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Jose Roman:
What you are suggesting is exactly what I did for
the town of San Juan de Guadalupe, Durango. I had been trying to get info
from there for about 25 years and the priests would not relent. The
registro civil was okay but that was it. I found out that the LDS church would
pay for the microfilming and I started campaigning. I was fortunate to
meet the president of the Sociedad Genealogica del Norte de Mexico (Benicio
Sanchez). I told him my situation and he started campaigning
with both the San Juan de Guadalupe and the registro civil to obtain permission to film the
records. They were filmed about 2 and a half years ago and are now in the LDS
library. I really wanted them filmed because a big chunk of my family
settled there over 200 years ago.
It took me about five years of campaigning and
educating the priests about what microfilming is and selling the idea of
preservation. I had to hard sell the fact that the Mormon Church would pay
for the process. Besides the priests, I talked to whomever would
listen. It paid off! Now I don't have to go there as often to
research. I can now do most of the research just by going to
the family history library here. Now I will be going to other
places.
I wish everybody knew about this
program. The basic information I had to give for Sanchez to
verify my story was the name of the town, what records I had identified as
not having been filmed yet, points of contact (names of the priest
in charge, civil registrar's name, addressses and phone numbers). I
also included comments as to how predisposed I thought they were to the
microfilming. I wanted to make everything as easy as posssible.
Elvira
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 7:56
PM
Subject: [ranchos] Records for "No
Pagados" and some others.
Hi:
When a new record or group
of records is found in the source original (manuscripts), and it is not
preserved in other media, I think that we should contribute to preserve them.
One way to do this is write a notice to the "microfilm
production project of the Mormon Church", because they has demonstrated
that they can resolve this hard labor with their economic resources; the
Mexican government generally not pay attention to this work because for the
cost that they can't like to finance.
Is only a idea!
JRGL.
Mexico City.
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