Ortega Maldonado family of Jalisco

Hello everyone! Just as I found out about the sixteenth-century patriarch of the García de Alba family a while back, I have also found the Ortega patriarch of that same century. For those of you who have Casilda de Ortega Maldonado or Catalina de Ortega Maldonado (both sisters) in your family trees, let me inform you that they are both descendants of Antonio de Ortega, encomendero and landowner of Colima. I found this out, because meanwhile scanning previews of "Ameca protofundación mexicana", I found this excerpt:

"En 1581 obtuvo del virrey conde de Coruña, en Ixtlanejo, un sitio para ganado mayor, don Antonio de Ortega; este poblador lo fue de verdad, pues fundó una vigorosa familia que mucho significaría en los siglos inmediatos, ligada a otras proceres, como fueron Maldonado, Topete, García de Alba, Arrióla y Villaseñor."

From "de Ortega", the surname would later evolve into "de Ortega Maldonado" thus creating the ancestral family of southern-central Jalisco.

Here is the link to the excerpt
http://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=ameca+conde+de+coruna+1581&btnG=#hl=en&tbm=bks&sa=X&psj=1&ei=-x_uT9ahDYHq0gGJgMnNDQ&ved=0CDEQvwUoAQ&q=En+1581+obtuvo+del+virrey+conde+ortega&spell=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=7f0cb66b886c04a&biw=1024&bih=677

...and here is the link to a biography of Antonio de Ortega
http://books.google.com/books?id=AdIs_kXt8zcC&pg=PA376&dq=antonio+de+ortega+andariegos+y+pobladores+de+nueva+galicia&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3iHuT5uDG--x0QHUuKzmDQ&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false