RoseMary.. I’m sure you will be a great addition to our ranks of researchers who are willing to share information in order to reclaim our heritage for ourselves and future generations.
Welcome
Linda Castanon-Long
Boulder City, Nev
researching, Jalisco, Zacatecas and where ever else the records take me!
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From: “jojofab@cox.net”
To: research@lists.nuestrosranchos.org
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 12:57 PM
Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] New Member Response
RoseMary Fabian
Alicia,
I appreciate your message and apology. I submitted so many surnames because that is where my research has taken me. I don’t think that genealogy is rocket science. It is detective work and logic. It means following your ancestor’s records of which it has been fairly easy on certain branches of my trees because of the cities where the records are indexed. It is important for me to ensure that I am following the correct line and is why I cross-reference by checking marital information with baptisms, siblings records, death records, dispensations, etc. On some lines I have not gone upward because of lack of records, so I have gone outward to better understand the family line.
The site that has taken me this far is the Family Search Site, which is a godsend in itself for I can access microfilm of the original church records. The fact that I read and write Spanish has helped, although old world Spanish has been a lesson in itself. I found the 1930 Mexican Census, border crossings, the 1920 and 1930 U.S. Census, and now the 1940 Census extremely informative. The memories of family members who are now in their 80’s and 90’s has also helped.
I was also lucky that I had the names of my great grandparents on both sides of my family when I began. Imagine my excitement when I found their marital records online and then their ancestor’s marital records as well. This history is important to me and to members of my humungous family. The only way to get on intimate terms with the surnames involved in any family line is to do the work even if that involves going page by page on record books. As you work on family lines, the names become familiar and you can imagine your ancestors clearly.
I decided to join Nuestros Ranchos as a New Years resolution to reach out to get ideas on those lines where I have reached a brick wall. I am not familiar with the Nuestros Ranchos site and haven’t been able to navigate it as yet with any confidence, but will make time soon to figure it out.
I hope this is a good thing for me to have joined.
Welcome, RoseMary! I am searching a different part of the target areas for this group, but I just wanted to welcome you– there is an amazing wealth of information here, both on the site itself and its members. Good luck to you!
Rosalinda
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Hello Everyone,
My name is RoseMary Fabian (jojofab) and I am new to this site. I am retired and thus have time to work on four genealogical trees. I have not done much work for the past 9 months due to my 94-year old mother’s illness and death this December 2012. However, I am determined to get back into my research. I began researching in December of 2010 and have gotten far mostly because of the areas of my study, which have good records on Family Search. Also this site along with the Guadalajara Dispensations site has been very beneficial. I am blocked on some branches of my trees, but will keep searching. My parents were each widowed when they married and I am also researching their previous spouse’s trees for my half brothers and sisters on each side. I may have some mistakes on my trees, but I try very hard to verify through baptisms, marriages, dispensations, and death records. I also look at brothers and sisters in each family to get hints on family relations and through logical timelines.
Rose Mary.
We are glad you joined and we hope that you are also glad you joined and that you get something from the group who is always so giving of their time and of their expertise.
Buena Suerte,
Alicia
________________________________
From: “jojofab@cox.net”
To: research@lists.nuestrosranchos.org
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 12:57 PM
Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] New Member Response
RoseMary Fabian
Alicia,
I appreciate your message and apology. I submitted so many surnames because that is where my research has taken me. I don’t think that genealogy is rocket science. It is detective work and logic. It means following your ancestor’s records of which it has been fairly easy on certain branches of my trees because of the cities where the records are indexed. It is important for me to ensure that I am following the correct line and is why I cross-reference by checking marital information with baptisms, siblings records, death records, dispensations, etc. On some lines I have not gone upward because of lack of records, so I have gone outward to better understand the family line.
The site that has taken me this far is the Family Search Site, which is a godsend in itself for I can access microfilm of the original church records. The fact that I read and write Spanish has helped, although old world Spanish has been a lesson in itself. I found the 1930 Mexican Census, border crossings, the 1920 and 1930 U.S. Census, and now the 1940 Census extremely informative. The memories of family members who are now in their 80’s and 90’s has also helped.
I was also lucky that I had the names of my great grandparents on both sides of my family when I began. Imagine my excitement when I found their marital records online and then their ancestor’s marital records as well. This history is important to me and to members of my humungous family. The only way to get on intimate terms with the surnames involved in any family line is to do the work even if that involves going page by page on record books. As you work on family lines, the names become familiar and you can imagine your ancestors clearly.
I decided to join Nuestros Ranchos as a New Years resolution to reach out to get ideas on those lines where I have reached a brick wall. I am not familiar with the Nuestros Ranchos site and haven’t been able to navigate it as yet with any confidence, but will make time soon to figure it out.
I hope this is a good thing for me to have joined.
