Famous Ancestors Tree

FAMOUS ANCESTORS

Famous Ancestors

TGSA has chosen to take twelve (12) individuals that many Hispanic genealogists consider famous ancestors and provide you a report of their descendants. In many cases, Hispanics, especially those whose ancestors come from northeastern Mexico, can count themselves as descendants from several of these “famous ancestors”. Do not assume that you are not descended from any of these twelve ancestors. Explore their descendants; you may discover a personal connection.

Data

There are three (3) ways to navigate through the data. These are:

  • Descendants – You start with the “famous ancestor” and their spouse(s) in Generation 1, followed by Generation 2 which consists of their children, then Generation 3 which includes the grandchildren, etc.
  • Surname List – You can select a particular surname that you choose to research. This leads you to the Name Index but positioned at the surname you selected. You select the individual you want to see and proceed
  • Name Index – This is an alphabetic listing of all names included in the descendant report. You scroll the list and select the individual you want to see. Remember there are thousands of names listed in this index alphabetically.

Located at the bottom of each web page are navigation buttons allowing you to: go to The Table of Contents, to the next or previous generation or to the final web page. Use the simple buttons found at the bottom of each web page to navigate through the families.

Please be aware of certain characteristics of the data presented in these descendant reports. Names have been standardized to current spelling. For example, names such as Ynojosa, Visente or Bisente, and Zaldivar have been normalized to Hinojosa, Vicente, and Saldivar respectively. Name starters of de, del, or de la have been dropped. So, de Hinojosa, del Canto, and de la Garza become Hinojosa, Canto, and Garza respectively. Additionally, the use of accents marks is omitted and ñ is represented by n.

Some individuals will have their caste classification (indio, mestizo, mulato, mulato libre, etc.) precede their name. These classifications are normally found in baptismal records. Others will have their title (Capitán, General, Alcalde, etc.) precede their name.


Related Books
Aquellos Primeros Saltillenses (an eBook) by Maria Elena Santoscoy Flores. Catalogo de Pasajeros a Indias Durante los siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII – Volume 3 by Cristóbal Bermúdez Plata. Diccionario Biográfico de Saltillo by Martha Durón Jiménez and Ignacio Narro Etchegaray. Geobiográfico de Cuarenta Mil Pobladores Españoles de América en el Siglo XVI by Peter Boyd-Bowman. Histoira del Nuevo Reino de León 1577-1723   by Eugenio del Hoyo. Index to the Marriage Investigations of the Diocese of Guadalajara   Volume 1, compiled and edited by Raúl J. Guerra, Jr., Nadine M. Vásquez, Baldomero Vela, Jr. Los Valles de Las Salinas y Del Carrizal   by Guillermo Garmendia Leal. New Mexico's First Colonists   compiled and arranged by David H. Snow. Origen de los Fundadores de Texas, Nuevo Mexico, Coahuila, y Nuevo Leon   by Guillermo Garmendia Leal. Origin of Surnames Garza and Treviño in Nuevo León   by Tomas Menderichaga Cueva, translated by Edna Garza Brown. Relación de Algunas Cosas de las Que Acaecieron al Muy Ilustre Señor Don Hernando Cortés   by Andrés de Tapia. The Conquistadores   by Patricia de Fuentes. The Conquistadores and Crypto-Jews of Monterrey   by David T. Raphael. The Genealogy of Mexico, Gateway to the Past from our Ancestors Forward   by Gary Felix --website: The Genealogy of Mexico The Sixteen Founders of Villa de Santiago del Saltillo   by Moises Garza. With All Arms   by Carl Laurence Duaine, revised and edited by his son Laurence A. Duaine.
Thanks

TGSA extends its thanks to Crispín Rendón, highly respected and renowned Hispanic genealogist from California, from whose extensive database of over 600,000 records the descendants for these “famous ancestors” were extracted.