Re: Bautismos de Hijos Legitimos

["v.h.villarreal" <raices_regias@...>]

I'm not sure if it has always been the same but I understand that
civil registry records are always made in duplicate; one for the local
office and a copy for the State archives of the civil registry.  So
even if the local copy was burnt there's a chance that the State's
copy survived.  As I said, that is how it is done today but I'm not
sure if the same rule applied back in 1903.

The other question is where were the microfilms made, at the local
office or at the state office?

Victor

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "Emilie Garcia" <auntyemfaustus@h...>
wrote:
>
> Victor, I was just going over the civil registry records I have
checked and I haven't found any trace of my father, aunt or
grandmother, nor of a marriage record for my grandfather Francisco
Olague and grandmother Gorgonia Garcia.  I checked the civil registry
for Guadalupe, a town not far from Jerez, where my aunt Soledad's (my
father's only sibling) death certificate says she was born.  Also, the
priest didn't say the records were burned in 1903, but later when the
Revolucion war came to Jerez.  It seems whoever wanted to destroy
records set fire to the church and the civil registry office since the
list of LDS films has gaps for 1903 in the bautismos of hijos
naturales and all other records in the civil registry.  Maybe someone
there that wanted to hide something took advantage and destroyed the
"evidence".  I know Hitler destroyed his home town in Austria to
prevent people finding proof he had Jewish blood, and a lady at the
FHC says that some politico in Montreal wanted to do the same thing
because he was illegitimate.  Why else would only a portion of records
go missing in both places, the church and the civil registrar?
> 
> One thing I now know for sure, probably, is that since my father was
not listed in the book for hijos legitimos for 1903, that he must have
been listed as an hijo natural.  Since I don't find a marriage record
for my grandparents, I think they were not married.  My grandfather
was known to be a very large, tall and intimidating man---"a very hard
man" someone said.  He mistreated the women in his family, even his
own mother, and my mother left Colorado when she couldn't stand his
bullying and interference, and she didn't return to my father until
after his father had died.  My father just would not stand up to his
father. (My father was only five feet tall and maybe he knew his
father would kill him or something. She said that when she used to
spank his other grandchildren (my aunt's boys), my grandfather used to
come and pinch me and make me cry.  He was mean and dangerous.  I
heard from a cousin that someone was out to get him in Mexico, so he
came to the US during the Revolucion. 
> 
> I'll keep hacking away and maybe the forces will feel sorry for me
and give me a clue.
> 
> Emilie Garcia
> Port Orchard, WA --