Congratulations on breaking through your brick
wall...I'm jealous, wish it was me.

--- Joseph Puentes <makas@...> wrote:

> 
> 
> elviraz wrote:
> 
> >>And, yes, the name is a little misleading because
> I do not
> >>see much discusion about the ranchos we were
> supposed to be
> >>finding out about.
> >>
> >>Elvira
> >>
> Today I broke through my last brick wall. . .in fact
> I didn't break 
> through it I pulverized it into non existence. I
> started off by not 
> knowing my maternal grandmothers real name to
> finding it by a collection 
> or oral history and the brief mention of a surname
> on my mom's death 
> certificate. Then about a couple of months ago I
> made contact with some 
> that told me that they were related to this
> grandmother and that she 
> came from Huejucar. Well today I confirmed that my
> grandmother, Antonia 
> Lopez was born 17 Jan 1892 in Atotonilco, Jalisco a
> Rancho not far from 
> Huejucar. Her parents are Francisco Lopez and
> Rosalia Garcia. Her 
> Abuelos paternos are Nicolas Lopez and Alvina Perez
> and Abuelos maternos 
> are Florentino Garcia and Toribia Renteria. My
> grandmother Antonia Lopez 
> had at least two brothers: one named Nicolas and
> another named Antonio 
> Lopez who later married Demetria Jacobo and had at
> least one child named 
> Crecencio Lopez who married Josefina Cerujo. 
> Nicolas Lopez when on to 
> marry and have one child named Francisca Lopez who
> married a Rogaciano 
> Raigoza.
> 
> [Digame Arturo. . .somos primos???]
> 
> What is interesting is that oral history told me she
> was from Atotonilco 
> but I didn't know there was 3 Atotonilco's in
> Jalisco (who knows but 
> maybe there are more). I had always though that I
> would have to get 
> records from two Atotonilco's in Southern Jalisco
> and just start having 
> to hunt around for a misc. Antonia Lopez and hope to
> be able to detect 
> if it was my Antonia Lopez. Having found an
> Atotonilco close to Huejucar 
> has been great.
> 
> oh by the way I found the marriage record for
> Florentino Garcia and 
> Toribia Renteria. And there parents are: Agapito
> Nestor Garcia and Maria 
> Antonia Lopez AND Antonio Renteria and Antonia
> Montes.
> 
> cool huh?
> 
> joseph
> 
> ps: so are we going to talk about Ranchos or what?
> 
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