Fojas Perdidas Project: Update

I would like to add the original message from Carlos at the bottom of this
message and encourage members to give to this worth project. I’m
contributing now, having forgotten to do so earlier. Will some of you that
haven’t already join me?

joseph

From: Nancy Yturralde [mailto:nancyyturralde@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2014 1:30 AM
Subject: Update of Projects

Before I give an update on our imaging project I would like to express our
appreciation to all who have helped with our Fojas Perdidas Project.
Without your financial donations and voluntary hours we would not be where
we are today.

As of now our plans to image some missing parish records are on hold. The
Bishop did not give us approval; he said, “not right now.” We are
workinging with FamilySearch to get the diocese copies of records they do
not have, so this should keep the door open. Meanwhile we have started
imaging the Fondo Colonial of the Archivo Histórico Municipal and at the
same time we are in communication with the folks at the Office of Digital
Innovation and Stewardship, University of Arizona Libraries for their
assistance in the placement of our project online.

While in Valle de Allende the Jornadas Vivistas was taking place in Parral
as well as the opening ceremonies for Viva Chihuahua in el Valle which
brought people from all over Chihuahua as well as the States. You cannot
believe the positive comments that were made when they learned what we were
doing. We received donations of books from Jesus Vargas and Alvaro Canales
Santos. Cantante Polo Montanez made a donation of some CD’s of his
canciones de pueblo Chihuahuaneses. The Instituto Chihuahuense de la
Cultura donated to our Project a generous portion of Journadas Vivistas
posters.

For those of you who were able to give a donation of time or money we would
like to send you the CD of Polo Martinez or the poster of the Journadas
Vivistas as a token of appreciation If you would like one of these items
sent to you please indicate which one along with your address. We can also
send it to a friend as a gift from you. To preview these items check out
our home page to see the poster and the following link to listen to one of
Polo’s songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNvQCsJm8P4. Should you desire an
additional poster or CD they are $25 for the poster and $8.00 for the CD.
The price includes postage. Once again thank you so very much.

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Please call Carlos Yturralde and let him know we are interested in this
project.

From: Carlos Yturralde [mailto:
cmyturralde@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 12:54 PM
To: Clean@h2opodcast.com
Subject: Fojas Perdidas

Hi Joseph,
The Hispanic Heritage Project has just started a project called “Fojas
Perdidas.” We as researchers will come against a wall where the paper trail
has come to an abrupt end where there are no records. Our quest is to find
those records.
For those of us who are doing Hispanic research in Mexico, we use
FamilySearch, which is our greatest source of information. We are eternally
grateful for the work that the Utah Genealogy Society has done in
microfilming the Catholic sacramental records as well as the Priest who
diligently recorded that history. We likewise are indebted to FamilySearch
in digitizing those records and continuing imaging more records and having
access to those images online.
What most researchers are not aware of is that when the Utah Genealogy
Society microfilmed the parish records, they filmed the copies that were
kept in the diocese. As is the practice, the Church requires each parish to
create two copies. One is kept at the parish and the other sent to the
diocese archive. We have found that sometimes not all the copies made their
way to the diocese and are still in the parishes not yet filmed or imaged.
These are the missing records we shall find and image. In a few cases there
were small parishes that were not filed at all. Our goal is to identify
those fojas perdidas and work to get them online.
This requires a small pueblito. We have a volunteer camera operator to image
the records, but we need volunteers to create tables of content of the
images that are online. Then the camera operator can use it to identify the
missing records so they can then be imaged and made available on
FamilySearch. Since one of the areas we are looking into is Jalisco we are
hoping maybe Nuestros Ranchos would join our effort. Give it some thought
and if you think that is possible please give me a call.
Carlos Yturralde
Hispanic Heritage Project
760-484-6528