Joseph,

Can you tell me if I have sent mine in? I think I have but just to be sure
can you check. The names I am researching are:

Sandoval
Arellano
Correa

Thank you


              ~~glo~~






From: Joseph Puentes 
Reply-To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
To: LosRanchos 
Subject: [ranchos] April 15, 2005
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:51:29 -0500

I just checked and I only have 56 genealogies and 73 members. That means
that 17 of you haven't sent in your work yet. Now I realize that in the last
month or so we've had a good 5 or so new members and of course they will be
given extentions of a short few months say to around June 15, 2005, but for
the other 12 of you that have been in the group a long time now and don't
have a good reason for not sending in your work. . .well all I have to say
is April 15th is coming up fast and I need a short communication from you
with a real good reason why even if we've discussed the matter previously.
In the

Joseph,
 
I do not know of any Roman ties. However, I would be very interested
in knowing how the haciendas functioned and how they were structured
in terms of people, if you know such data. 

I do know that the Felguerez haciendas in Valparaiso and Colotlan
appeared to work closely together, even though it appears to me that
one part of the family "worked" one and another part of the family
"worked" the other. I uploaded an article into the Valparaiso photo
folder describing in Spanish the extent of the Felguerez land holdings
in the Colotlan and Valparaiso area (see paragraph 3 of the Cerro de
Gallegos jpg file). I estimate the haciendas comprised approximately
1500 sq. miles, assuming square plots of land, which may not be the
case. Near as I can tell, in 1910 Mexico was owned by 1000 families
and 1/4 of Mexico was owned by 200 of them.

My grandfather, Jose Cruz Cerros, likely worked on the Felguerez
haciendas. My grandmother, Maria Felguerez, was the illegitimate
daughter of one

I'm currently listening to a book on tape about the life of Mozart and
whenever I listen to historical accounts of great people I always seem
to think of my relatives in the sense of wondering what they were doing
during that same time period. For example Mozart was doing his composing
[1781] at the same time that my gggg grandfather, Vicente Diaz was born
in Cuculiten, Zacatecas. So i wondered about him awhile during the time
I should have been listening to my story and then started thinking about
the historical music of Mexico. And then I started thinking of really
really wanting to hear some music from Mexicos 17th and 18th century. I
found this reference to traditional dances and was wondering if anyone
has any "music" or "dance" in their genealogy? Does anyone have
relatives that either by word of mouth or somehow by records were listed
as musicians?

. . .or does anyone know of an particular reference books that might
give some of the history of Mexican Music

Well I'm on a roll so here is something else on my mind. The file space
of the Ranchos1 group is over 50% used. [11463 Kb used of 20480 Kb
total]. I guess I start getting a little antsy when we get anywhere
close to our allotted "free" space.

Now this is just my thought and not a requirement, but . . .

I prefer but not require that you send your work in as a genealogy
report for a couple of reasons:

1) the genealogy report gives much much more info than the straight line
tree. You have the side branches to an extent along with their downline
information

2) the genealogy report uses so so much less file space

As we get much closer to exhausting our free space we'll have to make a
group decision. So to prolong that moment as long as possible I'd ask
that some of you think about possibly changing your trees to reports.
Also any new people I'd really love for you to consider sending in a
report instead of a tree, BUT as I said before it is not a requirement
just a