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Echeverrias in the Gold Rush

Posted by Patricia Aceves Wyble on April 24, 2010 at 12:53am

My 3rd great-grandparents Teofilo Estolano Echeverria and Jesus Gertrudis Lebrija are my most-traveled ancestors so far.

I have him in 1844 in BajaCalifornia as possibly some kind of government employee - see Google Books.

According to the 1850 US Census and 1852California Census, Teofilo was born in Jalisco in 1818, and Gertrudis (as she is usually known) in Baja California in 1831 (her baptismal record from La Paz confirmed this). He's a merchant and a land-owner. They have three children born i

Spelling can be misleading...

Posted by Jennifer Eklund, PLCGS on July 10, 2009 at 12:39pm

Several years ago I sent out an S.O.S. on a message board to find information on an ancestor. A man who's first name was spelled Frances. A member of the board who happened to be an English teacher replied to me with a lecture about how I was spelling the man's name wrong. Frances with an "e" is the feminine. Francis with an "i" is the masculine. She told me I needed to change the spelling because I was spelling his name wrong.What the English teacher did not understand was that back in the 1800

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