I really doubt that this is an accurate interpretation or a widespread
practice even in the old days.  "Guardar reposo por 40 días" or
resting for 40 days wasn't supposed to be taken that the mother should
stay in bed, not taking a bath, etc. rather that she should "keep the
husband away from her bed for 40 days", if you know what I mean...  

Victor

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, Irma GomezLucero 
wrote:
> I recall telling my mom & aunt about a family baptism record having the
> wrong information.  They  informed the same about the mother not
attending
> her own child's baptism.  The mother stayed in bed, had chicken
soup, and
> didn't bathe for 40 days!   It used to be the belief that a child
needed to
> be baptized right away within a few days of birth.  Since the mother
needed
> to "Guardar reposo" for 40 days, she was unable to attend the
baptism.  The
> father did go with the godparents in our experience.  My father even
had to
> hire someone to take care of

Arturo Ramos wrote:

The problem with everybody hosting data on their own sites is that it
is not possible to make it freely available to members and keep it
from being accessible to the public in general.

yup

 The Rootsweb web
space is simply to put up informational information.  I don't think
they have facilities to have member-restricted file access, etc.  They
don't allow any scripts--only static pages on the site...

Though, Joseph, it would probably be worthwhile putting up a page for
our group there that then leads people back here so that we can use it
to possibly recruit new members.

I'm not wanting to wholesale attract rootsweb people. We are 95 members
strong. We could be 150 strong in 6 months if 1/2 of us picked one or
two people to recruit from rootsweb who gave the strong impression of
being very very serious. None of this "do you know Maria Garcia from
Zacatecas? If so send me her whole genealogy. . .thanks in advance" kind
of people.

Would people be

so if the mother was in bed and the father was off doing war or work
then no one for the family except the padrinos were there to tell the
story. . .hmmmm, this makes good sense now.

thanks,

joseph

ps: where did you get the "Mothers were never at baptisms since the
custom was for her to stay in bed for 40 days.. " information?

Erlinda Castanon-Long wrote:

Many times information was being given by other members of the party
at the church who did not know who parents or grandparents were,
especially if the people were deceased or the family had moved.

Mothers were never at baptisms since the custom was for her to stay in
bed for 40 days.. that meant that someone else had to give her family
info and they were often wrong if there had been a remarriage after
the death of the first wife, her mother, for instance..

Linda from Wa.






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The problem with everybody hosting data on their own sites is that it
is not possible to make it freely available to members and keep it
from being accessible to the public in general.  The Rootsweb web
space is simply to put up informational information.  I don't think
they have facilities to have member-restricted file access, etc.  They
don't allow any scripts--only static pages on the site...

Though, Joseph, it would probably be worthwhile putting up a page for
our group there that then leads people back here so that we can use it
to possibly recruit new members.

Would people be willing to do a site on a donation basis?

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "readysetgo95814"  wrote:
> I agree with John and Steven.  Free web space is available 
> elsewhere.  One such site is Rootsweb.  For individual accounts see:  
> http://accounts.rootsweb.com/index.cgi?op=show&page=freagree.htm
> 
> They also have an option for genealogical societies (such as ours) 
> that will give you

Many times information was being given by other members of the party 
at the church who did not know who parents or grandparents were, 
especially if the people were deceased or the family had moved.

Mothers were never at baptisms since the custom was for her to stay in 
bed for 40 days.. that meant that someone else had to give her family 
info and they were often wrong if there had been a remarriage after 
the death of the first wife, her mother, for instance..

Linda from Wa.