Carlos de Esparza & Rafael de Esparza

Carlos arrived in Ecuador in 1582

Rafael arrived in Mexico City in 1578 (before Lope!)

I have no doubt there related somehow, they descend from the same House of Esparza.

Hello,

I just wanted to let everyone know, that Lynn Turner a member of the Ranchos
group, will be teaching at the conference in Salt Lake. So I suggest that
those of us, that attend stop by and say hi, to Lynn.

Hey everyone...

I just posted on my blog the latest schedule for the annual Hispanic genealogy
and family history conference at the FHL (Family History Library) in Salt Lake
City. I posted it before the FHL did, shh...

I just returned from Jalpa, Zacatecas. As someone mentioned and I already
knew Jalpa records are skimpy....very skimpy. What I found out and yet to
verify. The Arechigas arrived in Jalpa at approx 1820, it was 7 brothers and one

Hello everybody! I wento the FHC and happen to notice they had the Catalogos a Indias from 1509-1680. I quicky remembered about Don Lope! So I scanned myself a copy of Lope and his maestro Don Enrique de Manleon.

I have just posted a new link in the LINKS section of the site that points to the site of the Biblioteca Publica del Estado de Jalisco which is run under the auspices of the Universidad de Guadalajara.

Is there a resource for early marriage records from Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes. There appears to be no filmed marriage records prior to 1663.

I am looking for the marriage of Felipe Diaz de Santiago with Isabel de Turises which should have occured sometime between 1630 and 1640.

Hola a Todos!

Busco algien que se llama Genaro Martinez nacido alrededor ¿1890-1895?, hijo de Aurelio Martinez. No conosco la madre. Y no conosco donde nacio. Solamente se que debe de ser Ojuelos, Jalisco, Pinos, Zacatecas o Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes.

This person would like to know about the Villasenor/Cervantes/Lara
ancestral lines. You can either email me your replies or to the group
and I'll forward the messages.

thanks,

joseph

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I am looking for descendencia de Diego Vázquez de Buendía
Diego Vázquez de Buendía puede ser hijo del conquistador casó con
Josepha Flores que era difunta el 12 de Octubre de 1645 cuando testó el

Let me suggest that you visit the "Mexico folder" link below, of a new Family Search (Research Wiki - Beta) page that contains all-around information about finding ancestors in Mexico.

It includes about 50 recent Articles (written this year by LDS family history experts), - - - with descriptive information, links and references with a high quantity of research sources, bibliographies, disertations, monographs, lessons, and other concepts relating to research about ancestries in Mexico.

I am a descendant of the Juan Caliz also. I descend throught the Arredondos who married Santos COy and the Yslas Palacios of the mining area of Villaldama, Nuevo Leon who also married Santos Coy.

THe dna testing the results posted out on Gary Felix's Genealogy of Mexico website suggest a semitic origin to the family.

I have attached a pdf file of what I have so far. I have used the books of Garemendia Leal and the archives of monterrey as sources for this information.
FAMILIAS DE MONTERREY, TOMO III
http://www.borderlandsbooks.com/searchdb.asp

Here is a Message from a member of the nuestrosranchos.org group. Have a
look at this web page for the images Benicio refers too:
http://www.nuestrosranchos.org/node/16278 This album is open to the

Here is how I found the batch numbers for my specific ranchos (but there
is no guarantee there will be batch numbers for your ranchos):

1) go to the IGI

2) Under the first name put either "Jose" or "Maria"

Hola Compañeros Genealogistas;

El motivo de la presente es darles las gracias a todas
las personas que me ayudaron en lo que pudieron sobre
mi solicitud de ayuda para saber donde se encontraba el

Does anyone know what "hijo de estado chico" means in a church document? We have in particular a marriage between Francisco Godoy and Maria Rosa Llamas, where it states that Francisco is "hijo de estado chico" de Nicolas Godoy y Brigida Ortiz...

Any information about Don GABRIEL ORDOÑEZ RIFARACHE Clérigo Presbítero. I
know that "Don Fray Juan de Valle y Arredondo (Obispo 1608-1617) le
presentó al oficio de Pánuco y villa de Aguascalientes y después al del

The familysearchindexing.com site has recently put up the Aguascalientes section of the 1930 Mexico census up as a project!

Given that most people in this group are computer saavy and that this state is smack in the heart of our area of research, we should try to get as many people involved in helping out with this indexing project. You can volunteer to index as little or as much as you want and you can do it anytime you want over the internet.

Raul, I don't know if you have this information but I do have some of your line from Los Haros, Jerez Zacetacs that shows it a couple of generations further back than you posted in your file on both the Santiago and Haro families. My records only have 3 children for Jose Maria Hurtado and Maria Matilde Santiago, they are Pascuala 1889, Fabiana 1900 and Benigno in 1903.

Hola Primos! (Note: the rest of this message will be in English)

Well - was cruising the WEB - just looking - when I came across this site:

http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/group_detail.cfm?key=1253&gke…

Food anthropologist...that is what she was....if I could re-live my life,
that is exactly what I would have been!!! It has been said that food is one of
the last vestiges of a culture to totally disappear when there is a dominant

And then again many people would be resistant to the idea that during the conquest, the Mexicans(Aztecs) ate the españoles, their conquerors.

To anyone faint of heart, do not read beyond these words because I have quoted from Bernal Diaz del Castillo's History of the Conquest of Mexico.

Greetings,

As I am new to Nuestros Ranchos, please forgive me if I am not upto date. However, I have been reading about the person looking to understand what "Hijo de Estado Chico" means.

If I am not mistaken, in the old days one was described due to their economical status. Although "Estado" could mean or describe someone "status" lets not forget it also stands for "State" as in location. The word chico could mean "minor" meaning under age, but it could also stand for "small" as in someone from a small state/town. I think when they announce Estado Chico, it could mean someone from a small town/ranch, someone without large economical status or resources, maybe a humble person, etc......

Vivian, I have this record that seems to be from your family. I was tracking Mejia family trying to tie it into mine. Also, some records read Murillo and others read Morillo so you may want to check out both spellings.