Wow Elvira, you are just a wealth of information.  It's no wonder, 
though, it sounds like you've been researching for over 25 years.  
Too bad you don't live in the Sacramento, CA area so that you could 
meet with the group of us Rancho members who are getting together 
next month.  We have some really talented and experienced researchers 
attending this first meeting, but you (and several others) would be 
such a great addition. 

Maria

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "elviraz" <elviraz@e...> wrote:
>
> Jose Roman:
> 
> 
> What you are suggesting is exactly what I did for the town of San 
Juan de Guadalupe, Durango.  I had been trying to get info from there 
for about  25 years and the priests would not relent.  The registro 
civil was okay but that was it. I found out that the LDS church would 
pay for the microfilming and I started campaigning.  I was fortunate 
to meet the president of the Sociedad Genealogica del Norte de Mexico 
(Benicio Sanchez). I told  him my situation and he started 
campaigning  with both the San Juan  de Guadalupe and the registro 
civil  to obtain permission to film the records. They were filmed 
about 2 and a half years ago and are now in the LDS library.  I 
really wanted them filmed because a big chunk of my family settled 
there over 200 years ago.  
> 
> It took me about five years of campaigning and educating the 
priests about what microfilming is and  selling the idea of 
preservation. I had to hard sell the fact that the Mormon Church 
would pay for the process.  Besides the priests, I talked to whomever 
would listen. It paid off!  Now I don't have to go there as often to 
research.  I can now do most of the research  just by going to the 
family history library here. Now I will be going to other places.
> 
> I wish everybody knew about this program.   The basic information I 
had to give for Sanchez to verify  my story was the name of the town, 
what records I had identified as not having been filmed yet, points 
of contact (names of the priest in charge, civil registrar's name, 
addressses and phone numbers).  I also included comments as to how 
predisposed I thought they were to the microfilming.  I wanted to 
make everything as easy as posssible.  
> 
> Elvira
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: José Román González López 
>   To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 7:56 PM
>   Subject: [ranchos] Records for "No Pagados" and some others.
> 
> 
>   Hi:
> 
>   When a new record or group of records is found in the source 
original (manuscripts), and it is not preserved in other media, I 
think that we should contribute to preserve them. One way to do this 
is write a notice to the "microfilm production project of the Mormon 
Church", because they has demonstrated that they can resolve this 
hard labor with their economic resources; the Mexican government 
generally not pay attention to this work because for the cost that 
they can't like to finance.
> 
>   Is only a idea!
> 
>   JRGL.
>   Mexico City.
>