I am looking for information on Diego Sanchez, born about 1771. He married Maria Magdelina Martin, daughter of Juan Felipe Martin and Ygnacia Vigil. They have children being baptised in Taos. Ygnacia VIgil was a child of Juan Cristobal Montes Vigil and Maria Teodora Medina. Toni

Hi everyone, An update on the ongoing project that we are working on: There are still some letters of the alphabet that need to be assigned and completed so if anyone would like to volunteer, please let me know. Here is the results so far: A, completed by Karen B, completed by Mary C, completed by Tammy D, assigned to Sheri E, completed by Brandi F, assigned to Judi G, completed by Mary H, assigned to Brandi I, completed by Frank J, assigned to Zale K, completed by Cathy L, assigned to Betty M, completed by Taylor N, assigned to Taylor O, not assigned yet P, not assigned yet Q, assigned to Mary R thru Z, not assigned yet Please can we have some help with this? Karen

Jean Griesan sent this to COPUEBLO-L. It's a valuable site for researching your Colorado family history. I found a ton of stuff for my Baker/Bebee/Briggs/Smith family in the Bayfield Blade, La Plata County. http://www.cdpheritage.org/newspapers/ Louise

Hi everyone! Quite some time ago, maybe last summer or the summer before, someone wrote to me about the Nathaniel Roy family. I can't seem to find the email so whoever it was, please contact me, I found a newspaper article for you. Also, Jean Griesan over on our Pueblo list has been transcribing articles from the Pueblo Chieftain and we just posted a whole bunch of them. They are really packed with local names, and many of them are Huerfano names so you may want to go check that out. You can do a search of your surnames by using your "View" button on your browser, or you can just read through the articles. They start in 1868 and are really interesting. Her contributions are at: http://www.kmitch.com/Pueblo/news.html You can also access the digital newspapers at: http://www.cdpheritage.org/newspapers/ TIP: The search engine on the site does NOT pick up every instance of a word, phrase, or name, so you will have more success by reading the issues to find what you want. And if you do that and find an interesting article, please type it up and submit it for our site. Thank you! That big storm is headed our way and is supposed to hit here in the next couple days. Karen

I hope and pray everyone is ok. I keep hearing and seeing pictures of the coastal cities in CA and the winter storm here in NV. We are 45 minutes from Reno and got slammed pretty good with snow, a rare thing out here. We are ok and pray everyone else is too. Toni

Dear Jean: My utmost thanks for sending the link for the Colorado Historical Newspapers! I've found so much information about my Smith, Baker, Briggs, and Jephcott family in Bayfield, it amazes me. I've been able to open a new line of research simply from two little tidbits in the Bayfield Blade. This database could not have come at a better time; I've had a chance to fill in some of the blanks. My Aunt Ruth will celebrate her 90th birthday March 2, and the printed family history will be her present from me. Jean you are doing a wonderful job! Every bit of information you transcribe may help to answer the questions that will move someone's family history forward. Thank you so much for your time and effort! I also thank you for being on the lookout for possible obituaries for our Tri-County Database; every obituary is important to someone; and as I can recently attest, every newspaper article is important! Sincere appreciation, Louise Adams

Sure hope that's not moving into Colorado! But then again, we DO need the moisture. Hunker down, stay warm, and drink lots of hot cocoa! Hugs, Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: <CHASESTONE@aol.com> To: <COHUERFA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 4:40 PM Subject: [COHUERFA] Everyone on the West coast I hope and pray everyone is ok. I keep hearing and seeing pictures of the coastal cities in CA and the winter storm here in NV. We are 45 minutes from Reno and got slammed pretty good with snow, a rare thing out here. We are ok and pray everyone else is too. Toni

Hi, Check our cemetery databases to see if he is listed in one. Good luck in your search! Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: "TIM MICHELLE LEONARD" <stecn_16@msn.com> To: <COHUERFA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 10:17 AM Subject: [COHUERFA] Cemetery Help Hope this question isn't too broad, but I am looking for the cemetery where my gg grandfather is buried. He died in Walsenburg in 1904 in a mining accident: Martin Peyton. Thanks for any help

Hope this question isn't too broad, but I am looking for the cemetery where my gg grandfather is buried. He died in Walsenburg in 1904 in a mining accident: Martin Peyton. Thanks for any help

Here's wishing all A Very Happy and Prosperous New Year!!! Joseph

happy new year everyone! hope it brings you: lots of clues & breakthru's, cool new family members & answers to your hardest genealogy secrets!!!! happy new year & all year long! taylor >From: "Karen Mitchell" <km1109@aculink.net> >To: COHUERFA-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [COHUERFA] 12-27-2004 >Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 20:17:22 -0700 > >Hi everyone, >Yes, I know I'm supposed to be taking my usual time off until January 15th, >but I got caught up in some work here and it kinda snowballed (VBG). >So..... >I just added 39 new Oral Interviews and Profiles to our site. Go take a >look >and if there's any problem, let me know. I'm cross-eyed already LOL. >Hugs, >Karen >

Hi everyone, Yes, I know I'm supposed to be taking my usual time off until January 15th, but I got caught up in some work here and it kinda snowballed (VBG). So..... I just added 39 new Oral Interviews and Profiles to our site. Go take a look and if there's any problem, let me know. I'm cross-eyed already LOL. Hugs, Karen

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Hello All, Merry Christmas to you all, its been cold here too in Wyoming. Down close to zero and below zero with the wind chill. There is a little snow out there but not much, all the snow is in the mountains. We live in the southwest part of the state, in the desert part. Sounds like it cold everywhere. Here we will celebrate Christmas over my wife's father's house. Her sisters who live in southern Colorado won't make it this year. We have enjoyed this year and have learned alot doing my wife's family genealogy. I find it exciting and rewarding learning about the Spanish people, and learning her family been in New Mexico since the early 1600's or so. We have went down to Arroyo Hondo, Taos County where her great great grandparents were married. We really enjoyed it down there and is really pretty, we really enjoyed Red River. We really enjoyed reading Ted's letter, how exciting there in Albquerque. This next year we want to go to Albquerque and spend some time there. My wife's great great great grandparents were married there in San Felipe de Neri church in 1822. Which I understand is stilll there, and we would like to do more research down there. This year I did finish the Falsetto family tree from Las Animas county. If I have any questions about Albquerque or where to go, I wonder if I can ask you Ted? You sound very knowledageable about the area. Happy Holidays to you all, Gregg and Louise Skala ggskala@msn.com

December 24, 2004 Thank you for all your hard work and for sharing the Christmas traditions with us.... 14 inches of snow.. OMG... Well it is very cold here in Albuquerque.. about 7 degrees but that is just a rare occurrence because it's been so warm and dry in New Mexico for the last few years of this drought cycle we are going through.. OK lemme share a tradition and some history along with it.. the area I live is what is called the North Valley of Albuquerque near an old Plaza that some of you will recognize in old census data. The old Plaza was located around the old Adobe Church of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel (Nuestra Senora de Carmel) which still exists near the SW corner of Edith Rd. and Ranchitos Rd. Edith used to be call Highland in the 1930's and before that was called El Camino Real by the very Old People. It is the original Camino Real that the Spanish colonial Settlers traversed from Mexico City along the Rio Grande through The old family Plaza called Plaza de Francisco Candelaria, later named Los Candelaritas, later named El Rancho Plaza, later named Ladera Del Carmel with the center of the Plaza surronded by houses that most do not exist anymore on the west side of the chapel with a cemetery on the SE side of the chapel where burial have been done since late 1850's (prior to that the residents were buried at San Jose and Santa Barbara Cemeteries. The residents of the plaza (like most of the New Mexico Villages) would light Lumniarias on Christmas Eve. The Luninaria tradition comes from Old Spain where the local Parishes would celebrate Feasts of the Patron St's but throughout ancient Spain mostly during holy week. the Luminaria was a stack of wood piled up in the log cabin style approx. 3-5 high and lit at night. the Penitentes of Old Spain would let the fire burn out and walk barefooted over the hot coals as penitence. This tradition only existed later on in two parts of the Old Spanish Empire, Philipines and Colonial New Mexico. In New Mexico the Luminarias were about 2 to 3 feet in height and lit on paths to the Mission churches during the feast day Fiestas along with Rockets being fired off while the entire Village celebrated, danced and feasted. The Luminaria tradition soon became a mostly Christmas Tradition after the Railroad Arrived in New Mexico in the 1880's. The New "American" Towns were built of Wood Frame houses, thus introducing the fire brigades to New Mexico where previously no houses ever burned down. Well the Luminaria tradition still existed but became a problem with local fire codes so the Farolito took a more dominant role amongst the new Spanish, Jewish, Italian merchants that arrived with the Railroads from back east. So to keep the Luminaria alive with out the the entire town (Las Vegas, NM for instance) the Luminaria evolved into a different form, Farolito (Little Lantern). Its form was copied by the Chinese Railroad employees that used to make paper lanterns for the Chinese New year Celebrations. The local Spanish citizens of Las Vegas decided to take the newly imported paper bags that they used in the Mercantiles and place sand and a candle and light the way of the Christ Child in the fashion of the Luminaria (Bon Fire), thus the three cultures, (Spanish, Chinese, American), made the evolution of the Luminaria to what we see today in New Mexico, thus saving the new American Railroad Towns from burning down. Well in my neighborhood at Ladera del Carmel (previously noted above) the old people (late 1700's-early 1900's) used to light one luminaria on each night of the Novena in front of their houses to welcome Las Posadas and then on Christmas Eve they would light 9 Luminarias on a path to the Small Chapel and have Midnight Mass. The number 9 is significant here and I wonder if anyone else in other New Mexico communities can relate to this as I know that the hisory of the Luminaria is encompassed in much specualtion and wrong data. Well thank you all for your time and I want to wish all of you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Teodoro (Ted) Lopez Albuqueruque

Good morning researchers, I just want to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Peaceful New Year. I hope all of you make great strides in your research in 2005 and knock down some of your brick walls, and please know that I am always here to help in whatever capacity I can. We all have so much to be thankful for as this year comes to an end. I am giving THANKS for all of my wonderful volunteers that have helped add to our websites this year. As the old saying goes...we've come a long ways! Remember as you go about your holiday chores, the things you do today are the genealogy of the future. We will definitely be having a white Christmas here in Southern Colorado, I have about 14 inches of snow, and it's so very cold. Last night at 10:00 it was minus 2 degrees and I don't know what the overnight low was, COLD! Do any of you have holiday traditions that you would like to share with us? We celebrate on New Years so that the kids from Denver can be here. Here at the Mitchell residence, before we open gifts we light the fireplace, and sing a couple Christmas carols. One is always Silent Night, then an up tempo such as Deck The Halls or Jingle Bells. The little ones pick it out. One year they decided on We Wish You a Merry Christmas and went around hugging everyone as they sang. It was so cute. My oldest granddaughter is quite the little organizer and gets the younger ones to do things. The little people love this as they love to ham it up. Then my oldest son tells the Christmas story.........then on to the gift opening. My big boys always end up on the floor playing with the kids toys, with the little people watching! I always give the big boys a silly gift to keep them occupied. This year they are getting those real long skinny balloons. It will be interesting to see how many animals they can make out of them. Year before last, the big people had to do a treasure hunt to get their presents. The little ones laughed so hard that I decided it's their turn this year. Then the next day we have the big dinner. After we eat, the grownups sit around the table and say what they are thankful for this year, what goals they accomplished, and what they hope for the New Year. When I give my thanks I always include all of you, all of my "cyber family". And of course we all wish for Peace for our Country. I have received so many beautiful email cards and wishes for the season, and I thank each one of you for thinking of me. To all of you, HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! Hugs, Karen

A real sweetheart sent me this and it expresses the way I feel about all of you so I'm sharing it. Hugs! Karen ¸...¸ __/ /\____ ,·´º o`·,/__/ _/\_ //____/\ ```)¨(´´´ | |  | | | | | || |l±±±± ¸,.-·²°´ ¸,.-·~·~·-.,¸ `°²·-. :º° One day someone's husband died, and on that clear, cold morning, in the warmth of their bedroom, the wife was struck with the pain of learning that sometimes there isn't any more. No more hugs, no more special moments to celebrate together, no more phone calls just to chat, no more "just one minute." Sometimes, what we care about the most gets all used up and goes away. Never to return before we can say! Good-bye, say "I love you"or a simple "Thank you." ¸...¸ __/ /\____ ,·´º o`·,/__/ _/\_ /____/\ ```)¨(´´´ | |  | | | | | || |l±±±± ¸,.-·²°´ ¸,.-·~·~·-.,¸ `°²·-. :º° So while we have it, it's best we love it . . . and care for it. And fix it when it's broken . . and heal it when it's sick. This is true for marriage. And old cars . . and children with bad report cards and dogs with bad hips and aging parents and grandparents. We keep them because they are worth it, because we are worth it. ¸...¸ __/ /\____ ,·´º o`·,/__/ _/\_ //____/\ ```)¨(´´´ | |  | | | | | || |l±±±± ¸,.-·²°´ ¸,.-·~·~·-.,¸ `°²·-. :º° Some things we keep -- like a best friend who moved away or a classmate we grew up with. There are just some things--AND PEOPLE -- that make us happy, no matter what. ¸...¸ __/ /\____ ,·´º o`·,/__/ _/\_ //____/\ ```)¨(´´´ | |  | | | | | || |l±±±± ¸,.-·²°´ ¸,.-·~·~·-.,¸ `°²·-. :º° Life is important, like people we know who are special . . . and so, we keep them close! ¸...¸ __/ /\____ ,·´º o`·,/__/ _/\_ //____/\ ```)¨(´´´ | |  | | | | | || |l±±±± ¸,.-·²°´ ¸,.-·~·~·-.,¸ `°²·-. :º° I got this message this morning from someone who thought I was a 'keeper'! Then I sent It to the people I think of in the same way. Now it's your turn to send this to all those people who are "keepers" in your life. ¸...¸ __/ /\____ ,·´º o`·,/__/ _/\_ //____/\ ```)¨(´´´ | |  | | | | | || |l±±±± ¸,.-·²°´ ¸,.-·~·~·-.,¸ `°²·-. :º° Thank you all for being a part of my life!

This site was brought to our attention last week but it was nice to get a personal email from Gary, so I'm passing it along with his request. Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: Gary Smith To: km1109@aculink.net Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 1:37 PM Subject: NEW Mt.Mestas website up. Hi, I wanted to let everyone know of a new La Veta website up at www.MtMestas.com about my uncle PFC.Felix B. Mestas,Jr. He died at Battle Mountain and was called the Unknown Hero of Battle Mountain. I'd be interested in hearing from anybody who might be willing to contribute to the website's Mt.Mestas Memorial Monument bios page. I'm also wanting to meet anybody who knew my uncle, was in the Blue Devils or has any photographs of the 350th Infantry Regiment/88th Infantry Division in Italy. Come by or email me at hello@mtmestas.com. Also, do you have an email address you could give me for Nancy Christofferson? Thank you. Respectfully, Gary(Konieczny)Smith -------------------------------------------------

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New Bill Will Close Records to Genealogists HR10, which was mentioned in the 13 October issue of RootsWeb Review, has passed out of the U.S. House of Representatives and is now part of S.2845. The amendments suggested by David Rencher in his letter to the bill's sponsor, Congressman J. Dennis Hastert, were NOT incorporated into this legislation. Thus, the terms of HR10 will now be considered by the Senate, as part of S.2845. If S.2845 becomes law, as now written, family historians will face some real challenges in attempts to obtain birth records, even on long- deceased individuals. Specifically, what genealogists need to do is suggest to their lawmakers the addition of Sec. 3061(b)(1)(A)(iii) that would read: "who is alive on the date that access to their birth certificate is requested." This addition would clarify that the legislation (soon to be law) applies ONLY to birth certificates of CURRENTLY LIVING PERSONS. If you do not know your U.S. Senator's e-mail address, you can find it at http://www.senate.gov/ This bill can be found online at http://thomas.loc.gov/ Put in S.2845 (in the bill number window) and then select item No. 3; and go to Subtitle B--Identity Management Security; Chapter 2--Improved Security for Birth Certificates. (It's a bit deeper than that actually, go to Title III, then the Improved security shows up) (mailto:mgreenhill@tconl.com) ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx