This is a map that I found hanging in the Ethnohistorical Research center of the University of Arizon in Tucson, AZ. This map is titled "Mexico En 1760". But when you look it up online as "Mexico En 1760" nothing shows up. However, if you search under the Spanish subtitle "Planta Descripcion De La Ymperial Ciudad De Mexico En La America" then you are provided this same map from the University of Yale. I was informed by the Director in the Ethnohistorical Research center that everything that they have isn't uploaded to the internet. Just image what else could be found in an Archive. Description Title: Planta y descripcion de la ymperial ciudad de Mexico, en la America / Carlos Lopez, del. Creator: Lopez, Carlos, fl. 1749 Published / Created: 1760 Publication Place: Mexico Publisher: Christoval de Zuñiga y Ontivero Description: "Se hallara en la Libreria de Dn. Christoval de Zuñiga y Ontivero[s], año de 1760 y tambien en la Imprenta de la Calle, de la Palma." Language: Spanish; Castilian
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When talking with my abuela paterna, who I called "Mamacita", she was always very proud of where she came from. My only regret is that I didn't ask questions. According to the civil registration done on 21 Oct 1903, Mamacita, was born on 27 Oct 1902 to Jose Francisco Baltazar Yrigoyen and Maria Dolores Aragon. No one since that day ever really new her true year of birth. One minute she was one age and the next moment she was a different age. I love her for that. Not even her own kids nor her husband knew her exact age. Even her headstone doesn't have the correct year. "Let her stay younger", my father stated. My siblings would tell everyone and now my kids will tell anyone if they ask lol . Can't get away with it. lol. I didn't start researching our family history till years later after Mamacita's death. Doing the family tree on her father's side was very easy since there was a family tree done back in the 1930s on the Irigoyen's / Irigoyen's. So doing that side was only confirming what had already been written. What got interesting was Mamacita's mother's side. The De Anda side was extremely interesting. Not only because of what I found but because of what I haven't found and what other people are putting in the De Anda family trees. There is one tree that I know of that has Jose De Anda being born in 1800 and his 1st wife, Regina Villa marrying him in 1802. And even funnier is that Jose and Regina had a child in 1802. So unless Regina Villa was extremely desperate and running a stroller, with 2 babies, down the isle to get married, I'm lost. Plus the doctors in Ojinaga were extremely ahead of their time in the IVF field, I'm kind of lost on those dates and which Juan Jose De Anda they were talking about in this person's family tree. To help those that are interested in this De Anda family line let me help you. I am hoping to find out more as time goes on and I'll update the page if I run across something. But I am also hoping that if others find out things, that you will be just as kind and let me know. And together we can have more accurate information and be able to embrace our heritage more. Dolores Aragon married young at the age of 16. Her parents were Jose Antonio Francisco De Jesus de Aragon, who went by the name of Jesus, and Maria Josefa De Anda. They were married on 25 March 1865. According to the marriage record Jesus Aragon was the widow of Juana Ruiz and Maria Josefa De Anda was the widow of Carlos Rey. There are no marriage records for Jesus Aragon and Juana Ruiz nor a marriage record for Carlos Rey and Josefa De Anda. Now what get's interesting is that on 1 August 1851 Maria Josefa de Anda was baptized. However, due to water damage one cannot tell the exact date of her birth or how many days / years old she was. What one can tell is who the parents are and who the paternal and maternal Grandparents were. This document can be found on microfilm 1511700 and image 2033. If you look very closely to the names that are underlined in red one can see that the parents are Jose Di Anda and Juana Ramos. Paternal abuelos are: Dn. Antonio Di Anda y Dna. Mariana de Marquez. The maternal Grandparents are: Dn. Jose Maria Ramos y Rosa S. Just to provide a little back ground Jose de Anda's name was actually Juan Jose De Anda (Jn Jose Anda) according to the baptismal record of his and Regina Villa's first child Juan Jose Trinidad del Carmen Francisco De Anda Villa. That explains the 1st part of his son's name. This document can be found on microfilm 1511700 and image 2072. Another interesting fact is that Jose De Anda was born around 1779. The information that supports this is because he was a person that gave testimony for a marriage in 1836. Jose De Anda testified that the couple who applied for a marriage license were free to marry, with no bloodline between the two. The document does not identify the bride or groom. It does state that Jose De Anda was 57 years old at that time. His signature was at the bottom of the document. I am guessing that the marriage he was talking about was that of Jose Maria Galindo y Maria De Jesus Secundina. Jose Maria Galindo's first wife was Manuela Ramos, the sister of Juana Ramos, who was the 2nd wife of Jose De Anda. Jose Maria Galindo y Maria De Jesus Secundina marriage information was on the next page after the testimony of Jose De Anda. This document can be found on microfilm 1511700 and image 153. Now there is a belief that Jose De Anda was a teacher. Currently I have not found any concrete record that states that. There is a blog the was done by Elisa Lujan Perez that states this but she didn't provide any documentation such as I have that backs up what I'm saying. Unfortunately for us Elisa Lujan Perez was lifted up to heaven by the hands of God. Wish I could have met her, I'm sure we would have talked each other's ears off about all that we have found regarding our families. If you have proof of this belief please feel free to share. I would love to see it. There is so much more that I could write about regarding Jose De Anda and his family but I figured this was the most important part; his age, parents and name. Next time will be about his children. Hope to see you again. God Bless you. Family treasures come in all shapes and sizes. But yet some people throw away things without a second thought. It’s old, it’s torn, it’s too dirty or too dark are the common excuses people use to throw away unwanted precious treasures. When in all actuality they could open a door to new and exciting things or unsolved mysteries. A few years ago, I decided to go and visit a 2nd cousin, Betsie, in Albuquerque, NM. She has all the treasures saved by our Great Grandmother, Clara Brusoe, and her Grandmother, Clare June Rose. Her Grandmother was my Grandfather’s 1/2 sister. When I went to Albuquerque, Betsie had a gigantic box full of things. I was blessed to see only 1/3 of what was in the box. But in that box was an old and dingy dark photo. She didn’t know who was in the picture, but I recognized the background of the photo. It matched the background of a photo my mother had of her father, when he was 2 or 3 years old in Trinidad, Colorado, around 1902 or 1903. He was born with the name of John Edward Wallace. Edward was the name of Clara’s father and John Wallace was the name of my Grandfather’s father, my Great Grandfather. When I noticed the picture, I asked if she knew who the man was. Betsie replied no, so I asked if I could take it and she said ok. I’m guessing since she thought it was too dark to make anything out, then what the heck, she was willing to depart with it, because she wasn’t ready to depart with anything else. To my good fortune there were some very kind and generous people on Random Acts of Photo Restoration Facebook page back in 2016 that took the picture and lightened the photo up the best they could and then they tried to make out the facial features the best they could. But it wasn’t a guarantee that it was correct or accurate. But could this be my mysterious Great Grandfather? Johann Karash (alias John Wallace)? It would be the only picture in existence of this man to my knowledge. In the 1899 City Directory for Albuquerque, NM it listed a John Wallace, a Day Engineer for the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Corporation. Clara’s family had moved to the Albuquerque area around 1898 or 1899. The family prior to this time had lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado. They were listed in the 1900 Albuquerque, NM census. I’m gathering that’s where Clara and John met. The 1900 census page states that John Wallace Sr was living in some type of housing for workers of the C&S Railway, in North Garcia, (now part of the City of Trinidad, Colorado); All of the people on the census were from out of state, mostly back east. Wallace had been an unemployed Engineer for three months. Trinidad had a large repair station for the RR, they even had a huge "ROUND HOUSE" where the large trains could enter, be worked on, and turn around and leave the round house when repaired. Today there is no sign that this complex ever existed. His wife’s, Clara Brusoe, parents were French Canadian. She left John Wallace in Sept 1903 according to the 1906 divorce records. He had been abusing her beyond recognition. Thus, leaving a little boy confused, emotionally scared and without a man to look up to until 1906 when Von Rose stepped into the father role and John Edward Wallace Jr became “Jack Rose”. I’ve kept those pictures in hopes of finding out the truth one day of who this man was. Approximately a year and half ago I found a 2nd cousin to my mother on her father’s paternal side, which once was a mystery. This 2nd cousin has been a major blessing. She has shared photos of her Grandparents, passports of her aunt, grandmother and father. This 2nd cousin also shared the Polish birth record of her father in hopes of opening up more clues to the siblings and parents of Abraham and Johann Karash (alias John Wallace). I now look at the photo of this 2nd Cousin’s Grandfather Abraham and my Great Grandfather Johann “John” and constantly compare. To me they have many similarities as if they were brothers; the big ears (you can see one ear on alias John Wallace photo), their high cheek bones, and their big eyes just to name a few. I found another 2nd Cousin of my mother’s and he is currently going through his things that were left to his father, an only child. We are hoping that he finds a picture of Abraham’s and Johann’s (John) brother Joseph to compare the brothers even more. According to this 2nd Cousin’s Grandmother, Abraham’s and Johann’s sister, there were 12 siblings. I’ve found five, so there are 7 more to find.
What do you have, that could actually be a hidden treasure, that you could be overlooking? Beginning with the voyages of Christopher Columbus in the 1490s, the Spanish Empire expanded its territory, near and far. The Spanish Empire included the conquest of the Caribbean Islands, a good portion of South America, most of Central America and much of North America.
After the French and Indian War between 1754-1763 and the Treaty of Paris was signed between the British and the French, the Spanish Empire claimed entitlement to the French colony known as Louisiana. The French had controlled this area from 1682–1762 and 1800-1803. Explorer Rene – Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle of France honored King Louis XIV by naming this area, Louisiana. The French colony known as Louisiana during that period included the current states of Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado and Idaho. The Spanish Empire then controlled Florida, Texas, California, New Mexico and the French colony of Louisiana. It is during the period of 1761-1821 that the Spanish Empire authorities created a collection of documents known as the Papeles Procedentes de la Isla de Cuba, also known as the Cuban Papers. These documents are geographically from Florida to the Mississippi Valley to Louisiana. These colonial records produced by Spanish authorities document settlement of immigrants, censuses, the government administration, passenger lists and lists of the ships and their crew, concerns for the relations between Spain and the United States, supply records, Indian relations, slavery, military affairs, the Louisiana – Texas border, records relating to births, marriages and deaths, affidavits, inventories, deeds, troop rosters, account books, government passes, employment records, legal proceedings and much, much more. Contents are arranged by place of origin, then by correspondent and put in what they call legajos, “files”. They are written in Spanish, French and English. There is a partial index online at: PARES – Portal de Archivos Espanoles One example is: ARCHIVO GENERAL de INDIAS PAPELES de CUBA LEGAJO 1795, January – December 1814 Criminal case example is: (in English) “Criminal Centra El Secretario Anabaptista Nombrado Janah, Acusado de Revoltoso, se Dicioso Centra el Gobierno” Tax records, like census records, place our ancestor in a specific location and time. From the time civilization began till now, taxes have played a roll in our lives no matter how much of a burden they may be. There are times when family historians and genealogists have a hard time pin pointing when a family moves in or out of a town, or when someone has died. Between the censuses, taxes can assist in filling in the blanks. Depending on the tax and the year, they may include details such as:
One can learn more about the different types of taxes by reading "Tax Records Could Offer Surprisingly Rich Details About Your Ancestors". Mississippi is one of the locations in this world that puts restrictions on obtaining these and other type of records. So the only way of obtaining these records is by traveling to those locations. In this blog you'll be able to see the 1802 Combined Tax Roll for Claiborne County. Later on other tax records from 1803-1817 from Claiborne County will be presented. Tax Rolls (Mississippi), 1818-1902 can be found at the Mississippi Archives website. These will include all counties in Mississippi during that time period. 1802 Combined - Claiborne County Tax RollSeries 2050: Original County Records PLEASE TELL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY to check this Tax Roll and other Claiborne County Tax Rolls to come.
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Penny Alvarez-KellerGraduated from Arkansas Tech University with a degree in Management / Marketing and a degree in Economics / Finance Archives
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