Re: [ranchos] introduction-new member of los ranchos

[Joseph Puentes <makas@...>]

welcome to the group. from your description it sounds like yours has been a very full life of travel and seeing new places. I hope you find value with us. We are a tight nit group that grows stronger everyday.

I have roots in Tepetongo but the only surname, Miranda (Gabriel Xavier Miranda/Nicolasa Nava, they had--->Benita del Refugio Miranda/FelipeSantaMaria) I have that is common to your list there goes to a late 1790's or so. I together with several others, Carol and Kitty and others have Muro but I don't think ours come from Tepetongo or go back nearly as far as yours. Mine were mostly from ranchos close to Colotlan/Santa Maria de los Angeles/Saus de los Marquez. Oldest individual was Vbaldo Muro his wife being Antonia Albarez their son Jose Cosme and Francisca Aguallo were parents to Ygnacia Muro who married Miguel Leanos who had my GGG grandmother Genoveva Leanos who married my GGG grandfather Tadeo Diaz and they had Jorge Diaz who had Francisco Diaz who had my grandmother Virginia Diaz. I don't guess you know Vbaldo do you???

hmmm, didn't really think so but never hurts to ask.

welcome to the group.

joseph



Susana Leniski wrote:

Hello everyone:

 

I'm the newest member of the group. My name is Susana Leniski. I was born and raised in Mexico City, Mexico. I attended “Universidad Metropolitana” in Mexico City where I majored in International Business. Following my education, I worked for various US based firms in Mexico. In 1990, I moved to the United States following my husband’s career and have lived in New York, Philadelphia, St Louis, and Seattle. I now live in Seattle, Washington.

 

I was introduced to Geneology thru my Grandmother on my mothers side. She was the one who gave me the information to my first family tree. The information that she gave me was invaluable. Because of my family history, I specialize in Mexico and Spain research from early 1900’s to the 1500’s. I have successfully traced some family lines to the 1600s in diverse areas of Mexico including Queretaro, Zacatecas, and Mexico City. Other lines have led to research in the Basque, Catalonia, and Andalusia region of Spain as far back as the 1500’s (Basque region).

 

I  have acted as a Genealogy volunteer in the family centers in Philadelphia and Seattle helping others with research and translations of records in Spanish.  This is where I normally do my research.  I have been a guest speaker in "Family History Expo's" sponsored The Church of Latter Day Saints here in Seattle. I also make an annual trip to the main Library in Utah. 

 

I also travel to Mexico nearly every year to visit family, many times for an extended time. During these periods I try to allocate time for geneological research. In a few of these trips, I have researched historical data at the “Archivo General de la Nacion”, and “Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia” in Mexico City.  

 

Some of the surnames that I have reasearch in Zacatecas (Jerez, and Tepetongo mainly) are: De la Torre (many lines), Carlos de Godoy, Salinas (Family of Don Francisco Garcia Salinas "Tatapacho"), Escobedo, Salas, Carrillo, Del Muro and Miranda.  My family left the area around 1820, so my reasearch in Zacatecas has been during the 1600's and 1700's. During this period the majority of my data has been extracted from Church Dispensations from Guadalajara (Sagrada Mitra- Arzobispado de Nueva Galicia). I will be submitting some of these lines shortly.

 

I look forward to exchanging information with the group.

 

Regards,

 

Susana Leniski

 

 

 

 

 

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