Land Grants

Does anybody know how to obtain copies of land grants given to the Espanoles in Mexico? I know I descend from several HAcendados from old Mexico, but im most interested in the land grant made on Feb 17, 1899 in Huanusco, Zacatecas.

Alvaro Carrillo

Hola al grupo ,

No se si tu tienes información de la ciudad de origen del Capitan Alvaro Carrillo segun el historiador Ignacio Davila Garibi decia que era de Sevilla, España, un amigo mio el Arq. Jose Francisco Garza Carrillo l no ha podiodo pasar mas alla del Capitan Alvaro Carrillo, lo ha buscado en pasajeros a indias y otros documentos y nada, El capitan Alvaro Carrillo se casó con María Alvarez, hija del Capitan Lorenzo Alvarez y de Agustina de Viera y estos se velaron en Lagos de Moreno el 4 de marzo de 1585. Gracias Welester

Godoy/Godoi

Who if anyone is doing Godoy/Godoi research either in Tlaltenango or
Tepechitlan? Possibly from a rancho called Rancho las Lunas?

I have a cousin who is doing this research and wanted to see if he has

Records Search Registration

Alice,

I finally found the page I used to register. I hope the link below works on your end. If it doesn't, it could be that they are overwhelmed with requests to register and can't handle them all. They tried to limit the number of users so they can effectively handle the feedback and work out the kinks in the pilot, so they might be blocking further requests for registration.

FamilySearch Labs "Record Search"

Below is a message I found on the webmaster's blog about problems with registration. Maybe this will help you.

Linda:

Also, I was unable to see all that was on their drop-down menus due to the resolution on my computer. I have the lower resolution of 800 x 600 so the fonts and screen image appear larger due to my bad eyesight so I see only a part of the screen. Currently the pilot program is set to be viewed full screen at 1024 x 768 which would make everything look smaller on my computer, but the drop-down menus could be seen in their entirety.

The New Family Search Website Preview!

I pretty sure all of you already know about the new website that will be relaunched on September 2008 by our church. I am told that they first will release the digitlized records for the Us. census 1790-1910 and then SEVERAL groups wll be assigned to get feed the master copier to make the records in HD to get the best picture and will actually clean the records for digitilizing.

Lynn Turner

Hi there Arturo ,
Thanks for this site , I've only just looked at it and it seems pretty good .

On a different note , I used to use the asterisk instead of a first name in Family Search IGI , but as you know they changed a few things on the site . Here's my question " Have you found a new way to duplicate the results from using either the * or the % " ?.

Military records thru Family History Center?

Hello everyone,

Has anyone looked up military records through the Family History catalog and ordered them to their local center? I'd like to look up military records for Zacatecas, for 1865-1885, as my grandfather thinks his grandfather served in Zacatecas. I'd also like to do this through my local family center...can anyone help?

Esperanza Indian paintings

Good morning Esperanza ,

No , unfortunately no one has deciphered the meaning of any of the paintings or the petroglyphs . Jose Garza Carrillo told me that the best indian heads are in La Laguna in Coahuila . He and his son in law have written a book on the paintings and petroglyphs along with students and a professor from a university in the states .