Nuestros Ranchos (NuestrosRaices.com)

Yolanda,
My grandfather Antonio Portillo was born in Santa Rosalia in 1888. Would you
be so kind as to look in your data base for any information concerning this
part of my family. On his mother's side the surname is either Gamero,

Here is a map I've shared with the group before but there are more
members now than then:

http://www.archive.org/download/NFU2007/IstDraft2_copy.jpg

thanks go to Gloria Delgado for getting this map from the Bancroft

Se abre la Convocatoria al Concurso “Historias de Migrantes”

A partir del 15 de noviembre y hasta el 15 de febrero de 2008 estará abierta la convocatoria al segundo concurso de narrativa “Historias de Migrantes”.

Hola Bill, mi nombre es José Antonio de la Riva soy originario de la Ciudad de Aguascalientes y siempre e tratado de
investigar el origen de mi apellido " de la Riva".
Mi padre y su familia provienen de una region de Zacatecas, en la cual esta muy arraigado ese apellido, mi padre es de un

Buenas tardes a todos!

Este es mi primer post y me da mucho gusto finalmente formar parte de Nuestros Ranchos. Tengo casi 10 an~os trabajando en el arbol genealogico y ya tengo como 1500 personas en el. Es muy interesante ver como todo mundo en Nuestros Ranchos es "familia" de un modo u otro. Mis familias incluyen: de Moctezuma, Hermosillo, Gutierrez de Hermosillo, Gonzalez de Hermosillo, Ruiz de Esparza, Romo, Romo del Vivar, Enriquez, Gomez, Munoz de la Barba, Ramirez de Mendoza, Samaniego, Soria, Reynoso etc etc

Dear Marge,

My great-great-grandfather Antonio Frias Jasso moved to Tepic in 1848,
shortly after my great-great grandmother Refugio Ruiz de Esparza died in
Aguascalientes while giving birth to my great-grandmother Josefa Frias

Holá, mis amigos.

My name is John Karr Wolfe, usually called Karr, and I am an American-born
son of a Mexican immigrant mother, a Romo from Guadalajara/Tepatitlán. My
father is from the American Midwest. In order to try to link my family back

Does anyone know if the extracting process happens on a film for the IGI do they extract everything or certain records? or just some? My working on my camino line and it appears they come from Pinos, Zac.

Hi Bill,
Thank you so very much, you are agreat person, hope to meet you one day to thank you in person.

Anna Arellano Smith

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From: Bill Figueroa

For Yolanda and others,

Below is a link to an article (and other links) with expert guidance
on increasing the longevity of documents, and proper preservation of
valuable and often irreplaceable family history photographs and papers.