RE: [ranchos] relatives who may or may not be related

["Irma GomezLucero" <igomezlucero@...>]

Very sage advice, Alberto.  I wish that I had heard it when I first began my research. 

I have a funny story about being told that I wasn't related to a particular group of people that had my same surname, Gomez in Los Altos.  My dad and his brother even went to blows over this.  My uncle claimed they weren't, and my dad said they were.  They are related, but my dad and uncle never wanted to claim them because they had a reputation for marrying cousins that were a little too closely related, even in their day (1950's)  when there were more people to choose spouses from.  I found the connection, and one of my cousins (on my mother's side of the family)--you guessed it!  Yep, she married one.  My mother has their wedding picture.  Hopefully I'll meet him face to face some day when I go on my next visit to Mexico.  I don't see a ressemblance, other than the usual alteno features, but then he might be a "more pure" version of my Gomez line.  :)

Irma

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From: ranchos@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ranchos@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Alberto Duarte
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 1:56 PM
To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [ranchos] Toribio Romo -- Mexico's Ghostly Benefactor of Illegal Aliens!

Don't assume anything.

Approximately, 14 years ago 
when I started my
genealogy research, I got a long list of all those
with 
the last name of Duarte from our local LDS
library, that dated back to 1496, 
from the state of
Zacatecas.  I assumed that I was not related to 
those
Duartes that were not from Jerez (that's where my
grandfather was 
born).  After about 10 years of
researching, I proved myself wrong, dead 
wrong---I
found out that I was related to over half of the early
Duartes 
from Zacatecas, and many of them were from
various different towns and 
ranches, other than Jerez!


This was not the first time that I assumed 
the I was
not related to an individual with the same last name
(Prieto), 
but later again, I proved myself wrong.

Alberto Duarte 
Prieto.


--- Irma GomezLucero <igomezlucero@...> 
wrote:

> Santo Toribio has many of the features that are
> 
commonly seen in Romos
> even of today.  My aunt married a Romo, and 
many of
> my cousins have a
> striking ressemblance (mostly the 
beautiful
> eyes-whether they be
> brown/green/blue) to Santo 
Toribio.  Since they
> haven't done any
> research, I've been 
trying to figure out any
> connections for them.  In
> doing 
this, I was able to tie in my dad's side of
> the family to Santo
> 
Toribio's mother who is NOT a Romo.  This is how I
> came to "meet" 
John
> G.  I still have more work to do on my Romos & my
> 
cousin's.  I also
> thought that my Santa Ana Romos would tie 
into
> Rincon de Romos.  My
> cousins claim that their father 
often told them they
> weren't related to
> the Romos of Santa 
Ana--that they were from San Luis
> Potosi.  I just
> think 
that their features are a bit too much to
> ignore.  Gotta go 
and
> dig some more....
> Emilie, am I understanding that you have 
Romo too,
> and that you tied
> into the Romos in Rincon de 
Romos?  Just
> wondering...  I know there are
> still many 
there but haven't been able to tie mine
> in ...
> Irma
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: 
ranchos@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:ranchos@yahoogroups.com] On 
Behalf
> Of Alberto Duarte
> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 8:15 
AM
> To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [ranchos] Toribio 
Romo -- Mexico's
> Ghostly Benefactor of
> Illegal Aliens!
> 
> 
> It's called faith and we have it.
> 
> Alberto 
Duarte Prieto
> Santa Maria, California
> 
> --- Emilie Garcia 
<auntyemfaustus@...>
> wrote:
> 
> > 
> 
>
>
http://www.viewzone.com/gene01.html<http://www.viewzone.com/gene01.html>
> 
> 
> > 
> > John,
> > 
> > I had never 
heard of the saint you are related to,
> > so I started browsing the 
internet for information
> > on him, and I found this interesting 
article
> (check
> > link above).  What was fascinating to 
me is the
> > picture of Toribio Romo.  He bears a 
striking
> > resemblance to my husband, his father, and his
> 
> great-grandmother Marciana Cervantes who was from
> > Encarnacion 
de Diaz in Jalisco and whose ancestors
> I
> > have traced to 
Rincon de Romos in Aguascalientes
> > which is just south of our areas 
of interest in
> > Zacatecas.  
> > 
> > How 
lucky you are to have traced your ancestors
> back
> > to 1550; 
I've been working so hard for over five
> > YEARS and have only found 
our people back to the
> > early 1700's. Was Santo Toribio Romo 
perhaps
> guiding
> > you?  The article goes into a deep 
discussion
> about
> > guardian angels, etc. all the way back in 
history
> > even before the Hebrews.  
> > 
> > 
May Santo Toribio help us all in meeting our goals
> > as he has helped 
others of our people.
> > 
> > Emilie Garcia
> > Port 
Orchard, WA ---
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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