Mis ancestros de los Altos.

["Steve G. Apodaca" <sgapodaca@...>]

Hello.

I want to share what I recently found and check if anybody is 
related to these ancestors. A couple days ago, I finally checked the 
marriage record of my ancestors from Los Altos.

My 2nd greatgrandfather Juan Tapia married my 2nd greatgrandmother 
Bibiana Martinez in Lagos de Moreno on February 5, 1879. Juan's 
parents were Atanacio Tapia and Secundina Olivares. Bibiana's 
parents were Juan Martinez and Matiana Lopez. Before reading this 
document I just knew that my Tapia ancestros were from "somewhere in 
Los Altos", according to my grandmother. She did not remember where 
were they from. Now, I know that they were from a rancho near Lagos 
called Cañada de Ricos. Is anybody familiar with this name? I 
checked the Jalisco census on the files area and found out that the 
population in that place is currently less than 100. Well, while 
surfing the web, using google, I found something very interesting 
about this rancho. On the Lagos de Moreno official website, I 
discovered these two entries:


17 de (Abril) 1686 El cacique indígena al parecer otomí Joseph 
Cristobal de Luna y Tapia compra un sitio de ganado menor ( 780 
has.) y dos caballerías de tierra (85.6 has.) para establecer el 
poblado de "Cañada de los Indios Ricos" que evolucionaría a la 
actual colonia Cañada de Ricos.

14 de (Mayo) 1935 Se autoriza la fundación del ejido Cañada de Ricos 
su ejecución es el 29 de Junio del mismo año. En esta zona se ubicó 
un importante asentamiento indígena a partir de 1686 cuando compra 
estos predios el cacique al parecer otomí Joseph Cristobal de Luna y 
Tapia quien efectúa la operación de compra-venta de estos terrenos 
en San Luis del Río, Querétaro en el citado año.

I wonder if it is all a coincidence that my TAPIA ancestors are from 
Cañada de Ricos, a village founded by an otomi cacique named 
Cristobal de Luna y TAPIA in 1686. Could this individual be my 
gggggggreatgrandfather? Well, I still need to research 200 years of 
Tapia history in order to find a possible connection, but it is 
quite exciting just to imagine that I possibly found the name and 
native tribe of one of my family lines.

Saludos.

Steve