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Ramas del arbol donde me atoro (Family tree dead ends): Perez/Esparza y Medina Tiscareño - Aguascalientes

Como se podra observar, las ramas de Felipe Perez y Juliana Esparza estan incompletas. Desgraciadamente se me han acabado las pistas, y no me es posible continuarlas.

El problema con J. Jesús Medina Tiscareño (1831–1906) no es tan drastico pero de cualquier manera es frustrante tener una infinidad de 'Jesús Medina' imposibles de diferenciar por el hecho de haber tantos de ellos con informacion insuficiente y con el mismo nombre.

Alguien tiene una sugerencia de que se puede hacer en estos casos?

Permit me to introduce myself

Hello all:

I have been working on my genealogy for nearly two years now. I spent most of the time developing the family tree, but recently I started interviewing older relatives, and also finally started putting things down on paper in an orderly fashion.

I first was not sure how to proceed, but then I came up with the idea to focus on each of my four great-grandparents' families, and maybe to go back a bit into the past if I found anything worth mentioning.

I am researching Los Altos de Jalisco, Aguascalientes and Yurecuaro, but I also have ancestry outside of the scope of the website in Baja and Alta California.

Since I'm only allowed one image I am posting the first sheet of one of the families. If there is a way to share more, let me know, (I've not yet explored the possibilities of the website.)
I already have four PDF files, one with more that 30 pages.

Thank you all for admitting me, and I look forward to getting some of your more experienced feedback.

Ancestry DNA Results

Hi members,

My sister did the ancestry dna test.
Three percent of the results show from
Thr Aegean Islands. My sister has some Greek in her genes.

I am not surprised as her physical features are like those ancient drawings of the women of the Minoan civilization of Ancient Crete.

Census of San Antonio, Texas , Nueva Espana (Mexico) June 14, 1718

I found in familysearch.org an online book of the diary of Alarcon that went into Texas in 1718.

Here on page 60 of that book online is a list of the census of San Antonio, Texas, Nueva Espana (Mexico) date June 14, 1718. I will have to check Joseph Velasquez, Antonio and Agustin Perez if they are the ones on my family tree which I do have those names on my family tree at that time period.

Source:

https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/774333-diary-of…

Census of San Antonio, Texas (Nueva Espana, Mexico)
June 14, 1718:

Governor Don Martin de Alarcon
Military Engineer Don Francisco Barreiro y de Alvarez
Captain Santiago Ximenez, Alferez Francisco Hernandez
Seargeant Juan Barrera

Soldiers:

Cristobal de Carvajal
Vicente Guerra
Sebestian Gonzalez
Joseph Neyra
Joseph Velasquez
Joseph Ximenez
Antonio Guerra
Geronimo Carvajal
Juan Domingo
Joseph Chirino
Juan Valdes
Francisco Rodriguez
Matheo Rodriguez
Francisco Menchaca
Joseph Antonio Rodriguez
Marcelino Zicona
Nicolas Hernandez
Francisco Hernandez
Andres Sosa
Juan De Castro
Domingo Flores
Joseph Maldonado
Manuel Maldonado
Juan Galvan
Patricio De La Cruz
Joseph Placido Flores
Antonio Perez
Agustin Perez
Joseph Cadena
Cristobal De La Garza
Miguel Hernandez
Juan De Sosa

List of Painters of New Spain

I found this list of painters of New Spain in case any of you want to look up the art work of these individuals that made paintings of Nueva Espana:

Simón Pereyns (Flemish)
Sebastián López de Arteaga (Spanish)
Baltasar de Echave Orio (Basque)
Baltasar de Echave Ibía
Baltasar Echave Rioja
Luis Juárez
Cristóbal de Villalpando
José Juárez
Juan Correa
José de Ibarra
Miguel Cabrera
Nicolás Rodríguez Juárez
José Luis Rodríguez Alconedo

Look at this selfie painting of painter Juan Rodiguez Suarez made in year 1719:

https://conservapedia.com/Mexican_Painters

FamilySearch blue boxes on Images

Suddenly every image of the Tlaltenango baptisms 1888-1889 on FamilySearch have blue boxes, outlining and sometimes obscuring the text.

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939J-4294-FZ?cc=1804458&wc=3PSF…

If you download the image, it is a clean image without the blue boxes, but I cannot find any way to view a clean image without the blue boxes online.

Translation help!

I would like for someone who understands Spanish better than I do to look at a document and tell me what it is about. It is about my ancestors Pedro and Juan Casillas. I believe it’s their baptism document, but the abbreviation also make translating these documents harder for me.

Thanks in advance!

Kimberly