1915 Index to Marriages of Mier, Tamaulipas, Mexico. It is listed by alphabetical order by groom’s name.

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Numo. Yndice

Actas				Numero de fojas
7	Alfredo Sandoval		4	Ofelia Garza
11	Avelino Guerra			6	Rafael Ramirez
16	Albino Ramirez			9	Ricarda Saenz
24	Alfredo Saenz			13	Yrene Hinojosa
28	Asuncion Reyes		        15	Quirina Olivo
55	Ascencio Garcia		        30	Dolores Martinez
12	Donaciano Perez		        6	Ma. Florentina Garcia
35	Estanislao Gomez		19	Ygnacio Garcia
8	Evaristo Gonzalez		4	Delfina Gonzalez
40	Emilio Molina			22	Tomasa Garcia
65	Eustacio Salinas		35	Victoria Garza
21	Felix Barrera			12	Fidela Garza
34	Febranio Canales		18	Encarnacion Garza
37	Felix [?]			28	Matiana Lopez
38	Guillermo Alaniz		21	Guadalupe Solis
3	Jasinto Vasquez		        2	Juana Gonzalez
31	Jesus Garcia Lopez		17	Francisca Garcia
37	Jose Zambrano			32	Felicitas Fuentes
20	Leocadio Hinojosa		11	Manuela Hinojosa
26	Marcela Alanis			14	Estefana Flores
46	Manuel Aguilar			26	Balbina Garcia
44	Severo Garza			25	Tomasa Vela
51	Santana Garcia			29	Santos Gonzalez
1	Silvano Torrez Gracia		1	Guillerma Guerra
17	Teodoro Torrez		        16	Mauricia Vela
64	Zeferino Pena			35	Manuela Barrera
C. Mier a 31 de Diciembre de 1915
El Juez Civil = Jose Barrera Guerra

The following is the 1690 Church death record of my 8th great grandmother Ines de la Garza. She was the widow of Diego Rodriguez de Montemayor and was burried in the Parroquia in Monterrey, Nuevo leon, Mexico.

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Ynes de la Garza espanola

En doze de Marzo de mil y siscientos y noventa Anos murio Ynes de la Garza viuda del Cappan. Diego Rodrigues, Confesso y resivio Los stos. sacramtos. de la Eucharistia y estrema uncion, se enterro en la Parrochial de esta ciudad con vigilia y missa de cuerpo presente y paraque conste lo firme.

F. Joseph Guaxardo

Source: FamilySearch.org

This is the 1908 Civil Registry Death index for Doctor Coss, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. It is listed by alphabetical order.

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Numero	Nombres		Folios
		A
3	Alanis Cesaria			3 fte
34	Alanis Candido			18 vta
		B
11	Bustamante Artura		7 fte
		C
15	Cantu Catarina			9 fte
24	Cantu Ybanez Catarina		13 vta
		Ch
33	Chapa Ma. Guadalupe		18 fte
		E	
17	Elizondo Juan			10 fte
		F
1	Flores Silvestre	        2 fte
18	Flores Antonio			10 vta
29	Flores Felipe			16 fte
		G
12	Guerra Dorotea		        7 vta
27	Guerra Juan de Dios		15 fte
31	Garcia Cristobal		17 fte
		H
2	Hinojosa Leopolda		2 vfta
14	Hernandez Baltasar		8 vta
		M
5	Martinez Antonia		4 fte
		P
10 	Perez Silvestre			6 vta
20	Perez Herlinda			11 vta
		R
9	Rios Miguel			6 fte
16	Rangel Bruna			9 vta
21	Rios Donaciana			12 fte
32	Rios Perfecta			17 vta
35	Reyna Salvador		        19 fte
		S
4	Salinas Lucas			3 vta
6	Salinas Yldefonsa		4 vta
7	Salinas Ma. Carmen		5 fte
23	Saenz Pulido Antonio		13 fte
25	Salinas Paula			14 fte
26	Salians Balderas Celsa		14 vta
30 	Solis Ma. Nieves		16 vta
		T
8	Trigo Felipe			5 vta
22	Trevino Cayetana		12 vta
28	Trevino Jose Ysabel		15 vta
		V
13	Vela Victor			8 fte
19	Villarreal Ma. Ynes		11 fte
36	Velasquez Severino		19 vta

Source: FamilySearch

The following is the 1811 Baptism record for my wife’s 3rd great grandmother Maria Francisca de Allala (Ayala) Chapa. She was the daughter of Andres de Allala and Maria de Jesus Chapa. Her paternal grandparents are listed as Ysidro Allala and Maria Ynes Gonzalez. Unfortunately for me the document lists that they failed to provide information for maternal grandparents. Maria Francisca was married to Tomas Perez.

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 No. 199 Francisca Ayala espanola Pa.

En esta ayuda de parroqa. del Valle de la mota en veinte. y do de Octubre de Ochosientos once, Yo el Br. Jose Angl. Cavasos, Bse. Solemte. a Maria Francisca Allala espana. Pa. de Seis dias de nasida Hija Lma. de Andres Allala, y de Maria de Jesus Chapa, Abs. Ps. Don Ysidro Allala, y Dona. Maria yYnes Gonzalez, fueron sus Ps. Don Pamuseno Quintaniya, y Dona Estefana Mesa aquin. adverti su obligacion y parentesco espiritual, no dieronrason de los abuelos, maternos, y para qe. Conste lo Firme.

Jose Angl. Cabasos

Source: FamilySearch.org

1923 Birth Index of Los Aldamas, Nuevo Leon, Mexico in lists by male and female and in alphabetical order.

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Los Aldamas > Nacimientos 1909 – 1924

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Num	Foja	Folio	Hombres		Num	Foja	Letra	Mujeres
6	3	A	Antonio Salinas		15	7	A	Antonia Alanis
39	17		Agapito Garcia		36	15		Amparo Chavana
41	18		Alfredo Perez		66	28		Arcadia Carranza
45	19		Agapito Garza		87	36		Amanda Hinojosa
53	22		Alfonzo Pena		137	55		Aurelia Perez
82	34		Arturo Perez		35	15	B	Benita Garcia
84	35		Abden Garcia		125	51		Beatriz Hernandez
95	39		Arturo Gonzalez	        75	31	C	Carmen Gonzalez
96	39		Antonio Gonzalez	92	38		Cesarea Pena
104	42		Aurelio Sepulveda	110	45		Corina Alanis
108	44		Amado Trevino		113	46		Carmen Trevino
118	48		Andres Lopez		134	54		Crescenciana Cantu
132	53		Andres Garcia		2	2		Cenobia Gonzalez
136	55		Antonio Alanis		5	3		Cipriana Garcia
73	30	B	Buena Ventura Zarate	24	11		Catalina Garcia
119	48		Batazar Pena		42	18		Clara Delia Vera
138	56		Bartolo Perez		143	58		Carmen Rios
56	23	C	Cleofas Perez		77	32	D	Dionicia Guerrero
68	28		Cruz Garza		131	53		Delia Gutierrez
112	45		Crispin Mendoza	       7	4	E	Elva Garza y Garza
130	53		Canuto Molina		9	5		Elida Garcia
43	18	D	Donato Garcia		14	7		Esperanza Trevino
112	45		Dario Mendoza		28	12		Eleuteria Salinas
10	5	E	Encarnacion Perez	32	14		Ema Garcia
69	29		Eliseo Tanguma		34	15		Elvira Arroyo
116	47		Efrain Lopez		46	20		Estela Pena
44	19	F	Francisco Perez	        50	21		Eulalia Cantu
55	23	G	Gregorio Salinas	62	26		Elva Elizondo
58	24		Gabino Salinas		85	35		Elena Perez
60	25		Gregorio Moreno	        90	37		Eveilia Saenz
86	35		Gilberto Salinas        93	38		Eusebia Lopez
100	41		Gilberto Garza		123	50		Evangelina Garcia
121	49		Gregorio Aguilar	141	57		Estela Canales
142	57		Guadalupe Garcia	48	20	F	Fidela Garcia
51	21	H	Hermenegildo Garza	124	50		Francisca Rios
111	45		Hector Alanis		4	3	G	Guadalupe Rios
19	9	J	Jesus Vela		30	13		Genoveva Alanis
23	10		Jose Alanis		47	20		Guadalupe Salinas
27	12		Julio Garcia		57	24		Graciela Lozano
52	22		Jesus Pena		94	38		Guadalupe Leal
80	33	L	Luz Garcia		67	28	H	Hortencia Canales
17	8	M	Mercedes Trevino	54	23	Y	Ynes Garcia
18	8		Manuel Garcia		91	37		Ysabel Gutierrez
81	33		Modesto Lozano	        3	2	J	Josefina Cantu
102	41		Manuel Garcia		12	6		Jesusa Torres
114	46		Manuel Alanis		25	11		Juliana Arevalo
126	51		Modesto Alanis	        31	13		Jacoba Salinas
140	57		Manuel Alanis G.	59	25		Juana Salinas
139	56	N	Narciso Vega		64	27		Juliana Benites
120	48	O	Octaviano Garza	        71	30		Juliana Cantu
16	7	P	Prisciliano Garcia	79	33		Jesusa Pena
37	16		Pedro Santos Lozano	115	47		Josefina Garcia
65	27		Pedro Regalado	        129	52		Josefa Regalado
78	32		Pedro Garcia		8	4	L	Luisa Rodriguez
117	47		Porfirio Ramirez	97	40		Luisa Vera
33	14	R	Romulo Hinojosa	        144	58		Lucia Alanis
70	29		Rogelio Gonzalez	13	6	M	Maria Garcia
72	30		Roel Pena		23	10		Maria Alanis
101	41		Ramiro Tanguma	        76	31		Matilde Pena
106	43		Raul Garcia		88	36		Manuela Vela
128	52		Ramon Vera		98	40		Maria Garza
29	13	S	Simon Rios		99	40		Maria Leal
49	21		Santiago Rios		107	43		Marcela Lopez
20	9	V	Valdemar Pena		135	55		Margarita Gonzalez
21	9		Victorino Ramos	        122	49	O	Odilia Cantu
74	31		Vicente Mireles		40	17	P	Piedad Flores
22	10	Z	Zeferino Pena		26	11	R	Rebeca Alanis	
127	51		Zenaido Vera		38	16		Refugio Vela
						83	34		Rafaela Pena
						89	37		Ramona Gonzalez
						63	26	S	Sanjuana Solis
						133	54		Sanjuana Rios
						103	42	T	Tomasa Marroquin
						105	43		Tomasa Alanis
						109	44		Trinidad Garcia
						1	2	V	Victoria Almaraz
						11	5		Valeriana Barrera
						61	25		Verta Cantu
						18	8		Victoria Garcia
Los Aldamas Diciembre 31 de 1923
L. P. Garza

Source: FamilySearch

The following is the 1911 marriage record for my wife’s great grandparents, Jose Francisco Perez and Paula Contreras. I think I am spoiled by Mexican records but I sure was expecting a lot more of information on Texas marriage records. It does not list the parents, where they were from, and their ages. Is there any other records to supplement this marriage record or is this it? I only  know whom their parents were since they are listed on their Death Certificate. Paula and Francisco were only married for ten years since she died in 1921 from a snake byte.

Marriage Record

Copy from the University of Texas Pan American, Edinburg, Texas Microfilm #1016453

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RECORD OF MARRAIGE LICENSES 221

The State of Texas,
County of Starr

To any Regularly Licensed or Ordained Minister of thje Gospel, Jewish Rabbi, Judge of the District or County Court, or any Justice of the Peace in and for Starr County, Texas – GREETING:

YOU ARE HEREBY AUTHORIZED TO CELEBRATE THE RITES OF MATRIMONY Between Mr. Francisco Perez and Miss Paula Contreras and make due return to the Clerk of the County Court of said County within sixty days thereafter, certifying your action under this License. WITNESS MY OFFICIAL SIGNATURE AND SEAL OF OFFICE, At office in Rio Grande City the 23rd day of May A. D. 1911 E. Salinas [ L. S. ] Clerk County Starr County, Texas, By Deputy.

I Transito Villarreal J. P. , certify that on the 24 day of May A. D. 1911 I united in Marriage Mr. Francisco Perez and Miss Paula Contreras the parties above named. WITNESS MY HAND This 25 day of May A. D. 1911 Transito Vilalrreal J. P. Prect No 7. Starr County Texas .

RETURNED AND FILED FOR RECORD The 26th day of May A. D. 1911 , and recorded the 26th day of May A. D. 1911 E. Salinas, County Clerk By Deputy

Other Posts about Francisco and Paula:

Baptism of Jose Francisco Perez Lozano,

Photo of Francisco Perez and Paula Contreras

Several months ago I had called the Starr County Clerk office and inquired if I could have access to their Marriage records. I was told yes and provided with location. I inquired if I could take a scanner, or camera and told that I could not. I asked if they had a copier and was advised that they would make the copy for $20.00. I asked for the prices and it was pretty much $20.00 per copy for any document in their archives. I asked if they could search for it and they said it would be $30.00. As you all know this is just a hobby for me and since I needed several images I opted for not going over since it was also 40 miles away from home.

Don’t feel bad this is not the end of the story, luckily for me, while conducting searches at the University of Texas Pan American’s Catalog I came across this title “Starr county records [microfilm]“. I promptly clicked on it and the following is what I found.

Publication Info. Austin : Texas State Library, 1990.

Description 27 reels

Contents

Film#       Title
1016443 Index to deeds direct vol. 1, 1848-1905; Index to deeds reverse vol. 1, 1848-1909
1016444 Deed record trans. vol. A & E, 1848-1883; Deed record (Orig.) vol. B, 1848-1852
1016445 Deed record (Orig.) vol. C, 1852-1862; vol. D, 1862-1874
1016446 Deed record trans. vol. F, 1879-1885
1016447 Real Estate record trans. vol. G, 1880-1883; vol. H, 1884-1886
1016448 Direct index to Probate minutes vol. 1, 1849-1939; Probate record vol. A, 1848-1861
1016449 Trans. Probate minutes vol. C, 1874-1888; Probate minutes vol. D, 1888-1898
1016450 Probate minutes vol. E, 1898-1907; vol. F, 1907-1915
101641    Index to marriages-males vol. 1, 1858-1972; Index to marriages-females vol. 1, 1858-1972
1016452 Marriage record vol. A, 1858-1872; vol. B, 1872-1889; vol. C, 1882-1893
1016453 Marriage record vol. D, 1893-1902; vol. E, 1902-1907; vol. F, 1907-1916
1016454  Declaration record vol. 1, 1883-1893; vol. 2, 1890-1902
1017265 Judgements & orders vol. 1, 1848-1965; Reverse index to judgements & orders vol. 1, 1848-1965
1017266 District Court record vol. A-1, 1848-1861; District Court minutes vol. A-2, 1848-1857; Trans. District Court record vol. 3-A, 1860-1879; District Court record vol. B, 1879-1866
1017267 District Court minutes vol. C, 1886-1892; vol. D, 1892-1900
1017268 District Court minutes vol. E, 1900-1907; vol. F, 1907-1923
1214-01 Tax rolls, 1849-1887
1214-02 Tax rolls, 1887-1910
Reel 1 & 2 Tax rolls, 1849-1910
2214.01    Survey record index, 1853-1947; Survey record vol. A, 1853-1878; vol. B, 1878-1881; vol. C, 1879-1935
2215.01    Survey record vol. D, 1917-1933; vol. E, 1935-1947; Field notes vol. 1, 1882-1917
2215.03   Survey record vol. A, 1853-1877; vol. B, 1877-1916; vol. C, 1878-1881.

Subject Public records — Law and legislation — Texas — Starr County.Starr County (Tex.) — History — Sources.

If you are into Genealogy like me, then you may already know that this is a treasure trove. Turns out the microfilms 1016452 & 1016453 contained the two marriage records that I was looking for. Guess what I went to the UTPA library and made digital images of the marriage records and all for free. Super convenient since the library is just a few miles away from my workplace.

By the way it took me more time to learn how to use the microfilm reader and computer that what it took to find the marriage records.

So if you are doing research in Starr County this is a great resource to get those needed records.

Happy hunting. If you need for me to look for a record or get you a copy of anything on these microfilms look at my services page for pricing.

1916 Index to Marriages of Mier, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

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					Yndice
Numero				        No. de
de Actas				Fojas
1	Melesio Garcia			1	Manuela Trevino
4	Cesareo Lopez			2	Maria Trevino
6	Tiburcio Cortez			3	Paula Zambrano
9	Sostenes Perez			4	Paula Martinez
10	Santos Gonzalez		        5	Elida Rodriguez
11	Diego Hinojosa			5	Ana Garcia
12	Leonides Cantu			6	Yrene Garcia
14	Alejandro G Guerra		7	Susana Lopez
18	Teofilo Gonzalez		8	Simona Ramirez
19	Pedro Gomez			9	Crisanta Saenz Garcia
25	Roman Olivo			11	Tomasa Perez
26	Alejandrino Ramirez		12	Matilde Hernandez
32	Marcial Garza			14	Modesta Abad
33	Wesceslao Tovar		        15	Lucia Rios
35	Julian Saenz			16	Santos Lopez
37	Eliseo Garcia			17 	Juana Reyna
46	Castulo Garza			21	Juana Garcia
49	Zaragoza Sandoval		23	Rafaela Barrera
50	Julian Garcia			18	Teresa Saenz
51	Miguel Marquez			        Santos Hinojosa
55	Adolfo Hinojosa			        Sanjuna Gomez
56	Gonzalo Garcia				Lilia Hinojosa
60	Exiquio Garza				Herminia Garza
61	Antonio Garza Perez			Cesilia E Hinojosa
66	Cleofas Ramos				Monica Barrera
69	Donato Barrera				Teofila Ramirez
70	Catarino Gonzalez			Amalia Hinojosa
71	Cervando Reyna			        Romualda Olivarez
73	Ernesto Garcia				Ladislada Reyna
77	Leocadio Silva				Silveria Barrera
79	Teodoro Hinojosa			Adela Garcia
83	Felix F Martinez			Otilia S. Salinas
84	Pablo Herrera				Cirila Salinas
88	Antonio Ramos Serna			Maria Ana Barrera
89	Valentin Barrera			Francisca Garcia
90	Gaspar Garcia				Felipa Silva
93	Ysmael Rueda				Lidia V Villarreal
C Mier Tamps Diciembre 31 de 1916
El Presidente Municipal en turno
Nicolas Barrera Hinojosa

The following is the Marriage Record for Apolonio Contreras and Demetria Garza my wife’s 2nd great grandparents. They Married back in 1874 in Starr County, Texas. Several years ago I found the parents of Apolonio on a family tree in ancestry but it is now long gone. Unfortunately I have not found any documents listing his parents to verify that I have the right information and due to this reason I won’t list them here. If anyone has any clues let me know. I know due to Demetria’s death certificate that her parents are Epamuseno Garza and Maria Eugenia Solis. I have yet to also find more information on them.

Marriage Record

Copy from the University of Texas Pan American, Edinburg, Texas Microfilm #1016452

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THE STATE OF TEXAS . . . COUNTY OF STARR

To any Regular Ordained Minister of the Gospel JUDGE OF THE DISTRICT COURT, OR JUSTICE OF THE PEACE: I hereby Authorize any one of you to celebrate the Rite of Matrimony between Apolonio Contreras & Demetria Garza and due return of your proceedings hereon to me, at my Office, make within Sixty Days, as the Law directs.

As Witness Whereof, I, James J. Vex Clerk of the District Court of Starr County, hereto subscribe my name and affix the Seal of said Court, this Fifth day of August A. D. 1874 James J. Vex Clerk [?]

Return. The rite of Matrimony between the above-named parties was duly celebrated by the undersigned J, M. Jaffres, a Roman Catholic Priest on the Seventeenth day of August A. D. 1874 J. M. Jaffes Rio Grande City, August 17, 1874 Catholic Priest

Here is a previous post about them:

Apolonio Contreras de La Garza and Demetria Garza Solis and Their Children

This is the 1909 Civil Registry Death index for Doctor Coss, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. It is listed by alphabetical order.

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Numero	A		Folio	Numero	L		Folio
20	Alanis Eustolia		11 v	1	Lopez Maria		2
		C			28	Leal Soledad Maria	15
45	Cantu Juana		24 f	57	Loepz Teofila		30
46	Carreon Lazaro	        24 v	65	Lora Felipa		34
60	Cantu Nieves Ma	        31 v			M	
63	Cantu Narsisa		33 f	7	Martinez Juan		5
64	Cantu Ygnacio		33 v	24	Morin Donitilo		13
		E			37	Martinez Pedro		29
3	Elizondo Francisco	3 f	40	Martinez Eulalia	22
10	Elizondo Juana		6 v			P
		F			2	Pena Areopagita	        2
23	Flores Bonifacia	13 f	52	Pena Manuela		27
54	Flores Aurora		28 v			R
		G			5	Ramos Lus la de Ma	4
9	Garcia Juana		6 f	8	Reyna Elias		5
14	Garcia Santos Jose	8 v	11	Reyna Rosendo	        7
17	Garcia Eulogio		10 f	12	Reyna Castola		7
18	Gonzalez Romana	        10 v	13	Reyna Elvira		8
22	Gonzalez Eustorgio	12 f	15	Reyna Federico	        9
31	Garcia Manuela	        17 f	26	Reyna Josefa		14
32	Garcia Julian		17 v	27	Reyna Paula		15
33	Garcia Jesus de Ma	18 f	35	Rios Nepomuceno	        19
34	Guerra Emilia		18 v	42	Reyna Refugio Jose	22
39	Garcia Maria		21 f	53	Rios Tranquilino	28
43	Guerra Marta		23 f			S
44	Gonzalez Cristoval	23 f	29	Salinas Juan		16
47	Garcia Pablo		25 f	30	Salinas Justa		16
48	Gutierrez Brigida	25 v	38	Solis Ramon		20
50	Garcia Paula		26 v	41	Salinas Celestina	22
55	Garcia Crecencia 	29 f	49	Salinas Bernardo	26
58	Garza Cruz Maria	30 v	51	Solis Severo		27
59	Garcia Barbara		31 f	56	Salinas Evangelina	22
					62	Solis Narsiso		32
		T					U
4	Trigo Alfredo		3 v	25	Uribe Antonia		14 f
6	Trevino Lus Jose	4 v			V
19	Trevino Jose		11 f	16	Vasques Ysabel Jose	9 v
21	Trevino Ygnacio	        12 f	
36	Trigo Lus la de Maria	19 v
61	Trevino Justa		32 f

Source: FamilySearch

Believe it or not there are many people in South Texas and Northeastern Mexico with Irish ancestors. I know this because of this regions rich history and the names that I occasionally come across on the church and civil indexes.

On the 8th of January Chris Paton made me aware through Google+ about Irish Lives Remembered a Genealogy Community and its free magazine.

I already downloaded two issues and they are great. Even if you don’t have Irish ancestors I recommend you read them since it is always helpful to see whats available and the stories are great.

You can visit this website here http://irishlivesremembered.com/magazines.html and can read more about the Irish in Mexico at wikipidia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_immigration_to_Mexico.

Have fun and enjoy!

Earlier today I received the following email from Crispin Rendon. It is his review of the just released book named, Nuevo Leon: Causas Criminales 1600 to 1900 it literally translates to Nuevo Leon: Criminal cases 1600 to 1900. After you read the email you can read my opinion about the book.

Email from Crispin Rendon:

This email is going out to everyone in my genealogy address book.

I think some of you may be interested.

There is no need to respond.

Nuevo Leon Crime Book Review

Nuevo León: Causas Criminales 1600 a 1900

Book in pdf format sold at $73.32 U.S. Dollars (I used PayPal)

The book was sent as an email attachment (no shipping fee required)

http://www.Genealogia.org.mx

For further information contact

Benicio Samuel Sanchez

Genealogista e Historiador Familiar

Email: samuelsanchez@genealogia.org.mx

This book is 568 pages without an index but could have been 200 with some judicious formatting changes.

This book is a listing of criminal cases from the Mexican State of Nuveo Leon.

A total of 1,106 criminal cases dating from Nov 23, 1621 to Apr 19 1897

1600s(186 cases)

1700s(456 cases)

1800s(464 cases)

Each case is laid out in the follow data fields:

Fondo, Seccion de Fondo, Serie, Titulo, Lenga, Luga, Fecha, Fojas, Coleccion, Volumen, Expediente, Folio, Notas, Descipcion.

All of the Lengua fields have “ESPAÑOL” and all of Coleccion fields have “CAUSAS CRIMINALES”. (Word Bloat?)

24 records have no title or description given.

Inconsistent use of accents marks make a pdf reader Seach feature a hit or miss.

If you search for Valle de PILON your search will miss VALLE DEL PILÓN

Descriptions are short and may be identical to the title field.

The large Genealogia logo watermark found centered on each page is sure to annoy most readers

This book could benefit from some more editing.

Why is this book important?

I see it as a valuable resource.

Today, we learn about crime from newspapers, television and radio. Why is it presented to us at all?

I think it is because we want to know about it! If daily crime is not enough for us, we read crime novels.

I read the whole book in two days. That is more crime than you will every find in a crime novel.

There is little or no genealogy information in this book but I found some of the people presented in this book also in my genealogy database. Some were criminals and others victims.

One women, appearing in this book also will be found in my soon to appear “Families of Salinas Victoria” book. She beat her servant to death.

Juliana de las Casas, who is an ancestor to thousands of people in my database, appears as a victim.

There are few other cases of people found in my records.

The bottom line is if you want to know more about any of these crimes you have the details in the book for how to find it in the archives.

Best Regards,

Crispin Rendon

My Opinion:

I hope that this email either helps you decide as to weather buy the book or not. A few days ago I saw Benicio’s post on his website and thus was excited just by the name of the book, but then when he showed a sample of one of the entries I made up my mind to not even bother with it. Since I immediately recognized that it had the same format from the Archives of Monterrey Website. You can get the link on my previous post Archivos Historicos de Monterrey – Historical Archives of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico but, I might be mistaken.

Once you are at the Website for the Monterrey Archives, you can select Spanol as Lengua and then Colleccion Causas Criminales and finally press buscar and you will get the hundreds if not thousands of cases not just of Monterrey but surrounding localities such as Cerralvo.

What I am really exited and can’t wait for is Crispin’s book, Families of Salinas Victoria. His books are the best! Please leave your comments on the comment section.

1924 Birth Index of Los Aldamas Nuevo Leon, Mexico in lists by male and female and in alphabetical order.

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 FamilySearch > Mexico, Nuevo León, Civil Registration, 1859-1962 >

Los Aldamas > Nacimientos 1909 – 1924

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Num Foja Folio Hombres Num Foja Letra Mujeres

2	2	A	Alfonso Amaro		18	8	A	Avelina Pena
5	3		Arcadio Pena		31	13		Antonia Lopez
56	22		Antonio Salinas		76	29		Amparo Torres
63	24		Antonio Lopez		20	9	B	Benita Alanis
22	9	B	Benito Pulido		45	18	C	Constancia Vera
70	27		Benito Gonzalez	        46	18		Carmen Martinez
77	30		Bernabe Barrera	        81	31		Carmen Salinas
118	45		Bonifacio Martinez	120	46		Conzuelo Garza
7	4	C	Cecilio Garcia		26	11	D	Dolores Perez
12	6		Candelario Garcia	50	20		Donitila Sepulveda
106	47		Canuto Gonzalez	        116	44		Dominga Martinez
19	8	D	Domingo Martinez	1	2	E	Elisa Ofelia Pena
72	28		Donitilo Rios		8	4		Eustolia Maria Lopez
39	15	E	Eusebio Alanis		32	13		Erlinda Salinas
42	17	F	Francisco Alanis	41	16		Elida Garza Pena
43	17		Francisco Guerra	48	19		Emma Gonzalez
57	22		Felipe Ibanes		51	20		Ernestina Cantu
61	24		Federico Garza		65	25		Enriqueta Gonzalez
113	43		Fernando Chapa	        71	27		Elida Garza
55	21	G	Gregorio Aguilar	78	30		Ernestina S Regalado
97	37		Guadalupe Ramirez	33	13	F	Francisca Pena
123	47		Gustavo Pena		67	26		Filomena Garcia
25	10	H	Hipolito Alanis		54	21	G	Gloria Chavarria
73	28		Horacio Garza		66	25		Guadalupe Salinas
79	30		Hector Garza		83	32		Guillerma Garcia
27	11	J	Juan de Dios Salinas	119	45		Guadalupe Garcia
29	12		Jorge Martinez		122	46		Guadalupe Trevino
40	16		Jesus Zeferino Perez	24	10	H	Horalia Alanis
74	29		Jesus Garcia		85	33		Herminia Lopez
87	33		Jose Elizondo		62	24	Y	Yolanda Ofelia Vela
91	35		Jacinto Benites		35	14	J	Josefa Garcia
92	35		Juan Garcia		47	18		Jesusa Trevino
98	37		Jose Cantu		58	22		Juana Rodriguez
111	42		Justo Martinez		69	27		Josefina Leal
96	37	L	Lucio Medina		102	39		Josefa Rios
101	39		Lus Garcia		30	12	L	Lus Bernal
3	2	M	Manuel Garcia		15	7		Luisa Leal
75	29		Manuel Vera Hinojosa	23	10	M	Madrona Lopez
110	42		Manuel Pena Pena	28	12		Maria Martinez Gonzalez
59	23	O	Ovidio Pena		36	14		Margarita Pena
100	38		Olegario Cantu		52	20		Margarita Alanis
9	5	P	Pablo Rios		64	25		Maria Luisa Alanis
16	7	R	Regino Salinas		80	31		Maria Deidad Barrera
21	9		Rafael Lopez		86	33		Manuela Cantu
34	14		Ramiro Garcia		90	34		Maria Esperanza P Gomez
38	15		Raul Hinojosa		93	36		Maria Isabel Gutierrez
49	19		Raul Garza		114	44		Maria Gutierrez
53	21	R	Romeo Salinas		115	44		Maria del Socorro Gonzalez
95	36		Ramiro Cavazos	        117	45		Maria Martinez
105	40		Rodolfo Garza		121	46		Minerva Gonzalez
107	41		Roberto Pena		4	3	O	Otila Garza
108	41		Ramon Salinas		13	6		Ovidia Leal
112	43		Refugio Ramos		6	3	P	Paula Lozano
94	36	S	Serafin Pena		14	7		Petra Salinas
104	40		Santos Mendoza	        17	8		Paula Garza
109	42		Severo Alanis		44	17		Paula Pena
10	5	V	Valdemar Vera		68	26		Pura Delfa Rios
60	23	Z	Zaragoza Alanis 	82	32		Paula Vera
						88	34		Paula Lopez
						37	15	R	Rosalia Garcia
						89	34		Rosa Garza
						103	39		Reofraja salians
						11	5	S	Soledad S. Lopez
						99	38		Simona Rodriguez
						84	32	V	Velia Vera
Los Aldamas Diciembre 31 de 1924
Eulalio Salinas

Source: FamilySearch

The following is a follow up email to the previous email form Crispin Rendon.

A few hours after my book review an upgraded version of the Nuevo Leon crime book arrived by email.

Corrected version (v1.1)

Without Accents (had been a section with accents)

The Logo remains but now as a ghost in the background instead of the bold in you face logo in the earlier version.

Thank you Genealogía de México!

As additional hype for this book see the following two case file descriptions that may interest some of you.

Contra el capitan Francisco Baez de Benavides, Alcalde mayor de las Salinas, sobre arrojo con gente armada a la Hacienda de Platas del Capitan Diego Villarreal extrayendo indebidamente las platas.

Encomienda hecha por el gobernador Juan Perez Merino al caudillo Diego de Ayala, de una rancheria de indios borrados intitulada aniguaras vacante por sentencia de 19 de octubre de 1693, del gobernador, general Pedro Fernandez de la Ventosa, en el pleito seguido entre Leonor de Ayala, vecina de esta ciudad y viuda de Francisco de Escamilla y el capitan Miguel de Escamilla, vecino de la villa de Cadereyta.

Best Regards,

Crispin Rendon

See Previous email:

Nuevo Leon: Causas Criminales 1600 a 1900 – Book Review by Crispin Rendon

I received the following email from George P. Cervantes and I requested him to let me share it with you since the information and links contained in it are excellent. The previous post George is referring to is Convento de San Francisco 1590 to 1914, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

Subject: Location of San Francisco, Monterrey

Hi Moises-

First, thanks for your We Are Cousins blog – a lot of interesting information! I have a number of ancestors on my mom’s side from Tamaulipas/Nuevo Leon. I haven’t seen you mention any of them yet, but we have some ancestors’ last names in common (de la Garza, Guerra, Treviño).

Anyway, I’m just getting you some info on your 12/12/12 post about the location of San Francisco in Monterrey. Maybe you have your answer already, but I found some information on this not-very active blog:

http://clioregio.blogspot.com/2009/10/el-extinto-convento-de-san-andres-de.html

That information seems to place it near the present corner of Calle Ignacio Zaragosa and Calle Melchor Ocampo (which used to be called San Francisco).

This location seems to be verified by this US Naval Intelligence map (click on “Monterey”); it was published in 1919, but it looks like the information was gathered before San Francisco was destroyed. “San Francesco Ch.” is labelled “3″:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/mexico_handbook_1919.html

It also seems to be in this 1905 map in Spanish, where no name is listed, just a cross at the corner of S. Francisco & Zaragosa:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9302991@N05/3561352522/sizes/o/in/pool-471099@N24/

You can see the top of San Francisco to the left in this 1846 print, looking from the area near the Cathedral (the view is looking to the west-northwest, I think):

http://www.djibnet.com/photo/1846/plaza-zaragoza-monterrey-g-w-endicott-1846-3642634670.html#

and here’s a 1909 photo, from a distance – it’s in the middle right of the

photo:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/italintheheart/3582796621/in/pool-monterrey_antiguo

So…it looks to me like San Francisco was located in the middle of what’s now Calle Ignacio Zaragosa, just south of present-day Calle Melchor Ocampo; probably facing more or less north (facing up Zaragosa). And, sadly, the building appears to be all gone – to say nothing of all the people buried there. According to the first article I mentioned, some of the artifacts are in the Museo del Obispado.

I hope this is helpful. Thanks again for your work on the blog!

-George P. Cervantes

Once again thanks George for the excellent information, I hope that you all found it helpful and informative as I did.

Here is a Picture/Drawing of the Convent of San Francisco

The Following is an overlay of a 1905 map and a 2006 map of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. 

X marks the location where the church was in 1905 and the current location today of where it would stand if it would have had not been demolished.

I grew up in La Grulla, in South Texas. This small quiet town is only a few miles away from the river bordering Mexico and about 60 miles from where I was born and raised. When I was going through Jr. High I used to see the following mural each day for three years, 6th – 8th grade, and never got tired of seeing it. It would cause many questions and also remind me of the small Mexican town of El Arcabuz. El Arcabuz used to have a similar mural but instead of depicting the heritage of its area as the following picture does.  The one in El Arcabuz depicted the rise and birth of a nation, depicting characters as Miguel Hidalgo and Benito Juarez. I wish I had a picture of the one in Arcabuz but I don’t, I asked on their facebook page to see if anyone has one.

This is the Mural at the La Grulla Middle School taken by Jimmy Martinez

You can see Jimmy’s post in Facebook and according to comments on face book the mural was painted in 1976 – 1978 by  Mr. Sergio Higareda.

As you can see the mural depicts this areas rich heritage and history. Starting with the indigenous people and then the effort of the church to Christianize them. Then we see the the Spaniard rule by the sword and the ranching that ensued. Then this area became part of the United States and towards the end we see farming that still continues to this date. Finally science and education.

1917 Index to Marriages of Mier, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

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Numero				
de Actas			Yndice
2	Andres Garza			Merarda Ramirez
55	Amando Ramirez		        Silvada Garcia
76	Abelardo Arizpe		        Jose Tamez
9	Candelario Garcia		Casimira Palacios
24	Eusebio Maldonado		Felicitas Guerra
51	Eulalio Lozano			Leonor Lopez
52	Eleuterio Leal			Margarita Olivo
81	Exiquio Garza			Barbarita Guerrero
10	Florencio Garza		        Sara Gonzalez
21	Fructuoso Barrera		Maria de Jesus Canales
31	Felix Garcia			Antonia Salinas
36	Fermin Nava			Emeteria Vega
39	Federico Hinojosa		Luisa Barrera
41	Felipe Gonzalez		        Juana Pena
56	Francisco Barrera Vela		Ramona Saenz
59	Felipe Lopez			Guadalupe Marquez
63	Fidencio Garza			Petra Garcia
77	Felipe Barron			Ruperta de Leon
15	Hermenegildo Elizondo		Aurora Garcia Salinas
43	Ynes Alanis			Estefana Trevino
3	Jose Maria Barrera		Guadalupe Gutierrez
7	Jose Maria Ramirez		Delfina Rodriguez
28	Jose Angel de la Garza		Elena Garza
57	Jose Garcia			Candelaria Gonzalez
26	Manuel Trevino			Mauricia Hinojosa
29	Natividad Gonzalez		Viviana Hinojosa
5	Octavio Saenz			Herminia Canales
65	Pablo Gonzalez			Cristina Barrera
68	Pablo Gonzalez			Luisa Lopez
13	Roman Hernandez		        Otilia Mascorro
64	Santiago Jaime			Maria Jaime
48	Urbano Garza			Adelfa Hinojosa
20	Valente Salinas			Rosa Pruneda
60	Wistano Garza			Loreto Guerra
C. MIer Diciembre 31 de 1917
El Juez Civil
Joaquin Ramirez

On a previous post I wrote about the Starr County records available at the University of Texas Pan American. On this post I will let you know what records are available on microfilm concerning Hidalgo County, Texas.

The Following is what I found on their Catalog:

Publication Info. Austin : Texas State Library, 1990.

Description 43 reels

Contents
1017237 Deed records, 1852-1927
1017238 Index to deeds direct vol. D-H, 1852-1927
1017239 Index to deeds direct vol. I-M, 1852-1927
1017240 Index to deeds direct vol. N-S, 1852-1927
1017241 Index to deeds direct vol. T-Z, 1852-1927
1017242 Index to deed reverse vol. A-C, 1852-1927
1017243 Index to deeds reverse vol. D-H, 1852-1927
1017244 Index to deeds reverse vol, I-R, 1852-1927
1017245 Index to deeds reverse vol. S-Z, 1852-1927
1017246 Index to deeds direct vol. C, 1852-1927
1017247 Deed record vol. A, 1852-1883; vol. B, 1853-1883; vol. C, 1877-1882
1017248 Deed record vol. D, 1882-1888
1017249 Deed record transcript vol. A, 1854-1896; suppl. vol. B, 1880-1912
1017250 Deed record transcript vol. A-B, 1852-1883; C-D, 1877-1888
1017251 Index to maps, 1800′s-1900′s
1017252 General index to marriages vol. A-Z, 1869-1857
1017253 Marriage record vol. A, 1852-1869; vol. B, 1869-1883; vol. C, 1880-1882; vol. D, 1883-1888
1017254 Index to probate minutes, 1800′s-1900′s; Probate minutes vol. A, 1852-1880; vol. A-1, 1853-1880; vol. B, 1880-1891

1017255 Probate minutes vol. C, 1889-1904; vol. D, 1904-1911
1017256 Index to civil minutes, 1800′s-1900′s; Inventory record vol. B, 1881-1913; Minutes of County Court, 1852-1878; Minutes of County Court vol. B, 1876-1894; Minutes of County Court vol. 2, 1895-1915
1017257 District and County Court minutes vol. A, 1853-1866; District Court minutes vol. B, 1887-1898
1017258 District Court minutes vol. D, 1899-1912
110801 Tax rolls Jesus Acuna-Diego Perez, 1852-1905
110802 Tax rolls Ventura Yanez-Railroad, Telegraph…, 1905-1910
2108.01 Survey record index, 1881-1921; Jim Hogg County Survey record, 1913-1941
2108.02 Field notes vol. B, 1881-1905; vol. C, 1896-1941; vol. D, 1883-1890.

Subject Public records — Law and legislation — Texas — Hidalgo County. Hidalgo County (Tex.) — History — Sources.
Other Title Texas county records

Happy hunting for those records. If you need for me to look for a record or get you a copy of anything on these microfilms look at my services page for pricing.

This is the 1910 Civil Registry Death index for Doctor Coss, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. It is listed by alphabetical order.

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No. de No. de

Acta					Folio	Actas				Folio
		A					G
5 	Alanis Tomasa			4 f	44	Garcia Tomasa		23 v
18	Alanis Lidia			10 v			H
		B				2	Hinojosa Leonor Ma.	2 v
8	Bustamante Consuelo		5 v			M
41	Balderas Jose			22 f	17	Martinez Lus de la Ma	10 f
10	Balderas Venancio		6 v			P
		C				24	Pena Lorenza		13 v
19	Cantu Tomas			11 f	28	Pena Francisca		15 v
21	Cantu Teresa			12 f	29	Pena Mateo		16 f
25	Cantu Eulalia			14 f	45	Pena Rodolfo		24 f
		Ch				49	Pena Serafin		26 f
35	Chapa Ramon			19 f			R		
		E				1	Reyna Alvara		2 f
6	Eliseo Angeles los de Ma	4 v	14	Rios Tomasa		8 v
46	Edesma Magdalena		24 v	31	Rios Bruna		17 f
47	Edesma Genaro		        25 f	32	Rios Marta		17 v
48	Edesma Baltasar		        25 v	42	Reyna Enriqueta	22 v
		F						S
16	Flores Eleuteria		9 v	15	Salinas Romana	        9 f
		G				22	Salinas Santos Jose	12 v
3	Garcia Lorensa			3 f	30	Saens Concepcion Ma	16 v
12	Guerra Rosario Ma		7v	33	Salians Merced Jose	18 f
13	Gomes Dolores Ma		8 f	34	Salinas Maria		18 v
20	Garcia Ygnacio			11 v	38	Solis Gertrudis Ma	20 v
23	Garza Merced Jose		13 f			T
26	Garza Tomasa			14 v	4	Trevino Juan		3 v
27	Garcia Lasaro			15 f	7	Trevino Agustin		5 f
36	Guerra Nicolas			19 v	9	Trigo German		6 f
37	Guerra Pilar Ma		        20 f	11	Trevino Jacinta		7 f
39	Garcia Rafael			21f	
40	Gonzalez Ramona		        21 v
43	Garcia Jose			23 f

Source: FamilySearch

The following is the 1741 church death record for my wife’s 7th great grandfather Nicolas de Ayala. The following document also indicates that his wife was Antonia de la Garza. The document also indicates that he left a will which I have yet to find. Also he names his sons Joseph Baptista and Caietano de Ayala as his executors. It is interesting to note that Nicolas is my 10th great grand uncle since he was the brother of Catalina de Ayala my 10th great grandmother and yes their parents are our common ancestors.

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Dn Nicolas de Ayala esp.l

En veinte y sinco de Abril de setecientos quarenta y un anos seledio sepultura en el tercero Cuerpo de esta Yglesia con Cruz alta a Dn Nicolas de Ayala viudo de Da Antonia de la Garza vecinos que fueron de esta Ciudad sele administraron los Stos. Sacramtos. seledixo y vigilia como lo pidio en su memoria testamentaria que hizo ante el Alcalde Ordinario de Primer Voto Dr Franco Sanchez de Robles enlaque dexo a las mandas forzosas a do reales y por Albezeas a Dn Jun Baptista y Caietano de Ayala sus hijos y porque conste lo firme =

Br Juan Baez Trevino

Source: FamilySearch