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Hello Ranchos group;
For the past nine years, I had been researching a couple whose names first appeared in various baptisms in Arandas, Jalisco, from 1846 to 1862. Arandas is the town where my grandfather, 2 great-grandfathers, 4 great-grand-fathers, and so on, were born.
The names were: Simón Alvarez and Ma. Hermenegilda Regalado, and their daughter Celsa Alvarez (for more info, see page 103 of my book). For years and years and years their names haunted me like late-night heartburn or one of those N-sync songs you can't get out of your head, and wished you could.
I scoured the Arandas parish records for them. I searched from 1845 back to 1768, and there were no Alvarez/Regalado combinations. Simón Alvarez and Ma. Hermenegilda Regalado were not married in Arandas, nor did they have any children in Arandas, nor in any other nearby towns, all of which I searched in, mind you. And my searches of the IGI and the mormon computer database produced nothing, NOTHING...For those nine years I was going crazy with Alvarez/Regalado fever...for nine whole years that is.
All I knew was that Celsa Alvarez and Antonio Hernández were not married in Arandas, but that they married around 1845, that Celsa Alvarez was born sometime between 1825 and 1830, and that Celsa's parents were Simón Alvarez and Ma. Hermenegilda Regalado.
All that changed on Thursday, 21 August 2003, at about 11:15 p.m., while doing a routine search through the IGI in www.familysearch.org, I found the baptism extract of María Celsa Alvarez's baptismal record. It indicated that she was baptized in Zapotlanejo, Jalisco, on 13 April 1826. Zapotlanejo!!!!!! Who would have ever thunk!!! That's way on the other side of Tepa, close to Guadalajara. Never in a million years would I have started looking there. You can't imagine the pure joy and excitement I felt at that very moment. After so many years I had found her.
It has now been over 3 months, and I have already ordered countless microfilms from Zapotlanejo, Jalisco, and have not only found my Celsa Alvarez, but several of her brothers and sisters, Celsa and Antonio Hernández's marriage on 1 May 1844, in Zapotlanejo, where he mentioned that he was from Arandas!! That little bit of info just clinched it. It was a sure shot, like when SHAQ slam dunks. At last I had closure and the documentation to go along.
I have already found the baptism records of Simón Alvarez and Hermenegilda Regalado, both born in 1803, and their brothers, sisters, and cousins, in Zapotlanejo, and know the names of both of their grand-parents. Wow!!
As it turns out I have Alvarez (twice), Nuño, Benavides, Regalado, Cortés, Vásquez, and Gómez in these lines. The Regalado and Cortés (I already have this one also!) lines I had already researched in my attempt to work my way down.
Does anyone out there have roots in Zapotlanejo? Has anyone done any research in Zapotlanejo? It's all going to be original research, because I have found that very few to none of the records have been extracted into the IGI, yet. Does anyone have the last names Alvarez, Regalado, Nuño, etc?? It appears that these were present in both Zapotlanejo and Tepatitlán.
Oh, and one last thing before I forget. I have been told by my informants at my Family History Center that the IGI is updated with new names, data, and entries, EVERY THREE (3) DAYS. That means that if one day you don't find something (like me), then look up the names again some day, you might just find them (like me).
Well then, hope someone out there can connect to these lines of mine, or has some other info.
Cordialmente,
Steven F. Hernández
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