George and Luis, Below is the transcription I made of the testament of Juan Macias Valadez. Jaime Alvarado Testamento por poder (Al margen) En …
Estimado Enrique, Aqui incluyo la informacion detallada para evitar confusiones por haberlo hecho de memoria: 1ra Generación 1. Pedro Ortiz nació…
Daniel, George and others, The proof the Juan Ramirez and Juan Ortiz are the same person can be found in the ‘Informacion Matrimonial’ of Juan sec…
Daniel and others, Here is the Ramirez-Ortiz connection. Pedro Ortiz married Catalina Ramirez around 1620 (perhaps in Aguascalientes). Their descend…
Claudia, You stated that the substitution rate of the X-chromosome is fast, and the reason why X-chromosomes are not used to determine genealogies. …
Deedra, One of the records you are looking for can be found at:That corresponds to image 334 to baptisms for 1773 for the church of Sagrado Corazon,…
Dear Deedra, In some cases records were lost, others may have not been filmed, yet a great number may simply be misplaced, or located in the origina…
Alice, That is my impression. I recently stumbled into an instance,that indicates that was the case as the consanguinity was discovered for a couple…
George, ‘Ha’, perhaps Herminia? Jaime
Paul, Gaps in the records are not uncommon and there are many sources. Sometimes volumes were missing, as these could have been destroyed (fire, wat…
Alice, Unfortunately the ‘dispensas’ were never sorted from its origins into volumes by city or state. However, because of the extreme endogamy of N…
Armando, I did not know that Nuevo Leon was at any time under the Dioceses of Michoacan. All the dispensas I’ve found for Nuevo Leon, prior to 15 of…
My statement was intended to refute that Jewish from Spain were sent to the Americas in slave vessels. Now regarding the converso origin of Diego de M…
I am not sure which are your sources, but it is false that the Inquisition sent Jews to the Americas on slave ships. On the contrary, migration to Ame…
Alice, I’ve seen examples of certain priests to refer to ‘huerfano’ or ‘huerfana’, instead of ‘padres no conocidos’, when when the respective groom …
