thats great. You just never know how the padrinos are going to be related.
They could be the abuelos, siblings, tios, primos, or just exceptionally
close friends of the family. The older records before 1800 seem to stop giving
the abuelos but you still have the padrinos listed. so in the older records
they take on a more important role since there is now less information in
each record to work with. I guess the point I'm making is that learning to
dig, dig, dig every little bit of information from each record, leaving no
rock unturned now will help you much later when you are working with less
info in the records.



Others I'm sure can add much to what info I try to dig out of a post 1800
baptismal record. . .here's my list of what I try to find.



1) of course the written details of the child.

2) the names of the parents

3) the names of the grandparents

4) the names of the padrinos

5) I do a person search on each name given in the record being careful to
do a search with the exact spelling off with different combinations and then
with the exact spelling on with different combinations.

6) I do a parent search using every possible combination of spellings of
names that I can think of for each couple in the record

7) If I find other children of the couples listed I'll look at those records
and do all the above searches with those records.

8) If I find any marriage records for any of the people in the record I'll
look at the record and do all the above searches with everyone listed in
those records in addition to:

9) I'll see if anyone in the marriage record is listed as being from somewhere
else. If they are I'll do a "Batch" search for that surname in that location
and see if I get some good preliminary info that might provoke me to order
films from that area.

10) I'll pay special attention to see if the marriage record mentions if
a "Dispensa" was needed. Even if it wasn't mentioned there will many times
be "Informacion Matrimonial" available depending on the time period. I don't
know what its like in other locations but during certain time periods it
appears as if the Informacion Matrimonial was only recorded for certain couples
and in other time periods it appears like every couple has something written
up. I'm not sure I understand this completely.



So now to ask the group. . .what other info do you all try to dig out of
a straighforward post 1800's (pre 1800's too) baptism record?????



thanks,



joseph



SJLSTAR@... wrote:

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face="Comic Sans MS" lang="0">Joseph,

thats a good idea, taking a copy of the indexes  (sp?)  anyways I have done
what you have said and yes have found other people......infact the padrina
to my padrina........was one of my moms best friends and she didn't even
know it!!!......my padrina/madrina....is my moms sister but she is 10 years
younger than my mom.


face="Lucida Handwriting" lang="0">Stella

This too shall pass.............
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