This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Monteagudo Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kRC.2ACE/5661.1 Message Board Post: Greetings, Well, it would be a question of digging up some records and finding people who knew the family. I don't know the names of the general's parents but i think he was born at Placetas. Looking at the Diccionario Biografico Remediano and at Hilda Pomares' pages i see there were quite a few Monteagudos at or near Remedios, back in the 1700s. There may have a few lines in the XIX century. Juan