Hey Joseph, I would say I am almost a huerfano. Another member, Angel
Cervantes, and I both have Cervantes ancestors from Zacoalco,
Jalisco, but it doesn't appear to be a connection, at least back to
the 1700's. I saw one group member researching her ancestors from
Atenguillo/Guachinango/Mascota. My Curiel line is from that area, but
unfortunately (or I'd say fortunately), there's lots of Curiel
families in that region.
Other than Angel, and the other member whose name I don’t recall, I
am a huerfano. You see, most of my ancestors are from the southern
municipios of Jalisco: Tlajomulco, Chapala, Zacoalco, Techaluta,
Sayula, Amacueca. One line, as I said, is from Atenguillo(If you
don’t know where this is, it is close to Talpa, where many people
visit la virgen). I noticed that almost everybody on this group
researching Jalisco is focused on los Altos. So far, I have only one
line of ancestors from los Altos (Lagos), but haven’t researched a
lot on this line.
On the genealogy.com and ancestry.com forums, I have seen some people
researching my target area, but not my surnames. So tell me Joseph,
should I invite them to join this group, or should I send you their
email addresses?
Ciao
Steve
— In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, Joseph Puentes <makas@n…> wrote:
Are there any Huerfanos in the group. . .are there any orphans that
don't have others members researching the same general area as you
are
researching in Jalisco, Zacatecas or Aguascalientes? Well if you
want to
invite researchers to Ranchos that are researching your specific
area
let me know and I'll give you ideas.
I just went to rootsweb and did a geneal search of all the message
boards for those that are researching the Valparaiso, Zacatecas
area. I
searched the first 26 pages and found 15 individuals. I then typed
their
names into an email and send them an invitation to consider joining
the
group. naturally if they are not serious researchers I won't let
them
into the group. Of those 15 email addresses 4 were invalid, but
lets see
if maybe 1 or 2 of the others might not find a serious researcher.
I said all that only to say that if you are the only one looking in
your
area that is a way to find others to join you in your
search. . .spend
some time on rootsweb separating the wheat from the chaff.
joseph
ps: for those in the group researching Valparaiso you can go to the
rootsweb and go to message boards and then in the search window
enter
Valparaiso and then start at page 26 looking for those that appear
to be
serious. You never know but you might be looking for a primo or
prima.
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