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Over a year ago I created Las Villas del Norte in order to provide everyone in the United States with a website that would offer what a real brick and mortar Genealogy Society offers but on a digital platform. You can say that our headquarters is LasVillasDelNorte.com
We do hold monthly meetings at the Speer…
This is the mtDNA report of Cayetana Flores Valdez that was prepared by Crispin Rendon and it contains the first 10 generations of female descendants.
Below i included a portion of the introduction page so that you can get a first hand account from Crispin Rendon about this particular DNA report.
Here is what Crispin has to say about the…
Juan Jesus de Leon published another free eBook about the Leal and De leon. The title of this free eBook is “Bautizos de Cadereyta Jimenez N. L. 1835 – 1842 Personas con Apellido Leal y de Leon”. Make sure to download it to your computer and save your own copy because nothing on the internet lasts for ever, get my…
Follow Marie Theresa Hernández as she explores how the folktales of Nuevo León that encode aspects of Nuevolenese identity have been lost, repressed, or fetishized in “legitimate” histories of the region.
I had no idea that this book even existed but that changed when I attended the 36th Annual Texas State Hispanic Genealogical and Historical Conference when I meet Marie…
Juan Jesus de Leon has published another free eBook about the Leal and De leon. It is titled “Matrimonios de Cadereyta Jimenez N. L. 1828 – 1849 Personas con Apellido Leal y de Leon”. Make sure to download it to your computer and save your own copy because nothing on the internet last for ever.
Short introduction by Juan Jesus…
Families of Vallecillo, Nuevo Leon, Mexico Volume Two is out. Crispin Rendon just published it yesterday. If your family is from Vallecillo or it’s surrounding area make sure to get a copy of this resource.
Even if they are not, make sure to download this eBook, you never know your research may one day take you to Vallecillo and it…
I just wanted to let you know that Juan Jesus de Leon has published another free eBook about the Leal and De leon. It is titled “Matrimonios de Cadereyta Jimenez N. L. 1710 – 1795 Personas con Apellido Leal y de Leon”. Make sure to download it to your computer and save your own copy because nothing on the internet…
This is a great resource made by Juan Jesus de Leon. He made this resource for his own genealogical research and asked me to share it with you in the hopes that it might also help you in case you are researching the De Leon last name in the Montemorelos area.
Here are some words from Juan Jesus de Leon…
I came across the San Fernando Church Baptismals covering 1731 to 1812 a couple of weeks ago. I know that many of the We Are Cousins readers are from the San Antonio area and many of them have very deep roots in Texas going back to the first families whom settled this area. I had the pleasure of meeting many…
If you are into genealogy as I am, then you may have had been waiting for this eBook from Crispin. Without fail Crispin has, with this one, published 10 eBooks straight. I had the pleasure and honor of meeting Crispin Rendon on the 35th Annual Texas Hispanic Genealogical and Historical Conference. He is a very down to earth person and…
While researching my own family genealogy I came across a database that I had not come across before. It contained great information and not to mention I got many new clues as to where to search for documents.
If it was helpful to me, I think it can also be of help to you. The name of this database is…
I want to thank Marlene Pegg, editor of Genealogical Tips, for sending me the latest Issue of their publication. This issue covers January through February and is jam-packed with great genealogy tips and resources that are available out there. Bellow I have included the table of contents so that you may see the type of stories that they publish. One…
The following is a list comprising of the 58 families listed on the 1757 Census of Revilla/Guerrero. This census was part of areport done by Captain Jose Tienda de Cuervo where he provides information on the General State of the Villas del Norte which had been founded by Jose de Escandon years earlier.
It is interesting to not that even-though…
When doing Mexico Genealogy, in search of our ancestry, maps can be of great benefit and help. Specially since towns do change names. The following are two maps one is dated 1858 and the other 1886 both published by Garcia Cubas, Antonio, 1832-1912.
It is interesting to see how the names of towns changed in just a span of almost…
This is the 1921 Civil Registry Death Index for Doctor Coss, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. It is listed by alphabetical order. You can find the original images used for this index at FamilySearch, Mexico, Nuevo León, Civil Registration, 1859-1962 > Doctor Coss > Defunciones 1911-1940 Pg 272 and 273.…
