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We have found in the Banamichi and Arizpe Baptisimal records where our ancestors were Opata Indios. Not speaking or reading Spanish, we didn't recognize the term Opata, until we started reading all the wonderful information that comes thru the Ranchos site. All the years of researching Rich's ancestors in Jalisco and Zacatecas, we have never found the name of the Indios, but only three generations back, we find that my father, born in Banamichi, Sonora, has ancestors clearly listed as Opata Indios. This area of Sonora is very hard to research, since the University of Arizonia went in and filmed a lot of the church records, (called the 811 filmes), so now the FHL does not see the need to extract this information on their own films. So you find very little extracted out there on the FHL website. We were fortunate to spend a few days at the University of Arizona, Tuscon, and got into the 811 films. There are 27 rolls of films. Found some census and printed every page of it on their machines. We also printed the Index to these 811 films, if anyone needs information as to Film number and topic. FHL did not want to 'buy' these films from the University, so we are only able to view them in AZ. When we have some free time, we really need to inter-library loan them to our local library. I know this site does not cover Sonora, but I realize that some members of Ranchos also get into Sonora, so if anyone needs information about this "Index to the 811 films", please contact us directly. Kitty Cortez kitty@... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $4.98 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Q7_YsB/neXJAA/yQLSAA/hcOolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ranchos/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: ranchos-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ |
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