Por ernestrvicencio | 3:15 PM MST, Mar Junio 05, 2012
I would like to know how to access the Church records so that I can research my paternal grand parents.
Looking for records for the Eugenio Vicencio family.
Juan Carrillo. I might add that church record keepers approach their logs a bit different. In some records I found a list of the names as an index at the beginning of the year. In others, one has to go page by page looking for the name. Be aware that on occasion the names are spelled differently than how we might be spelling. For instance, my abuela was named "Florencia", the records show her as "Lorenza". The handwriting can be challenging because of the styles used. Example (and there are many): an f and a capital S, or a z, etc. On occasion you find what appears to be a relative as a witness or a godparent at another person's baptism or wedding. May be more true in small towns or ranchos. Be prepared to spend a good deal of time.
then click the part of guadalajara they came fromn, and see if you can find a collection of baptismal records that contain the years they were born. if not then search for both of their parents(if you know their names and birth year and month of course. the reason why i didn't say birthday since the baptismal day isn't usually on the child's birthday, it's sometime after, like a couple days, perhaps weeks)
Katy, I want to thank you for sharing the link to the baptismal records in Guadalajara. I was able to find the baptism records of my husband's maternal grandmother, Altagracia Miramontes. She was born in November 1909 in Colotlan.
We had only the name of her father. For some reason, no one in the family knew her mother's name. In this one simple handwritten record, we were able to confirm the city in which she was born; we learned her mother's name, and we learned the name of all of her grandparents' names. I was so excited to find the information, I almost called the whole family at midnight! I was nice to them and waited until morning.
Next, we are going to look for her husband's records. His name was Emilio Valdivia, and we think he was from Totatiche. We do know he was in the seminary in Totatiche at the time of the Cristero War and had to flee to keep from being killed. I hope to find more information about his family.
Again, thank you for sharing the link. It has really helped me!!!
Catholic Church records
Juan Carrillo. I might add that church record keepers approach their logs a bit different. In some records I found a list of the names as an index at the beginning of the year. In others, one has to go page by page looking for the name. Be aware that on occasion the names are spelled differently than how we might be spelling. For instance, my abuela was named "Florencia", the records show her as "Lorenza". The handwriting can be challenging because of the styles used. Example (and there are many): an f and a capital S, or a z, etc. On occasion you find what appears to be a relative as a witness or a godparent at another person's baptism or wedding. May be more true in small towns or ranchos. Be prepared to spend a good deal of time.
Catholic Church records in
go to the link below, then click the municupality you want to look for records in(in your case click guadalajara)
https://www.familysearch.org/search/image/index#uri=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.f…
then click the part of guadalajara they came fromn, and see if you can find a collection of baptismal records that contain the years they were born. if not then search for both of their parents(if you know their names and birth year and month of course. the reason why i didn't say birthday since the baptismal day isn't usually on the child's birthday, it's sometime after, like a couple days, perhaps weeks)
Baptismal Records
Kathleen Gutierrez
Katy, I want to thank you for sharing the link to the baptismal records in Guadalajara. I was able to find the baptism records of my husband's maternal grandmother, Altagracia Miramontes. She was born in November 1909 in Colotlan.
We had only the name of her father. For some reason, no one in the family knew her mother's name. In this one simple handwritten record, we were able to confirm the city in which she was born; we learned her mother's name, and we learned the name of all of her grandparents' names. I was so excited to find the information, I almost called the whole family at midnight! I was nice to them and waited until morning.
Next, we are going to look for her husband's records. His name was Emilio Valdivia, and we think he was from Totatiche. We do know he was in the seminary in Totatiche at the time of the Cristero War and had to flee to keep from being killed. I hope to find more information about his family.
Again, thank you for sharing the link. It has really helped me!!!
Kathy Hargrove Gutierrez