Friday, September 30, 2022

Albertina Museum Online Collections

 

Source: Albertina Museum. Cassiers, 1910.

The wonderful Albertina Museum in Vienna has opened a trove of digital images for its vast holdings, such as the scan above from its poster collection. I have been lucky to have visited the Albertina twice, in 2011 and 2015. The image above is by Henrick Cassiers, showing Grand Place in Brussels, where I'll staying in November.

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Temple of the Dog

 

Photo by Patrick Jones. Kuala Lumpur, 17 Sep 2022.

Above is another shot from my excursion to Batu Caves Temple in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I was in Singapore and Malaysia for two weeks this month, one of my longest trips in quite some time.

Sunday, September 25, 2022

Friday, August 26, 2022

Aquila

 

Aquila Calles. UNM & FAPECFT.

The University of New Mexico Digital Collection's scans from the Fondo Plutarco Elias Calles in Mexico included a photograph of Aquila Clemenica Calles, daughter of Maria Jesus Campuzano. This photo was found along with a copy of the Informacion Matrimonial between Aquila and Belisario Moreno, and another photo showing Aquila with sons Ramon and Jorge Moreno.

UNM & FAPECFT.

When looking at AncestryDNA's Thrulines feature for my Aunt Linda, I see several DNA matches to descendants of Maria Jesus Campuzano, including three related to Aquila Calles.

AncestryDNA Thrulines.


Thursday, August 25, 2022

Revisiting Maria Jesus

 

Source: U. New Mexico & FAPECFT.

Back in 2016, I wrote about the connections between my Granny's Campuzano family and the family of former Mexican President Plutarco Elias Calles. His mother, Maria Jesus Campuzano, was a daughter of my 3rd-great-grandfather Vicente Antonio Campuzano and first wife Benancia Gutierrez. The University of New Mexico Digital Collection has published scans from the archives of Plutarco Elias Calles, including family documents. I was able to run a search on the Campuzano family, uncovering the death record for Maria Jesus above. This record confirms her death in Hermosillo, Sonora on 20 June 1881.

The New Mexico Digital Collection includes other documents on the children of Maria Jesus Campuzano, such as birth records for Aquila Clemencia Calles, Jose Carlos Calles, Carlos Francisco Calles, as well as records for Juan Bautista Calles and his wife Maria Antonia Campuzano. Juan was the uncle of Plutarco Elias Calles, and adopted him after the death of his mother.

I also located the baptism record for Maria Jesus, in the town of Ures, Sonora on 15 October 1847.

FamilySearch. 

The New Mexico Digital Collection had a copy of the baptism record for Plutarco Elias Calles from 23 December 1878 in Guaymas, Sonora, listing Jesus Campuzano as his mother, and Plutarco Elias as father.

U. New Mexico and FAPECFT.