I was googling around looking for info on the boundaries of Nueva
Galicia and came upon this site that I thought some would appreciate:
http://instructional1.calstatela.edu/bevans/
click on some of the links for some nice photographs. Might find the
church your relatives were baptized in.
joseph
ps: as I'm looking I am seeing repeated reference to S. Sinaloa. . .is
this considered part of Nueva Galicia also?
Nueva Galicia onmouseover="return m_over('Click for pronunciation key')"
onmouseout="m_out()" onclick="pron_key()">(nwā`vä gälē`syä),
Spanish colonial administrative region, W Mexico, comprising roughly
the present states of Jalisco and Nayarit with S Sinaloa. Conquered
(1529–31) by Nuño de class="tip"
href="http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Guzm%E1n,+Nu%F1o+de">Guzmán
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and later governed by Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, the
territory was the scene of the onmouseout="t_o(2)" class="tip"
href="http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Mixt%F3n+War">Mixtón War
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1541. In 1548 it was given its own audiencia at Guadalajara. Nominally
subject to the viceroy of New Spain, it was essentially a separate
administration controlled from Spain, and it came to be known after the
creation (1563) of a presidential office of its own as the presidency
of Nueva Galicia. Its independent character, however, declined as in
the colonial era authority was more and more centralized in Mexico City.
some other related sites:
http://omega.ilce.edu.mx:3000/sites/estados/libros/nayarit/html/sec_23.html
http://omega.ilce.edu.mx:3000/sites/estados/libros/nayarit/html/sec_32.html
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Also I saw a reference to San Luis Potosi being included??????
http://instructional1.calstatela.edu/bevans/Art454L-49-Jalisco/F00001.html