--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "v.h.villarreal" <raices_regias@y...> wrote:
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> 
> What follows is Don Leonardo's webpage:
> http://club.telepolis.com/jerz/index_archivos/marabr/index.htm

I had seen the above website earlier when it was still undergoing construction. A recent 
contribution to the site, http://club.telepolis.com/jerz/index_archivos/marabr/algo.htm, 
reviews the history of the researcher's family, del Hoyo y Landa. Señor del Hoyo is an 
associate of the much previously discussed genealogy researcher Leonardo de la Torre. I 
think he does a good job with the history.

For my purposes, the article is interesting because the Valparaiso haciendas discussed by 
del 
Hoyo were later owned by my Felguerez family after 1850. Of course, after the Mexican 
revolution, the great majority of these haciendas were lost and presently are only empty 
shells of what they once were. When I went to Zacatecas in April I took pictures of the 
Hacienda de San Mateo de Valparaiso that is discussed by del Hoyo; it must have been 
glorious at one point but it is sad disrepair now.

All the major haciendas turned over every three generations. There is an old Spanish 
saying about this phenomenon: "Father a merchant, son a gentleman, grandson a beggar."