Rodriguez Family Ancestry

Maria Nicanora Ramirez Flores Guererro (Grandma Sallie's mom) was born 10 Jan 1884 in El Lucero, TX. Brief research shows that it is really a "tract" or grant made to some ranchers near Encino, TX in Brooks County (near the Rio Grande). One of the mysteries of Maria comes from the fact that one database shows Maria Nicandra Ramirez, b. 10 Jan 1886 was baptised in Asuncion, Donato Guerra, Mex. Her parents are listed as Francisco Ramirez and Maria De Jesus from Mexico. BUT, I found a notation of her death in the Family Search database (a geneology database) that lists her parents as Marcario Ramirez and Petra Estimbelda. Mystery #1: Who were her parents? Secondly, there is a family story that Esther relayed to Louis that Maria's mother was from Germany or Europe. That was the explanation for her blue eyes and light skin. None of Sallie's other children remembers any specifics. Angelo does remember a story about that vaguely. Emma does not recall that story. N...

Known to all as "Grandma Sallie", she was born on 28 Jul 1912 in Los Ebanos, TX, according to her obituary. Los Ebanos was a tiny border town in the Rio Grande valley that operated a ferry between Tamaluipas and Texas. It was a common border crossing area for migrants. Even today it only has 400+ residents. It was named for the Texas Ebony trees that were native to the area. We know by the 1920 census that at age 7, she lived in Hidalgo county, TX in Hidalgo county (still in the valley) with her brother Geronimo and her uncle Florentino and Aunt Gertrudes Flores. According to a family story, they lived with their uncle because their mother had "run off". Her mother's full name was Maria Nicandra Ramirez, a nd her father's name was Alberto Flores. By age 18, however, she had come to live with her mother and her new husband Domingo Guererro, in Ft. Bend County. This was confirmed by 1930 census. They also had a son Florentino Guerrero, age 12. In 1937, she met...

Contributed by Gloria Candelaria (Rodriguez) RODRIGUEZ FAMILY UPDATE: Rodriguez or Rubalcado? I remember Gabriel RODRIGUEZ when my husband (Gabriel's son) Joel Sanchez RODRIGUEZ and I visited him in Houston, Texas. I had met him and his wife, Sallie, in Brookshire, Texas, years before. This trip was special - I interviewed Gabriel about his origins. This is what he said: "I remember my mother. I was born in a little town that no longer exists - it was called La Bahia. (I explained that the town still existed, and was now called Goliad). He said he remembered his mother, and he remembered the last time he saw her. Her name was Lupita, and he remembered her clearly: she was sitting behind a man (could have been his father, Eusequio Rodriguez) on a white horse; she had a belt of bullets wrapped across her chest, and she was known as an ADELITA, fighting with Pancho Villa (circa the 1915 revolution). He cried as she rode away, while she laughed as she rode away,...

We will start with Grampa Gabriel. Through a lot of research, we found out that he was born in 1905 in Goliad, TX. Well, the town was eventually called Goliad, but he was born in a "mission" (an area around a mission or church that was a small town, like in the mexican movies) called "La Bahia del Mar". He was born March 25 to parents named Guadalupe Garcia and Eusebio Rodriguez. This was confirmed through records at Goliad courthouse by Gloria Candelaria (GC). There was a story that Gabriel had been born to a Rubalcado family and raised by a Rodriguez family, and took their name. But it now seems it was the other way around. He was born a Rodriguez, and according to a story he told GC, his mother left with a man on a white horse, presumably his father, when he was a small child. He remembers her leaving, wearing bullet belts across her chest (like the Frito Bandito), and laughing as they rode off to fight with Pancho Villa. I will post his story to GC in a sepa...

Hi Family! Welcome to the new Rodriguez Family Ancestry Blog. This is the best way that we can all see what is happening with the family tree without all paying to belong to the Ancestry.com website! The blog is free and I manage other blogs so I can update it more often! This is going to be fun! Please be patient as I start telling the stories, as I can really procrastinate a lot, but the family history is already VERY interesting. If there is something you do not want to be posted, please let me know. Otherwise, this will only be sent to family members, so we all probably know about it anyway! Nothing private or embarrassing will be on here, such as jail terms or bad grades. Just family history, and mostly about those who are already gone. We will see how far back we can go. One of our aunts through marriage, Gloria Candelaria Rodriguez (Joel) has her family tree traced back to the year 580. She has been working on it for 50 years! Wish us luck and feel free to respond, commen...