.maps-of-mexico.com/ags/3-cosio-aguascalientes-mexico-
map.shtml


--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, Santos Luna  
wrote:
> 
> 
> In a marriage record for a Magallanas ancestor, Tlaltenango - 1764, 
he is listed as being from "Rancho del Muerto". (Hmmm I wonder how 
that rancho was named). Has anyone encountered ancestors from this 
rancho? I am looking for other possible connections

Does anyone know of a group similar to "ranchos" for the state of
Chihuahua? I have many ancestors from Santa Rosalia,Camargo and need
some guidance and contacts.  

Yoli Medina Perez
El Paso, Tx.  

Does anyone know of a group similar to "ranchos" for the state of 
Chihuahua? I have many ancestors from Santa Rosalia,Camargo and need 
some guidance and contacts.   

Yoli Medina Perez
El Paso, Tx.   

I have one ancestress whose birth record lists her as mestisa (that's how it was spelled) but her parents are listed in Luz M. Hilton's book as espagnoles and her son's birth record lists him as espagnol--go figure!!:( I think it had to do with did her parents (who were aristocrats, I might add) pay the priest enough for the baptism? Probably not. Marge:)

On Aug 10, 2005, at 9:58 PM, lareina2@... wrote:

Hi Erlinda--

 

If you have access to Ranchos 2, look in this folder: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ranchos2/files/Racial%20Classification/ .  The varying names indicated the "amount" of indigenous, African, or Spanish blood a person had, although by no means should the priest's words be taken as accurate.   I think sometimes the priest would base his judgment on what he saw.  The Spanish had quite a complicated process.  The specific name was supposed to indicate the racial measure of each person-- so if you had x amount of Spanish blood and y amount of indigenous blood, there was a

I'm hoping someone has the answer to why different classification are 
used for the same race.  I'm working on my Rolon line from Zapotlan El 
Grande and Tamazula.. Listings include Mulato, Lobo and Morisco for 
Blacks... why are they not all called the same thing? These are 
marriage records from the mid 1700's. They also put Blacks in a 
different leger than Espanoles and Mestizo's, does anyone know if 
there is a reason for this?
Linda from Wa. 

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Alberto,

You can filter your searches at Google using the minus sign (-).  For
example, the expression: genealogía duarte -portugal, will exclude all
the pages that have the word portugal.  Need to play around with your
search expressions.  You can combine several filters as well as words
within quotes and words without quotes in the same expression.

It helps reviewing the search tips from Google itself once in a while.
http://www.google.com/help/basics.html 

Victor Villarreal
México


--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, Alberto Duarte  wrote:
> I hope you had better luck that me.  I use google but
> when I type "Duarte genealogia", the information I
> receive is about 98% from the Portuguese branch and
> very little from the Spanish Branch, and about 0% from
> Mexico.
> 
> But google is a good source.
> 
> Alberto Duarte Prieto
> Santa Maria, California
>