re: [ranchos] Zacatecas, Zacatecas Films

[gmccrary@...]

I have found the same with the films from Etzatlan.  The baptism 
records for my family line have the children in one family labelled 
as Indios, Mestizos and coyotes!  The priest made the 
determination.  I suppose if the child was really dark than it was 
labelled as being Indio.   In Etazatlan the people were seldom 
labelled as Espanol in the bapt., death and marriage records.

I would expect the Zacatecas films to be similar.   These were 
mining places and had many Indians and mestizos.  But it was the 
priests who described the subjects in the documents.

Gloria

< Has anyone studied these Informacion Matrimonial Films 
<specifically from Zacatecas, Zacatecas? The two films I ordered 
<were predominantly Indios, Mestizos and Mulatos. I think I saw 
<one or two mixed marriages of an Espanola and Mestizo but I < < 
don't recall seeing any totally Espanoles being married. So my < 
question is that I'm wondering if these Informacion
<Matrimonial are all that way or if my two films were the < 
exceptions?