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Genealogy is the practice of finding out more about your ancestors and where you came from.

Marriage of Jose Maria Navarro and Maria Ramos

Posted on July 16, 2022July 24, 2022 by Corey

Number one. Act of presentation of Citizen Jose Maria Navarro and Miss Maria Ramos. Number one. At the Mineral of Guadalupe y Calvo, at half past eleven in the morning, corresponding to January 5, 1907, before me, Julio Oroco, Judge of the Civil Status of this place by virtue of the law, appeared stating his…

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Preserving the Work: My Current Methodology

Posted on July 16, 2022July 16, 2022 by Corey

Let’s have a conversation about documentation and preserving the work. I recently attended a special interest class hosted by the Colorado Genealogical Society entitled “Disaster Proofing Your Research”. The speaker, Sarah Cochran, is a full-time professional genealogist with twenty-five years’ worth of research experience. It was very interesting to see how she, personally, tackled record…

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José Onesimo Pacheco: Part One, Birth to World War I

Posted on June 30, 2022August 8, 2022 by Corey

Two miles southeast of the town of Gardner, Colorado was once a town of Hispanic families known as Chavez.1 The word itself has roots in the Spanish and Portuguese language meaning “keys” and as with many surnames, was a trade that evolved into a surname.2 The history of the Hispanic settlers of the area is…

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Otero County Marriage Research Guide

Posted on June 24, 2022June 24, 2022 by Corey

Back in 2007, I was a coordinator for the Otero County COGenWeb Project. I did not have the time to maintain and grow the website, so it was passed on to someone else. I wrote the following Otero County Marriage Research Guide. I have updated as the information for the CD-ROM, for as of today,…

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Otero County Census Research Guide

Posted on June 24, 2022June 24, 2022 by Corey

Back in 2007, I was a coordinator for the Otero County COGenWeb Project. I did not have the time to maintain and grow the website, so it was passed on to someone else. I wrote the following Otero County Census Research Guide that is still good information, so I am sharing it here. While the…

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My Genealogy Books: El Cerrito, New Mexico

Posted on June 12, 2022June 24, 2022 by Corey

There are a few genealogy books that I have on my bookshelf. El Cerrito, New Mexico Eight Generations in a Spanish Village by Richard L. Nostrand is one that I have purchased four times, because each time I have shared it with someone in family, they inevitability keep it for themselves. The book is the…

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Baptismal Record for Piedad Duran

Posted on May 22, 2022June 24, 2022 by Corey

My Spanish language skills are nonexistent; yet the classes I did take in school helped me enough to make sure Google Translate wasn’t translating garbage. Junio 2 Ma. Piedad Duran En esta parroquia de Taos, a los dos día del mes de Junio de mil ochocientos sesenta y siete yo el párroco Gabriel Ussel bautise…

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  • Preserving the Work: My Current Methodology
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