Last update: 20
October 2011
Heritage News
PLEASE NOTE THAT HERITAGE RELATED
EVENTS IN
BOTH NORTHERN & SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
ARE LISTED ON THE CALENDAR PAGE
click here: Calendar
Provision of an Accurate and Authentic
Interpretation of Alta California's History.
Heritage Preservation Memorial Fund
By
Mike Ford
Our
organization has a fund set up to provide an opportunity for members and friends
to make donations in memory of deceased Los Californianos members, friends of
Californio history and our Californio ancestors. Money donated to this fund is
given to causes helping to preserve Californio heritage.
The fund was
started in 1997. Ramona Baro was the first person memorialized. She had been a
very active member and was slated to become President. Ill health forced Ramona
to resign before taking office. Betty Watts had been elected Vice President.
Instead, she suddenly found it necessary to assume the office of President.
When Ramona passed away, Betty and her husband (Bob) made a donation to Los
Californianos. They stipulated that it was in memory of Ramona Baro and was to
be used for the preservation of our heritage. This donation and any similar
future donations were to be placed in a separate account to be used at the
discretion of the Heritage Preservation committee.
The plan to
separate these funds from the general fund was decided upon because of an
awkward incident occurring at that time. An organization was trying to save an
Old San Diego adobe building. It asked Los Californianos for a donation.
Although the Board of Directors agreed to donate $500, there was some dissention
voiced at the following general meeting. Some members did not think money from
the general fund should be allocated to such use. Other members in the audience
that day offered donations to replace the funds in order for the action to be
made by individual volunteers. It was felt that the Board of Directors should
be spared from future controversy; hence the separation of the funds and the
volunteer nature of memorial fund contributions.
Since that
time, several donations have been made to the memorial fund and a few small
contributions have been made to good causes. These have included a donation to
the legal fight to save the Juana Briones home in Palo Alto, a donation toward
the restoration costs of the Castro adobe near Watsonville and a donation toward
the expenses of the Anza Trail Riders participating in the Rose Bowl Parade.
The memorial
fund recently received one large contribution ($5000) from a generous, anonymous
member. This will enable the Heritage Preservation committee to make plans to
spend larger amounts in the future to provide more help to those who are working
toward preserving Californio heritage.
A subcommittee
of the Heritage Preservation committee has been formed to focus on the Memorial
Fund. It will develop a plan of action to make the best possible use of the
funds received. Those wishing to support this activity are encouraged to send
donations to the treasurer specifying the Heritage Memorial Fund. If the
donation is in memory of an individual, please provide the name of the person
being honored.
Elementary Education
California State Standards.
The California State Standards for social studies are available on the
Internet.
Members and friends are encouraged to review the 4th Grade standards and
curriculum.
Los Californianos wishes to support educators in presenting a relevant
and accurate history of our state.
We are working to produce supplemental material for 4th grade teachers
and all others interested in the facts.
If you have Adobe Reader, (available free on the Internet)
you can to
access the standards at
http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/hstgrade4.asp
San Francisco Chronicle Letter.
On November 8, 2004, the San Francisco Chronicle of a lengthy
op-ed piece by Elias Castillo.
The entire article was greatly inaccurate and very derogatory of our
Hispanic ancestors. Professor Emeritus Robert Hoover provided us with an
excellent detailed rebuttal, but the newspaper declined to publish it.
[You may read this rebuttal by clicking on the following link:
Dr. Robert Hoover.]
Mission 2000 Project
Rudecinda (Cindy) Lo Buglio
deceased
To quote directly from the Mission 2000 Home Page,
http://www.nps.gov/tuma/M2000.html,
"Mission 2000 is a searchable database of Spanish mission records of the
Pimería
Alta (southern
Arizona
and northern Sonora, Mexico) containing baptisms, marriages, and
burials from the late seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century.
Please read the two paragraph introduction for an understanding of the
kind of material which is contained within the Mission 2000 database.
A group of dedicated researchers, led by Donald T. Garate, Interpretative
Historian at
Tumacacori
National
Historical
Park,
http://www.nps.gov/tuma/, have
been extracting and entering pertinent information from the extant mission
registers of the aforementioned areas into the Mission 2000 database.
Several years ago, Don Garate led a group of Los Californianos' members on a
tour of
Sonora, Sinaloa, and Arizona and, while visiting San Miguel de Horcasitas, a
tremendous discovery was made. They found books in a scrap pile on the floor
in the sacristy of the church. These were the heretofore unidentified
registers of the Mission.
Arrangements were naturally made to have them microfilmed and, unfortunately,
fell through a couple of times, but finally they were successfully copied by
the Mormon Church, and are now available by loan to the Family History
Centers. Many of the
records from Horcasitas have been transcribed and translated, and the
information was added to the database of the Mission 2000 Web site.
They can be accessed by entering “Horcasitas” in the Event Place box in
the Event Information section of the
Searchable Spanish Mission Records page at:
http://data2.itc.nps.gov/tuma/search.cfm.
The surname help page includes information about variant spellings of many of
our Alta California families, including a familiar Anza Expedition family
–there are at least 21 different ways that Albizu
is spelled in the original documents: “Albizu,
Albiso,
Albisso, Albisu,
Albissu,
Arbiso, Arbisso,
Arbisu,
Arbissu, Arbizo,
Arbizu, Alviso, Alvisso,
Alvisu,
Alvissu, Arviso,
Arvisso,
Arvisu, Arvissu,
Arvizo,
Arvizu."
Since the project began, thousands of entries have been extracted from
original Mexican records and added to Mission 2000, and also can be accessed
through the search engines found on the Web site listed in the previous
paragraph:
http://data2.itc.nps.gov/tuma/search.cfm .
In
addition to using the search engine for genealogical and historical records,
you will find priceless information listed in the Help Area, which will open
up new areas of research for you—in many cases you will even be led to
facsimiles of the original documents, as well as to information about
surnames, place names, tips for reading Spanish language documents, to name
but a few of the lessons available on this Web site.
In these records you will find many ties to Anza Expedition members,
with leads to branches of the same families, who did not answer the call to
.
In
addition to using the search engine for genealogical and historical records,
you will find priceless information listed in the Help Area, which will open
up new areas of research for you—in many cases you will even be led to
facsimiles of the original documents, as well as to information about
surnames, place names, tips for reading Spanish language documents, to name
but a few of the lessons available on this Web site.
In these records you will find many ties to Anza Expedition members,
with leads to branches of the same families, who did not answer the call to
In addition to using
the search engine for genealogical and historical records, you will find
priceless information listed in the Help Area, which will open up new areas of
research for you—in many cases you will even be led to facsimiles of the
original documents, as well as to information about surnames, place names,
tips for reading Spanish language documents, to name but a few of the lessons
available on this Web site.
In these records you will find many ties to Anza Expedition members,
with leads to branches of the same families, who did not answer the call to
In addition to using
the search engine for genealogical and historical records, you will find
priceless information listed in the Help Area, which will open up new areas of
research for you—in many cases you will even be led to facsimiles of the
original documents, as well as to information about surnames, place names,
tips for reading Spanish language documents, to name but a few of the lessons
available on this Web site.
In these records you will find many ties to Anza Expedition members,
with leads to branches of the same families, who did not answer the call to
In addition to using
the search engine for genealogical and historical records, you will find
priceless information listed in the Help Area, which will open up new areas of
research for you—in many cases you will even be led to facsimiles of the
original documents, as well as to information about surnames, place names,
tips for reading Spanish language documents, to name but a few of the lessons
available on this Web site.
In these records you will find many ties to Anza Expedition members,
with leads to branches of the same families, who did not answer the call to
In addition to using
the search engine for genealogical and historical records, you will find
priceless information listed in the Help Area, which will open up new areas of research for you—in many cases you will even be led to
facsimiles of the original documents, as well as to information about
surnames, place names, tips for reading Spanish language documents, to name
but a few of the lessons available on this Web site.
In these records you will find many ties to Anza Expedition members,
with leads to branches of the same families, who did not answer the call to
In
addition to using the search engine for genealogical and historical records,
you will find priceless information listed in the Help Area, which will open
up new areas of research for you—in many cases you will even be led to
facsimiles of the original documents, as well as to information about
surnames, place names, tips for reading Spanish language documents, to name
but a few of the lessons available on this Web site.
In these records you will find many ties to Anza Expedition members,
with leads to branches of the same families, who did not answer the call to
In
addition to using the search engine for genealogical and historical records,
you will find priceless information listed in the Help Area, which will open
up new areas of research for you—in many cases you will even be led to
facsimiles of the original documents, as well as to information about
surnames, place names, tips for reading Spanish language documents, to name
but a few of the lessons available on this Web site.
In these records you will find many ties to Anza Expedition members,
with leads to branches of the same families, who did not answer the call to
In
addition to using the search engine for genealogical and historical records,
you will find priceless information listed in the Help Area, which will open
up new areas of research for you—in many cases you will even be led to
facsimiles of the original documents, as well as to information about
surnames, place names, tips for reading Spanish language documents, to name
but a few of the lessons available on this Web site.
In these records you will find many ties to Anza Expedition members,
with leads to branches of the same families, who did not answer the call to
In
addition to using the search engine for genealogical and historical records,
you will find priceless information listed in the Help Area, which will open
up new areas of research for you—in many cases you will even be led to
facsimiles of the original documents, as well as to information about
surnames, place names, tips for reading Spanish language documents, to name
but a few of the lessons available on this Web site.
In these records you will find many ties to Anza Expedition members,
with leads to branches of the same families, who did not answer the call to
In
addition to using the search engine for genealogical and historical records,
you will find priceless information listed in the Help Area, which will open
up new areas of research for you—in many cases you will even be led to
facsimiles of the original documents, as well as to information about
surnames, place names, tips for reading Spanish language documents, to name
but a few of the lessons available on this Web site.
In these records you will find many ties to Anza Expedition members,
with leads to branches of the same families, who did not answer the call to
California.
The
first entry below concerns the parents of the last child (of eight live
births) born during the Anza Expedition, who was often called the
"Christmas Babe," (Salvador Ignacio Linares--I
can hear Judge José de Larios talking about his
"Uncle Sal" every time I see his name). This entry was extracted and
translated from the San Miguel de Horcasitas register:
"On July 18, [1770], I married and veiled in ecclesiastical matrimony,
the necessary marriage banns having preceded, -- Ignacio Linares
and María Gertrudis de Ribas
--. Witnesses were Féliz Robledo and Don Antonio
de Ribera, and I sign == Bachiller
Joseph Nicolas de Messa"
The
two Alviso entries which were extracted and translated from the San Miguel de
Horcasitas registers are:
"On the said day [May 1, 1770] I provided ecclesiastical burial in the
same place [beneath the choir loft] with low cross for María Josepha,
infant daughter of Domingo Albisso and Angela Trexo
and I sign == Bachiller Joseph Nicolas de Messa"
"In the village of San Miguel de Horcasitas on the twelfth of the month
of December of 1763, I, the Bachiller Don Miguel
Joseph de Arenibar, designated priest, benefactor
for His Majesty, vicar and ecclesiastic judge of this Province of Sonora,
provided ecclesiastical burial for the body of Santiago, Spaniard and infant
son of Domingo Albizu and Angela Trexo,
with the low cross beneath the choir loft, and for this truth I signed ==
Miguel Josef de Arenibar"
It
takes a great deal of time to extract and post each entry, and I believe the
hours put in on the project are strictly volunteer and squeezed into what are
unbelievably busy schedules by those involved, but yet each week a little more
is added to the Mission 2000 database. Be sure to visit it regularly for the
continuing update. What you are looking for may not be there today, but
somewhere down the line it may possibly be added .
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