New member introduction

Hello,

My name is Kathleen LaPoint, and I just started this research a couple months ago. My mother was born in Wisconsin, and her parents and older siblings were born in Arandas. My files show four generations of my mothers’s ancestors, starting with my grandparents. I have a few more generations that I still need to verify; I should be able to upload those files soon.

The locations I’ve found so far in church and civil records are Arandas, Santa Maria de los Lagos, Lagos de Moreno, San Miguel el Alto, Encinillas, and Unión de San Antonio.

Surnames are Magaña, Vera, Lara, Gutiérrez, Palomino, Vivanco, Villagrana, Garcia, Aguilar, Gonzalez, Hernandez, Rodriguez, Aceves, Muñoz, Horta, Espinosa, Balderrama, Moreno, Sermeño, Martin, and de Arcos.

I recently had DNA analysis performed by 23andme and have uploaded the data to familytreedna.com and GEDmatch (data are still being processed at GEDmatch).

I’ve started looking through some member files, but the images on doc and docx files aren't visible. Does anyone know why that might be?

Thank you Joseph for starting this group and to all of you for your contributions. I’m learning a lot already going the archives and looking forward to working with you.

Regards,
Kathleen