In reading my book about colonial Spain, the early days of Mexico, I came
upon something that explains why we Mexicans like to have all our family not
just living near us, but in our homes, as well. We see families shopping
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For years Rich and I have been trying to read the cause of death on my grandmother's death certificate. She died at O'Conner Hospital in San Jose, CA in 1924. We contacted O'Conner Hospital, but they were unable to read the handwriting and their records were stored in the basement and of course they were not able to obtain them. I then took the certificate to our own doctor and asked him if he could determine my grandmother's cause of death. It also stumped him because of the handwriting. That is when it hit me, who can read a doctor's handwriting, but a pharmacist? I took it to our local Pharmacy and the pharmacist was able to translate it to be an inflamation of the stomach lining which was more than likely brought on by the 1918 flu epidemic. She came to California with my father and his brother because her infant daughter, husband and father all died in the 1918 flu epidemic. All this time we assumed she died of diabetes since we have diabetes in our family. This same pharmacy had a bi-lingual pharmacist that helped us out with our death records out of Mexico. Check out your local pharmacy for help with your death documents. They are usually more than happy to help you.
I have been reading my book, Land and Society in Colonial Mexico, by
Francois Chevaliar, about the origins of the great haciendas in Mexico. I
found another passage in it I thought I would share, because it is the
Has anyone else seen these maps that date from the 1500s? I did a search on the website of the Leventhal Map Collection at the Boston Public Library, and I clicked on the map of Mexico for 1722. You can open them full screen, and move the image around and zoom in. Even with my slow dial-up, they opened up with such detail, and I could print out the enlarged sections exactly as I saw them full screen.
Ed,
My mother and great aunts have shared many factual stories about hardships in these very rural areas. Where my family comes from is Tlachichila Zacatecas in the municipality of Nochistlan. Mom says that when she was a little girl in the ranchos outside of Tlachichila there were no doctors in Tlachichila or Nochistlan, the nearest MD's were in Teocaltiche or Aguascalientes. Mom is 82 so this must have been between 1930 and 1940.
Hello All,
In my searching I have had trouble finding records of marriages and baptisms
in Pinos, Zac (AKA Sierra de Pinos) and surrounding ranches and haciendas.
Does anyone know where these records may be found? I've heard rumors that
Hi everyone! My name is Marina Talamantes (Riley) I just joined and I am very excited to be here. I just started researching my lineage, I only have three generations so far, but hopefully I'll make it to my local family history center here in Charlotte NC soon. My family is from Valparaiso Zacatecas (this is where my parents married (Familia Talamantes-Miramontes)) and their families were from La Junta de los Rios Jalisco (Familia Miramontes-Guzman ) and Minillas Jalisco (Familia Caldera-Simental) and from somewhere in Jalisco Familia Talamantes-Hernandez.
Arturo ,
I was using an asterid in the name part and I can no longer do that .
Welester
> To: research@lists.nuestrosranchos.org> From: arturo.ramos2@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 06:10:13 -0700> Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] No more % in IGI> > > Linda:> > I noticed that some of the searches I was able to do before with wildcards are no longer possible as well. I think they have further restricted wildcard searches probably because it was taxing their servers too much.> > I will try to play around with it over the next couple of weeks, but in the meantime, I do know that as long as you have a batch number, you can do whatever wildcards you want. That makes the Films database with batch numbers all the more important.> > For any new members who are not familiar with the Films database on Nuestros Ranchos, I encourage you to try it. Many members spenta great number of hours putting it together. Instructions are on the Nuestros Ranchos User Guide that you can download from the "Reference Materials" files section.> -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- > Nuestros Ranchos Research Mailing List> > To post, send email to:> research(at)nuestrosranchos.org> > To change your subscription, log on to:> http://www.nuestrosranchos.org
I know they have been doing updating on the IGI on familysearch.com. Today I found it will no longer accept
% in place of a given name, this has never happened before! Is anyone else now having this problem and if so, how did you correct it?
Regarding the causes of death in records, and I have only looked in civil
registers, I think the doctors did not use the same diagnostic terminology
that we are familiar with today. For example, tuberculosis was called
Not everyone owns the same word processing or publishing software (Microsoft Word, Corel's WordPerfect, etc.) or the same fonts you may choose to use in your files. So unless you know that all of your recipients have systems compatible with yours, converting and sending documents as PDF files may make it easier for the recipients to open and read the documents as you intended them to be seen.
I had trouble trying to acces Efrain Conrique´s file. I simply can´t open it. What could I been doing wrong?
Hello,
I want to introduce myself. My name is Alexey Valdivia and I just joined at this forum.
I am looking for any information about these families:
+ From Tuxcueca, Jalisco:
Sosa, Oregel, Gomez Gutierrez and Cabezas (Maternal side).
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> Esperanza,
Your story reminded me of an almost identical experience when I was about
the same age--14. I got a bad case of the flu and couldn't even get out of
bed. After a day or two, my mother's comadre came over and rubbed an
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I have been reading a film of DEFUNCIONES (a document form I had never bothered to read before), and had questions on some of the causes of death, which were not listed in my small dictionary. Can anyone provide a description for any of the following terms?
I dont know if you all got the news but On April 29, 2007 at 4:30 PM. Princess Letizia of Asturias gave birth to her second child with Prince Felipe. They named her Sofia after her grandmother Queen Sofia of Spain.
I would like to introduce myself to the group. My name is Rodolfo Trujillo,
however most just call me Rod. I live between Dallas and Fort
Worth in Texas. I've been working on my families ancestry since 2002 and
I dont know if you all got the news but On April 29, 2007 at 4:30 PM. Princess Letizia of Asturias gave birth to her second child with Prince Felipe. They named her Sofia after her grandmother Queen Sofia of Spain.
I dont know if you all got the news but On April 29, 2007 at 4:30 PM. Princess Letizia of Asturias gave birth to her second child with Prince Felipe. They named her Sofia after her grandmother Queen Sofia of Spain.
The article below is from the latest Rootsweb Review. My new computer didn't have a floppy drive and much of my data and photos is on diskettes. I bought an external floppy drive, but haven't learned how to hook it up and transfer the info to the CDs. Now I wonder if it wouldn't do any good to transfer my info to CDs. Does anyone think memory sticks are better?
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Paula,
I've been wondering about that haunting song you heard in the movie with William Holden. You said the movie was called "The Outlaws", but my husband says the movie was called "The Wild Bunch". Could the song you heard be "Shall We Gather At the River"? It is an old Baptist hymn from 1864. Click on link above to hear it played on the piano (has lyrics).
Jonathan,
Thank-you, so much, for the Mother's Day song. That brought back so many
wonderful memories for me. Back in the 1970's, when I was in juniour high
(showing my age?), our church added a Spanish language mass on Saturday
At a used book store, I found a great book called, "Land and Society in
Colonial Mexico," by Francois Chevalier, published by UC California Press in
Berkeley in 1970. It is about the "hacienda," its background and how it