Susana and Arturo,

Read my message about ADABI.  How about contacting that group and ask 
them to consider these records for a project?

Maria

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "Arturo Ramos" <arturo.ramos2@v...> 
wrote:
>
> Susana:
> 
> If you read my previous message you will note that there are in 
fact 
> a great deal of records at the Inmaculada parrish in Jerez that are 
> not filmed... Leonardo de la Torre Berumen has transcribed a great 
> deal of these records but filming them would also be valuable.  I 
> don't know if it is going to be possible given the condition that 
> they are in and according to Leonardo make them difficult to film 
and 
> is perhaps the reason why they passed them up in the first place.
> 
> There are also records in Colotlan that are not filmed.  The priest 
> there is obstinate about not allowing access so it would require 
> permission from the bishop in Zacatecas.  If you are interested in 
> pushing this forward, I would be willing to help.
> 
> --- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "Susana Leniski" <susyfarias@c...> 
> wrote:
> >
> > To anyone researching in La Inmaculada/Jerez, Zacatecas
> > 
> > I have some information that can be valuable for anyone 
researching 
> in Jerez
> > 
> > 1. THE CASE OF THE 20-25 PAGES OF MARRIAGES
> > 
> > The first time I reviewed the film # 440059. Matrimonios 1712-
1745. 
> I noticed that the film started in the middle of the book. I 
searched 
> for the missing pages until I found them. They are in the previous 
> film. Film # 440058. Informacion Matrimonial 1961. Yes, you read 
> right 1961. In this film after the 1961 information, all the way at 
> the end of the film.( You even pass a section in "blank".) There is 
> the first roll of film of marriages. There are about 20-25 pages of 
> the oldest marriages in microfilm for Jerez (1712), part of the 1st 
> book.I already spoke to the expert for Latin-American in the main 
> Library in Utah (that was 2 years ago). I hope they will place a 
note 
> in the Library Catalogue in the near future.
> > 
> > 2. THE CASE OF THE MISSING MICROFILMS
> > 
> > Recently I spoke over the phone to the person in charge of the 
> archives in the Church La Inmaculada in Jerez, Zacatecas. He told 
me 
> that the oldest Marriage that they have is 1697 and Marriage 
> Information November 3, 1665. As we know in the LDS Library 
Catalogue 
> the marriages start in 1712 (missing 15 years) and in Marriage 
> Information 1789 (missing 124 years). He speculated that when they 
> did the microfilming of the records (around 1960) they asked for 
the 
> church "books", and all these information are "single sheets-hojas 
> sueltas). During my conversation with him he was flipping the 
actual 
> documents. At the same time, I felt my heart was flipping. I could 
> see the long lost marriage, my brick wall in that bundle of papers. 
I 
> already wrote 2 e-mails to the AGN (Archivo General de la Nacion), 
> but I haven't received a response.I also called the main Library in 
> Utah with this information. I spoke to the same expert, and she 
took 
> some notes. I have my doubts that my petition for microfilming was 
> forward. Does anyone know where I can petition formally the 
> microfilming of these records? What can we do?
> > I also asked in the church in Jerez if the archives were open to 
> the public. I was told that access can be granted thru the Dioceses 
> of Zacatecas (or Archdioceses). I don't know if you can petition 
for 
> this on-line. I'm hoping I will be able to go to Jerez next year 
and 
> search in the archives of the church. But, I think we should 
> preserved this documents for future genealogist.
> > 
> > Sincerely,
> > Susana Leniski
> >
>