Update on Pinedo research

I've been meaning to send an email to specifically thank Arturo Ramos for some helpful suggestions that he made some years back about where best to do my Pinedo research. Because I'm still a fairly new lawyer here in Brownsville, TX, I sometimes have to start and stop this research and can't always give it the full time I wish I could. Anyway, I have been making some recent breakthroughs I wanted to share, while searching the Jerez and Monte Escobedo ("ME") records, just as Arturo suggested, as follows:

Juan Anselmo Pinedo m. Margarita de Acuna
-Bartolo Pinedo (b.1766, Jerez)(m. Maria Josefa Gonzalez, 1789 ME)
--Gregorio Pinedo (b.1804, ME)(m. Agustina de Ulloa, 1834 ME)
---Pedro Pinedo (b.1842, ME)(m. Pioquinta Cardoza)
----Nicanor Pinedo (b.1880s?) (m. Emilia Gonzalez, 1914 Tlaltenango)
-----Jesus Maria Pineda (b.1930, Laredo) (m. Rebeca Cantu)

I can provide the specific dates if anyone is interested.

So I guess it's also pretty clear now that my great grandfather, Nicanor Pinedo, changed the spelling to "Pineda" when he came to Laredo, Texas in the 1920s, perhaps because that's how immigration officials spelled it on on his papers.

My follow up question to Arturo -- or anyone else -- is whether anyone has found a paper trail showing the parents of Juan Anselmo Pinedo. From what I can tell on familysearch.com, it appears that he and Margarita de Acuna had several children, but I've not been able to go back further and find Juan Anselmo Pinedo's parents, in part because it looks lots of Jerez baptism and marriage records are missing.

Can anyone help?

Also, I noticed in a baptism record for Jerez in the early 1740s, there was a reference to the child being from "Puesto de los Pinedos." Has anyone ever heard of this place?

Thanks!

Chris Pineda