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While researching records related to the city of San José del Parral, Nueva Vizcaya (now Hidalgo de Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico), Gerald J. Mandell extracted historical and genealogical information about the Gallegos family (ONMF: 31). He shared some of his research with the editors of the Vargas Project (University of…
SANDOVAL MARTÍNEZ Juan de Sandoval Martínez (ONMF: 282) and Juana Hernández came to New Mexico in 1694 with one son, Miguel de Sandoval Martínez. They were the parents of at least two other children who did not come with them to New Mexico. These children were: María Magdalena Sandoval…
RAEL There is a branch of the Rael family of New Mexico that was founded by a man named Pedro Marcial Rael who was married with Ysabel Cedillo. This man was a natural son of Alonso II Rael de Aguilar. He may be the same person as Pedro Marcial…
ORTIZ New genealogical information about the Ortiz family of New Mexico is the subject of a seventeen-page article, “Ortiz Family Genealogical Research and New Records for the Ortiz Family of Mexico City,” (El Farolito, Vol. 8. No. 4. 2005L: quarterly journal of the Olibama López Tushar Hispanic Legacy Research…
In June 14, 1911, the Cloudcroft Baby Sanatorium opened, staffed by Dr. Branch Craige of Baltimore, and Miss Knox, a registered nurse. That summer the hospital was full of little patients. According to the hospital log, most patients were discharged as “cured, improved or well.” Wingless Angels, Spirited Babies…
A young boy learns an important life lesson from his elderly uncle and his compadres on a late Sunday afternoon. "I learned that the Hispanic or raza lives twice: once when he passes through the present, and the next time when he remembers it. Sundays were fun and real…
A young girl recalls the beauty of her madrina (godmother) and the joy her visits would bring into her life. My godmother was in town. She had come to visit mother and was waiting to take a picture with me. I, of course, was out in the mountains somewhere…
Solomon Bibo was born in Brakel, Germany on August 30, 1853. He made an auspicious arrival at midnight so some historians put the date of his birth as August 29th. Bibo was one of eleven children. Like many young Jewish men in Germany during this time, Bibo and his…
From February 1889 until the summer of 1891 a clandestine organization of night riders known as Las Gorras Blancas cut the fences and burned the barns of ranchers enclosing the Las Vegas Land Grant commons and destroyed railroad ties and burned bridges in a related effort to disrupt the…
A detailed description of the life of Manuel Jesus Vasques, born in Chamisal, Taos County on the 31st day of January of the year 1856. He served his patron until Don Juan Policarpio Romero's death, having no memory how he came to be in service. This WPA Writers Project…
