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Joseph,

 

Count me in.  Let me know when you are
ready.

 

Elvira

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Joseph Puentes


Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 12:45
AM

Subject: Re: [ranchos] Records for "No
Pagados" and some others.


Oigalo, Arturo! buen idea Jose Roman!

Arturo if you find
a new source of records in Colotlan and/or Totatiche, let's see if the LDS
library would consider sending a crew. In fact if you let them know ahead of
time that you are making the trip they might give you "tips" on how to prepare
for a "future" microfilming trip. I think this along with your call for
volunteers for the Colotlan Census is something that could very much benefit
future genealogist. you could make a difference!

Along that lines I've
been thinking of making a call for volunteers, but am not ready yet. My
project is the Notario records of Guadalajara. I was thinking that if 25
people volunteered to look at 1 or 2 films a year that we could start giving
the Nortario records a much better index than is currently available. There is
real "gold" in those records for many and possibly for many of us, but the way
they are catalogued its like looking for a needle in a haystack. I'm not sure
but if we took one film and just wrote the name of the Notario, name of the
person involved,  the location and date---well I think this would be
great.

Let's hold off on this project until I get more info from
George Ryskamp. Who knows but maybe someone has already done this work, but I
think not.

joseph



José Román González López wrote:


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Hi:

 

When a new
record or group of records is found in the source original
(manuscripts), and it is not preserved in other media, I think that we
should contribute to preserve them. One way to do this is write a notice to
the "microfilm production project of the Mormon
Church", because they has demonstrated that they can resolve
this hard labor with their economic resources; the Mexican government
generally not pay attention to this work because for the cost that they
can't like to finance.

 

Is only a idea!

 

JRGL.

Mexico City.



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Published by elviraz – Wed, 2005-11-09 01:01 | Permalink

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Jose Roman:

 

 

What you are suggesting is exactly what I did for
the town of San Juan de Guadalupe, Durango.  I had been trying to get info
from there for about  25 years and the priests would not relent.  The
registro civil was okay but that was it. I found out that the LDS church would
pay for the microfilming and I started campaigning.  I was fortunate to
meet the president of the Sociedad Genealogica del Norte de Mexico (Benicio
Sanchez). I told  him my situation and he started campaigning 
with both the San Juan  de Guadalupe and the registro civil
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records. They were filmed about 2 and a half years ago and are now in the LDS
library.  I really wanted them filmed because a big chunk of my family
settled there over 200 years ago. 

 

It took me about five years of campaigning and
educating the priests about what microfilming is and  selling the idea of
preservation. I had to hard sell the fact that the Mormon Church would pay
for the process.  Besides the priests, I talked to whomever would
listen. It paid off!  Now I don't have to go there as often to
research.  I can now do most of the research  just by going to
the family history library here. Now I will be going to other
places.

 

I wish everybody knew about this
program.   The basic information I had to give for Sanchez to
verify  my story was the name of the town, what records I had identified as
not having been filmed yet, points of contact (names of the priest
in charge, civil registrar's name, addressses and phone numbers).  I
also included comments as to how predisposed I thought they were to the
microfilming.  I wanted to make everything as easy as posssible. 

 

Elvira

 

 

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José Román
González López


Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 7:56
PM

Subject: [ranchos] Records for "No
Pagados" and some others.



Hi:

 

When a new record or group
of records is found in the source original (manuscripts), and it is not
preserved in other media, I think that we should contribute to preserve them.
One way to do this is write a notice to the "microfilm
production project of the Mormon Church", because they has demonstrated
that they can resolve this hard labor with their economic resources; the
Mexican government generally not pay attention to this work because for the
cost that they can't like to finance.

 

Is only a idea!

 

JRGL.

Mexico City.

 

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