Hello Steve,

I am so impressed with how you're going about your research.  I am 
basically following the same standard of confirming everything off 
the actual microfilm.  If I find someone on the IGI, I do add them 
to my database and reference the IGI, but will eventually go to the 
microfilm and get a print.  I didn't find a link between us, but it 
could be we will find one later as we get further back.  I only wish 
I had started my research when I was your age or that I had more 
free time to visit my local FHC. By the way, I live in Elk Grove, CA 
(a suburb of Sacramento).

Maria Cortez

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "sgapodaca" <sgapodaca@y...> wrote:
> Hello, possible primo.
> 
> I will have this is the Cervantes family that I have on my file.
> Marcelo Cervantes, married Maria Salazar before 1821. So far, I 
have 
> verified four relatives. I have found others on the IGI, but I 
don't 
> put them on my file until I see with my own eyes the actual 
> microfilm or document where they are described. The children on my 
> file are: Cruz Cervantes born aroun 1821 in Los Pozos and married 
> with Maria Rita Apodaca, Maria Guadalupe Cervantes born around 
1825 
> in San Marcos and married with Nemecio Apodaca, Ysidro Cervantes, 
> born around 1832 in San Marcos and married with Martina Gil, and 
> Higinia Cervantes born around 1846 and never married according to 
> her death certificate from 1916. As soon as I find some free time, 
I 
> will order some microfilms to find the baptim documents of the 
> Cervantes kids. I approximated their birth date from their 
marriage 
> or death records. 
> 
> By the way, Angel, Zacoalco is actually a big municipio. There are 
> about 25,000 zacoalquenses living there, without including the 
> hundreds, maybe thousands who live in the U.S. I want to stay 
> optimistic, but while checking baptism microfilms from Zacoalco, I 
> found a lot of Cervantes children from other families. Hopefully, 
> they all descend from the same ancestors. Keep on looking for your 
> Cervantes ancestors as I'll do with mine and we will probably find 
a 
> link soon, primo. Unfortunately, I haven't found Cejas in my 
family 
> file, but that doesn't neccesarily mean that they are not out 
there.
> 
> By the way, where do you live at? I live in LA County.
>