Great Diccionario On Line

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a while back Maria Cortez sent us this website URL: 
http://biblio2.colmex.mx/bibdig/dicc_cubas/base3.htm
I would strongly urge those of us in the group that consider themselves 
"beginning" genealogists to pay a close visit to this great Diccionario.
One way I am using it is to find the Main City or town close to my area 
of research and looking it up. You'll find that very many of the small 
ranchos are listed under the "cabecera" of the area. Other than the 
baptism record [which was good enough by itself] this dictionary and 
another I found at Duke University have confirmed that El Rancho de los 
Negros where my GG Grandfather Cecilio Puente was born is indeed in the 
Villanueva, Zacatecas area.
You can also use this to compare the typed names on the page with any 
possible hard to read names on the handwritten documents we are reading.
Joseph