Probably many of you know about this already, but those who do not, 
and who live in California, I recommend you to visit the Los Angeles 
County Museum of Art. They are holding an exhibition of Mexican 
Casta Painting from the eighteen century. I think this is a very 
unique oportunity that you shouldn't pass, because this is one of 
the biggest gatherings of casta paintings, around 200, many of them 
from private collections. I went to visit the museum yesterday and 
was very delighted at seeing those paintings that reflect the 
lifestyles of the New Spain. Again, those of you who live in 
southern California, don't miss this opportunity. And those who do 
not live in California, take an airplane and enjoy this collection. 
They are going to be held at LACMA until August 8, and after that 
they are all going to different museums and private homes all around 
the world. To find more information, check the LACMA website at 
www.lacma.org and click on the link INVENTING RACE. They also

Hey Joseph, I knew about that link already, but apparently this 
website was deleted some weeks ago. That's too bad because there was 
plenty of information about each municipio of Jalisco in that 
website.

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, makas@n... wrote:
> 
> okay I've put up a bunch of pages for Ranchos in Jalisco, 
Zacatecas and 
> one for Aguascalientes
> 
> I've also found this website that has a search engine for a few 
other 
> pages that i don't have time to link to just yet.
> 
> http://www.e-local.gob.mx/enciclo/jalisco/mpios/14019a.htm

someone sent in a great URL quite awhile back something to the effect
of Family Ancestral something.

it had a great search engine to documents from the Durango Diocesis I
believe that incorporated mostly Northern Mexico but included some
things from Zacatecas.

If i've given enough information for someone to remember what I'm
talking about and send me the Lost URL again, I'd appreciate it very much.

thanks,

joseph. . .el viejito

Hello everyone. I am George Luna, a recent addition to the ranchos 
group. I started last July researching my family. I knew my 
grandparents names (Casimiro Luna and Maria Marquez) and that one of 
my uncles was born in Juanchorrey. My mother's side of the family
is from El Paso via Chihuahua so I excluded that side of the family 
in my file. Joseph's advice about oral history is great, but in my
case no one (my father and his three brothers and sister) didn't
want to talk about their father when I first got interested in 1973. 
I dropped the subject (a mistake, but I was busy with family and a 
career as a Math professor) until I semi retired (teaching one 
quarter per year). 

My father was born in Taft, California and one brother and sister in 
Arizona and Bakersfield, California, resp. I knew that my grandmother 
and the 5 children were deported to Mexicali in the early thirties 
and that they grew up in Tijuana, BC. My father was working in San 
Diego in 1943 when he was drafted

Hi Jodiah,

I so much wish I lived close to Bancroft Library. Gloria Delgado sent me
a scan of a map of Jalisco she found at Bancroft. You might want to
check things out there as they have wonderful resources for the Mexican
Genealogist.

welcome to the group.

if i could lend one piece of advice that will serve you well in years to
come: Collect as much oral history as you can!!!

joseph



jodiahcastro wrote:

I am glad to have found this group and that Joseph has accepted my
request for membership!  I have been lurking here for 1 1/2 weeks and
have made good use of the message archive during that time.  Now I
feel it is time to introduce myself, and my research:

My name is Jodiah Castro and I live in Berkeley CA.  I am 29 years old
and have always been interested in where we have come from as a
family, although that interest only turned into actual research when I
decided to map my living relatives for an upcoming family reunion.  It
is so easy to know your elders as tio

I am glad to have found this group and that Joseph has accepted my
request for membership!  I have been lurking here for 1 1/2 weeks and
have made good use of the message archive during that time.  Now I
feel it is time to introduce myself, and my research:

My name is Jodiah Castro and I live in Berkeley CA.  I am 29 years old
and

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I am glad to have found this group and that Joseph has accepted my
request for membership!  I have been lurking here for 1 1/2 weeks and
have made good use of the message archive during that time.  Now I
feel it is time to introduce myself, and my research:

My name is Jodiah Castro and I live in Berkeley CA.  I am 29 years old
 and have always been interested in where we have come from as a
family, although that interest only turned into actual research when I
decided to map my living relatives for an upcoming family reunion.  It
is so easy to know your elders as tio and tia, and to be told for many
years that all the kids are your cousins ;)  So I created a chart of
over 100 relatives descendant of my ggr-parents Malaquias Castro of
Mezquital del Oro Zacatecas (1895-~1923), and Librada Bedoya of
Arizona (1896-1981)  One thing led to another and six months later I
am seeing the insides of libraries I didnt even know existed! 

We are: Castro's, Bedoya's, Fuentes', Dominguez', Martinez

I have a niece whose name is Hermelinda - she was given this name because 
Catholics did not accept "Linda" as a proper first name, but Hermelinda was 
acceptable because there is a saint of that name?

Esperanza