welcome to the group. from your description it sounds like yours has
been a very full life of travel and seeing new places. I hope you find
value with us. We are a tight nit group that grows stronger everyday.



I have roots in Tepetongo but the only surname, Miranda (Gabriel Xavier
Miranda/Nicolasa Nava, they had--->Benita del Refugio
Miranda/FelipeSantaMaria) I have that is common to your list there goes
to a late 1790's or so. I together with several others, Carol and Kitty
and others have Muro but I don't think ours come from Tepetongo or go
back nearly as far as yours. Mine were mostly from ranchos close to
Colotlan/Santa Maria de los Angeles/Saus de los Marquez. Oldest
individual was Vbaldo Muro his wife being Antonia Albarez their son
Jose Cosme and Francisca Aguallo were parents to Ygnacia Muro who
married Miguel Leanos who had my GGG grandmother Genoveva Leanos who
married my GGG grandfather Tadeo Diaz and they had Jorge Diaz who had
Francisco Diaz who had my grandmother Virginia Diaz. I don't guess you
know Vbaldo do you???



hmmm, didn't really think so but never hurts to ask.



welcome to the group.



joseph







Susana Leniski wrote:

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face="Arial">Hello everyone:

 

face="Arial">I'm the newest member of the group. My name is Susana
Leniski. I was born and raised in
w:st="on">Mexico City, Mexico.
I attended “Universidad Metropolitana” in
w:st="on">Mexico City where I majored in
International Business. Following my education, I worked for various
w:st="on">US based firms in
w:st="on">Mexico. In 1990, I moved to
the United States
following my husband’s career and have lived in New
York, Philadelphia,
w:st="on">St Louis, and
w:st="on">Seattle. I now live in Seattle,
Washington.

face="Arial"> 

face="Arial">I was introduced to Geneology thru my Grandmother on my
mothers side. She was the one who gave me the information to my first
family tree. The information that she gave me was invaluable. Because
of my family history, I specialize in Mexico
and Spain
research from early 1900’s to the 1500’s. I have successfully traced
some family lines to the 1600s in diverse areas of
w:st="on">Mexico including Queretaro,
Zacatecas, and Mexico City. Other lines have led to research in the
Basque, Catalonia, and Andalusia
region of Spain
as far back as the 1500’s (Basque region).

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face="Arial">I  have acted as a Genealogy volunteer in the family
centers in Philadelphia and
w:st="on">Seattle helping
others with research and translations of records in Spanish.  This is
where I normally do my research.  I have been a guest speaker in
"Family History Expo's" sponsored The Church of Latter Day Saints here
in Seattle. I also make an annual trip to
the main Library in Utah. 

 

face="Arial">I also travel to Mexico nearly every year to visit
family, many times for an extended time. During these periods I try to
allocate time for geneological research. In a few of these trips, I
have researched historical data at the “Archivo General de la Nacion”,
and “Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia” in Mexico City.  

 

face="Arial">Some of the surnames that I have reasearch in Zacatecas
(Jerez, and Tepetongo mainly) are: De la Torre (many lines), Carlos de
Godoy, Salinas (Family of Don Francisco Garcia Salinas "Tatapacho"),
Escobedo, Salas, Carrillo, Del Muro and Miranda.  My family left the
area around 1820, so my reasearch in Zacatecas has been during the
1600's and 1700's. During this period the majority of my data has been
extracted from Church Dispensations from Guadalajara (Sagrada Mitra-
Arzobispado de Nueva Galicia). I will be submitting some of these lines
shortly.

 

face="Arial">I look forward to exchanging information with the group.

 

face="Arial">Regards,

 

face="Arial">Susana Leniski

 

 

 

 

 

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