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Yesterday I was at the local FHC again poring over the microfilm for
baptisms from Jerez around the time my father Guadalupe Olague was born (January
28, 1903). I have never been able to locate my father's birth record in
it, even though I have found his father in Tepetongo (Rancho Salitrillo)
and others there back to the early 1700's. While I was loading the film
yesterday, I noticed that the title of the book filmed was "Bautismos de Hijos
Legitimos", and sure enough, I did not find one "hijo natural" or "hijo de padre
no conocido" in it. It seems all other films I have searched included all
baptisms, hijos naturales, adoptivos, etc. even if they made reference to other
books where the actual names of the parents were written. So, hmmm,
was Daddy illegitimate? If so, is there a book for "hijos naturales" that
was not microfilmed? What would such a book be called? Where would
one obtain info from such a book, and would it take an act of congress to get
it?
My father at one time (in the early 1960's) needed a birth record for work
and for Social Security and we went from California to Jerez to the
church there only to have the priest tell him that all records for that
time period had been burned during the Revolucion. Sometime later, my
father must have contacted a lawyer there because after my mother died and
I was going through all their records, I found an affadavit to prove his
previously unrecorded birth. As testigos and witnesses that my father was
born in Jerez were listed some men (maybe they are deceased by now) that bore
the surnames of his parent's and grandparent's lines (Munos, Soriano. Escobedo,
Garcia). His mother was Gorgonia Garcia. Where and how did this
lawyer find them? One place name mentioned was "La Gavia", but it is not
one of the places mentioned in the film I have been looking at (0439867).
In the list of Communidades (Rancherias) de Jerez that I have, La Gavia is
mentioned as being founded by the Garcia-Cadena, Diaz, and Escobedo families at
the end of the 16th century. The list names 142 communidades y rancherias
for Jerez alone. Some of my father's ancestors were Felix, and there is a
community or rancho called Los Felix on the list. That was founded by Jose
and Doroteo Felix. The community of Tepetongo where my father's ancestors were
from was called Salitrillo, and is not listed in the list for Jerez even though
Tepetongo was in the Jurisdiccion de Jerez.
Does anyone know about books for "hijos naturales", etc?
Emilie Garcia
Port Orchard, WA.
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