Tag Archives: Northeastern Mexico

Las Villas del Norte Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 2 – June 2015

This past Monday Las Villas del Norte published their June newsletter. Here is more information about it just in case that you may be interested in getting a copy of it. It contains information about their last three presentations and something that may be of great interest to you is that it contains family groups of some first settlers of…

Families of Saltillo Coahuila Volume Fifteen by Crispin Rendon

Yesterday I received an email from Crispin Rendon letting me know that he had just published his fifteen book on his series on the Families of Saltillo Coahuila Mexico. I sincerely hope that you have been following this series and have downloaded your copy of each volume. These volumes as I mention every time are invaluable and can be vital…

WAC-24: The Plan of San Diego “Balo’s War”, with Alfredo Cardenas

Play Podcast: Summary: In this episode Moises talks with Alfredo Cardenas the author of “Balo’s War: A Novel About the Plan of San Diego”. They talk about Alfredo’s blog Soy de Duval and his upcoming Historical Novel. Show Notes: This is session number 24 This podcast’s main topic will be an interview with Alfredo Cardenas concerning The Plan of…

La Herencia de Los Longoria by Noe Gonzalez Salazar

Are you researching your family genealogy? Specially the ones with the Longoria last name whom were from the Camargo and South Texas area. If so, you might want to check this book out. It contains great Genealogical information and land grant information. This book also contains information on the authors other family lines all leading up to the Longorias. Here…

RGV HGS Meeting, Ranching and The Province of Nuevo Santander

This past Sunday I attended the Rio Grande Valley Hispanic Genealogical Association’s meeting at the Harlingen Public Library. The presenter was Elizandro Munoz whom is an assistant professor of History at South Texas College for the Weslaco campus. His presentation was titled Ranching and The Province of Nuevo Santander. Overall Points of the Presentation: Mr. Munoz explained how the Spanish…

Spanish Colonial Ranching Communities a Dissertation by Mary Jo Galindo

Anyone doing Genealogy research in South Texas and Northeastern Mexico at one point, while doing research, cannot help but stumble into Mary Jo Galindo’s Dissertation “Con Un Pie En Cada Lado: Ethnicities and the Archaeology of Spanish Colonial Ranching Communities Along the Lower Río Grande Valley” which is a great 353 page work about South Texas and Northeastern Mexico Ranching…

Raul Longoria’s Website

A Great Resource for South Texas and Northeastern Mexico Genealogy For all of you who may barely be getting their feet wet into their own family genealogy and or family history, here is another great resource that I have used many times over and over again. The resource that I want to make you aware of is Raul Longoria’s Website…

John Wilmot’s Genealogy Notebook

There are not many South Texas and Northeastern Mexico Genealogy blogs out there and coming across one is pretty exciting. If you have not done so yet I highly recommend that you check John Wilmot’s Blog JOHN WILMOT’S GENEALOGY NOTEBOOK. Mr. Wilmot describes his blog as: This blog was created simply to share the many notes and documents I gather…

South Texas and Northeastern Mexico Genealogy

Hi there, Thanks for dropping by and I hope that you may find this website informative and useful. Why I started this blog: Welcome to We Are Cousins, after much thought I saw the need to create a blog that would not only serve as a place to document my research, family stories, but also a resource to those interested…