Ahnentafel Chart for Jose Agustin BRITO

First Generation

	1.	Jose Agustin BRITO  ""Papa Teen"" was born1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8  on 5 Apr 1888 in Embudo, Rio Arriba, New Mexico Territory. He was christened9,10,11  on 13 Apr 1888 in San Juan, Rio Arriba, New Mexico Territory. He died12,13  on 9 Aug 1963 in Albuquerque, Bernallilo, New Mexico.  The cause of death was kidney problems. He was buried14  on 13 Aug 1963 in Veterans Cemetery, SantaFe, New Mexico R-31. 

Mike's godparents, Daniel Martinez and his wife--Telesfara Maes, were friends of Agustin and Adalaida.

He was listed in his parents home in the 1910 census, Embudo precinct, Rio Arriba County NM district 
156 house #135 p 7  as Augustin, age 21, shepherd.  He was not in the family home in the 1920 census.

sources:  Social Security Death Index 1.31  Birthdate on his Drivers license was 12 Apr 1891. try 
lucerito@thegrid.net

He was in WWI and is burried in the Vet's Cemetery in Santa Fe, NM

Agustin was a first cousin, once removed, to his motherinlaw's second husband, Jose Navor Martinez.

He proposed to the local schoolmarm after his second wife died, and was refused, and took his oldest 
son home to his own mother. His second son, Joe, and his daughter, Angie, were sent to live with their 
godparents.  Joe came back after Papa Tine married Margaretta, who lived next door to grandma.
Margaretta's husband died and Papa Tine married her and went back to Dixon-Embudo.

Jose married Sofia MARTINEZ  about 1910 in New Mexico. Sofia was born in 1890 in Rio Lucio, , NM. She died before 1920 in New Mexico. 

Sources

	  1.	US Census  1900 Rio Arriba County NM."22 June 1900, RioArriba County, NM.".
	  2.	US Census 1910, Territory of NM, RA Co, Embudo Precinct, District 156, house #135, p7.Augustin, age 21, shepherd, [in his father' household].
	  3.	US Census 1920.
	  4.	US Census 1930, New Mexico, RioArriba, Embudo, Precinct 1, Dixon NM, 11 Apr 1930.in the household  #149/156 of his widowed mother, Benina Brito, with his son Miguel.[per Mike, the two younger children were living with godparents].
	  5.	National Cemetery Administration, Nationwide Gravesite Locator, U.S.Veterans' Cemeteries ca 1800-2004 [database online], , MyFamily.com. Inc., www.cem.va.gov/nchp/santafe.htm.birthdate given as 5 Apr 1888; name given as Augustin Brito.
	  6.	U.S. Government Draft Registration card, RioArriba NM 30-1-6-A #411, 5 Jun 1917.Agustin Brito, age 26, born 5 Apr 1891 in Dixon NM, farmer, with dependants:mother and wife.
	  7.	US Census 1910, Everyname Index, NM county of --p14.Embu RArb page 7 line 30.
	  8.	Driver's license, New Mexico #1A324240 Espanola NM, 9 Apr 0063.Agustin (none) Brito  Ojo Sarco, New Mexico   Date of birth: 4-12-91  Espanola.
	  9.	extracted by Thomas D. Martinez, San Jose, CA, San Juan de Los Caballeros baptisms.
	  10.	Extracted by Ella Louise May; Compiled by Margaret Leonard Windham & Levelyn Lujan Baca, New Mexico Baptisms of SantaFe Parish of Saint Francis of Assisi [Parroquia de San Francisco de Asis], NMGS 2002, 

Family History Library, 35 N. West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA."This is a two volume set:  Vol I=1747-1791; Vol II=1796-1822.  [1791-1795 is missing.].".
	  11.	LDS film:Baptisms of the Church of San Juan Pueblo, 0016-976   p284.In Embudo, on the 3rd of November of 1888, baptized Jose Agustin Brito  1 day old, legitimate son of Miguel Antonio Brito and of Maria Benigna Romero, from Embudo.Padrinos, Diego Antonio Romero and of Maria Dolores Martin.
	  12.	Social Security Administration of the US Government, Social Security Death Index, Master File, MyFamily.com  Provo, Utah, Index 1.31."Agustin Brito, 525-22-6906.".525-22-6906, born 12 Apr 1888; died Aug 1963; last residence New Mexico; SSN issued before 1951; name--Agustin Brito.
	  13.	National Cemetery Administration, Nationwide Gravesite Locator, U.S.Veterans' Cemeteries ca 1800-2004 [database online], .died 9 Aug 1963.
	  14.	National Cemetery Administration, Nationwide Gravesite Locator, U.S.Veterans' Cemeteries ca 1800-2004 [database online], .Name: Augustin Brito, PVT in USArmy, b 5 Apr 1888, d 9 Aug 1963, buried 13 Aug 1963;SantaFe National Cemetery, Section R Site 31; last known address:  PO BOX 88, 501 N. Guadalupe St, Santa Fe, NM.

Second Generation

	2.	Jose Miguel Antonio BRITO  "Migel Antonio"1  was born2,3,4,5,6,7,8  on 10 Jul 1856 in Embudo, Rio Arriba, New Mexico Territory. He was christened9  on 13 Jul 1856 in San Juan Mission, Rio Arriba, New Mexico Territory. He died10,11  in 1915 in , RioArriba, New Mexico. He was buried in 1915 in San Juan, Rio Arriba, New Mexico. He married12  Maria Benina ROMERO on 6 Jan 1881 in San Juan, Rio Arriba, New Mexico. 

He was an excellent finish carpenter! He was also a blacksmith and had a shop in the Canioncito by Joe 
Aviejos' house.
his church records:  Antonio Miguel Brito  
sources:  1870 census NM Territorial Census Index USA  p411 Rio Arriba County, Embudo 1st Precinct
   Also listed on that page is Ventiora Brito and Antonia Brito and Cruz Brito and Franciscounty A Brito 
and Gabriel Brito and Ignacia Brito.

The San Juan Pueblo was a Tewa Indian town.  Their name for it was O'Ke Owingeh (owingeh means 
Pueblo)    It was the center town of the Pueblo Indians.  In 1680 they declared war on the Spaniards.  
San Juan Pueblo is the site of the first capital of New Mexico, established by Juan de Onate in 1598.  
This settlement was called San Gabriel and is located on San Juan Pueblo land on the west side of the 
Rio Grande near its confluence with the Rio Chama.

San Juan Pueblo is one of the largest Tewa speaking Pueblos.  The tribe has about 3000 members.  The 
annual feast day is June 24 and is for the patron saint John.  San Juan Pueblo, PO Box 1099, New 
Mexico 87566

Joe Brito of Moses Lake, WA, (509) 765-2942 said that in the late 1700's, 3 brothers came from Spain to 
Mexico.  One settled in Mexico City, one (his ancestor) in Chichiwawa Mexico, and one went north to 
what is now New Mexico.  His great-grandfather, ---- Brito, was a cousin of Mike's grandfather.  [ this 
would have  been a son of  Josef Leon Brito or a cousin via one of Miguel Antonio's sons--but both were 
born in NM.]  Considering all this, Miguel Brito was probably the emigrant ancestor who emigrated to 
what is now the USA, NM., and the brother who stayed in Chichiwawa Mex. was Jose Brito's ancestor. 

  There was a midwife/wisewoman/herbalist/massuesse whatever that Mike Brito stayed with in the 
1940's when he hurt his leg.  Her name was Cirilia Tafoya in Rancho de Taos, about 25 miles from Dixon, 
before you get to Taos.   She was related to the first Britos who came to NM but may or maynot have 
written it all down.  She said several brothers came to Mexico from Portugal and then into NM.  She was 
born about 1870

1850 census shows :  husband Jose Brito, age 28,  and his wife Maria; son, Jose, age 8; dau Maria, age 
4; dau, Rafaela, age 2.

1860 census shows:  Husband, Jose Brito, age 44; Wife, Ventura Vigil, age 32; Children: Grabuel age 16, 
Rosa age 13, Rafaela age 11, Juana age 7, Ignacia age 5,  Miguel age 4, Antonio age 2,
.
Miguel Antonio Brito is listed in the 1870 New Mexico Territorial Census Index on p 411 along with his 
father, Jose Leon Brito, and his father-in-law, Diego Romero.

1900 Census has Miguel Brito, b. Feb 1857 and his  wife Benigna, b. Jan 1870, md 20 years. ten 
children, 4 living.  One of the children was listed as their nephew, Juan A. Montoya, b. June 1885

The 1900 Census of NM has Miguel and his sons Elfido and Emelio as heads of households in Embudo.

There are no Britos in the 1910 US census of San Juan County, NM or of McKinley Co NM, or of 
Sierra Co NM, or of Grant Co NM, or of Luna Co, NM.

	3.	Maria Benina ROMERO  ""Bay-Nee-Nuh"" was born13,14  in 1866 in New Mexico Territory, 
probably Dixon. She was christened15  in Picuris, Rio Arriba, New Mexico. She died in 1948 in Dixon, Rio Arriba, New Mexico. She was buried in 1948 in Dixon, Rio Arriba, New Mexico. 

Her grandson, Ernesto Valdez, has a snapshot of himself as a young boy with grandma Benina in her 
garden.  Her granddaughter, Rose Archuleta, has a family photo--perhaps the wedding photo of
Mike's mom & dad?-- with Dolores, Elberia, Agustin and Adilaida, and Nicanor (wearing kneepants) but 
not Amanda; perhaps Amanda took the picture?

The 1910 census said Benigna had 20 kids and 6 were still alive.  The 1920 census said she was a 
widow, owned her home free of a mortgage, white female, widow, farmer on home farm, cannot read or 
write or speak English.  She had 2 daughters and a son still at home.

When her children grew up and got married, she lived alone until she got very sick and then she stayed 
with her son Nick until she died; Nick lived next door to her.

 [ Benina said her mother (parents?) were from the Picuris Pueblo and were Navaho Indians.]
  [ Nicanor's daughter, Helena, says not Navajo, but TAGWAH Indians.  Her son Mike is doing genealogy.
]
  Benina's people were Navajo or Tigua ("TEE wah") Indians.    Her church records:Benigna Romero.
Sources: vital records index--N America-- For children   1-5  births and MAB birth and marriage.
She lived with her son Nicanor and his wife Stella after her husband Miguel died. (Must have been a long 
time later, as Nicanor was age 6 when his father died!)  Mike says she died at age 72 & he was in CA.

Helen Vialpando said that Benina said her husband JMB was one of the 8 immigrant Brito brothers from 
Great Britain, and that Britain was named after the Brito family from Spain.  (Look up Migel Brito on the 
immigrant lists!)  THIS IS A HERESAY STORY THAT THE FACTS DO NOT SUPPORT.

NM Genealogical Society   PO Box 8283  Albuquerque NM 87198     $25 year.  They send a quarterly 
magazine, a membership-networking issue each June, and an index each December, as well as a yearly  
edition of GENEALOGICAL RESOURCES IN NM.

WWW.ROOTSWEB.COM/~NMTAOS/INDEX.HTM  has "Albert's Answers" by Albert Vidaurre.
The County Query Boards  have surname postings, also at  the county resources pages on rootsweb.
Other resources are:  Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of NM;  Nat'l Society of Hispanic 
Genealogy.      Ida Foraci wrote 22 volumes of genealogy:  The Quintanas.  There is an Index.
Maria Clara Martinez is writing a 5 volume set on the Vigil descenants,(which connect with our Britos).  
mariam@vanion.com 

The best lead I have, so far, is from FamilyTreeMaker.com User Home Pages:  Descendants of Joseph 
Gallegos:  Interpretation of Lineage for Casey June Castleberry de Gallegos, who traces
           Joseph Gallegos and Maria Leocadia Candelaria's descendants from Albuquerque NM (Spanish 
military people b. abt 1740 in NM)  They had six children:  Antonio Joseph, Manual deJesus, Joseph 
deJesus, Maria Jasinta, Felepe deJesus, and Maria Manual deJesus.  CaseyJuneCastleberry....  
dallas1fem@hotmail.com  .... traces her lineage thru Felipe, whose later census records have him born 
in RioArriba County, near Albuquerque. His wife and daughter died in Penasco.  His descendants marry 
into our surnames: Archuleta, Duran, Gonzales, Lovato, Lujan, Maestas, Martinez, Medina, Romero, 
Sanchez, Vialpando, Vigil.  His descendants also echo our given names: dau Maria Dolores Gallegos b.
1829; grson Miguel Antonio Gallegos, b.April1859; grgrson Amador Gallegos, b.May 1891   COUSINS 
OF SOME TYPE, I BET!
            Joseph Gallegos and Maria Candelaria's sixth child, MARIA MANUAL DeJESUS GALLEGOS, b. 
March 30, 1777, near Albuquerque, (read that to be, RioArriba County!), is the one that  I believe is Maria 
Benina Gallegos  grandfather.  So far I have not found his wife or children. 

The counties in NM were created in 1852 and later.  Penasco is in Taos County; Embudo and Dixon are 

in RioArriba County;  Picuris Pueblo is in Questa County.  Penasco is only a little ways from an Indian 
village called Picuris Pueblo.  MAB says his Indian ancestors lived on a reservation named Picuris.

Sources

	  1.	US Government, 1870 New Mexico Territorial Census Index, page 411."Rio Arriba County, Embudo 1st Precinct, p. 411.".
	  2.	US Government, 1870 New Mexico Territorial Census Index, Rio Arriba County, Embudo 1st Precinct, p 411.In his parents home:  Miguel Antonio, age 14.This page also has his father and his father-in-law, as well as Ventoria Brito, Antonio Brito, Cruz Brito, Francisco A. Brito, Gabriel Brito, and Ignacia Brito.
	  3.	US Census 1860, NMT, Embudo 1st Precinct, Rio Arriba County, p411.1860 census shows: Husband, Jose Brito age 44; Wife, Ventura Vigil, age 32; Children: Grabuel age 16, Rosa age 13, Rafaela age 11, Juana age 7, Ignacia age 5, Miguel age 4, Antonio age 2.
	  4.	Maria C. Martinez, Some Descendants of Francisco Montes Vigil II, mariam@vanion.com, p72.
	  5.	US Census 1880.
	  6.	US Census 1890, NMT Rio Arriba County, Embudo 1st Precinct, p411.Miguel Brito, b. Feb 1857 & wife Benigna, b Jan 1870.  Md 20 years; 10 children, 4 living.  [One, a nephew, Juan A. Montoya, b. 1885].
	  7.	US Census  1900 Rio Arriba County NM.
	  8.	US Census 1910, NMT Census, Everyname Index by Albuquerque Genealogical Society, p14.There are no Brito names in Grant, Luna, McKinley, Sierra, or San Juan counties.Dona Ana, Valencia, and RioArriba have Brito names.Jose M. Brito is in Embudo, Rio Arriba, p 7 line 39.
	  9.	Thomas D. Martinez, San Juan De Los Caballeros Baptisms 1726-1870: baptism database of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe and the NM State Archives, Self published:  408-292-3012, p.60 or 63, Family History Library, 35 N. West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA.p. 63.Miguel Antonio (3days)Brito baptized 7/13/1856. Father:  Jose Leon Brito  Mother:Maria Buenaventura Vigil, vecinosde Embudo.  PGF:  Miguel Antonio Brito  PGM:Maria Ygnacia Varela.  MGF: Manuel Vigil  MGM: Maria Rosa Duran.  Padrino: Jose Maria del Rosario Mestas  Madrina:  Maria Dolores Roybal.
	  10.	US Census 1910, 1910 census index: NM, Heritage Quest from ProQuest, North Salt Lake, Utah 2001.FHL SLC book  p 77Miguel  50  m  w  NM  Rio Arriba  Embudo  916-3 p7A.
	  11.	US Census 1920.not in Embudo in 1920 census; his wife is listed as a widow.
	  12.	US Government, 1870 New Mexico Territorial Census Index, p411.Miguel Antonio Brito is listed there along with his father, Jose Leon Brito, and his father-in -law, Diego Romero.
	  13.	US Census 1890, NMT Rio Arriba County, Embudo 1st precinct p411.Miguel Brito, b Feb 1857 & wife Benigna, b Jan 1870.  Md 20 yrs; 10 children, 4 living.one, a nephew: Juan A. Montoya, b 1885.
	  14.	US Census 1910, NMT Census, Everyname Index, p14 .Embu RArb p7 line 29.
	  15.	extracted by Betty Pacheco, 718 Euclid, Pueblo, CO 81004, Picuris Baptisms:  Mission de San Lorenzo de Picuris Baptisms 1750-1867, p573, Family History Library, 35 N. West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA.This book is unindexed.  Hugh M. Bivens of the Genealogy Club of Albuquerque did an Index of Baptisms, but the grandparents and godparents are not included.

Third Generation

	4.	Josef Lion BRITO  was born1  on 20 Feb 1818 in Embudo, Rio Arriba, {New Mexico} Mexico. He was christened2  on 1 Mar 1818 in San Juan, Rio Arriba,{ New Mexico} Mexico. He died3  after 1865/1880 in New Mexico Territory or Colorado. He married4  Maria Buenaventura VIGIL on 28 Feb 1842 in Taos, Taos, {New Mexico} Mexico. 

His Children's birth certificates have him as Jose Leon Brito.  His own birth certificate says Josef Lion 
Brito--a diference in Gringo and Spanish clerks, I bet.  his mother's name is spelled Varella on his 
baptism papers.  The place he was born is in what is now NM but since NM was not a state until 1912, It 
actually was in the NM Territory, which was created in 1850 (US/Mexican War was 1846-1848)

 He and his son Miguel Antonio and other Britos are in the NM Territorial Censuses of 1850-1870 in 
Embudo 1st Precinct, Rio Arriba County (p4ll) 1870, and in San Miguel County, Bernal Borough p21, 
1860.

1850 Census shows Jose Brito, age 28 and his wife Maria,age 24 and their son Jose age 8 and 2 
daughters, Maria age 4 and Rafaela age 2.

1860 census shows Jose Brito, age 44 and his wife Ventura Vigil, age 32 and their children: Grabuel age 
16 and Rose age 13 and Rafaela age 11 and Juana age 7 and Ignacia age 5 and Miguel age 4 and 
Antonio age 2.

1870 census shows Jose Leon Brito age 50 and his wife Ventura age 40 and their children, Maria Rosa 
age 21 and Ignacia age 16 and Miguel Antonio age 14 and Franciso A. age 12 and Cruz age 7 and 
Lorenza age 4 and Juan De Jesus age 2.

Lusaweb's guestbook has Debora Martinez Brito,   http://tpino.netfirms.com/p... looking for
     Manuel Brito, b. 1 March 1900 and Maria Brito, whose grandfather's name was Antonio.

Try:  Spanish & Mexican Censuses of NM 1750-1830 compiled by Virginia Langham Olmstead, C.G.
          published by the New Mexico Genealogical Society.   San Juan 1816 census of Embudo.

see Albert Vidaurre--   vidaurre@kitcarson.net

Leroyolguin @msn.com  his GGmother was Maria dela Cruz Brito.
tcarlin@zialink.com  Robert Brito/Christella Garcia gedcom.
Abel Chavez  clan_9_chav@aol.com   Chavez, Trujillo, Valdez, Brito.
Maria C Martinez  Mariam @vanion.com

2001-- CJ Fielstra@cs.com is looking for the ancestors of 2 boys from the Tigua Indian Reservation in 
ElPaso TX.  Birth surname was Brito.  Ruben Garcia and his younger brother Raul Garcia.

	5.	Maria Buenaventura VIGIL  was born5  in 1808/1822 in {New Mexico}  Mexico. She died6  after 1880 in New Mexico Territory. 

did she marry a mr. Bejar also? or was that a name from her mothers ancestors?
  
San Antonio del Embudo was the original name of Embudo. The San Juan Valley is known now as the 
Espanola Valley--It is on the northern Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico between the 12,ooo ft Jemez 
Mountains to the west and the 13,000 ft Truchas Peaks to the east.  The Rio Grande, the Rio Chama, 
and the Santa Cruz Rivers all converge near the city of Espanola.  This is the valley that Juan de Onate 
settled upon as the site for his first settlement when he arrived in NM with his entourage of colonists and 
Indians in 1598 AD.   (Columbus= 1492)

  When Maria Buenaventura Vigil married, she was the only living daughter of JJMV & RMGD.

The 1870 census has her and her husband and 7 children and gives her age as 40.

 The 1880 census shows a mother, Ventura Vigil, age 60, and her daughter, Rosa, age 30.

	6.	Diego ROMERO  was born7,8  in Jan 1840 in {New Mexico}  Mexico. He died9  after Jun 1900/1921 in New Mexico. He married Maria Dolores GALLEGOS in 1860 in New Mexico. 

This person is probably not the son of Francisco and Marta.  Look at the birth dates of the children.  
Francisco may have been the grandfather or maybe the census taker got his age wrong.  Check the 
census again.

  THERE IS A  JUAN DIEGO ROMERO ID 12336 in David Leoanard Gallegos pedigree  dg3303@aol.
com  born abt 1736, md to Maria Dolores Gallegos, b. abt 1736 in Santa Ana Pueblo, Sandoval, NM; 
they were wd abt 1770 and had a son, Juan Jose Romero, b. abt 1775--sources:  New Mexico Marrriage-
-church in San Juan Pueblo 1726-1776, 1831-1835 and church in Santa Clara Pueblo 1726-1832 
Extracted by M. Eloise Arellano, p84, frame 114.  I THINK THIS IS HER!

    Check this out:  Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico by Frederick Hodge.  1904, 2 volumes, 
Govt Printing Office, WA DC. 
   
   Anasazi Indians became the Tewa, Tiwa, Towa, Tigua,  then the Pueblo.    San Juan Reservation.
The list of the founding Spanish families of New Mexico in 1598 included Romero but not Gallegos.  The 
research was done by AntonioGilberto Espinosa for the Coronado Cuarto Centennial Commission, 1939-
1940.  The information was given in New Mexico Blue Book, 1997-1998.

        Diego Romero is listed in the 1850 NM Territorial Census Index, on p44 and p181 and p207 in Rio 
Arriba County.
        The 1860 census has him on p.411(along with Jose Leon Brito and Miguel Antonio Brito) and p 359; 
there is a Dolores Gallegos on p30 and 81 and  85 and 86 and 88   
         He is listed in  the 1870 NM TCI on p387 and also on p412 in Embudo Precinct, Rio Arriba County 
and on p 470 in Santa Cruz  township, Rio Arriba County; there are also a lot of Diego Romeros in Mora 
County , La Cebolla and SantaGertrudes Prct in 1860 as well as one in Bernalillo County in 1850 on p44.    
Dolores Gallegos is listed in the 1870 TCI on p 694 in the Taos county RED WILLOW RESERVATION as 
well as 8 other places.

In the 1870 census he is given as age 35 and his wife Dolores is age 23.

 at www.familysearch.org, there is a Diego Antonio Romero, b. 7-31-1839  bap 7-7-1839, sonof Juan 
Antonio Romero and Maria dedla Luz Martin vecinos de Embudo;  PGF  Manuel Romero and Maria 
Ramona Torres; MGF Pedro Martin and Concepcion Lobato  Padrinos:  Juan Gabriel Montoya and 
Lorenza Lobato.  Lorraine Aguillar has this family in her paf5 files...

	7.	Maria Dolores GALLEGOS  "Doloritas" was born10  in 1847 in {New Mexico}  Mexico. She died11  before Jun 1900 in New Mexico Territory. She was buried in New Mexico Territory. 

The 1870 and the 1880 census have her listed as Dolores MARTINEZ, wife of Diego Romero and 
mother of all these children. Where did I get her as Dolores Gallegos? Check for her records in the 
Penasco Catholic Church!

David Leonard Gallegos <dg3303@aol.com>  has it.  his ID#12336  Only he has her b. in the 1700s.

   Her people--perhaps her mother--were Indians. Penasco is only a little ways from an Indian village 
called Picuris Pueblo.  Mike said his Indian ancestors lived on a reservation called Picuris.

The Picuri Indians were descended from the Anazazi and are Tanoan Indians.  The Tanoans are 
subdivided into three groups by the dialects they spoke:Tewa,Tiwa, and Towa.   The only Towa pueblo is 
Jemez.  The four Tiwa pueblos are Picuris, Sandia, and Taos.   The six Tewa pueblos are San Juan, San 
Lledefonso,Santa Clara,Tesuque, Pojoaque, and Nambe.  

Felice Vigil has Ma. Dolores Gallegos.  genforum.geneaology.com/gallegos    & David Gallegos?  CJ 
Gallegos?  Read all my notes for Romero and Gallego several generations up!

On Ancestry.com, entry 3304, ID 12336, David L. Gallegos of dg3303@aol.com has a Juan Diego 
Romero, b abt 1736 who md abt 1770 to his first wife,**** Maria Dolores Gallegos, who was b. abt 1736 
in Santa Ana Pueblo, Sandoval, NM.  They had a son, Juan Jose Romero, b. abt 1775.  Sources are 
given as:  New Mexico Marriages--Church in San Juan Pueblo 1726-1776, 1831-1835 and Church in 
Santa Clara Pueblo 1726-1832  Extracted by M. Eloise Arellano  page 84 frame 114.  I THINK THIS IS 
OUR FAMILY AND SOMEONE EXTRACTED IT IN THE WRONG CENTURY.  Maria Clara Martinez is a 
descendant of Juan Jose Romero.
      
In Ancestry World Tree Project:  Global Search,  by Myfamily.com and Ancestry.com, there is a 
***Maria Dolores Gallegos b abt 1736 in Santa Ana Pueblo, Sandoval, NM ( to Juan Roque Gallegos and 
Juana Silva II,) who md Juan Diego Romero.  She was dead by 1795 and the database was given as :
910388    There is another Mary Dolores Gallegos with the database given as justin and 3 spouses.  Two 
databases list her with spouse as Andres Martin-Serrano: t2151 and :420130 and mabr.  
  **** One database--tata--gives her as BORN 1 Nov 1827 in ABIQUIU, NM, NM, TO MIGUEL ANTONIO 
GALLEGOS  AND MARIA RUMALDA LUCERO DE GODOY; SPOUSE IS JOSE ALBINO BACA.  TATA  
also has a Maria Dolores Gallegos  b. 1818 whose parents are Pablo Antonio Gallegos and Maria 
Ascencion Sanches, who md Jose Rafael Martin.
   Another database--rjbaca--has her born 6 May 1841 to Manuel Gallegos and Maria Quiteria Garcia, md 
to Jose Torres.

Ancestry.com  Surnames:  Gallegos Family Genealogy Forum
***Gallegosfamily.com -- David Gallegos  www.cardinal montessori.com/gallegosfamily
Gllegos Web Page  --Jose Lorenzo Gallegos
?Rosalia Gallegos--Kathy Vigil
Lookups in Chavez's "Origins"
****Gallegos from Rio Arriba County NM--Linda & Robert Hawkins
****Ma. Dolores Gallegos--Felice Vigil & Tomas
Rafael Gallegos Taos NM  also Pablo & Jose Rafael Gallegos b. 1810  Pablo md Maria Dolores Martinez
 --Laura Gallegos   tomas: //tpino.netfirms.com/pino.htm
****Elena Gallegos (1892-1975) RioArriba NM --Kathy Martinez Klmtz@mailandnew.com
Gallegos in Albuquerque NM ---Cynthia Lucero Thompson

Genforum.genealogy.com/Gallegos 

In the NM Territorial Census Index, There are several Maria Dolores Romero's:  
                                     1850--p 123 and 167 in N Division township of Taos County;
                                     1860--p
                                     1870--p 560 in Arroyoseco township of Taos County; p39 in El Pueblo in
                                                 in San Miguel County; 

Also in the NM TCIndex are a lot of Maria Dolores Gallegos:
                                    1850--
                                    1860--p85, 88,  inCasa Colorado Village, Valencia County; p 313 in El Lano 
Precinct,                           
                                                Taos County; p636, 637 Fernando de Taos, Taos County; p30, Fernando 
                                                Prct, Taos County;           
                              *     1870- p39 in El Pueblo in San Miguel County;p845 in Gabaldones 16th Prct in
                                                 Valencia County;

Also in the NMTCIndex are a lot of Dolores Gallegos:

                                   1850--
                                   1860--p85 & 88 in Casa Colorado Village in Valencia County (plus several more in
                                                Valencia County); p313 in El Llano Precinct, Taos County; p 30 in Fernando
                                                Prct, Taos County;  p81 in Placita Delas Luceros, Taos County; p422 in                            
                                                La Cueva Precinct, Mora County; p 381 in San Antonio Prct, Mora County; 
                                                p30 in Fernando Prct in Taos County;
                               *   1870--p 694 in RED WILLOW RESERVATION, Taos County; p671 in Placita, Taos
                                               County;  p287 Lincoln County 3rd Precinct; P450 & 454 in ABIQUIU TOWN-
                                                SHIP, RIO ARRIBA COUNTY; p464 in Chama Abajo, Rio Arriba County; p 
30 
                                               in El Aquila Twp, San Miguel County; p39 in ElPueblo in San Miguel County;
                                               p 636 & 637 in Fernando De Taos, Taos County;

Sources

	  1.	US Government, 1870 New Mexico Territorial Census Index, p411.His son Jose Miguel Antonio Brito is also on this page, as is JMAB's fatherinlaw, Diego Romero.
	  2.	Thomas D. Martinez, San Juan De Los Caballeros Baptisms 1726-1870: baptism database of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe and the NM State Archives.
	  3.	Colorado:  Selected Marriages of San Agustin Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, Antonito CO 1860-1956, p47, Herb Trujillo.This file shows his dau, Maria dela Cruz Brito "from los Sauces CO" married in Nov 1878 in Antonito, Conejos, CO to a man from LaLoma CO.  Check the Colonial Brito chapter of BRITO BEGINNINGS for more info!.
	  4.	David Salazar and Bill Trujillo, Taos Marriages 1770-1860, Geneaology Society of Hispanic America--Southern CA branch, frame 1193.frame 1193.
	  5.	Maria C. Martinez, Some Descendants of Francisco Montes Vigil II, p 35.
	  6.	US Census 1880 NMT RioArriba Co , Chamita precinct p10&11 dist 26 .with her dau Rosa, could be in the Embudo census?.
	  7.	Antonio Gilberto Espinosa for the Coronado Cuarto Commission, 1939-1940., The list of the founding Spanish families of New Mexico in 1598., New Mexico Blue Book, 1997-1998.
	  8.	US Government, 1870 New Mexico Territorial Census Index, p411.The Brito family is also on this page.
	  9.	List of the Founding Families of Albuquerque.
	  10.	List of the Founding Families of Albuquerque.
	  11.	US Census  1900 Rio Arriba County NM, 22 June 1900, RA County,NM.

Fourth Generation

	8.	Miguel Antonio BRITO  was born in 1780 in {New Mexico}  Mexico. He died1  before Feb 1842 in {New Mexico}  Mexico. He married Maria Antonio Ygnacia BARELLA before 1807 in New Mexico. 

Sources: an old lady in Taos (Cirilia Tafoya) that Mike stayed with in 1946 when he was sick had the 
geneaology of 8 brothers named BRITO who came from Spain or Portugal to Mexico and then to the 
USA, possibly thru Tiajuana. 
    another story says the Britos came to Portugal and Spain from Breat Britain about the 10th century.  
They take the name from a land in the North of Portugal; they are one of the most ancient Portuguese 
families.
   I personally believe that they came from Portugal/Spain with the settlers of Hispaniola on Christopher 
Columbus' third voyage, but the records are probably in Madrid, Spain!

  SW History:  New Mexico has been Spanish since 1539.  In 1598, Juan Onate created the
 San Juan de los Cabaleros settlement near the Chama River.  However, from 1680 to 1692, the Indians 
ruled San Juan Pueblo & the spanish were gone.  In 1821, Mexico won its independence from Spain.   In 
1841, Texas took  all the land east of the Rio Grande; the Mexican War was from 1846 to 1848.  In 1850, 
NM became a territory.  In 1853, the Gadsden Purchase added the land south of the Gila River, between 
the Rio Grande and the Colorado River.  The Civil War was from 1861 to 1865; the confederate Texas 
army took Albuquerque to Santa Fe.  In 1862, they lost two battles SE of SantaFe and the land became 
USA again.  From 1862 to 1866, the Apache and Navahos were forced onto reservations.  NM became a 
state in 1912; CO became a state in 1876.

The Britos lived in the 4 corners area of TX/Mex/NM/AZ

Sources: all births are from San Juan de los Caballeros Baptisms by Thomas D. Martinez.

Sources: all marriages are from Taos Marriages by David Salazar.

BIRTH: ALL children's births are from San Juan de los Caballeros Baptisms by Thomas D. Martinez

There are Britos currently living in San Juan, New Mexico, and Santa Fe NM.  The Taos resource 
address is:  
                     www.rootsweb.com/~nmtaos/resource.htm   for queries.
*******************************************************************************

Notes from the Primeras Familias de Nuevo Mexico (Ernie Jaskolski, New Mexico Ancestor Chairman
or the NMGS,  POBox 8283, Albuquerque, NM 87198) say this: " Miguel Antonio Brito was born about 
1780.  He married Maria Ygnacia Varela Olivas about 1807.  Miguel Antonio Brito and his family are 
listed in the 1816 Embudo census.  Embudo is located about twenty miles northeast of Espanola.
Descendants of this family lived in Embudo, NM until 1963.  Reconquest certificate issued."

Karen Daniel, a certified genealogist, was retained in 2006 to verify the parents of Miguel Antonio Brito.  
She did not find them.
1-505-792-9696  kdantxgene@prodigy.net 

Since the Vigils lived in the Santa Cruz area, it is likely that the Britos came north with them.  Another 
possible ancestor is Ana Josefa Brito, from Santa Cruz, who someone told me, had an illigitimate son 
named Miguel Antonio Brito.  Mike's DNA shows that he is probably Martin-Serrano on the father's line.  I 
am having other Britos  get their DNA tested to see if they match....

Could he have been the son of Maria Juana Balvaneda Naranjo of the San Juan Pueblo, rin #1926 in the 
Colonial File, who married, first, to Jose Martin and second, to Juan Miguel Brito of SantaFe?

	9.	Maria Antonio Ygnacia BARELLA  was born2  in 1792 in New Mexico, Mexico. She died3  on 
26 Sep 1839 in San Lorenzo de Picuris, Rio Arriba, New Mexico. 

vital records-- birth of MAB, FAB,MDB, MGB, JLB.

Ancestry.com has more on her, 2 more husbands and 2 more sons.

	10.	Juan de Jesus Manuel Roman VIGIL 4  was born in Sep 1779 in Rio Chama, , NM. He was christened on 27 Sep 1779 in Santa Clara, , NM. He married Maria Rosa Guadalupe DURAN on 19 Dec 1803 in Taos, Taos, NM. 

Whoever did his daughter Antonia Teresa Vigil's temple work gave his name as Juan De Jesus Begil and 
his wife as Maria Rosa Duran.

	11.	Maria Rosa Guadalupe DURAN  was born5  about 1785 in NM. 

I bet there is a mormon working on this line!

	12.	Francisco ROMERO  was born6  in 1790 in , , New Mexico, USA. He married mrs. Francisco ROMERO about 1825 in , , New Mexico, USA. 

There are several Dolores Romero's in the New Mexico Census 1850 -1860- 1870. 
 They are in 1870-- Arroyoseco, Taos County, p560 ;  
                      1860-- Placita Delas Luceros, Taos County, p81;
                      1850-- N.Division, Taos County, p 123 & p 167,

I think Marta was Francisco's second wife due to the ages of the children; probably hers were Jose and 
Francisco.  They all are in the 1850 census in Rio Arriba County, NM.  The children's ages were given as:
  Maria 25; Tomasa 24; Francisca 22; Barbara 20; Pedro 18; Diego 16; Francisco 6; Jose 4.

There are several Dolores Romero's in the New Mexico Census 1850 -1860- 1870.
 They are in 1870-- Arroyoseco, Taos County, p560 ;
                      1860-- Placita Delas Luceros, Taos County, p81;
                      1850-- N.Division, Taos County, p 123 & p 167,

I think Marta was Francisco's second wife due to the ages of the children; probably hers were Jose and 
Francisco.  They all are in the 1850 census in Rio Arriba County, NM.

	13.	mrs. Francisco ROMERO  was born about 1810 in , , New Mexico, USA. She died before 1842 in , , New Mexico, USA. 

 Did she die having Diego?

  See Romero amd Gallegos notes on the Indians!
  Look up Picuris Indians on the Yahoo Search :  Good ones:   3  4   7   8  9   10  11  12   14  15  17  18  
20  23  24  28  31  33  39  40  42  44  48  53  60  62  64  65  66  68  77  85  89  94  128  137  139  140  
153  154  157  163  189  190  193  204  206  217  227  229  230  232  234  235  302  303  310  312  313  
314  315  332  339  340   347  355  361  363  368  380  
   
Pikuri Pueblo, PO Box 127, Penasco, NM 87553     (505) 587-2519  Tribal Sheriff:  Carl Tsosie;  
Governor:  Clarence Chili

The pueblo of the Anasazi that Coronado called the City of Gold, was west of Santa Fe and NE of 
OldParia by the Paria River in SE Utah/N Colorado.  "A great City, destroyed because the priests there 
had enslaved the world and tried to usurp the power of the sun itself...a slumbering evil which they dared 
not awaken."    The Anasazi roads were exactly 30 feet wide and surfaced with Adobe.  When the Great 
North Road was finally abandoned around 1250AD, it was ritually closed by burning brush on the road.
      Coronado heard of Quivira--the seven cities of gold--in 1540.    In 1776, two friars went westward 
from SantaFe with Pauite guides, who gave the above quote.         The Anasazi abandoned Chaco 

Canyon in 1150 & retreated to cliff fortresses in inaccessible SW canyons.  Quivira, the City of Priests, 
means The House of the Bloody Cliff.    from THUNDERHEAD by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, a 
novel.
          The Rain and Sun Priests of Xochitl guard the city.  WERE THE ANASAZI  TOLTECS?  
Rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson25.htm and WorldConnect.rootsweb.com/ has Ansazi info.     

Anasazi Lightning Stones are of a special luminencent quartz with spiral carvings in them.  One book 
said the spirals warn of evil/danger/death.

	14.	GALLEGOS  was born about 1800. He married Picuri INDIAN. 

     http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~uribe/index/ind0029.htm/  There is a Juan Diego Romero, 
ID12336, born about 1736, md abt 1770 to Maria Dolores Gallegos born abt 1736 in Santa Ana Pueblo, 
Sandoval, NM---they had a child, Juan Jose Romero, born abt 1775.  Sources:  New Mexico Marriages--
Church in San Juan Publeo 1726-1776, 1831-1835 and Church in Santa Clara Pueblo 1726-1832 
Extracted by M. Eloise Arellano page 84, Frame 114.   Maria Clara Martinez is a descendant of Juan 
Jose Romero.
        Maria Dolores Gallegos, same dates, dead by 1795, father was: Juan Roque Gallegos; mother was  
Juana Silva II; spouse was same--Juan Diego Romero.  Submitted same place (world family tree, global 
search) by  :910388.  
       There is another MDG--no dates or people-- submitted by  justin  and  also one with the spouse 
Andres Martin-Serrano, submitted by t2151 and :420130 and mabr       
       ****** Another  Maria Dolores Gallegos, b. 1 Nov 1827 in Abiquiu, NM & died 9 Jan 1904 in 
LasVegas, SanMiguel, NM; father Miguel Antonio Gallegos and mother Maria Rumalda Lucero deGodoy; 
spouse Jose Albino Baca, was submitted by tata and might be ours or a cousin of ours.
        Another Maria Dolores Gallegos was submitted by tata,  born 1818, father Pablo Antonio Gallegos, 
mother Maria Ascencion Sanches; spouse Jose Rafael Martin.
        rjbaca submitted a Maria Dolores Gallegos born 6 May 1841, father Manuel Gallegos and mother 
Maria Quiteria Garcia, spouse Jose Torres. 

I think this is ours and they were born in the 1800's.  Check out the source and email the submitter,
             David Leonard Gallegos  dg3303@aol.com

	15.	Picuri INDIAN  was born about 1800. 

Sources

	  1.	AASF, #37 and #38.Karen Daniel searched the death records of San Juan de los Caballeros in San Juan Puebla, Rio Arriba county--1817 thru 1843, with no results; since  no other death records for this time period have been filmed for parishes in Rio Arriba County, she suggested we look in Taos or Santa Fe.
	  2.	V. L. Olmsted, G.G., Spanish and Mexican Censuses of 1750 to 1830, 1816 Census of Embudo/p148.
	  3.	Other Researchers' Records .Carma Owens genigal62@charter.netSan Lorenzo de Picuris is next to Penasco and near Ojo Sarco. Its been abreviated toPicuris, NM.
	  4.	Maria C. Martinez, Some Descendants of Francisco Montes Vigil II.
	  5.	List of the Founding Families of Albuquerque.
	  6.	Antonio Gilberto Espinosa for the Coronado Cuarto Commission, 1939-1940., The list of the founding Spanish families of New Mexico in 1598.

Fifth Generation

	16.	Juan Jose Migel BRITO  was born1  in 1760 in Mexico. He died  in Mexico. He married2  Maria Casilda DURAN on 15 Sep 1774 in SanFrancisco de Asis Cathedral, SantaFe,  NM. 

Karen Daniel, <kdantxgene@prodigy.net> researched this and does not believe he & Casilda are
the parents of our Miguel Antonio Brito.

BUT!  did he marry Maria Juana Balvaneda Naranjo, rin # 1926 in the Colonial file?

 In the IGI--there are a LOT of Mexican 1700 & 1800's Migel Britos.  I got to #36.

possible child per Maria Clara Martinez.  Was he the grandson of Maria Magdalena Brito de Leon?    

  "Brito" is an old village in Portugal. 
   The dictionary says it  means of Celt origin and that Briton means a member of one of the peoples 
inhabiting Britain prio to the Anglo-Saxon invasion.

Heritage: 
    Mexico was "New Spain" (Nuevo Espana) from 1519 until 1821.  Cortez entered North America in 
1519.  Coronado go here in 1540.  Onate explored in 1598 to 1680.  Vargas explored in 1692  to 1696.
    Albuquerque was established in 1706.  In the 1740's, French trappers and traders arrived.  The war of 
1811 ended with Mexico's independence in 1821.  There was no slavery in Mexico after 1829.  The war 
between Mexico and the USA was from 1846 to 1848.  The USA got everything east of the Rio Grande 
River; in 1853, the USA bought the land west of the Rio Grand (Gladston Purchase) which included what 
became Conejos County, Colorado.
     In 1846, this area became known as New Mexico Territory.  Rio Arriba County waas also established 
then.  It means "over the river."  New Mexico became a state in 1912.
     The  New Mexico Blue Book by Antonio Gilbert Espinosa (1998) includes the surname Brito in the 
Founding Families of New Mexico.
     In Origins of NM Families, there is an Agustin Brito who was born in 1650 in Mexico City--
a Native American.  Also a Diego Brito who was born in 1730.

           Was the Nicanor Brito who went to Ecuador, Miguel's son or his brother? father?  A List of the 
founding Spanish families of New Mexico in 1598 includes Brito,but not Casilda.See the New Mexico 
Blue Book 1997-1998.  The research was done by Antonio Gilbert Espinoza for the Coronado Cuarto 
Centennial Commission, 1939-1940.

Virginia Langham, & C,G.Olmstead compiled the Spanish & Mexican Censuses of NM  1750-1830; 
published by the NM Geneaological Society.
Try Albert Vidaurre----  vidaurre@kitcarson.net

In the 1870 NM Territorial Census Index, Rio Arriba County, Embudo 1st district,  p411, were Jose Leon 
Brito, Juan De Jesus Brito, Lorenzo Brito, Maria Rosa Brito, Miguel Antonio Brito, and Ventiroa Brito.

In the 1860 NM Territorial Census Index , San Miguel County, Bernal Borough, p 21, were Bruno Brito, 
Casmiro Brito, and several other Britos.

There are several pages (p84-89) of Britos in Tom Martinez' Santa Fe Baptisms.

Fray Angelica Chavez states that one early Brito had property in the barrio Analco of Santa Fe.
See Origins of New Mexico Families for a little info on the early Britos.

Liova Juarez  liova@qwest.net  4th ggmother was Maria Gertrudis Brito, b. 1789.  (IGI has this family) 

MGB's parents were  Jose Amador Brito b 1750 in SantaFe, NM and Maria Catarina Garcia-Padilla
 b 1756.

	17.	Maria Casilda DURAN  was born in 1760 in Mexico. She died on 11 Feb 1781 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She was buried3  in St Francis of Assisi Parish, Santa Fe, NM. 

Karen Daniel could find no evidence that Casilda is our ancestor.  There were no other children recorded 
in the parish of St. Francis, Santa Fe before Casilda died.  She did not find them in Santa Cruz,
Pojoaque, San Ildefonso, or Nambe in Santa Fe county, either.

	18.	BARELLA OR VARELLA  was born4  about 1760. He married LUJAN in 1775 in New Mexico. 

The dna people say that the surname Varella is of western European origin (Basques/Celts).  
Varela is on the list of the founding Spanish families of New Mexico in 1598 (research was done by 
Antonio Gilberto Espinosa for the Coronado Curato Centennial Commission 1939-1940; listed in New 
Mexico Blue Book 1997-1998.)

	19.	LUJAN .

	20.	Francisco Tomas VIGIL  was born in Sep 1758 in Chama, , NM. He was christened on 20 Sep 1758 in San Juan Mission, , NM. He died in May 1827 in Rio de Chama, , NM. He was buried on 19 May 1827 in Rio de Chama, , NM. He married Antonia Teresa MARTIN-SERRANO on 30 Nov 1778 in Abiquiu, Rio Arriba , NM. 

	21.	Antonia Teresa MARTIN-SERRANO  was born in 1760 in New Mexico. She died . 

The list of the founding Spanish families of New Mexico in 1598 included the surnames Martin and 
Serrano, but not Vigil, because the Vigil family arrived in NM in 1695.

	22.	Manuel DURAN  was born5  about 1600 in New Mexico. He married Gerarda MASCARENAS. 

The list of the founding  Spanish families of New Mexico in 1958 includes the surname Duran, but not 
Mascarenas.  The research, done by Antonio Gilberto Espinosa for the Coronado Cuarto Centennial 
Commission, 1939-1940, is listed in the New Mexico Blue Book 1997-1998.

	23.	Gerarda MASCARENAS  was born about 1600 in New Mexico. 

	24.	ROMERO  was born about 1725 in , , New Mexico, USA. 

Maria C. Martinez   mariam@vanion.com has a Juan Diego Romero b. abt 1741
                                married 1) Maria Dolores Gallegos who died in 1795.  Children were: 
                                                    (her ancestor)  Juan Jose Romero, who md. Maria Ynacia Solano
                                married 2) Gertrudis Padilla.  Children were: Maria Rafaela; ANTONIO; Juan Felipe,                 
                                                    Jose Alejandro, Juan Andres, Ysabel, and Rosalia.

The Romeros were Native american.  Either Navaho or Tigua.  There is a Tigua tribe reservation in 
ElPaso TX that has Britos living there.

	28.	GALLEGOS  was born about 1775. 

 Try:  David Gallegos 2803 Park Center Dr, Alexandria VA   david@gallegosfamily.com
        Jesse@thegallegosfamily.com  (208) 724 1151  2267 N 21st st  Boise ID 83702

The dna people say that the surname Gallegos originated in NW Europe--Nordic.  Visigoths.

Diego Romero & Dolores Gallegos of Embudo,  mid-to-late 1700's are in Maria Clara Martinez' database.  
Also try GallegosFamily.com and Chavez's Origins.

Colorado people: Robert Gallegos, Connie Eres, Ilene Gallegos Miers, C. Eres, Mike McKeever, Mary 
Ann Chavez, Chuck Gallegos, Joseph Gallegos, Nanilli Gallegos, and ernie.  Also Alberto Vidaurre.  
Kathy Vigil wants Rosalia Gallegos.  Linda Hawkins.

Stuff I copied.  Probably belongs somewhere else.:
It is believed this distinct blend of Native American began evolving from 12,000 to 30,000 years ago, 
when many bands of prehistoric Indians wandered across New Mexico, some possibly from across the 
Bering Strait.  Some of these wanderers became farmers and began this region's firs agrarian 
communities.  Today, descendants of these nomads belong to as many as 22 distinct pueblos and tribes, 
each of which maintains separate, sovereign governments and strives to carry on ancient traditions.

It is widely held by contemporary anthropologists that the Hopi and Rio Grande Pueblo people 
descended from the Ancestral Pueblo culture, which built the giant stone structures at Chaco Canyon.  
Today, the Pueblos are classified into three language groups:  the Zunis, the Keres, and the Tanoans.   
Zuni people only speak Zuni, while the Keres speakers include the pueblos of Acoma, Cochiti, Laguna, 
San Felipe, Santa Ana, Santo Domingo and Zia.

The Tanoans are divided into three subcategories:  Tewa, Tiwa, and Towa.  Tewa-speaking pueblos are 
Nambe, Pojoaque, SanIldefonso, Santa Clara, San Juan an Tesuque.  Tiwa-speaking pueblos are Isleta, 
Picuris, Sandia, and Taos.  The only Towa-speaking pueblo is Jemez.

New Mexico's Apache and Navajo people, who are historically nomadic, belong to the Athapascan group.  
Both tribes migrated here about the time of Spanish exploration in the 1500s.  The Pueblo people taught 
farming to the Navajos, who also learned  about sheep herding and ranching, which were introduced to 
the Southwest by the Spanish.                     -----New Mexico Magazine:  Native Americans.
                                                                                   www.nmmagazine.com

Between 1696 and 1706, Picuris Indians joined the nomadic Apache Indians on the High Plains of 
western Kansas.  The Cuartelejo Apaches enslaved the Picuris natives.  www.yourtruehero.org/content/
hero/view--hero.asp?5123

On the Rivera side of Marge Franco's ancestry, this is of note:  Francisco Rendon and his mother, Maria 
Madrid, were kidnapped and held captive by the Picuris Pueblo Indians from 1681 through 1692 and 
freed during the Vargas Forces at San Juan.  Francisco took the name Rendon after the Priest Rendon.--
from Origins of NM Families by Chavez p165 and 386.  The book is available from the HGRC of NM:  
www.hgrc-nm.org/  They have a book list as well as the "Great New Mexico Data Base."

Indians from Picuris with Spaniards in 1680 to the village of Cieneguilla:  www.futurechild.org/tubes.PDF           
http://schools.sisd.net/mom/native.amer.html

Picuris:  Pi'-kee-e-wai-i-ne  Ancestry World Tree Project from ancestry.com
www.cnie.org               Ancestry.com--New Mexico Census 1850-1870
     Joseph Rael, whos Picuris Pueblo Indian sacred name translates to Beautiful... www.thinkingallowed.
com/iwr-s.html

Picuris Pueblo (village) population is about 200 people.  No missionary  work is allowed as their ancient 
stories say that if they give up their religion, the world will come to an end.

The Picuris Pueblo Indian pueblo was built 1250-1300AD     www.maintour.com/newmexico/nmtaos.htm

Books:  Handbook of American Indians, vol 9       Indian Tales from Picuris Pueblo;
                      Picuris Pueblo Through Time:  8 Centuries
                           www.picurispueblo.com/pages/history.html
                      Coronado and the City of Gold             Thunderhead by Preston&Child

	  1.	Antonio Gilberto Espinosa for the Coronado Cuarto Commission, 1939-1940., The list of the founding Spanish families of New Mexico in 1598.
	  2.	Windham & Baca, SanFrancisco De Asis, Santa Fe County, NM 1728-1791, NMGS, batch #M506521.
	  3.	Burials 1780-1800 Parish of Saint Francis of Assisi, Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, NM, Archives of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe (AASF), Santa Fe, Microfilm #40, frame 304. wife of Juan Miguel Brito; her parents names are not given.
	  4.	Antonio Gilberto Espinosa for the Coronado Cuarto Commission, 1939-1940., The list of the founding Spanish families of New Mexico in 1598.
	  5.	Antonio Gilberto Espinosa for the Coronado Cuarto Commission, 1939-1940., The list of the founding Spanish families of New Mexico in 1598.

Sixth Generation

	32.	BRITO  was born about 1740 in Mexico. He died  in Mexico. He was married in Portugal or Spain. 

according to the dna people, this male Brito line is of Western European:  Basques/Celts [ie Iberian 
(Portugueze/Spanish)] origin.
I need to check the 1700's ship lists into Mexico from P/S! 

 The San Juan Valley is known now as the Espanola Valley.  It is in the northern Rio Grand Valley of 
New Mexico between the 12,000 ft Jemez Mountains to the west and the 13,000 ft Truchas Peaks to the 
east.  The Rio Grande, Rio Chama, and the Santa Cruz Rivers all converge near the city of Espanola.  
This is the valley that Juan de Onate settled upon as the site for his first settlement when he arrived in 
New Mexico with his entourage of colonists and Indians in 1598 AD.

The New Mexico Blue Book by Antonio Gilbert Espinosa, 1998, includes Brito in the Founding Families 
of New Mexico in 1598.  Perhaps this was where the Nicanor Brito of Ecuador comes in?  There was an 
Augustin Brito who was born in 1650 and a Diego Brito who was born in 1730 in the book, ORIGINS OF 
NEW MEXICO FAMILIES

Frankie C. Brito, of Canutillo TX, is researching the same line that Joe Brito is.  Frankie's aunt in Las 
Cruces NM is Modesta Brito Ferralez.  Frankie's father is Lucio Ferralez Brito; his Grandfather was 
Elzandro Ferralez Brito; his gr gr father was a Spanish immigrant and had 2 other brothers who came 
from Spain and stayed in Mexico.  Las Cruces is in Don Ana County near ElPaso TX and also near 
Ciudad Juarez in Old Mexico.  frbrito@nmsu.edu

There was a Frank Brito in Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders.  An article on the website Spanamwar.
com/Nmsix.html tells his story and has a photo that resembles Augustin Brito! 
    Frank and his brother Jose left Pinos Altos Cattle Ranch in 1898 and joined the Rough Riders. Jose 
was killed in the Phillipine war. Their father, Santiago Brito " was a Yaqui Indian mine owner."  Frank died 
at age 97 in Las Cruces in 1973, Frank's son (by his second wife), Santiago Baca of Las Cruces, was 
age 86 when a newspaper article was written about him.  

Try: V. Albert de Brito of LA CA Vabrito@aol.com
      LeRoy Olguin , lives in Dallas, born & raised in Durango CO ggmother was Maria dela Cruz Brito.             
Leroyolguin@msn.com

Joe Brito of Moses Lake says, in the late 1700's 3 brothers came to America from Portugal or Spain, or 
maybe from Britain?  One settled in Mexico City; one in Chihuahua, Mexico, and one went north to what 
is now New Mexico.  His ancestor was the one who settled in Chihuahua, and Joe's father was born 
there.  Joe's father was Alajandro Brito; his mother, also born in Chihuahua, was Isidra Ferrnandez.    He 
never knew her people, but Joe's father's father was Sacramento Brito, md to Modesta Navarrete.   It 
was Sacramento's father that was a cousin of Mike's grandfather.     NONE OF THESE BRITOS OR 
THEIR WIVES ARE LISTED IN 'SIERRO, SPAIN, TO "LACULEBRA"  which is the book by Ma. Clara 
Martinez that lists Josef Leon Brito, who married into the Vigil family that Clara is researching.  Perhaps 
they are in one of her other books?  Ask her.  719-672-3371 or mariam@vanion.com

There is a Sacramento Brito, born 1885 in Santa Cruz, Rosales, Chihuahua, Mexico, who married 1880, 
same place, to Modesta Navarrette. [this record was submitted  by a member of the LDS Church after 
1991 to request temple ordinances, which were done in 1995 in the St. George Utah temple:  baptized 
21 July 1995; endowed 23 Oct 1998; sealed to spouse 29 April 1998.]

Joe Brito's wife, Olga, said that her daughter, Yolanda Vanisioy, 1981 W. Huntzinger, Selah WA 98942,  
1-509-697-7695 has researched the history of the Brito clan from Las Cruces NM to Mexico City back to 
Portugal.  Olga's people are from Guadalajara Mexico.

Olivia Garcia Moore, 1-509-443-6938 (Mrs Tyler Moore)  2524 E 53rd Ave  Spokane WA 99223--her 
mother lives in Taos Pueblo and has the same books I have, and ties in on a collateral line.

There are no Britos in tila@qwest.net geneaology.

Looks like maybe Augustin Brito, b. 1650, had a son in 1675, who had a son in 1700, who had a Diego 
Brito in 1720. who had a son Antonio Joseph Juan Brito in 1750, who may have been our missing link to 
MAB...  Maybe.

Nicanor Brito went to Ecudor.  Who was he?

	40.	Francisco Montes VIGIL III 1  was born about 1728 in Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, NM. He died on 6 Feb 1795 in Santa Clara, , NM. He married Maria deJesus MESTAS on 12 May 1748 in Santa Cruz, , NM. 

Whoever did his daughter Petra Vigil's temple work ( and his son Jose Joaquin Vigil's) gave his name as 
Francisco MONTES VIGIL DE SANTILLANA.

	41.	Maria deJesus MESTAS  was born in May 1733 in New Mexico. She was christened on 24 May 1733 in Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, NM. She died on 15 Mar 1771 in Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, NM. 

Whoever did her temple work listed her name as Maria De Jesus MESTAS DEL CASTILLO
Her children's temple work give her as Maria Jesus MESTAS

	42.	SERRANO .

	48.	ROMERO  was born about 1700. 

The Romeros were in SantaFe NM in 1689.Try Ronald Ledet  ronl3991@aol.com

according to the dna people, the surname romero is either native american or spanish.

	56.	GALLEGOS  was born about 1750. 

Sources

	  1.	letter from Marsha Snelling of ElCajon, CA.

Seventh Generation

	80.	Francisco Montes VIGIL II  was born1  in 1702 in Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, NM. He died before 1777 in Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, NM. He married Antonia Ribera JIRON DEL CASTILLO in 1720 in Santa Cruz, , NM. 

He had 23 children of his 2 marriages, and many Indian servants.  The family appears in the 1750 
census of  Santa Cruz, NM.  He recieved the Las Truchas Grant of land in Rio Arriba in 1742.

Another source says that FMII got the Alameda land grant of 106,000 acres--included was the TIWA 
Indian Pueblo.  He sold it to the mayor of Alcalde for 200 pesos.
Whoever did his daughter Antonia Gertrudis Vigil's temple work said his last name was Vigil DE 
SANTILLANA

	81.	Antonia Ribera JIRON DEL CASTILLO  was born in 1700 in Santa Cruz, , NM. She died on 3 Jul 1743 in Santa Cruz, , NM. 

Someone put her name in the temple records as Antonia Del Castillo JIRON

	82.	Juan Manuel MESTAS  was born about 1715 in New Mexico. He married Fransica MARTIN. 

	83.	Fransica MARTIN  was born2  about 1718 in New Mexico. 

	112.	GALLEGOS  was born about 1725. 

  Casey June Castleberry de Gallegos:  dallas1fem@hotmail.com
           There was a Spanish Soldier, who lived (by military order) near Albuquerque named Joseph 
Gallegos who married Maria Leocadia Candelaria. They both were born about 1740 in NM.  They both 
probably died after 1777.   They had 6 childrenBirthdates are listed in above net address:   Antonio 
Joseph Gallegos; Manuel deJesus Gallegos; Joseph deJesus Gallegos; Maria Jasinta Gallegos; Felipe 
de Jesus Gallegos, ***Maria Manual deJesus Gallegos b  abt 30 march,1777 near Albuquerque, NM 
THE SPIRIT SAYS TO CHECK THIS ONE OUT.***
 Joseph and Maria Leocadia's son, Philipe de Jesus Gallegos--also known as Felipe De Jesus Gallegos-- 
married  Maria BuenaVentura de Herrera, who was born in NM and died before Nov 1860 in Penasco, 
Taos County, NM.  They had 4 children, one of whom was Maria Dolores Gallegos, b. abt 1829 in NM  
and died before 1864 in Penasco, NM        NOT OURS; OURS WAS BORN IN 1866  was she a cousin ?
        Maria DoloresGallegos, the dau of Felipe and  M. Buenaventura,  married Jesus Duran  and they 
had two children:  Patrico Duran, b. abt 1853 and Julian Duran, b. abt 1854.  Maria Dolores apparently 
died at or after childbirth, because per Penasco Catholic Church Records and reference to St. Lorenzo 
de Pecuris, Jesus Duran is a a widower, second marriage 4 Jan 1864 to Maria de Luz Reyes, widow of 
Juan n. Sanchez.

Further proof of relatedness is that Felipe and M. BV's son Juan Pablos, b. abt 1833 in Taos county, NM--
who md MariaIgnasia Lovato--had ten kids and one was named Miguel Antonio Gallegos, who was b. abt 
April 1859 in NM

Also, another one of Juan Pablo's  sons--Vidal-- had a child named Amador Gallegos, b. abt May 10, 
1891.  OUR AMADOR ROMERO, SON OF MARIA DOLORES GALLEGOS AND DIEGO ROMERO, 
WAS  BORN ABT 1870.

Sources

	  1.	Charles Chapman, New Mexico Generations.
	  2.	Antonio Gilberto Espinosa for the Coronado Cuarto Commission, 1939-1940., The list of the founding Spanish families of New Mexico in 1598.

Eighth Generation

	160.	Francisco Montes VIGIL I  was born about 1665 in Zacatecus, Santa Domingo, Mexico. He died on 11 Sep 1731 in Santa Cruz, , NM. He married Maria JIMENES Y ANCISCO in 1683 in Zacatecus, Santo Domingo, Mexico. 

While a definite link has not been made, all indications are that the first Vigil in New Mexico, Francisco 
Montes Vigil I, is a descendant and part of the genealogy obtained by Charle Martinez y Vigil and 
Marietta Nason Gonzales  Who traveled to Spain in the year 2000, 402 years after Juan de Onate first 
came to New Mexico.  (MCMartinez book)

He had curly chestnut colored hair.
Another family member was a freed slave--who came in 1695 with the Diego Camarillo family in the Paez 
Hurtado expedition.  He was a half breed & probably not a blood relative of this family.  His name was 
 Juan Eugenio Montes Vigil; born abt 1680 in Mexico.  He was baptized 20 March 1689 in Zacatecas and 
was listed as a mullato.   ----ahhhh. but remember, JMVigilII came from Spain to Mexico, traveling thru 
Mexico City on this way to Zacatecus.....Maybe Juan was one of his grandchildren?
  This whole family moved to Santa Cruz NM with the Juan Paez Hurtado expedition.  The 2 oldest girls & 
oldest boy are listed.  It took 4 months to go from Zacatecus to Santa Cruz  (feb to may) in 1695.

The notes returned with the Primeras Familias de Nuevo Mexico application from Ernie Jaskolsi, NM 
Ancestor Chairman, say this:
"Francisco Montes Vigil I and his wife, Maria Jimenes y Ancisco, and their children came to New Mexico 
with the Juan Paez Expedition of 1695.  He was described in the muster roll as thirty, an able-bodied 
Spanish native of Zacatecas, Mexico with somewhat curly chestnut hair, and a scar on the left side of 
his face below the eye.  His wife was also a Spaniard and a native of Zacatecas. Reconquest certificate 
issued." (I had asked for a Onate Period certificate, but the Vigils did not come to NM  in the 1598-1680 
time period.)

	161.	Maria JIMENES Y ANCISCO  was born1  about 1670 in Mexico. She died in Nov 1745 in Santa Cruz, , NM. She was buried on 19 Nov 1745 in Santa Cruz, , NM. 

She was a spanish "espanola"

	162.	Diego de los Reyes JIRON DE TEJEDA II 2  was born3  about 1650 in Mexico City, Mexico. He married Maria Leyva DE MENDOZA about 1680 in Mexico City, Mexico. 

He was a weaver.      He came to NM with the Velasco Colonists when he was 26 years old.

	163.	Maria Leyva DE MENDOZA  was born4  about 1650 in Mexico City, Mexico. 

She came to NM with the Velasco Colonists when she was 22 years old.

	164.	Juan Mestas PERALTA  was born about 1795 in New Mexico. He married Maria TRUJILLO. 

	165.	Maria TRUJILLO  was born5  about 1700 in New Mexico. 

	224.	GALLEGOS  was born about 1700. 

According to the dna people, the surname Gallegos is nordic.
      The Gallegos came from Galicia (France) to Ireland--Gallowglass-and to Espana, and to 
NuevaEspanola.  A Gallegos was setting up trade in NE Mew Mexico before Jamestown was settled.  
The number of Gallegos men who served this country with honor from the earliest beginnings of Nueva 
Espanola is staggering.  Colateral lines are Medina, Lobato, Romero, Martinez, Munis, Meira, Duran, 
Sandoval, deHerrera. --Casey Gallegos.  
  Diego son of Terrazas:  sephardim Jew of Espana.  his greatgrandson, Luis Gallegos de Terrasas; his 
grandsons, Jose Gallegos and Antonio Gallegos; his son Diego Gallegos.

    David  Gallegos   dg3303@aol.com  traces his geneaology back to the 1600's and beyond to Parrel, 
Mexico.  Jose Lorenzo Gallegos   hometown.aol.com/josegallegos/josegallegos/rr_toc.htm   is a 
homepage that has most of the early Gallegos from the Bernalillo, Albuquerque, and Isleta area, starting 
with the first Gallegos and their descendants.
    Genforum.genealogy.com/gallegos/all.htm has a lot of info.  also see Genealogy.com--Gallegos 
Edition.   Felice Vigil, Linda Hawkins, Kathy Martinez,  Lisa Baxter Velasquez,  Nora, and Cynthia Lucero 
Thompson are looking for people in our line.

Sources

	  1.	Dr. Rick Hendricks, PHD, and John B. Colligan, HERENCIA, The Quarterly Journal of Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico, 12 Jan 2001, vol 4 issue 2, Apr 1996.
	  2.	Origins of New Mexico Families.a little information on the early BRITOs.
	  3.	Origins of New Mexico Families.
	  4.	Origins of New Mexico Families.
	  5.	List of the Founding Families of Albuquerque.

Ninth Generation

	320.	Juan Montes VIGIL III  was born about 1620 in Mexico City, Mexico. He died about 1683 in Zacatecus, Santo Domingo, Mexico. He married a single LADY not md. 

Juan Montes Vigil III was a Criolla--a Spaniard born in Mexico--who was a pawn broker and quite 
wealthy.  He never married Francisco's mother; his will placed 16yr old Francisco and a 2 year old 
orphan child that was being raised by Juan and Juan's sister Catalina, wife of NDC, in the care of his 
uncle, Nicholas Dias Caballero.  He also willed 100 pesos to the widow of Pedro de Lezamas.....

	321.	a single LADY .

check this out:  The widow of Pedro Lezamas?

322.  Diego de los Reyes JIRON DE TEJEDA II  is printed as #162 on page 20.

323.  Maria Leyva DE MENDOZA  is printed as #163 on page 20.

	324.	Diego Jiron DE TEJEDA  was born about 1630 in Mexico City, Mexico. He married Maria Zuniga ZUNIGA Y CERVANTES. 

	325.	Maria Zuniga ZUNIGA Y CERVANTES  was born about 1630 in Mexico City, , Mexico. 

	330.	Juan TRUJILLO  was born1  about 1680 in New Mexico. He married Elvira Jimenez SANCHEZ. 

	331.	Elvira Jimenez SANCHEZ  was born2  about 1685 in New Mexico. 

Sources

	  1.	Antonio Gilberto Espinosa for the Coronado Cuarto Commission, 1939-1940., The list of the founding Spanish families of New Mexico in 1598.
	  2.	Antonio Gilberto Espinosa for the Coronado Cuarto Commission, 1939-1940., The list of the founding Spanish families of New Mexico in 1598.

Tenth Generation

	640.	Juan Montes VIGIL II  was born in 1600 in La Feligresia De, SMD, , Spain. He died before 1682 in Mexico City, Mexico. He married1  Catalina HERRERA DE CANTILLANA on 21 Jul 1619 in Zacatecus, Santo Domingo, Mexico. 

Juan was tall and white.  He was a hijodalgo, untitled royalty, a direct and legitimate descendant of the 
Manor House of Vigil, one of the most ancient and noteworthy of the Consejo de Siero.  (MCMartinez 
book)
  His uncle, Bartolome Vigil, submitted a request to let Juan leave Spain for the new world. At the time,  
Juan was only a teenager.    Juan lived for a short time in Mexico City and then made his way north to 
the Real de Zacatecas--founded  on 8 Sept 1546 by Juan de Tolosa--.  About 1590, Zacatecus became 
a city & was then called Cuidad Real.
  The Indians living around Zacatecus (very scientific folk) were the tribes of:  Chichimecas. Zacatecos, 
Guachichiles, Pames, and Tepehuanes.
   Zacatecas, like Mexico Ciy, was a frontier town.  The people were Indian natives, black african slaves, 
and European colonizers.  The Indians worked the mines.

a list of the founding Spanish families of New Mexico in 1598 ( research done in 1939-1940 by Antonio 
Gilberto Espinosa for the Coronado Cuarto Centennial Commission, 1939-40, and listed in New Mexico 
Blue Book 1997-1998) did not have the surname VIGIL because the Vigil family came to NM in 1695.

	641.	Catalina HERRERA DE CANTILLANA  was born in 1600 in Spain. She died before 1682 in Mexico City, Mexico. 

The list of the founding Spanish families of New Mexico in 1598 included the surname Herrera.  The 
research was done  by Antonio Gilberto Espinosa for the Coronado Cuarto Centennial Commissio, 1939-
1940.  The information is listed in the |New Mexico Blue Book 1997-1998.

644.  Diego Jiron DE TEJEDA  is printed as #324 on page 22.

645.  Maria Zuniga ZUNIGA Y CERVANTES  is printed as #325 on page 22.

Sources

	  1.	Records of the Parish of Santo Domingo in Zacatecas, LDS Family History Library , film #0283371.

Eleventh Generation

	1280.	Juan Montes VIGIL I  was born about 1580 in Siero, , Spain. He died before 1611. He married Maria DE VIGIL. 

Juan Montes Vigil I was untitled nobility (a hijodalgo) by lineage.  They were not necessarily wealthy, 
usually tradespeople or poorer, but they got special places in church & their debts could not be collected 
by seizure of home or personal property, and they were immune from royal taxes.

	1281.	Maria DE VIGIL  was born about 1580. She died before 1611. 

Twelfth Generation

	2560.	Lucas DE VIGIL  was born1  in 1560 in Siero, , Spain. He died before 1650 in Spain. He married Isabel DE VIGIL. 

Maria C Martinez is writing descendant chart books on each of Lucas & Isabel's children. In 2000 she 
finished the book on the 3rd son.  She was born in 1942.  She sells her books for $60 each.  Marie has a 
copy of her book "Siero, Spain, to 'LaCulebra'--Some descendants of Francisco Montes Vigil II, 3rd 
edition.  Lorraine Aguilar has a different book.  Mariam@vanion.com  
    Ma. Clara Martinez, Box 387, San Pablo, CO 81153

	2561.	Isabel DE VIGIL  was born in 1560 in Siero, , Spain. She died before 1650 in Spain. 

	2562.	Francisco DSM VIGIL .Francisco married Catalina DE ARGUELLES. 

	2563.	Catalina DE ARGUELLES .

Sources

	  1.	Dr. Rick Hendricks, PHD, and John B. Colligan, HERENCIA, The Quarterly Journal of Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico.

Thirteenth Generation

	5120.	Torbio DE VIGIL  was born in maybe. 

 pv of MMartinez book:  "The Vigil surname did not begin in Spain.  It was an ancient name with roots in 
Greece and Rome.  100AD.  It means sentinel or watchman.  People were Aryans of Germanic origin, 
the Astures & Visigoths.  Near their capitol city is a tiny hamlet called Santa Eulalia de Vigil in Pola de 
Siero, begun in 1270 AD."

 pvi:  "The Vigi  family was very prominent & very wealthy.  JMVII, the immigrant ancestor, left Spain in 
1611 to go to Peru, only he wound up in Mexico instead.  In 1695, his son moved to SantaFe NM.  They 
moved to Santa Cruz shortly thereafter.  Then he got a land-grant of 106,000 acres for military service 
near Alameda into Sandoval. (This was the Tiwa Indian Pueblo, located N or Albuquerque.)  He sold 
some of the land to the mayor of Alcalde and some to Salvador Martinez.

Vigil Genealogy club:  MVigil9204@aol.com  Michael F. Vigil  15 Soney Brook Rd  Montville NJ
                                                            (973) 263-3343

	5124.	Toribio DE VIGIL (not verified yet) .