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

["glo Sandoval-Fuentes" <gloriafuentes@...>]

I know my last name is Fuentes, but so many people always put a Z on the end 
instead of the S.


              ~~glo~~







From: "John Gonzalez" <1gnzlz@...>
Reply-To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
To: <ranchos@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [ranchos] Names 's' and 'z'/HOHOHO
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:15:42 -0800

Hi Joseph:

Re: González.


The very first González in my line was,  Alonso González de Hermosillo,  who 
was born about 1467 in Heromosilla, Burgos, Spain.  The González spelling 
was kept all the way down to the 9th generation, where it shows up spelled:  
"Gonzáles"  At the same time the "de Hermosillo" part was dropped.  The 
"González" spelling shows up again in the next  (10th)  generation and it 
remained that way in the family to the present day.
I remember reading that in Spain,  the names were spelled with the "ez",  
and in Portugal with the "es". I believe that most errors were made by the 
person writing the church records and interpreting the names.
1gnzlz@...
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Joseph Puentes
  To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
  Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 1:58 PM
  Subject: [ranchos] Names 's' and 'z'/HOHOHO



  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.