Felipe, Me da mucho gusto saber que los tips que te proporcionaron los miembros del grupo hayan sido utiles. Ya habian pasado un par de meses sin…
Felipe: Si estas en el DF, creo que posiblemente seria mas facil y conveniente ir al Archivo General de la Nacion. Me imagino que tienen horarios …
Felipe: As Lina mentioned in her message to you, the following record is the key to getting back another generation in your Michel lineage. Becaus…
The website that Daniel is speaking of is Portal de Archivos Espanoles (PARES) and the link appears in the link section of Nuestros Ranchos. There is…
Daniel: In Mexican Catholic tradition, padrinos need not necessarily be a married couple. They were often, as you mention, siblings, mother and so…
Felipe: IGI is the International Genealogical Index and VRI is the Vital Records Index, both databases compiled and maintained by the Church of Lat…
Yolanda: There are maps in the links section under Digital Map Collections: You can find contemporary maps (by the Secretaria de Comunicacione…
Anna: Thank you for that very useful piece of information. I have not looked at the oldest Tlaltenango baptism film, since it is indexed… I was …
Anna: As you have probably figured out reading 17th Century marriage records from Mexico, it was very common for people to take their maternal last…
Anna: Also, I remember reading somewhere that the Tapias, like the Haros were descendants of Pedro de Bobadilla, original encomendero of Tepechitla…
Anna: Have you seen this marriage record which lists Francisco Luna with his sister-in-law as padrinos? What is the source that you have for Barth…
Gus et al: Before the local family history center closed for remodeling in June, I had just gotten up to about 1700 on extracting the early Tlalten…
Tony: There need not be migration from Tlaltenango to Momax since Momax was basically one of the pueblos or ranchos of the Tlaltenango jurisdiccion…
Angie: These are the Magallanes listed in the census. Note, these are only the persons who have a surname explicitly listed. Often times the surn…
Linnie: The Haros were perhaps the first Spanish (well really mestizo) family to permanently settle in Tlaltenango. I imagine that the majority of…
