Re: Convento Franciscano Colotlan

["Arturo Ramos" <arturo.ramos2@...>]

Totatiche only... though I believe that all parishes in the bishphoric of Guadalajara were 
instructed to conduct full censuses that year.  I see censuses for Tlaltenango around that 
time but not Colotlan in the FHL catalog.

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, Joseph Puentes <makas@n...> wrote:
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> >Prior to the foundation of the parrish of San Luis Obispo in Colotlan 
> >c. 1720, the Franciscans ran a convent (monestary) in the city, where 
> >marriages and baptisms were performed.  Apparently, there are archives 
> >of the convent, as they are quoted in Esteban Valdes Salazar's book 
> >Historia de Totatiche, Tomo II... which by the way is invaluable, since 
> >it has a transcritption of the entire 1770 census
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> was that the census for the Totatiche area only? or did it include Colotlan?
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> >transcriptions of the major land transactions that occured in the area 
> >through that period, so that one can plot out the ownership of the land 
> >and superimpose the residents on each of those plots.
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> >Does anybody have any information on these Colotlan Franciscan archives?
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