Friday Photo - Biblioteca Nacional

These photos were taken at the Biblioteca Nacional (National Library of the Argentine Republic) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The building is in the Brutalist style and is worth a visit if you're in the Recoleta neighborhood.

Photo by Patrick Jones, Biblioteca Nacional, Buenos Aires

Photo by Patrick Jones, Buenos Aires, 2 Feb 2014

Marriage Record for Vicente Jr and Celia Pompa

I have written previously about my great-grand-uncle, Vicente Campuzano Jr, son my my second-great-grandfather Vicente Campuzano and brother of Plutarco Vasquez Campuzano. After deserting the 158th Infantry prior to it being sent to France for World War I, Vicente Jr. returned to Altar, Sonora, where he married Celia Pompa, the daughter of Fernando Pompa and Antonia Valencia.

The couple filed a marriage intention on 18 June 1919, and were married on 7 July 1919 in Altar. Their marriage record was in the Mexican Catholic Church Records on FamilySearch, and copy is below:

Source: FamilySearch, Mexican Catholic Church Records

It is great to be able to see these records from Mexico. There is also a set of records from the civil ceremony for Vicente and Celia, but I have not yet copied those.

Friday Photo - Cliffs of Moher

This photo is from my Frequent Traveling sister, who has been driving around Ireland. The location is the Cliffs of Moher, on the western coast of County Clare. This region is significant in our family, as the ancestral home of the O'Briens. Our third-great-grandfather John O'Brien was born in County Clare in 1793.

Photo by Laura Jones, Cliffs of Moher, Ireland

Generations on the O'Brien and Lamon side

The photo below was received from cousin Mike O'Brien, showing my great-grandfather Harry O'Brien & sons Lowell and Harry Jr. and 2nd-great-grandfather Uriah Lamon and his sons Herman and Edwin Lamon. I'm not sure on the year of the photo, I'm guessing about 1923 as Henry Lamon was born in 1922 and looks to be about a year old in this picture.

Wordless Wednesday - A Quiet Beach

Photo by Patrick Jones - Sentosa Island, Singapore, Mar 2014