Re: [ranchos] Re: Huerfanos (sp)

[Joseph Puentes <makas@...>]

Let me invite them so that I'll be the bad guy if they get in a huff about the two requirements. I had one guy say, "man i didn't know it was going to be such a hassle." He never got approved.

send me the addresses and i'll send them an invite. If it were me I wouldn't think about your particular surnames. Just trust that if we get serious researchers from your particular area that somewhere your genealogies will cross. I would eliminate those that post messages like this,

"My mom is from ______ Jalisco. Does anyone have any info? If so please email it to (email address)."

Go for the ones that breathe intensity and desire to look for their roots not the ones that want it handed to them on a silver platter.

thanks Steve,

joseph

sgapodaca wrote:

Hey Joseph, I would say I am almost a huerfano. Another member, Angel 
Cervantes, and I both have Cervantes ancestors from Zacoalco, 
Jalisco, but it doesn't appear to be a connection, at least back to 
the 1700's. I saw one group member researching her ancestors from 
Atenguillo/Guachinango/Mascota. My Curiel line is from that area, but 
unfortunately (or I'd say fortunately), there's lots of Curiel 
families in that region.

Other than Angel, and the other member whose name I don't recall, I 
am a huerfano. You see, most of my ancestors are from the southern 
municipios of Jalisco: Tlajomulco, Chapala, Zacoalco, Techaluta, 
Sayula, Amacueca. One line, as I said, is from Atenguillo(If you 
don't know where this is, it is close to Talpa, where many people 
visit la virgen). I noticed that almost everybody on this group 
researching Jalisco is focused on los Altos. So far, I have only one 
line of ancestors from los Altos (Lagos), but haven't researched a 
lot on this line.

On the genealogy.com and ancestry.com forums, I have seen some people 
researching my target area, but not my surnames. So tell me Joseph, 
should I invite them to join this group, or should I send you their 
email addresses?

Ciao

Steve


--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, Joseph Puentes <makas@n...> wrote:
  

Are there any Huerfanos in the group. . .are there any orphans that 
don't have others members researching the same general area as you 
    

are 
  

researching in Jalisco, Zacatecas or Aguascalientes? Well if you 
    

want to 
  

invite researchers to Ranchos that are researching your specific 
    

area 
  

let me know and I'll give you ideas.

I just went to rootsweb and did a geneal search of all the message 
boards for those that are researching the Valparaiso, Zacatecas 
    

area. I 
  

searched the first 26 pages and found 15 individuals. I then typed 
    

their 
  

names into an email and send them an invitation to consider joining 
    

the 
  

group. naturally if they are not serious researchers I won't let 
    

them 
  

into the group. Of those 15 email addresses 4 were invalid, but 
    

lets see 
  

if maybe 1 or 2 of the others might not find a serious researcher.

I said all that only to say that if you are the only one looking in 
    

your 
  

area that is a way to find others to join you in your 
    

search.  . .spend 
  

some time on rootsweb separating the wheat from the chaff.

joseph

ps: for those in the group researching Valparaiso you can go to the 
rootsweb and go to message boards and then in the search window 
    

enter 
  

Valparaiso and then start at page 26 looking for those that appear 
    

to be 
  

serious. You never know but you might be looking for a primo or 
    

prima.





 
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