I've been on the road since the end of Sept but have made it a point to read the postings even though I haven't responded. I'm happy to see so many new Spanish speaking members even though I don't read it very well my knowledge is expanding because of them by way of bablefish.. Welcome.

Mi nombre es Celestino Alonso Villalobos Esquivel, nací en Nvo Laredo Tamaulipas, a los 23 años aproximadamente emigre a los Estados Unidos donde me case, tengo casi 50 años, lo que significa que tengo viviendo en los Estados Unidos poco menos de 27 años resido en Dallas Texas, donde trabajo en una compañia donde fabrican productos de drenaje de todos tipos, ya en esta compañia tengo 20 años trabajando, tengo cinco hijos el menor se llama como yo, dentro de mi familia soy la persona que más interes tiene en la Historia Familiar, como hace diez años aproximadamente comence a trabajar en la genealogia por el lado materno de mi padre que es Gonzalez-Gonzalez, gracias a unas genealiogias con cuatro lineas genealogicas de mi abuela Manuela Gonzalez Gonzalez, que comprueban que mi padre es o era heredero de unas tierras que venian por linea directa de Francisco Baez de Benavidez y de su esposa Clara Flores,donde he recolectado los nombres en grupos familiares de la mayoria de

I recently switched to a flavor of Linux (PCLinuxOS) as my main PC operating system. Does anyone know of or can recommend a genealogy software program that runs on Linux? TIA

To whom it may concern,

Hello, my name is Juanita G. Delgado. I live on the Texas-Mexico border.
I have been researching my late husband's family name for several years now. Of course, I started with the information beginning with the people I knew had come from

Trabajadores Indios del Valle deTlaltenango
(Zacatecas) en las Salinas Viejas de Santa
Maria en el siglo XVI de Jose Enciso Contreras.

http://www.ejournal.unam.mx/historia_novo/ehn18/EHN01805.pdf

Joseph,

You forgot part of the history where on the order of Onate, Vicente Zaldivar bushwhacked my ancestor
Alonso ALbernoz de Sosa. De Sosa had asked Onate for permission to return to Mexico.
The people became very afraid of Onate's dictatorship and his ruthless ness. While most of the soldiers

> Jose Gregorio Saldivar Garza Married on Dec. 24 , 1778 or 1779 ( Monterrey )
> Juana Maria Rodriguez de Montemayor y Ayala
>
I think they were married before 1773. Child born 1773 in Santiago, NL named

Gentlemen,

To be honest, I am having a bit of trouble with the instructions. According to instructions I am suppose to send you the information I am currently researching.

I want to be sure this is the right place, as I had already sent in a sample of about 4 or 5 generations of the family I am working on.

On this Day of the Dead, I sent to the editor of the Rootsweb Newsletter the following:

I was very interested in the story in the last newsletter about the couple whose baby had lost a shoe at a cemetery, and when they went looking for the shoe, it was found on the grave they had been looking for and had passed by.

Hello,

Does anyone know where Rancho de Los Chaves was located in Zacatecas in 1836?

Thanks,

Emilie Garcia
Port Orchard, WA ---

I finally got all my ancestor's photos uploaded into my Guadalajara, Jalisco
Martin del Campo collection. These last two photos are of my grandmother's
aunt Lola, who raised her, with Rita Robles Rivera (Lola's and Alberto's

My husband met a man recently who is from Zacatecas. My husband told him of
our plans to someday go to Jalisco to visit the areas I have been
researching. He said to be sure to visit Zacatecas during Cinco de Mayo,

I have records/data from the Archivo General de la Nacion (Valparaiso, Sombrerete, Zacatecas, etc) which I find very helpful. My records were extracted from the Archives themselves and sent to me by a friend. Unfortunately I have had little luck in trying to find out how to locate and use the Archivo General de la Nacion; their website is not user friendly and so far useless for me. I emailed the Family History Center that I use and asked how to use the Archive General de la Nacion, and I obtained the following response, which I will use in my investigations of the Archivo General:

Howdy everyone ,

I've found some more family . Im trying to connect the dots from Monterrey , Nuevo Leon and Zacatecas .
Joseph thanx for the info

Maria Quirina Saldivar Gomez ( my gggrandmother ) born in Villa de Santiago N.L.

Help needed again.

Hello! I need the name of parents, padrinos and testigos if any for Matheo Thadeo De Leon and Maria Bibanco, marriage date 23 may 1726 in Ayotlan, Jal.

Who is the borrower of such film?

Greetings and Salutations to all ,

My name is Welester G. Alvarado and I hail from Los Angeles , California now living in Monterrey , Mexico . I came here almost six yrs. ago to spend one year looking for family and to continue my family search .

Hello, I am Maureen Bejar and I have two new files located in members files.

The first is the Alviso line from Nuestra Senora de La Asuncion, San Miguel El Alto and Valle de Guadalupe. This includes surnames of Alviso, Gonzales, Dias, Sanchez, Paulin, Araujo, Garcia, Alvares, Ortiz, Vasques, Gallardo and Becerra.

I find myself rushing toward errors. Many apologies for overlooking this
interview of Mimi Lozano which has been available since August. The
interview is on Infoblog by Eileen O'Shea. Please have a listen:

The Library of Congress has a lot of documents, books and manuscripts on their website. One manuscript of particular interest to this group is the title in my subject line, written by Mexican lawyer, Matias de la Mota Padilla in 1742. It is hand-written, but very legible. It contains a lot of names of people and places dating from the Conquest to 1742 in Nueva Galicia. The link to the Library of Congress is already in the links section. You can find the book by clicking on "Collections" and then browsing through the list of Selections from the National Library of Spain.

John Phillip Santos' "*Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
" is up on
the webpage. Have a listen to the podcast. Also if you want to subscribe

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tomás Alejandro Villegas Gómez
Date: 09-nov-2006 14:01
Subject: [Genealogia.org.mx] 7582 Sobre los Castellanos de Ocotlan
To: Genealogia-Mexico@googlegroups.com

I have a special mission for those of you researching: Ixtlahuacan del
Rio. Contact me for the details: makas@nc.rr.com

joseph

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Joseph Puentes
http://H2Opodcast.com (Environment Podcast)

Just a little Mexican musical history lesson for you...if you are interested in this music, you can refer to my two sites, www.elsondelpueblo.com or www.gruposolymar.net. John Robles

John,

Too bad I didn't know you were in this group sooner. I have heard it advertised on the radio here in San Jose and not knowing what type of musical instruments or type of music, I never gave it a thought. The next time you are going to be in the San Jose area, please do let us know so we can come to your performance and hopefully meet up with you.

El comentario de nuestro primo Jorge Luis Ramírez Gómez acerca de Juan Díaz
de León es importante, pues se tratra de un personaje prominente en
Aguascalientes, pues fué Alcalde Mayor y existe una amplia documentación

Hi Joseph,

This group is close to my heart....and so I will share with you, as you have
shared with us whatever I can...including possible interview
opportunities....I have listened to the podcasts you have shared regarding the African