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Re: [ranchos] Dispensas Matrimoniales


 

Steven,

thanks so much for the explanation. I'm sure that this information if diligently utilized will result in many of us advancing our genealogies significantly. I've looked at one of these films for the 1819 period and saw the possibility of finding a gold mine of information.

I'm in the process of getting ready for a trip to DC to see an art exhibition at the National Gallery of Art on the Mayas and a a trip to the Library of Congress and possibly to NARA. Any one of those deserves a month long visit so spending partial days at each might prove to be frustrating so we'll see how it goes. I said all that only to say that I have several questions about this subject but don't have the time to ask them now. In the next week or so I'll get my thoughts together and see if we can get the group involved in a discussion on this very very important source of information. In the meantime this subject is on the floor and has been opened for discussion. I'm sure many of you are just itching to ask your many questions and share your various comments. The iron is hot. . .pegale!

joseph

ps: quick one: I've noticed that in the "Informacion Matrimonial" films that some of  what appear to be "dispensas" are recorded there. If those indeed are dispensas recorded locally in the parishes can we expect to find another copy of the same dispensa in Guadalajara? Or might they only be recorded in the local parish? Or might these not be dispensas at all but some other information related to the Pre-Marriage Investigation? These records that I found had the genealogical diagrams similar to the ones you gave as examples showing the relationships between the couple. I can give more specific information later if needed.
 

Pacorro73@... wrote:
 I have been availing myself of the various marriage dispensations that are archived in the Sagrada Mitra de Guadalajara.  The Sagrada Mitra is the central archive for the Archdiocese of Guadalajara (AG).  The AG at one point encompassed all the territory as widespread as Texas, California, Durango, Chihuahua, Zacatecas, Nayarit, Aguascalientes, Colima, and of course Jalisco.