Rodriguez Family Ancestry

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...