Genealogy Research

Hola a todos!

Aqui de nuevo "atorada" con mi investigación. La familia Gonzalez en Juchipila, Zacatecas termina con Bruno Gonzalez y Maria Prudencia Castaneda que son mis terceros bisabuelos y no se mas de ahi.

Estimados todos. Hace unos meses Ricardo Rodríguez me hizo el inmenso favor de proporcionarme el nombre de mis tatarabuelos por parte de la familia Valdivia y Sánchez, por lo cual estoy muy agradecido. La curiosidad insaciable del historiador me lleva a pedirles su ayuda para poder conocer la historia de esas familias y de ser posible el nombre de mis antepasados.

Does anyone have a good source for old newspaper Obituaries? I am looking for an obituary that would have been posted about six years ago.

Also, has anyone ever used this service:
http://oa.newsbank.com/oa-search/we/Archives/

I only descend from Charlamagne on both of my parent's sides, not Muhammad "the prophet".

Here is my first connection

Daniel Méndez del Camino b: 1992
José Gabriel Méndez y Cortés b: 1956
Martín Méndez de Serrano b: 1917

>
> Christina,

I think Maureen's suggestion is a good one. In addition to the border
crossing records I would try the 1930 Mexican census. The images are
available online at: labs.familysearch.org

Sounds like Guanajuato, Guanajuato... The city in the state.

Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

Out of curiosity I went to the Archivos de Simanca and typed in 'armada'. I received a response asking for a more detailed/specific request. Remember there was more than one armada sent against England. The survivor you mention is named Cuellar. He was one of the senior officers of the operation. You could query his name. Include the date with the word 'armada'. I have never researched the Simanca archives. It really isn't one of my interests. Good luck....

Does anyone have any information on Sanchez Perales in Guanajuanto, Mexico?? He came over in 1910, married my grandmother Epifania Gonzales in Fort Collins, Colorado.? He said his father's name was Margarito Perales and mother was Tranquilina Sanchez from Guanajuanto.? If anyone has any information on where to look or have knowlege of this family please email me.(hillefresno@aol.com).? I've looked in the family search site also. Any help would be greatly appreciated.? Thank you.

You mean the Visigoths coming to Spain during the middle ages, right?

The Celts, according to this article (and others I have read) had settled
in Spain even prior to the Romans who came around 200 B.C.

I am hoping I can once again request from this group some information. You have all been so helpful in the past. This is in honor of St. Paddy's day....the Spanish/Irish connection.

I spend my genealogical time between the Irish (mine) and the Spanish (my husband's) I constantly tease him that sooner or later I will find that we are related. We have some similar traits and sometimes that is good, but other times it causes conflicts. Anyway, I am descended from the O'Neill family in Northern Ireland on my maternal side. My great grandfather's name was Hugh O'Neill and my grandmother used to tell us tales of the great Hugh O'Neill. We always thought it was ...you know....just fairy tales. Well, although somewhat embellished, some of her stories are in rare historical books. Anyway, out of curiousity, I started researching the Spanish Armada. Hugh O'Neill (not my great grandfather, but the famous one) was linked to this. Then I found out that many ships from the Armada were wrecked along the Northern Ireland coast. A couple quite close to my paternal ancestor, Owen Gallagher's home of Rosbeg, Donegal Ireland. Some accounts say that most of the soldiers in the ships drowned or were killed by the Irish or interrogated and hung by the English. Other accounts say that some Irish people hid some of the survivors and they eventually made it back to Spain. (I have another link to send with an interesting description of the Irish by one of the survivors, will send later)