By lunalatina1955 , 25 October, 2006

Marion: I think your mother knew how to cook morisqueta, as most recipes I
see are mentioned in the same way your mother cooks. However, my
mother-in-law's recipe differed - I sometimes wonder if it was because her small town

By lunalatina1955 , 24 October, 2006

My mother-in-law, from Michoacan makes a soup called morisqueta. It is made
with pork bones for flavor and a mixture of chile ancho and guajillo.
Sometimes, towards the end,she adds cabbage. Then she serves it with rice that is

By margeval , 25 October, 2006

What an excellent article! I read it from beginning to end at one sitting. Thank you so much for posting it, Esther. I particularly liked the fact that it explained the complexities of the relationships in the various families.

By oldcar53 , 21 October, 2006

Thanks to Rich and Kitty Cortez who copied 8 records for me while they were in Salt Lake I have some major new discoveries. Talk about some eyeopeners !!!

Here's my ancestry in this my maternal grandmother's line, Maria del Refugio Ruiz, Esparza born Aug 1900>>her father and my g-grandfather, Refugio Ruiz Muños Bapt 01 March 1869. He was the son of Jose Rafael Ruiz Esparza my gg-grandfather born around 1834, son of my ggg -grandfather, Cirilo Ruiz, Alvares & Maria Cayetana Esparza, Luevano, daughter of my gggg -grandparents, Doroteo Esparza & Maria Dolores Luevano.

By ayalarobles , 24 October, 2006

I have downloaded a new file entitled "The Early Life of Luis Velasco". This article recalls the early life of Luis Velasco. Included are family genealogical charts relating relationships to other early colonial families. Genealogical data on the Mendosa family is also included.

By arturoramos , 22 October, 2006

While in Salt Lake City last weekend, I spent time going through the earliest Zacatecas, Zacatecas film of "Informacion Matrimonial." I have begun extracting all of the marriages from 1604 (beginning of the film) through 1628 (when the film lapses until about 1680).

By josiett , 23 October, 2006

I am finally back in San Antonio and trying to get "back to normal" after
spending a wonderful week at the FHC in SLC meeting some great people~!

Meeting with Kitty and Rich Cortez as well as with Arturo Ramos, Lydia

By meef98367 , 23 October, 2006

Alice,

Below is the interpretation of Tomas Alejandro's message; I cannot call it a translation because I am not fluent in Spanish as are Tomas, Arturo, etc.

Emilie
Hi, Ricardo,

It is a great pleasure that you wrote to me and to know that we share the same interests in genealogy and in our dear Pueblo el Valle de Guadalupe, Jalisco.

By meef98367 , 23 October, 2006

Linda,

I think there are some services where you can copy and paste what you want translated, and they will have a trained translator do an exact translation in good proper English, but you have to wait for them to get back to you. Some of them also want to charge you for the service.

By meef98367 , 22 October, 2006

Hola Tomas Alejandro,

A qual proyecto del arbol genealogico mundial mandaste tu genealogia? Fue FamilyTree.com o Ancestry.com o RootswebWorldConnect?

Si mandas tu arbol geneagolico a WorldConnect en formato gedcom, esta disponible publicamente, como los mios para quales te mande los "links". No los has visto? O mandas los aqui a Nuestros Ranchos a la base Gedcom.

By efdavila , 21 October, 2006

Joseph,
I can help with list items 1-3. I have some familiarity with web stuff,
Drupal, and databases (for putting a master list together).

Ed Davila

----- Original Message ----
From: Joseph Puentes

By makas_nc , 17 October, 2006

Things continue to be busy. This group is like a democracy. . .of the
people, by the people and for the people.

As I get busier and busier I see less time for me to function properly
within the group. I'm not planning on going anywhere, but since we are

By makas_nc , 19 October, 2006

Well I asked for three more volunteers truthfully wanted to test the
water to see who might respond. Right now I'm working with three
volunteers on the most important needs I have:

Kitty Cortez (giving periodical notices to new members)

By arturoramos , 19 October, 2006

(espanol abajo)

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