Re: [ranchos] Jalpa, Zacatecas

[Alicia Carrillo <alliecar@...>]

Steven,

 

I will try to contact my family members from Jalpa. My family connection with Jalpa as far as I can tell begins in 1925 when my mother's uncle Agustin Olmos Avelar marries his first cousin Juana Olmos Valenzuela in Jalpa Zac. We have many family members from that line living here in San Jose and Newark Ca.

 

I have been trying to recruit this third cousin twice removed, to enter into family research so she can help me with the Jalpa family line.

 

I have noticed in a few documents from Tlachichila and Nochistlan that often reference events that occurred in Jalpa. I don't know if that means that they recorded a baptism or marriage for Jalpa as a duplicate to Jalpa or in lieu of Jalpa.

 

I do have Gomez family connections  from Nochistlan/Jalpa but I don't have the paper trail yet, all I have is the oral history, stories from aunts and uncles. My paternal Great Grandmother was Tiburcia Garcia, Gomez and her mother was Josefa Gomez, however I don't have birthdates for them yet. I seriously began my research in March of this year so I have a long way to go.

 

Thanks for that information on the lack of data from Jalpa.I had printed the Family History Library Catalog page back in March 04 but because I have not begun to order films from Jalpa I did not give it a great deal of thought. Nacimientos are only from 1884-1920, then it skips from  1929-1930, not a lot of history there.

 

Alicia Carrillo

Pacorro73@... wrote:

Hello everyone,

 

This is a general distress call to everybody.  Please I need some help.

 

A friend of mine named Jose Luis Gomez Medina, who has some of the same names as I do, has asked me to do his genealogy for him.  It turns out his family is from Jalpa, Zacatecas, and I was having absolutely no success locating any of his people in the IGI.  Then I decided to check out and see what films are available for Jalpa, Zacatecas. 

 

Boy was I surprised, nay shocked, to discover that there are hardly any.  They are sporadic and don't go very far back. In the church records there are no baptisms before 1909, and marriages only from 1827-1838 and 1913-1920.  That's it!  Defunciones go from 1814 to 1917.  But it seems that it's going to be very difficult. 

 

Does anybody out there know why the Jalpa, Zacatecas archive is in such bad shape?  What happened?  Can anybody help me unlock the mysteries of this ancestry?  More importantly for him, he wants to connect his Gomez surname to his Jewish ancestors, which he discovered were his direct paternal ancestors.  His Y-DNA results place him in the J2 haplogroup, which originated in the Fertile Crescent and Mesopotamia, and is present in Jewish groups.  That would make my cousin Jose Gomez a Sephardic Jew.

 

So does anyone have experience with research in Jalpa, Zacatecas.  Any help will be definitely welcome.

 

Regards,

Steven F. Hernandez