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A QUEST FOR FAMILY HISTORY (a Journal of Research), CHIHUAHUA, VOLUME I
HISPANIC GENEALOGY
Author: Gregory D. Cosio
Price: $75.00
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A very welcome book with genealogical and family information from the State of Chihuahua, Mexico. The author shares with us some of his research into his family lines with helpful hints based on his experience. Contains extracts of 16th and 17th century baptisms, marriages, and deaths from many Chihuahua cities such as Parral, Villa de Zaragoza, Camargo, Jimenez, Meoqui, Saucillo, Santa Barbara, Valle de San Bartolome,(rare 1600's extracts of San Bartolome), Chihuahua, San Francisco de Borja, Aldama,Juarez, Valle Del Rosario, Cusihuiriachic, and others, along with some Durango information. Illustrated with photos, copies of archival documents and more. El Monte, CA 2009 Privately Printed 1st Ed, 371 Pgs., PB. | |  Item #790
1879 CENSO DE GUERRERO, Located at Present Day Guerrero, Coahuila
HISPANIC GENEALOGY
Author: Donald May
Price: $25.00
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Guerrero, Coahuila was formerly San Juan Bautista Mission and Presidio and the original Gateway to Texas. The census lists full name, age, marital status, and Profession. San Antonio, TX 2009 Los Bexareños Genealogical Society, 1st Ed., 63 Pgs, 8&1/2 x 11, PB. | |  Item #791
1886 CENSO DEL COLONIA DEL PAN, Located at Present Day Hidalgo, Coahuila
HISPANIC GENEALOGY
Author: Donald May
Price: $20.00
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Hidalgo is a small town of 1,516 population located on the Rio Grande several miles north (upriver)of the Columbia Bridge in Laredo, Texas. The town was originally named Congregación de Pan. The Census contains full name, age, marital status, profession, and writing ability of each inhabitant. San Antonio, 2009 Los Bexareños Genealogical Society 1st Ed., 32 Pgs., 8 & 1/2 x 11, PB. | |  Item #792
NEW GUIDE TO SPANISH AND MEXICAN LAND GRANTS IN SOUTH TEXAS
HISPANIC GENEALOGY
Author: Galen D. Greaser
Price: $40.00
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This is a new much-improved and expanded guide to the original South Texas Land Grants sponsored by the Texas General Land Office, Jerry Patterson, Commissioner.Part I is a very thorough history of the grants with numerous details and appendices. Part II consists of summaries of the individual grants containing additional information than found in the previous summaries. It contains figures, illustrations, and a handy general index. Truly an outstanding work compiled by the author. Austin, TX, 2009 Texas General Land Office, Archives and Records Division, 1st Ed., 343 Pgs., 8 &1/2 x 11, PB. | |  Item #1914
PEACE CAME IN THE FORM OF A WOMAN, Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands
THE SPANISH COLONIAL PERIOD
Author: Juliana Barr
Price: $19.95
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The author revises the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in this award-winning book. She demonstrates that between the 1690s and the 1780s Indians were the dominant power and Europeans were the ones forced to accomodate, resist and persevere. Various tribes formed relationships with Spaniards in Texas that refuted claims of imperial control. Barr examines six realms of encounter-first contact, settlement and intermarriage, mission life, warfare, diplomacy, and captivity. Chapel Hill, 2007 University of North Carolina Press 1st Ed., 397 Pgs., 6&1/4 x 9&1/4, PB. | |  Item #812
BALLI FAMILY HISTORY ( La Barreta and Padre Island Branches)
HISPANIC GENEALOGY
Author: Joel René Escobar y Sáenz
Price: $135.00
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Another outstanding Hispanic genealogy and history work by our friend and prolific researcher from South Texas. Presents an accurate account(as records wiill allow) of one of the founding families of Reynosa(1749) and Matamoros(1784), a powerful, politically-connected family who acquired some of the largest Spanish and Mexican land grants in what would eventually become South Texas and the Rio Grande Valley. Unfortunately the family heritage and birthright were taken away by family members who were unable to read or understand deeds, terms and leases they were signing with Anglo entrepreneurs and land speculators. The first part of the book encompasses the changing times in the history of this Texas period and the second part concentrates on the actual genealogies of the Balli family. Illustrated and with a family picture album.Contains a handy index. McAllen, TX, 2008 Privately Printed (Copy Zone Center) 1st Ed., 250 Pgs., 8 &1/2 x 11, HB. | |  Item #794
NOBLE FAMILIES OF PORTUGAL-ABREU
HISPANIC GENEALOGY
Author: Felgueiras Gaio
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Translated and edited by Luis Pontes. Gaio (1750-1831) is the best-known genealogist of Portugal and his monumental work, Nobiliario de Familias de Portugal, comprised 33 volumes encompassing more that 500 families. Inacessible to the non- Portuguese speaker for over two hundred years this is the first volume in English and covers only the Abreu family. Other related surnames included are Castelo Blanco,Cunha, Lima,Macedo,Mello,Pereira,Silva, Soares,Vasconcellos and many others. There is no indication yet how soon subsequent volumes will be printed, but this is obligatory reading for anyone interested in Spanish and Portuguese genealogy. Baltimore, 2009 Clearfield Company 1st Ed., 220 Pgs., 8&1/4 x 11, PB. | |  Item #796
AN IMMIGRANT NAMED AMERICA
HISPANIC GENEALOGY
Author: Ventura Rocha
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This is the English version of item # 829,Sangre Nuestra, Tierra Ajena. It is a family history and memoir of the author, a native of San Antonio, Texas and an engineering graduate of Texas A&M College who pursued a successful career in this field but later did well also opening Mexican Restaurants in Madrid,Spain where he has lived for the last 50 years. The book begins in Spain during the Golden Age when his ancestors emigrated to New Spain. He narrates the triumphs and tragedies of his great grandparents, his grandparents, his parents , and his own life. Other surnames are Taboada, Crillo, Manríquez, Urizar, Garza, Fernández and Narváez. Madrid, Spain, Nd. Privately printed 1st Ed., 233, 5 &1/2 x 8&1/2, PB. | |  Item #797
AN IMMIGRANT NAMED AMERICA
HISPANIC GENEALOGY
Author: Ventura Rocha
Price: $30.00
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This is the English version of item #829 Sangre Nuestra, Tierra Ajena. It is a family history and memoir of the author, a native of San Antonio, Texs, an engineering graduate of Texas A&M College who pursued a successful career in this field but later did well also opening Mexican Restuarants in Madrid, Spain where he has lived for the past 50 years. The book begins in Spain during the Golden Age when his ancestors emigrated to New Spain. He narrates the triumphs and tragedies of his great grandparents,his grandparents,his parents, and his own life. Other surnames are Taboada, Crillo, Manríquez, Urizar, Garza, Fernández, and Narváez. Madrid, Spain, Nd., 1st Ed. 233 Pgs., 6&1/4 x 8&1/4, HB. | |  Item #803
LOS DE LA FUENTE de Ciudad Guerrero/Revilla, Tamaulipas, Saltillo, Coahuila y Texas 1620-1842
HISPANIC GENEALOGY
Author: Jose F. Pena. de la
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The latest in a series by the author of early families of South Texas and Northern Mexico.The book is divided into two sections , " De Las Fuentes Family History" and "Familia Fuentes de Saltillo Family History." Contains marriage records with known children and transcribed documents of land transactions involving the family. Some photos. Ventura, CA 2009 1st Ed., 8&1/2 x 11, SWB, 82 Pgs., PB. | |  Item #813
LOS TELARES DEL TIEMPO, Historia y Genealogia de la Familia Santos
HISPANIC GENEALOGY
Author: Maria Elena Santos Mendez
Price: $75.00
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This is one of the most qualitative family history/genealogy books we have ever seen. It contains biographies, genealogical charts, profusely illustrated with many pictures printed in sepia tone.Describes origins of the Santos Coi family in Spain, the City of Saltillo and its founding families, public officials, and other interesting persons with eleven appendices. Printed on high quality paper. Saltillo, 2008 Privately printed 1st Ed., SPANISH TEXT, 279 Pgs., 8&1/2 x 11, PB. | |  Item #809
THE CONFIRMATION LISTS OF ST. ANTHONY CHURCH, 1919-1931,Elmendorf, Texas
HISPANIC GENEALOGY
Author: Santiago Escobedo
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Contains confirmations of June 30, 1919, November 2, 1919, March 6, 1922, April 1, 1928, and April 4, 1931.Includes the residents of Graytown, Canada Verde and Saspamco, an area area south of San Antonio, Texas with historical tradition. San Antonio, 2008 Los Bexareños Genealogical Society 1st Ed., 8 &1/2 x 11, 71 Pgs., PB. | |  Item #28173
WISER IN BATTLE, A Soldier's Story
MILITARY HISTORY
Author: Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez
Price: $26.95
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With Donald T. Phillips. Lt. General Sanchez was the former Commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq from June 2003 to June 2004. He was the highest ranking Hispanic in the Army when he retired on November 1, 2006, after thirty-three years of service. This is gripping and insightful account of the chaos on the Iraqi battlefield caused by the Bush administration's misguided command of the military. With honest and unflinching candor the author provides an appraisal of the front lines in the global war on terror and relates his own struggle to set the caolition on the path toward victory. We normally do not carry current history but this story of a young man from South Texas who reached the highest levels of the Military with access to the power structure in the United States is a fascinating and poignant narrative that we highly recommend. It inspires our Hispanic heritage and helps us to understand the American military's role of defense in the new century. Illustrated.SIGNED BY LT. GENERAL SANCHEZ. New York, Harper Collins Publishers, 2008 2nd Pr.,6 x 9, 494 Pgs., HB. | |  Item #6927
BEYOND THE ALAMO, Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861
TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
Author: Raúl A. Ramos
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Introducing a new model for the transitional history of the United States, the author places Mexican Americans at the center of the Texas creation story. From the perspective of San Antonio Tejanos, Anglo-Americans were immigrants and the battle of the Alamo was a war between brothers. Ramos explores the factors that helped shape the ethnicity of the Tejano population after the battle and demonstrates that Bexareños turned to their experience on the frontier to forge a new ethnic identity within dominant American culture. The author is the son of noted San Antonio physician, Raúl Ramos M.D. Illustrated. Chapel Hill, 2008 University of North Carolina 1st Ed., 297 Pgs., 6 x 9, HB. | |  Item #28166
25,000 TOPONIMOS DE ESPANA Y PORTUGAL, SIGLOS XV A XVIII (Abraham Ortelius, Joan Blaeu, y Tomás González)
SPAIN & PORTUGAL
Author: Thomas Hillerkuss, et al
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With Gerardo Ruvalcaba Arredondo and Milagros del Carmen Sánchez Flores. Hillerkuss is the author of the Diccionario Biográfico del Occidente Novohispano. He and his assistants have compiled these toponyms (place names or districts) based on the Iberian maps published in 1570 by Abraham Ortelius, and those of Joan BLaeu in 1665, in addition to the recompilation of censuses edited in 1829 by Tomás González. It is essential for historians to know the jurisdictions, both civil and ecclesiastical, in their areas of interest. While current geographical institutions are helpful for districts in the last 100-150 years the older one are harder to locate. This work organized by areas alphabetically should facilite research. Zacatecas, 2007 Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas 1st Ed., COMPACT DISK. | |  Item #1952
ESPIRITU SANTO DE ZUNIGA, A Frontier Mission in Texas
THE SPANISH COLONIAL PERIOD
Author: Tamra Lynn Walter
Price: $45.00
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Foreword by Thomas R. Hester. In the early part of the 18th century, the Spanish colonial mission, Espíritu Santo de Zúñiga was relocated from South Texas to a site along the Guadalupe River in Mission Valley, Victoria County. A series of archaelogical investigations have provided a compelling portrait of the Franciscan mission system. The results amswer questions about daily life, its impact on the traditional lives of the Indians and how both cultures were changed by their frontier expeiences. Illustrated. Austin, 2007 University of Texas Press 1st Ed., 223 Pgs., 6 x 9, HB. | |
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