Re: [ranchos] 1550: Suave!!!

[Alberto Duarte <albertodua@...>]

John, approximately 12 years ago I met a gentleman
from the Somos Primos genealogical group at the
Westwood Latter Day Saints library.  I don't remember
his name but he was a distant relative of my wife
Rebeca Gutierrez Gonzalez; although she did not
remember him.  He told me he also was from the same
Gonzales-Casillas family branch from Los Altos, like
my wife.  

He helped me to interpret a 1797 Jerez marriage
document written in Spanish.  Anyway, this gentleman
had genealogical charts of over 2200 past relatives
that started in Los Altos and went all the way back to
to the year 1200 in Spain. 

If you are able contact him, I'm sure he would be more
that happy to share his findings with you.  Also, the
gentlemen looked like an Anglo (typical of many of
those from Los Altos, fair, tall, blue eyes); his
English and Spanish were excellent and he seemed very
well educated, and friendly.  He told me that he lived
in San Fernando Valley and was a software programmer. 

If you contact the Somos Primos group, I bet they'll
help you get in contact with him.

Good luck.

  
--- John Gonzalez <1gnzlz@...> wrote:

> Hi Alberto:
> 
> Thank you for the  "heads up " on a  very
> interesting article.  It has quite a few names that
> I am presently researching.  It is going to take a
> few days to sort everything out to make "heads or
> tails" .  Just a quick preliminary  perusing reveals
> a  lot of information that I can use.
>  Today has been one of those days that makes you
> feel almost numb  from joy and good fortune. 
> Earlier in the day I got en E-mail from Ken Alva. 
> He sent me some information that will take me  all
> the way back to the birth of Alonso de Hermosillo in
> Hermosilla, Burgos, Spain in 1467 !!!   Three
> generations in Spain, 10 generations in Jalos, and 3
> in California!  That puts me in the 16th generation
> of Gonzalez"s. 
>  I had gotten stuck with Juan Gonzalez de Hermosillo
> and his wife from Mexico City .They settled in 
> Jalostotitlan in the late 1500's.
> Ken's information picks him up from there and takes
> him three generations back into Spain!!!  Talk about
> getting lucky.
> I have already pinpointed  Hermosilla, Burgos on a
> map of Spain. It is very tiny village in the
> Northern part of the country.
> 
> I just don't have enough words to express my deep
> appreciation  and thanks  to all the members of
> Ranchos...Thank you.
> 
> 
> 1gnzlz@...
> Juan Gonzalez
> Wildomar, CA
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Alberto Duarte 
>   To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 5:24 PM
>   Subject: Re: [ranchos] 1550: Suave!!!
> 
> 
>   John, check out the below website.  It has some of
> the
>   same names you've mentioned in some of your
> emails. 
>   The website was sit up by my wife's (Rebeca
> Gutierrez
>   Gonzalez) relatives from Los Altos, Jalisco.  I
> hope
>   it helps you find some more names and relatives. 
> Who
>   knows? we may be related.
> 
>   Good luck.
> 
>   Alberto Duarte Prieto
>   Santa Maria, California
> 
> 


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