I have just returned from a trip to Guadalajara, and a small ranch known as
Nopalitos (near Arandas), as well as Zamora and surrounding villages.
I got some great pictures of refurbished hacienda (pictures will follow) for
the ranch...this family's surname is Hernandez....
While in Michoacan, I got some great information from a great aunt (on my
husband's side of the family), but when I tried looking up the information at
family search, I realized that the pueblo was not founded until the late 1800's
or early 1900's...and although this great aunt testified that the family
members were all born in El Valle de Guadalupe, Michoacan(going back to at least
the mid 1800's)....none of the names given were associated with the
village...but some seem to be associated with Tangancicuaro...which is where
currently most of the residents conduct their legal affairs. Can anybody help me with
this?
In the meantime, I ate at Garibaldi's...famous for Carne en su Jugo. My
sister gave me the recipe...and with a bit of this and that....I was able to
successfully ALMOST duplicate it....here it goes....
It is a bit time consuming, with all the chopping and frying...but well
worth it....Skip down to the English version.
Acabo de llegar de Guadalajara, y me enamore de este platillo. Mi hermana
me habia dicho como preparar este platillo, pero cuando llegue a E.U., se me
habia olvidado.
Para los que viven in E.U.:, compre carne (sirloin) y yo lo corte muy fino,
un pedazo de jamon (los que venden para desaynar) cortando en cuadritos, y
medio paquete de tocino (grueso) que tambien corte en pedasitos.
No pude encontrar tomatillo, pero compre dos botes de salsa de tomatillo,
use chiles (hungarian), y tampoco pude encontrar esas sebollas...asi es que
corte una sebolla, y lo frei junto con los chiles.
Sigue la receta, segun como Gaby indico....salio todo requisimo. Gracias
Gaby....
For those of you interested in duplicating this recipe, you will need the
following ingredients:
sirloin (the one balled up): I cut it very thinly.
1/2 of a package of thick bacon (cut in squares)
1 slice of breakfast ham (cut in squares)
2 small cans of tomatillo sauce
4 hungarian peppers(diced)
1 onion (sliced)
One pot of pinto beans (cooked by you) - NOT REFRIED.
Cilantro
Onions
Lime (optional)
Tortillas (corn) soft or fried
Cook all bacon in a frying pan, rendering its fat - place to the side. In
the same fat, cook your breakfast ham - place to the side. Strain some of the
fat, and place your hungarian peppers and onions - place to the side. Then
place some of the bacon fat in a dutch oven pot, and saute the sirloin. When
sirloin is done, add all ingredients placed on the side, add water to cover
and a bit of worshester sauce as well as beef boullion. Cover and let it
simmer for about 1 hour.
In the meantime, chop onions and cilantro.
When ready, serve a spoonfull of beans with some of the juice and the beef
stew, with some of the juice...garnish with onions, cilantro...serve with lime
and tortillas.
This recipe is VERY CLOSE to Garibaldi's recipe from Guadalajara.
Esperanza from Chicagoland area
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Tangancicuaro
Dear Esperanza:
I finished my last microfilm (I am taking a break for about six months) a few weeks ago and it was LDS# 1855592 the church records from Nuestra Senora de Asuncion Tangancicuaro de Arista. Sadly, none of the films from Tangancicuaro have been extracted and computerized yet so you have to order the films to see what is on them. I wish I had known earlier and I could have looked to see if there was anything you needed on this film. It has now gone back to Utah. But I had made copies of all the records containing the names Rocha or Bejar. I think I have over 1,000 copies and I am in the process of putting them on a spreadsheet and linking the family groups. Consequently, the Rocha's and Bejar's married into various families such as Alvarez, Fernandez (also spelled Fernandes, Hernandes, Hernandez and Jernandes, Jernandez and Journandez), Zamora, Gomez (also Gomes), Valdes (also Valdez, Valdis, Valdiz), Navarro, Montanes, Pacherco, Castillo, Rodriguez, Rincon, Magana, only to name a few, so I still may be able to help. Some of the ranches involved were Puentevillas, La Huarucha, and San Antonio, plus the city of Tangancicuaro itself. Some of the baptimal records have notations of marriages in El Valle. I was intending to do some research as I thought they might have been referring to the Jalisco El Valle, but now I know there is another El Valle in Michoacan, thanks to you! Many of the families from the Tangancicuaro area came up to Chicago, East Chicago and Northwest Indiana to work in the steel mills in the 30's and 40's.
This film had a wealth of information on it. It had baptisms from early 1900's to the 1930's, marriages from 1907-1931, plus a handful of informational marriages and thousands of confirmations. I copied whole pages of confirmations as there were usually several Rochas on each page.
Although I am still in the process of entering information in the spreadsheet, I would be happy to do a search for anyone you are looking for. Let me know.
Maureen Bejar
Carne en su Jugo
I'm reseaching my Gutierrez and Mendez lines in Jalisco who came from Michoacan in 1780's. They were from Valle de Guadalupe, Chilchota, Michoacan going back to 1620 or so in the records. This town still exists. A lot of the Tangancicuaro records for those years are in the Chilchota records as well as the Tlazazalca records. What names are you researching from that area?
Linda in B.C.
Latina1955@aol.com wrote:
I have just returned from a trip to Guadalajara, and a small ranch known as
Nopalitos (near Arandas), as well as Zamora and surrounding villages.
I got some great pictures of refurbished hacienda (pictures will follow) for
the ranch...this family's surname is Hernandez....
While in Michoacan, I got some great information from a great aunt (on my
husband's side of the family), but when I tried looking up the information at
family search, I realized that the pueblo was not founded until the late 1800's
or early 1900's...and although this great aunt testified that the family
members were all born in El Valle de Guadalupe, Michoacan(going back to at least
the mid 1800's)....none of the names given were associated with the
village...but some seem to be associated with Tangancicuaro...which is where
currently most of the residents conduct their legal affairs. Can anybody help me with
this?
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