Yes, and there are BORONDAs in New Mexico.  I have not
found any link to mine yet, but one day I may.
Kim


On Mon, February 20, 2006 12:19 pm, Alberto Duarte said:
>     Not only did they go to alto California, but they also
>  went to new Mexico.
>
>  Alberto Duarte

Thank you so much for this information.  I am not quite
clear on one thing -- the Catholic churches *should* have
birth records from the 1700's?  In most countries with
which I have experience, even after civil registry, the
church kept records.  Is this true in Mexico?
Kim


On Fri, February 17, 2006 2:47 pm, arturoramos2 said:
>  The Catholic Church records were the vital records in New
> Spain, New Galicia and then Mexico until the late 1800s
> when a secular civil registry was established and even
> then, it took some communities a while before they
> started complying with the government's decrees that all
> births and marriages had to be registered through civil
> authorities.