color=#0000ff size=2>A common tradition in my family is regarding the 1st &
2nd children of a couple. The first born's godparents are often the
maternal grandparents. The 2nd born's godparents are often the paternal
grandparents. I see this quite often in my family research. There
are variations when a grandparent is deseased. Being that my father's
mother has already passed away when the second child was born, my parents
substituted my mother's grandmother. Therefore my brother's godparents
were his paternal grandfather, and his maternal G
Grandmother.
2nd children of a couple. The first born's godparents are often the
maternal grandparents. The 2nd born's godparents are often the paternal
grandparents. I see this quite often in my family research. There
are variations when a grandparent is deseased. Being that my father's
mother has already passed away when the second child was born, my parents
substituted my mother's grandmother. Therefore my brother's godparents
were his paternal grandfather, and his maternal G
Grandmother.
color=#0000ff size=2>The other children were a free-for-all. Only
two out of six have baptismal godparents that are not
relatives.
two out of six have baptismal godparents that are not
relatives.
color=#0000ff size=2>My father felt slighted when my oldest sister who had the
first grandchild didn't follow this tradition. She chose a sister and her
husband's buddy. Then she got chewed out for selecting a non-married
couple!
Traditions...traditions....
first grandchild didn't follow this tradition. She chose a sister and her
husband's buddy. Then she got chewed out for selecting a non-married
couple!
Traditions...traditions....
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color=#0000ff size=2>Irma G.L. (Northern Calif.)
From: Arturo Ramos
[mailto:arturo.ramos2@...]
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 10:12
AM
To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ranchos] Re:
Padrinos?
Joseph:
I don't think that Padrinos were necessarily blood
relatives. I know
that in my family, neither of my parents' padrinos
are close
relatives. This is purely based on anecdotal evidence, but I
think
padrinos were often childhood friends, with which the parents had a
close comeraderie or even respected members of the community (since
traditionally, these would take in the child should he or she be
orphaned, etc. and one would want the child to be well raised).
Given
the prevelance of clusters of names (due to surnames often
being assigned to
indigenous people, etc.) it is likely that two
(unrelated) friends in a
rancho would have the same surname.
--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com,
Joseph Puentes <makas@n...> wrote:
>
> I know that in most
cases the padrinos were members of the family.
But
> other than
showing this is via examination of the records how do we
> know? Were
there many examples of non blood relatives being the
> Padrinos? I guess
I'm more interested in if anyone has ever
witnessed a
> padrino
with the same surname of one of the parents actually being
a non
>
blood relative. Has anyone ever seen this?
>
> Where can I go to
read more information on how our relatives picked
> Padrinos and the
likely hood that they were blood relatives of some
degree?
>
>
thanks again you guys are great,
>
> joseph