Re: [ranchos] Sor Juana

[Pacorro73@...]

You're welcome.  And for those of you out there who have ancestry from 
Los Altos, you can also claim a parentesco with Sor Juana Ines de la 
Cruz. Her great-grandfather, Diego Ramirez de Santillana-Arellano, is 
also the ancestor of many, many alteños.  Another son of his named 
Gonzalo settled in Jalostotitlan and got intertwined with the Mendoza 
lineage establishing the Ramirez de Mendoza lineage.
Please open the attached file.  You may want to first print it if you 
actually plan on being able to read it.
I also have the alteño lineage of Tomas de Alva (aka Alva Edison) from 
either Lagos de Moreno or Encarnacion de Diaz, Jalisco.  According to 
the legend, his parents travelled up to the United States and was 
adopted by the Edison family.  There might be something to the legend, 
because in Lagos and Encarnacion there a lot of members of the family 
de ALBA\ALVA.  If you check out the 1850, 1860, and 1870 United States 
Censuses on Ancestry.com, you will see that he as not named Thomas.  
His name just appears as "Alva." In one census there are is a little ^ 
mark where someone inserted the name Thomas.  Interesting huh?  Check 
it out for yourself.
Here's something I found on the website 
http://www.webstationone.com/fecha/edison.htm :
Most people believe Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio. But 
there is a legend in Mexico that "Tomas" Alva was born in Lagos de 
Moreno, then taken to the U.S. as a toddler and adopted into the Edison 
family. The legend, true or not, testifies, at least, to the 
international veneration that this most prolific inventor enjoys, even 
today. Who wouldn't want to claim Edison as a native son?
Edison was born in 1847, a year when Michael Faraday practically 
invented alternating current (passing a magnet through a coil of wire, 
he found, generated electricity). When Edison died in 1931 (at the age 
of 84), the whole world was running its industry on power plants 
fashioned after Edison's own design, and reading its books and 
magazines and newspapers under light bulbs of Edison's invention. The 
man held 1093 patents, including several for the first motion picture 
camera (called the kinetescope), and the phonograph, the invention he 
was most proud of, made of tinfoil and wax cylinders. He invented the 
carbon button transmitter, which is still being used in most of our 
microphones and telephones, the first alkaline storage battery, the 
mimeograph machine, flexible celluloid film and the first movie 
projector. Later, he would make the movies talk.
Young Tom Edison grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, after his father (or, 
perhaps, if you prefer to go along with Mexican legend, foster-father) 
was hired on as a carpenter at the Fort Gratiot military post. But, 
because of hearing problems that made it difficult for him to follow 
the class lessons, his teachers considered him to be a dull student and 
his school attendance became sporadic. Nevertheless, Edison became a 
voracious reader and at age 10, he set up a laboratory in his basement.
Etc, etc, etc.....

Enjoy,
Steven H.



-----Original Message-----
From: Natalie <nc_coleman@...>
To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 23:05:52 -0000
Subject: [ranchos] Sor Juana

 Steven Hernanadez:
Thank you for the information on Sor Juana - she was who first came to
mind when I read Joseph's question.

Everyone:
Now - for those familiar with timeline history for Aguas., Jalisco, and
Zacatecas: What was going on in those localities during Sor Juana's
lifetime (1648-169* - can't remember the exact year)?

Everyone: Happy New Year, and may you have many research sucesses in
2006.

Natalie Castro Coleman in VA,
researching CASTRO, GARCIA, DUEÑAS from Hacienda Astillero and (Rancho?)
San Miguel(Valparaiso District), and Sombrerete, Zacatecas.







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