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PREGUNTAS Y RESPUESTAS
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I live in North Texas and was raised in West Texas and have come at a juncture in our family history. My family has discovered that our great great grandfather, Juan Briones, is from San Luis Potosi, Nueva Espana. We have also discovered that he may be the brother of Marcos Briones who is the father of the twins, Juana and Maria De La Luz. According to family passer downs he was born in the late 1700s and left Nueva Espana because he married a Mulata. According to family stories, he was oppressed and harassed by his family. For that reason, he moved North to present-day Terlingua, Texas and Santa Elena, Chihuahua, Mexico. I need to find out if there is a connection because I am writing about our family occupation of Big Bend National Park before it became a National Park. My great great grandfather was in Terlingua long before it was Mexico and even Texas. He is an original Tejano but was not astute or business savvy like Juana. A lot of people say that I have a lot of the herbal-natural healing gifts of my great great grandparents. If you want to know more about me visit my website at: www.flyingmidieagle1.com [Pablo (Paul) O. Briones (nonmember)] Note: Marie Northrop's Spanish-Mexican Families of Early California: 1769-1850, vol. I, p. 89 does not show Juan as a brother to Marcos. However, she shows only two children born in San Luis Potosi of Vicente and his first wife Maria Antonia de Padron [Marcos Joseph born about 1757 and Maria Guadalupe born about 1764] so there is plenty of time for other children to have been born in between or after. La Tejedora
I am looking for information of early arrival of Venancio Preciado 1780 to 1790. His family is from what part of New Spain.? I saw that a Venancio Preciado was baptized at San Buenaventura Mission 6 July 1784. Is this the same person? [Ruben Huerta Preciado (nonmember)]
In relation to the Juaneņo Band of Mission Indians of San Juan Capistrano, I am attempting to find a connection, if there is one, from the surname Urquidez to the surname Uqueto. Uqueto is found as the native name on at least one male individual from the Mission records and knowing that sometimes the native name of the father was applied as a surname to children, I am seeking any instance of the early, 1780-1880 or so, Juaneņo individuals who may have had the surname of Uqueto or any similar variation. Mainly I am attempting to locate early Juaneņo ancestors of Urquidez from San Juan Capistrano. Uqueto is very close in spelling and pronunciation from Urquidez and it is quite possible the name changed over time. Thank you. [Suzanne Watkins (nonmember), San Diego, Calif.]
I am a descendant of Jose Antonio Buelna and Don Pablo Antonio Cota y De Leon AND his brother Roque Jacinto Cota y De Leon AND OTHER early Californianos. I was wondering if anyone has information on which Native American tribes inhabited the regions around Baja California in the 1720s through 1770s. [Mary Ryan (member), San Francisco, Calif.]
: I am a descendant of Margarita Maria Dominguez Butron (Rumsen Indian from Tucutnut) and Manuel Butron. I am looking for information for copies of the burial records for them and their descendants. Also information regarding where I can purchase cemetery lists plot assignments, diagrams, etc., and miscellaneous records of Carmel, Monterey, Santa Clara , and San Juan Bautista. And also any books or articles with old Butron photos. Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks [Bob Burton (nonmember), Palm Desert, Calif.]
Hi Bob Burton, Visit the Robert B. Johnston Archival Vault: http://www.mchsmuseum.com/vault.html
Better yet, come to the Boronda Adobe BBQ in September. (mchs is the marvelous Monterey County Historical Society) [Teresa]
Greetings. I thought your members might like to know about our most recent project for Pio Pico State Historic Park. We are currently posting data on the Pio Pico Family Genealogy online at www.piopico.org. We welcome family members to view the data and send us any comments, corrections, or additions to the data. [Carolyn Schoff (nonmember) Pio Pico Webmistress]
I am a member and am presently working with screenwriter Shawna Baca to tell the Modesta Avila story. You may recall that she was the lady who stood up to the railroads in 1889, was put on trial in Santa Ana, convicted and sent to San Quentin, where she died. Although we got a copy of her 239-page court case and her 23-page San Quentin record and have some newspaper articles about her problems, we thought that it might be good to talk to some descendants of her siblings (if we can locate them). Modesta was one of 14 children. If anyone has any connections to Avila family of San Juan Capistrano, I'd love to be able to contact them and ask a few questions. [John Schmal (member), Santa Monica, Calif.]
My grandmother was Grace Violet Cavalleri. Her grandfather was Francisco Cavalleri. Grace Cavalleri married Arthur Cummings Greenwell in Santa Barbara. They had two children, Rose Leslie Greenwell and Anna Elizabeth Greenwell. I am the son of Anna Greenwell who married Frederick Culver Parker. I would like any further information on Francisco Cavalleri who came to Santa Barbara sometime between 1820 and 1835. [Culver Greenwell Parker (nonmember), San Diego, Calif.]
Francisco Cavalleri, came to Santa Barbara about 1838-39 from the Province of Imperia, Italy. He married Doņa Maria Antonia Dominguez. (Her father, Jose Antonio Dominguez, was a soldier at the Presidio there, and her mother was Maria Francisca Antonia Villa) on 22 April 1841 at Mission La Purisima Concepcion, Alta California (Church entry #106). She died 13 January 1874 at Santa Barbara, Calif. I do have extensive information on this early California family. If you need more information please e-mail me Fatdawgbob_2@hotmail.con[Bob Waddill (nonmember), Fairfield, Calif.]
I am also the great, great grandson of Francisco Cavalleri of Santa Barbara. I have almost all genealogical records of this family and would really like to share stories with you.. E-mail me for any info that you may need.... [Bob Waddill (nonmember), Fairfield, Calif.]
Francisco Cavalleri came to San Francisco at the age of 14 in 1814 and later married Maria Antonia Dominguez at the Mission La Purisima Concepcion in Lompoc in 1826. Francisco was 26 and Maria was 12 and a half. She was born in Los Angeles. They had 14 children, 2 died in childbirth. Maria's father, Jose Antonio Dominguez, was sent from Spain to Mexico to join Father Serra on his expedition to Alta California, by land, in 1769. He was the Alcalde, for a time, to the Mission Indians at Pauma, now called Pala where he was wounded in a battle in 1846. Any further information is requested. [Culver Greenwell Parker (nonmember), San Diego, Calif.]
(La Tejedora, please set this to a newer 2008 posting. I am re-posting this to see if there is any replies as the previous page was corrupted by spam! ) Pregunta 394 - 6 October 2006 I am seeking all or any information on Judge Alberto Estrada, the son of Jose Joaquin Tomas Estrada, the son of Jose Raymundo Estrada. Was he ever married? If so, when, where and to whom, any children, etc.? Any and all information will be greatly appreciated. I know who his father and mother were, I do know he was still living in 1947 and was at that time 77 years of age. I do know that he was a judge in southern California, but other than that, he seems to be very elusive, I can not even find him in the Social Security Death index! I have a partial news article from the Telegram-Tribune dated June 1947, unfortunately I only have the beginning and the end of the article and am missing the middle portion. Thanks in advance for any and all information! [Jimmie Hardy (member), Winston, Ore.]
In the California Death Index on www.Rootsweb.com there is an Alberto Estrada, born 4 July 1871 in California and died 1 Dec 1958 in San Luis Obispo County, Calif. Mother's maiden name was Fontez, father Estrada. No social security number listed. Don't know if this helps. [Patricia Grisotti (member), Sedro Woolley, Wash.]
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