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Are Sebastián Pérez (m. Isabel de Ávalos) & Sebastián Pérez (m. Leanor Ruvalcaba) the same person?

I’d really appreciate serious researchers’ thoughts on this Sebastián Pérez question.

Having reviewed the reconstructed family trees, baptism and marriage dates, and the various dispensas, it has become increasingly apparent to me that Sebastián Pérez, husban...


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Introduction: Researching Rosales, Dueñas, Saldívar & Valadez (Asientos, AGS / Ojo Caliente & Bimbaletes, ZAC)

Hello Everyone,

My name is Norma  (Username: Normrivmat), and I am very grateful to be accepted into the Nuestros Ranchos community. My research focuses heavily on the border regions of eastern Aguascalientes and southeastern Zacatecas, specifically a...


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NuestrosRanchos Website - High-Traffic

All,

As one of several administrators of this NuestrosRanchos website, I recently began summarizing stats of how often this website is accessed.

Daily member logins are only a small portion of how often this site is visited and utilized. NuestrosRanchos is considered a high-traffic website.

The large number of w...


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Cargo de Lanzas

While doing research for my upcoming book on the Marquisate of Pánuco, title of my ancestors, I stumbled upon an interesting primary-source entry in the Viceregal Correspondence (Correspondencia de Virreyes, Mexico, 1778) detailing the 1777 "Cargo de Lanzas" for New Spain.

For context, the Cargo de Lanzas (or Servicio de Lanzas) was a direct tax on tit...


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María Rojas de López Portillo

I would like to share this, for the sake of keeping the memory of the ancestors alive. 

The empress Charlotte of Belgium had the kindness to appoint my fifth great-grandmother, María Rojas de López Portillo (wife of Jesús López Portillo y Serrano, state councilor to Emperor Maximilian and his imperial prefect, Governor of Jalisco), as on...


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