Rich and Kitty Cortez Introduction

["kitty_cortez" <kitty@...>]

Well I guess it is our turn for a formal introduction. Rich and I 
live in Rocklin, California which is about 35 miles NE of 
Sacramento.   Rich retired in 1999 after 35 years with HBFuller and I 
retired in 2001 after 10 years with Herman Miller.  We now spend our 
spare time stomping through cemeteries.  In the last 3 years, we have 
found my ancestors from my mother's side, in Loudoun, VA, Somerset, 
PA, Kalamazoo, MI, Beatrice, NE and Wickenburg, AZ.  One of these 
days we will get down to Jalisco, and Zacatecas, Mex.

Rich and I started on his genealogy in the mid 70's.  Fortunately we 
were able to start while his parents were still alive.  The 
information received then gave us a good basis to start with.   At 
that time everything was done by hand so listing all those siblings 
of his parents took awhile.  Both his parents had at least 12 
brothers and sisters.  Currently he still has two aunts, one from 
each of his parents still living within 100 miles of where we live.

Fortunately, my twin started on my mother's side 30 years ago and has 
quite a lot done.  My father was born in Banamichi, in the Rio Sonora 
area of the state of Sonora, Mexico.  His father came from Italy. We 
have not had much success with the Sonoran records.  They are not as 
complete as Jalisco and Zacatecas and the handwriting is way worse if 
you can believe that.  We even have had better luck with the Italian 
research.

We have two children Rick 36, and Julie 35, both of them have 2 
children.  Both Rich and I were born and raised in the Bay Area, CA 
and we in turn raised our two in Fremont, East Bay Area.  In 1985, 
HBFuller moved it's location out to Roseville, CA abt 30 miles east 
of Sacramento and we followed.  Our daughter and her family also 
settled in Rocklin, CA.  
Rich's hobby is golf and his obsession is soccer.  He coached girls 
competitive youth soccer since 1976 and stopped in 2001.  25 years 
of  coaching.  He currently still referees High School level Soccer 
for Boys and Girls.  Our grand daughter Sarah just received a full 
soccer scholarship to Weber State, Ogden, UT (close to the SLC 
FHLibrary)  She will be there for 4 years or more.  We will be 
visiting her a lot in the next four years.  
I belong to the Roseville Genealogical Society and the Pioneer Quilt 
Guild.  Needless to say both of my main hobbies are very messy, and 
if I could find a cleared off table I would also pull out the 
Scrapbooking and Rock Painting.   Right now the table has three 
quilts in process and documents that need translating.  

Enough personal stuff and on to the Surname and Cities of our quest.  
JALISCO   
Lagos de Moreno =  Cortez, Macias, Aguilar, Manriques, Reyes, 
Guerrero, Cedillo.

Rich's Mother's side 
Huejucar= Villegas, Muro, Sandoval, Santiago, Miranda, Fierros, Mota, 
Serrano
Colotlan= Sanches, Godina, Sandoval, Villegas, Vasquez, Muro
Totatich=  Sandoval, Godina, Gonzales, Sanches

Zacatecas on Rich's Mother's side we have:
Momax= Serrano, Mota, Ramires
Monte Escobedo=  Fierros, Gonzales
Sanchez Roman= Mota, Carlos, Sandoval, Raygosa, Torres

If any of you plan on making a trip to the FHL in SLC, let me know 
and I will make sure you have a current inventory listing of the 
films for your area.  The list I posted earlier shows all the current 
films in green font that are shelved there permanently.  So far we 
have done Hujucar, Momax and Colotlan.  

I guess our introduction is over and now back to the books.  We are 
very glad to meet all of you and hope one day to meet in Salt Lake 
City and if you get as far as California be sure and give us a call.  

Rich and Kitty Cortez
kitty@...
Rocklin, CA