Re: [ranchos] Indios: Surnames

[Carol Turner <cdian@...>]

--- makas@... wrote:

Good question!!!  I have reviewed some films in the
early 1700's (Baptism).   I have one film in Colotlan 
no surnames were given only first names on the records
which makes it impossible to find ancestors.

Carol

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When the Spaniards made converts of the Indios of
Mexico they gave them 
Spanish names. So am I correct that there are peoples
of every Spanish 
surname out there that can eventually trace their
genealogy back to 
where that name was "assigned" and then the trail
would end because it 
would be extremely difficult or impossible to find a
written record of 
the Indio names before conversion. . .OR. . .or do I
have this all 
wrong? Was it only first names that were assigned to
them and then as 
the Spaniards crossbred with the Indios those
bi-racial children then 
had a ligitimate [traceable] name that could be traced
back to Spain?

How exactly did the names for the indios come about?

joseph



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