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Saludos a todos, les tengo una pregunta: en la epoca colonial era costumbre ponerle a los apellidos con "de", como mi ancestro José Doroteo de Castro, español de las Barrancas de Zacoalco de Torres.

Can someone please help me read the marriage record for Jph Cayetano Garcia to Anna Cleta Calzada that took place in Encarnacion de Diaz, Jalisco on October 5, 1791 (image 142).

I think it s

I fell in love with our colonial past of our area. And I want to post videos of Hacienda San Mateo of Valparaiso, Zacatecas, Mexico.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isbEs8cZBrE&feature=related

In response to Topic 1Hello Valente;I had a similar issue when I was using the Cocula Films (The worst are Autlan).

Hi, I was looking at the Cocula, Jalisco Marriages from 1740-1758, and I can't seem to find the marriage act of my ancestors Santiago Barbosa (stylized as Sntiago.) and Lorensa de Aguilar, who married

Daniel since we are reseaching the Mendez lines have you found anything to link this Mendez family in Tamazula from Michocan to our line of Mendez in Tamazula from Michoacan?

They just updated or added records for the states of Guanajuato, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí and Veracruz in Familysearch.
https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list#page=1&countryId=1927078

Buenas tardes:

Does anyone know where Casa Piedra or Casas Piedras is, or was, circa
1877, Zacatecas?
I have several relatives that are supposedly from there and I'm trying
to find some images that might include

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