Hi Josephine, I have a question.

I noticed you requested baptismal certificate of a family member in 
Mexico (Zacatecas) and was wondering if you could tell me how to go 
about requesting them from the Catholic church.

Thank you in advance for your attention to my message.

Guillermo Valdez.


--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "Josephine Simons" <navlady@h...> 
wrote:
> Dear Ranchos members,
> I am a new, recently added member and if I have taken undue time to 
> introduce myself, please accept my apologies.  My family surnames 
are in 
> this order, Gonsalez, Garcia and great-grandmother's name 
Hernandez.  We 
> were from Zacatecas, near Jerez, and from long-standing oral 
history in my 
> family, my grandfather lived at La Hacienda de Trancoso, near 
Fresnillo.  I 
> have requested the baptismal certificate of my grandfather, Luis 
Gonsalez, 
> born in 1868, with record submitted to the catholic parish of La 
> Purificacion in Fresnillo.  My father told me that his grandmother, 
Julia 
> Hernandez was 6 years old and came with her father from Spain to be 
one of 
> the hacienda administrators---it looks like they had several 
administrators 
> as the hacienda was large and prosperous.  Two of her sisters were 
born in 
> Jerez, and they married wealthy men.  The story goes that because 
she 
> married a ranchero, she was looked down on by her sisters. My dad 
told me 
> his sister went to Zacatecas and found distant relatives in Jerez, 
but since 
> she passed away I cannot verify it with her.  The family name also 
has the 
> name Garcia, which were cousins of my grandfather Luis, also from 
Zacatecas. 
>    I am looking for records of Hernandez and those of Leon 
Gonsalez, my 
> great grandfather who would have been born sometime between 1830-
1850 in 
> Zacatecas.    This is all I know about him.  My grandmother was 
from 
> Zacatecas, born in 1888.  Her last name was also Gonzalez, but my 
> understanding is that her grandparents were rescued and brought 
back to the 
> hacienda and given their family name. Does this make sense?  So, my 
dad was 
> Jose Luis Gonsalez Gonzalez, born in Durango in 1914.