Totatiche only... though I believe that all parishes in the bishphoric of Guadalajara were instructed to conduct full censuses that year. I see censuses for Tlaltenango around that time but not Colotlan in the FHL catalog. --- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, Joseph Puentes <makas@n...> wrote: > > > Arturo Ramos wrote: > > >Prior to the foundation of the parrish of San Luis Obispo in Colotlan > >c. 1720, the Franciscans ran a convent (monestary) in the city, where > >marriages and baptisms were performed. Apparently, there are archives > >of the convent, as they are quoted in Esteban Valdes Salazar's book > >Historia de Totatiche, Tomo II... which by the way is invaluable, since > >it has a transcritption of the entire 1770 census > > > was that the census for the Totatiche area only? or did it include Colotlan? > > thanks, > > joseph > > > as well as > >transcriptions of the major land transactions that occured in the area > >through that period, so that one can plot out the ownership of the land > >and superimpose the residents on each of those plots. > > > >Does anybody have any information on these Colotlan Franciscan archives? > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
