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Striking, inexplicable stories circulate among the people of Nuevo León in northern Mexico. Stories of conversos (converted Jews) who fled the Inquisition in Spain and became fabulously wealthy in Mexico. Stories of women and children buried in walls and under houses. Stories of an entire, secret city hidden under modern-day Monterrey. All these stories have no place or corroboration in the official histories of Nuevo León. In this pioneering ethnography, Marie Theresa Hernández explores how the folktales of Nuevo León encode aspects of Nuevolenese identity that have been lost, repressed, or fetishized in "legitimate" histories of the region. She focuses particularly on stories regarding three groups: the Sephardic Jews said to be the "original" settlers of the region, the "disappeared" indigenous population, and the supposed "barbaric" society that persists in modern Nuevo León. Hernández's explorations into these stories uncover the region's complicated history, as well as the problematic and often fascinating relationship between history and folklore, between officially accepted "facts" and "fictions" that many Nuevoleneses believe as truth.
Diego Hinojosa Montańo (ca1640-1673) married Maria Cantú Treviño, daughter of Capt. Gerónimo Cantúand Juliana Treviño of Salinas Victoria. They were the parents of seven children. He served as a Lieutenant of the Valley of San Antonio de los Llanos and was a resident in the province of El Nuevo Reyno de Leõn. After his death, Maria made her way northward and the marriages of their children and the births of their grandchildren are found in the early parish registers of Monterrey and surrounding towns of Salinas, Victoria, Cadereyta and Villa Santiago. Several generations of descendants are given.
The bibliographic holdings of family histories at the Library of Congress. Entries are arranged alphabetically of the works of those involved in Genealogy and also items available through the Library of Congress.
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Capt. Marcos Alonso Garza was from Lepe in Huelva province in Andalucia, Spain, and immigrated to Mexico City, where he married Juana de Treviño. He moved to Guadiana (now the city of Durango), Durango, and later possibly married Catalina Martínez Guajardo. He then moved to Monterrey, Nuevo León, and died before 1643. Some of his sons used surnames of "Garza," "de la Garza," and "de Treviño" (it was quite common for later sons to use a mother's surname). Descendants and relatives lived in Durango, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Coahuila and elsewhere.
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