Re: [ranchos] New Towns in My Research: Mazapil and Jerez (Monte Escobedo), Zacatecas

[Alicia Carrillo <alliecar@...>]

Arturo,

 

I have to say congratulations, I'm very happy for you and at the same time a little envious of your accomplishments. How long have you been researching your ancestry that you have gotten this far back in time? I think for those of us who think we are not getting there as fast as we'd like or making as much progress as others seemingly are making, we'd like to know and get an approximate time of reference so as not to get too discouraged. We need a little encouragement. I not only put that question out to you but to the rest of the group.

 

Another question to the group is how many of you are doing lateral research. By lateral I mean across one time span say in a 50 year range. I'll give an example 1900-1950 which is where I'm focusing on now. This would include aunts and uncles, their children, spouses and descendants. For me at least it makes it very interesting to be able to put a face with the names. Another reason I'm doing this is because our area of research is so small that everyone in these towns was related several times over and I many times by way of conversations get the sense that we were related in more ways than we can even begin to imagine. They will or would say, "oh yeah my tia was related to your tio" and I was always left wondering whether it was true and if true how was that possible.

 

Anyway just curious to see how others are doing their research and again congratulations and I wishing you many more breakthroughs. I know how exciting it is when you make a dent in that brick wall.

 

Sinceramente, Alicia Avelar de Carrillo

 

I myself am not only going back in time but because I know of many present family lines am working laterally in addition to just going back in time.

Arturo Ramos <arturo.ramos2@...> wrote:

> This weekend I looked through the Sagrada Mitra de Guadalajara (which 
> by the way is an incredible resource that everyone should look at if 
> you have traced your lineages going back as far as the 1700s) and made 
> a couple of breakthroughs.  These have taken my research to some new 
> towns, namely Mazapil, Zacatecas and Jerez (most likely the area around 
> Monte Escobedo) and I would like to find out who is doing research in 
> these places and any hints that would be useful.
>
> The breakthroughs are as follows:
>
> Juan Antonio ARANZAZU was born in 1696 in Mazapil, Zacatecas, 
> illegitimate son of Captain Antonio DE LA BARREDA and Isabel DE PIERO.  
> He later moved to Guadalajara, where he was raised and schooled by Sr. 
> Doctor Don Joseph DE MIRANDA VILLAYZAN of the Consejo de su Majestad, 
> Oidor de la Real Audiencia de Nueva
>  Galicia.
>
> (Juan) Joseph PINEDO GAMBOA was most likely born in Monte Escobedo and 
> baptized in Jerez circa 1700 (though I can't find his baptismal record 
> in VRI... looks like some years are missing), son of Lorenso PINEDO and 
> Josepha GAMBOA.  He later moved to Juanacatic, Totatiche, Jalisco and 
> he and his sons continued to marry into families from Monte Escobedo 
> (ROMERO and ROJAS)