Karen, Thank you! I needed to laugh and your comsumption story did it! Linda

hi as to the family, archuleta , great grand parentes , this is the name that is on the marriage of there son juan fransico archuleta, parentes were ,,, juan andres archuleta wife was manuel ( moya ) archuleta . the other names they have down for his parentes were , fernandez archuleta and wife manuel valdez, ???? can some one help me out as to why the names do not match up ,,,,,,,,, my mother name is leonarda eva ( archuleta ) rodriguez her father name was macario archuleta and his father was, juan fransico archuleta my grand father told my mother family stories , and some names, he did tell my mother that grand parentes were , juan andres archuleta and manuela ( moya ) archuleta , ?? if any one can help out as to why the names do not match up , thank you , form, ben s rodriguez 2004 lancey dr, modesto ca, 95355 _bensrod@aol.com_ (mailto:bensrod@aol.com) thank you, BEN S RODRIGUEZ

This is to good not to share! Karen Avoid Cannibals By Molly Ford in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA While helping a sister-in-law, who had no family history experience, search through cemetery records, we came upon the death record of one of her ancestors. The information said that he had died of consumption. My sister-in-law fell back in her chair, her mouth fell open and she unbelievably ask, "You mean, someone ate him?"

The Family History Center has started an ambitious project to index and place online, for free, their entire collection of genealogical records. They have started this project with a restricted number of volunteers. Once they are sure everything is working correctly they will open the project up to all volunteers to help with the indexing. They provide a program that is to be used to create the indexes. The volunteer, at their convenience, will download a batch of records that will take about 30 minutes to index, at least according to them. The program they provide will display the downloaded records on the bottom half of the screen. The top half of the screen contains a form where the volunteer enters the information needed for the index. For more information go to this website: http://www.ldsindexing.org/ At the bottom of the page a Get Started Today. Clicking this link takes you to another page. At the bottom of that page it tells you how you can sign up to be notified when world wide participation is available.

SEARCH ENGINE TIPS by Mike Jarvis As genealogists in today's high-tech world, the importance of using search engines properly is ever increasing. With genealogy related web sites making up a huge part of our World Wide Web, we would like to share some search engine tips that perhaps a few you will find helpful. There is much that could be written about this, but we will focus only on a few tips that we find most helpful. We use [ and ] to indicate terms that would be written in a search box. First - The use of quotation marks. When using a combination of words in the search box, the search engine results will include every web page where these words occur anywhere on that page regardless of whether these words are immediately next to each other. Using the search term of [family history ] will result in 109,000,000 hits while ["family history"] within quotations will result in 5,400,000 hits. This is because in the second instance it is only finding pages were the words are actually next to or immediately touching each other. Try this with a family name. For example my grandmother is named Flora MacDonald. If I search [Flora McDonald ] in Google it returns 251,000 hits. Putting ["Flora MacDonald"] in quotations results in 29,600 hits. This is far too many hits and primarily relate to a prominent woman in Scottish and American history. This is not my grandmother. However, knowing that my grandmothers middle name was Hermosa, it makes sense to put ["Flora Hermosa MacDonald"] in the search box and I get two hits related specifically to my grandmother. Success! Second - The use of the minus sign. This is my second favorite search tip. Using any combination of words in a search box with the minus sign directly next to a word that you DO NOT want to find is also helpful. Using the search term ["Flora MacDonald" -Scotland -Scottish -"North Carolina" -NC ] will eliminate any pages from my search that includes the words next to the minus sign. So I will get only those pages that have my grandmother's name and do not have Scotland or North Carolina on the site. This effectively reduces the number of sites by more than half, from 29,600 to 12,800 hits. Using quotation marks and the minus sign in combination greatly improves your search results. Third - The use of the plus sign. The plus sign has the effect of instructing the search engine to give special emphasis to any word where the plus sign is against it. My grandmother's father was Alexander MacDonald. However, not the Alexander MacDonald who was prime minister of Canada. Using the search term [Flora MacDonald -Scotland -Scottish -"North Carolina" -NC +"Alexander MacDonald" -Canada ] gives me 1 hit that directs me to a site about my grandmother. Here we have combined quotation marks with the minus sign and the plus sign Fourth - The site search. Let's say that I would like to find Alexander MacDonald, however, I only want to search a particular domain. I would simply use the search phrase ["Alexander MacDonald" site:rootsweb.com ]. Rather than thousands of hits I get 204. Similarly, you could put a minus sign in front of rootsweb.com so that it searches all domains except Rootsweb. Fifth - The intitle search term. Suppose that you would like to find every site on the Web with the word genealogy in the title. The search box would need the term [intitle:genealogy ], which would result in 943,000 hits. Similarly, use the term [intitle:genealogy -site:ancestry.com ] and you eliminate 3000 sites related to ancestry.com. One more: try using the term [intitle:genealogy -site:com ] which will have the effect of eliminating all domains with the.com extension (commercial sites). Sixth - The related search term: If you like to know which sites are similar to your own then use the term as follows: [related:USGenWeb.org]. Results will vary with Google providing 31 similar sites and Yahoo serving up 35,000 related sites. Nearly all of these terms will work in most search engines. If you'd rather not type in the shorthand for many of these tips, the search engines will typically have an advanced search page which will do essentially the same thing. Try: http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en Good hunting!

Absolutely, Karen. Thinking of both you and Jenny. Jon >From: COHUERFA-D-request@rootsweb.com >Reply-To: COHUERFA-L@rootsweb.com >To: COHUERFA-D@rootsweb.com >Subject: COHUERFA-D Digest V05 #89 >Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:00:07 -0600 > >Content-Type: text/plain > >COHUERFA-D Digest Volume 05 : Issue 89 > >Today's Topics: > #1 special request ["Karen Mitchell" ><km1109@aculink.n] > >Administrivia: >To unsubscribe from COHUERFA-D, send a message to > > COHUERFA-D-request@rootsweb.com > >that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > >and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > >______________________________ >X-Message: #1 >Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:36:39 -0600 >From: "Karen Mitchell" <km1109@aculink.net> >To: COHUERFA-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <002601c5bf1e$76b51470$8a9d76cc@Mitchell> >Subject: special request >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Hi listers, >I have a special request. Would all of you PLEASE join me tomorrow morning >at 9:30 with warm thoughts and prayers for my 28 year old niece, Jenny, who >will be having a complete mastectomy for breast cancer. >Thank you all so very much. >Your list mom, >Karen _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar – get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/

I want to thank all of my wonderful researchers for the warm thoughts and prayers for my niece, Jenny. She made it through surgery okay but is in a great deal of pain that the morphine doesn't seem to be helping. She will be in the hospital probably till Monday, then she will start chemo. The family has been with her constantly and we keep praying that she will heal quickly. I hope each one of you know that your messages have meant the world to us and that you each have the utmost thanks and appreciation. I have always felt that each one of my research groups is like an extended family and all of you have come through for me once again. It certainly has warmed my heart, and made it easier to get through these days. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, you are SO APPRECIATED! Hugs to all, Karen

Dear Karen, Has everything turned out right with you niece know it takes much more than a day damn and double damn for someone as young as she is to have to go thru this. Thinking of all of you and wishing you the best Shirley ----- Original Message ----- From: "JON CHANDLER" <chandler2000@msn.com> To: <COHUERFA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 2:55 PM Subject: [COHUERFA] RE: COHUERFA-D Digest V05 #89 Absolutely, Karen. Thinking of both you and Jenny. Jon >From: COHUERFA-D-request@rootsweb.com >Reply-To: COHUERFA-L@rootsweb.com >To: COHUERFA-D@rootsweb.com >Subject: COHUERFA-D Digest V05 #89 >Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:00:07 -0600 > >Content-Type: text/plain > >COHUERFA-D Digest Volume 05 : Issue 89 > >Today's Topics: > #1 special request ["Karen Mitchell" > <km1109@aculink.n] > >Administrivia: >To unsubscribe from COHUERFA-D, send a message to > > COHUERFA-D-request@rootsweb.com > >that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > >and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > >______________________________ >X-Message: #1 >Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:36:39 -0600 >From: "Karen Mitchell" <km1109@aculink.net> >To: COHUERFA-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <002601c5bf1e$76b51470$8a9d76cc@Mitchell> >Subject: special request >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Hi listers, >I have a special request. Would all of you PLEASE join me tomorrow morning >at 9:30 with warm thoughts and prayers for my 28 year old niece, Jenny, who >will be having a complete mastectomy for breast cancer. >Thank you all so very much. >Your list mom, >Karen _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar - get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ __________ NOD32 1.1175 (20050721) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com

Hi listers, I have a special request. Would all of you PLEASE join me tomorrow morning at 9:30 with warm thoughts and prayers for my 28 year old niece, Jenny, who will be having a complete mastectomy for breast cancer. Thank you all so very much. Your list mom, Karen

Looking for information on Juan dela Cruz Martin(ez), from Abiquiu, NM. I have 3 different spouses for a man by that name. Juana dela Resurrecion Jaramillo (married 1799), Maria Matiana (Archuleta)Manzanares and Juana Bautista Vigil (married 1822). Juan dela Cruz Martin and Maria Matiana (Archuleta) Manzanares (deceased by 1821) are the parents of Jose Antonio Martin(ez)who married Maria Dolores Moya, his parents are listed for the baptisms (in Abiquiu) of his children. Miguel Antonio Martinez was the son of Jose Antonio Martin and Maria Dolores Moya. He is found living in Walsenburg, CO in 1880. Miguel died in 1910, in Walsenburg. Thank you, Toni

Hi Listers, The St. Mary's Baptism are completed. You can find them here: http://www.kmitch.com/Huerfano/baps1.html Thank you for your patience while I was trying to get these done. Even if you do not have ancestors baptized during this time frame, you might want to check the list of Godparents to see if they are there. I still have many more baptisms that I can add, if I could just find the time. The rest are on my microfilm. ENJOY! Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions. Karen

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Ben is this part of what what you are looking for?? Frank ARCHULETA, JUAN died 01/15/1941 buried 01/17/1941 notes: 76 years, husband of Josepha Lopez, son of Fernandez Archuleta and Manuela Moya, Sacred Heart Death Records, no marker http://www.kmitch.com/Huerfano/gardcathcem.html<http://www.kmitch.com/Huerfano/gardcathcem.html> ----- Original Message ----- From: BenSRod@aol.com<mailto:BenSRod@aol.com> To: COHUERFA-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:COHUERFA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 11:05 PM Subject: [COHUERFA] archuleta look ups on cementery and obit,s hi if any on that can help me out to find great grand parentes .. obit,s and cementery, lookinf for ................. juan anders archuleta and wife maria manuela ( moya ) archuleta , they would have passed way after the year 1887 this was when there son got married , they could have lived in walsenburg colorado,,, pueblo salt creek, , huerfano,, gardner,colorado, if any of you that doz lookups on obits, i thank you and any one that doz,s cementery look ups i thank you,, i only have the names no brith dates or death dates,??? just know that they were in colorado, the towns that are above, thank you , _bensrod@aol.com<mailto:_bensrod@aol.com>_ (mailto:bensrod@aol.com<mailto:bensrod@aol.com>)

Hello Ben: For older obituaries you might try searching the Colorado Historical Newspapers: http://www.cdpheritage.org/newspapers/ To see if there are obituaries in the Walsenburg Library contact the Spanish Peaks Library District Librarian at: http://www.spld.org/contact.htm Or you may search the Pueblo Library at: http://opac.pueblolibrary.org/uhtbin/cgisirsi.exe/x/RAWLINGS/x/55/1183/X For headstones, try the search engine on the Huerfano webpage: http://www.kmitch.com/Huerfano/resource.htm There are many resources made available by the volunteers of our Huerfano County List. Hope this helps. Louise Adams

hi if any on that can help me out to find great grand parentes .. obit,s and cementery, lookinf for ................. juan anders archuleta and wife maria manuela ( moya ) archuleta , they would have passed way after the year 1887 this was when there son got married , they could have lived in walsenburg colorado,,, pueblo salt creek, , huerfano,, gardner,colorado, if any of you that doz lookups on obits, i thank you and any one that doz,s cementery look ups i thank you,, i only have the names no brith dates or death dates,??? just know that they were in colorado, the towns that are above, thank you , _bensrod@aol.com_ (mailto:bensrod@aol.com)

I ma so very sorry to hear of Donna's loss. She's in my prayers as I know she is in our other researchers as well. Please extend our deepest sympathies to her. Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Silva" <fourofus@htc.net> To: <COHUERFA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 7:42 AM Subject: RE: [COHUERFA] Wilkins, marriage record Hello all, Ditto what Frank has said, it is really unbelievable how quick this came about. Now some sad news. This conversation on the Wilkins had brought Donna Ross to mind and I have mentioned her once or twice on the list in the past week. She emailed me today that her husband Carl has passed away after a lengthy illness and extended Hospice care at home. He took a turn for the worse early this month and was beyond home care so Donna has spent most of this month in the hospital with him. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers, I know she is in mine. -----Original Message----- From: F WILKINS [mailto:fwilkin1@msn.com] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 10:18 PM To: COHUERFA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [COHUERFA] Wilkins, marriage record I cant' believe this ..I'm trying to figure out what LDS ...means ....where the closest Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is and where records might be, and before I have my pants on..... Karen has the answers.... One heck of an organization....Karen...Thank you all!! Toni and Ida!! I am so indebted to you and very proud to be a part of it. Thanks Frank ----- Original Message ----- From: Karen Mitchell<mailto:km1109@aculink.net> To: COHUERFA-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:COHUERFA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 3:49 PM Subject: [COHUERFA] Wilkins, marriage record I put out a request for someone to look up the marriage record and both Toni and Ida answered with the following information: "Pg 152, Nuestra Senora de los Dolores- Arroyo Hondo: Sanches - Trujillo 1-18-1855 J. Rufino s/o Maria Juana Sanches and Maria Leonor d/o Antonio Trujillo and Maria Jacques (dec) originally from Abiquiu. Rio Colorado" It would appear to me that Rufino's father was either deceased at the time of his marriage OR that he was the "natural" son of Juana Sanches and later changed his name to Wilkins, maybe finding out who his real Father was, OR as I stated before, it's a transcriber error. We will continue to investigate this. Nonetheless, this gives us another generation back on Leonore and we should be able to follow that. If anyone can add to this please feel free to do so. Karen

You are so right Virginia, thank you for reminding us. I have a request out for the baptismal records so we'll see what we turn up. Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Virginia Sanchez" <Virginia.Sanchez@comcast.net> To: <COHUERFA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 10:08 AM Subject: RE: [COHUERFA] Wilkins, marriage record Hello, you may need to look at the surnames of the grandparents. During the early days, many Hispanic families took on the surnames of a special grandparent. Virginia -----Original Message----- From: Karen Mitchell [mailto:km1109@aculink.net] Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 7:40 AM To: COHUERFA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [COHUERFA] Wilkins, marriage record Oh Frank, you made my day! (giggle) I have very visual perception and this just made me laugh. But keep those pants handy, we still need to check that film. In a case like this I still worry about transcriber error, as it can happen so easy. If it is indeed Sanches, then we need to investigate further and see if we can figure out why he changed his name after his marriage. I am thinking it is because he found out who his real Father was. This happened in the case of the Castro's and it took me years to figure out what had happened. In another case, years ago I was doing research for Dee, who is now on our List, and we couldn't follow one line, it had me stumped. Finally I came across a record that said this person was known as............ before. So you see, it is not unusual for someone to change their name for any given reason. Many women gave birth to "natural" children, just as they do today, and when the child grew up they were told who their Father was so they changed to that name. I think they did it just to stump us researchers LOL! Can you imagine them sitting up there on their cloud having a good chuckle at us scratching our heads and wondering? LOL Thank you so very much for the kind words and the praise you give me and the other researchers that jumped in to help. We have so many wonderful friends in this environment, and I give thanks for every one of them. Have a great day! Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: "F WILKINS" <fwilkin1@msn.com> To: <COHUERFA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 9:18 PM Subject: Re: [COHUERFA] Wilkins, marriage record I cant' believe this ..I'm trying to figure out what LDS ...means ....where the closest Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is and where records might be, and before I have my pants on..... Karen has the answers.... One heck of an organization....Karen...Thank you all!! Toni and Ida!! I am so indebted to you and very proud to be a part of it. Thanks Frank ----- Original Message ----- From: Karen Mitchell<mailto:km1109@aculink.net> To: COHUERFA-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:COHUERFA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 3:49 PM Subject: [COHUERFA] Wilkins, marriage record I put out a request for someone to look up the marriage record and both Toni and Ida answered with the following information: "Pg 152, Nuestra Senora de los Dolores- Arroyo Hondo: Sanches - Trujillo 1-18-1855 J. Rufino s/o Maria Juana Sanches and Maria Leonor d/o Antonio Trujillo and Maria Jacques (dec) originally from Abiquiu. Rio Colorado" It would appear to me that Rufino's father was either deceased at the time of his marriage OR that he was the "natural" son of Juana Sanches and later changed his name to Wilkins, maybe finding out who his real Father was, OR as I stated before, it's a transcriber error. We will continue to investigate this. Nonetheless, this gives us another generation back on Leonore and we should be able to follow that. If anyone can add to this please feel free to do so. Karen

Thank so much Louise for letting me know we had a bad link, I do appreciate it and it has been fixed. Hugs! Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: <LAdams2341@aol.com> To: <COHUERFA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 1:31 PM Subject: [COHUERFA] Dufur Headstones The Dufur headstones can be found at: http://www.kmitch.com/Huerfano/lavetacem.htm The link for Vern is not working at this moment, but Karen will take care of it. Louise

The Dufur headstones can be found at: http://www.kmitch.com/Huerfano/lavetacem.htm The link for Vern is not working at this moment, but Karen will take care of it. Louise

Hello Evelyn: Cannot find the obituary for Vern Dufur in the online edition of the Pueblo Chieftain or the Pueblo Library Obituary Index. You may check with the librarian at the Walsenburg Library at the following email address: librarian@spld.org We do have the obituary for his wife printed in the La Veta Signature in the Tri-County Obituary Database located at: http://www.kmitch.com/Pueblo/obits/obitindex.html Dionne Dorine Dufur - La Veta Signature - September 13, 2001 - Dionne Dorine Dufur, 59, of La Veta, died August 30, Mrs. Dufur was born September 30, 1941 in Gallup, New Mexico to Oliver and Dorothy Flowers Towell. She is survived by her husband, Vern Dufur, La Veta, her mother, Dorothy Smith, Farmington, NM, children, Lonnie (Phyllis) Bolin, La Veta, Curtis Lofton, Farmington, NM, step-children, Jimmy Dufur, Texas, Evelyn Dufur, Donnie Dufur, Shelly Dufur, New Mexico, brothers, Leon Towell, Casper, WY, Alvin Towell, New Mexico, Dawayne Towell, Wyoming, Clay Towell, New Mexico, numerous grandchildren, nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by her father, Oliver Towell, and three children, Connie, Bo and Robbie. Graveside services were held at the La Veta Cemetery. If you are successful in obtaining the obituary for Vern L. Dufur, please contribute it to our database. Every obituary is important to the history of Colorado. Simply type it into an email, include the newspaper and date of publication and send it to me. It will be included in the next update. Regards, Louise Adams Tri-County Obituary Coordinator