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From: "John P. Schmal" <>
Subject: [Zacatecas] IGI Update
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 13:45:46 -0800

Posted on: Zacatecas State<br>Mexico Queries
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Surname: IGI, ZACATECAS
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Hello everyone:

I wrote an Email to the Family History Library technical support to ask
about the differences between the Mexican IGI and the Middle America Vital
Records Index.

This is what their response was:

Middle America Vital Records Index is a collection of names which were
extracted and typed into the computer but were never processed for addition
to the IGI. Since the Church had these 2 million names in the computer
with nothing being done with them, this information is now available for
people to obtain and use on their own personal computer. This is a separate
file from the IGI and most of the names on the Vital Records are not on
the IGI so the
value will be to use both data collections.
A new version of the IGI is in beta testing right now but no release date
has
yet been announced.

I am checking with another department to see any church extractions for
Sain
Alto, Zacatecas have been done.

Sincerely,
Family History Support


This might be useful information for some of you.

In addition: A very good book describing the War of the Reform (1857-1860)
and its battles and political maneuvering in Zacatecas from the mid 1850s
to the 1860s....it's called "Jesus Gonzalez Ortega and Mexican National
Politicis" by Ivie E Cadenhead, Jr., published 1972....As many of you know,
there are many gaps in Zacatecas records for the periods 1840 to 1861 and
I associate some of those gaps with the War of the Reform, as well as the
French occupation (1861-67)....Hence you have records stating for Sain
Alto, Fresnillo and Rio Grande only in the 1860s, and Sombrerete has a
20 year gap ending around 1860 or 1861.

Last but not least, I noticed that the Matrimonio Informacion for La Ciudad
de Zacatecas is available through the 1700s and 1800s nonstop, but the
baptisms stop before 1700, start in 1840, stop in 1842, and then start
a few years later.

Zacatecas and Jalisco, in the 1820s and 1830s were starting to assert their
autonomy and leadership and came into competition with Mexico City, but
they failed to either assume leadership or to get independence; only that
faraway province called Tejas managed to break free from Mexico.

Many of you know that General Santa Ana defeated the Zacatecas militia
in 1835 and then ransacked La Ciudad de Zacatecas and the mines at Fresnillo,
and I associate these gaps in the capital with those events.

Of course, Santa Ana then punished Zacatecas by cutting loose Aguascalientes
from Zacatecas and making it a territory (and then it became a state in
1857).

Can anyone clarify or tell more regarding the gaps for the capital or parts
of Northern Zacatecas; are there any baptism documents for the capital
circa 1750 to 1840 or were they totally destroyed?

Thanks for any new information.

John

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