Re: [ranchos] Names 's' and 'z'/HOHOHO

[Alberto Duarte <albertodua@...>]

Interesting question...  
I use to believe the difference in spelling the names
like Gonzalez/Gonzales, Lopez/Lopes,
Martinez/Martines/ etc., was that the letter "z" was
used by the Spanish and the letter "s" was used by the
Portuguese. 

But later I found out this was not true because many
of the old Spanish/Mexican church records I found used
both the letter "z" or the letter "s", depending on
the priest doing the writing.  I believe many of our
ancestors didn't know how to read-or-write so it was
up to the priest to spell and write their names.  For
instance, my great---grandmother's last name was
spelled "Tovar" and sometimes was spelled "Tobar". 
Which one is correct? To me they're both correct.

Alberto Duarte Prieto
Santa Maria, California

--- Joseph Puentes <makas@...> wrote:

> 
> This reminds me of a question I've been meaning to
> ask but kind of 
> forget every time I get to the key board. I guess
> its time (been time) 
> for me to start writing myself notes so i'll
> remember later [here's a 
> confession---I've been writing myself notes but half
> the time I forget 
> to look at the notes].
> 
> anyway what is the take on  Gonzalez and Gonsalez
> and Gonzales and 
> Gonsales?
> 
> Since I've started studying genealogy I've always
> been told not to get 
> hung up on spelling, but that seemed to be coming
> from the Anglo point 
> of view. I tend to believe that we as well shouldn't
> get hung up on 
> spelling from the Mexican point of view. Do you all
> agree?
> 
> Reason I'm asking is that I seem to have read
> something when I first 
> started genealogy that either the the ending with
> the Z or the ending 
> with the S meant something like Jewish roots for
> folks of Hispanic 
> hertiage: Peres v. Perez
> 
> I don't know and don't really know how they can
> prove something like 
> that with a bunch of folks that "SEEM" to be
> spelling the same persons 
> name in all different possible ways. . .what does
> that mean that to one 
> scribe he was Jewish and to the next one he wasn't.
> Or is it as it seems 
> to be that certain ones weren't very literate and
> spelled the names 
> phonetically?
> 
> And since the Jewish subject came up does anyone
> know of good resources 
> for Askenazi (sp) Jews in Mexico. I seem to be of
> the tribe of Levi (a 
> priest) if my DNA indications are to be believed?
> 
> joseph
> 
> ps:  I hope you all have a Feliz Navidad. I wish we
> lived close by 
> because we could have a great party couldn't we.
> 
> 
> 
> glo Sandoval-Fuentes wrote:
> 
> >Or even my dads name is Augapito.
> >
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> >               ~~glo~~
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> >From: Margarita Vallazza <TeaCozyGran@...>
> >Reply-To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
> >To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
> >Subject: Odd names WAS Re: [ranchos] Re: Godina
> Family
> >Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:57:34 -0600
> >
> >Aren't you glad to not be named Reducindo or
> Reducinda?  One of my
> >ancestors is named Narciso, another Prudencio,
> another Petronilo, and
> >another Zenobio...what names!!!!  Marge:)
> >
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