Steve Archuleta

Hello Steve,

Thank you for your questions about a Civil War profile you are developing. You sent to me quite a lot of information. The best thing I can tell you is each part of the man's life in the Civil War as well as his travel across unexplored lands will need documentation with sources. Military sources are sometimes harder to find than historical sources. I just say, keep looking, even in Familyhistory.org. Some sources can be listed as secondary sources. But you need primary sources to place him in the Civil War, as well as the regiment he served in. You need the source if he received any awards.

Welcome to the Civil War Project! Please check out our project page here to see how else you can participate. You will find our project sticker, google group link and a link to the Honor Roll project.

Hi,

The Germany/German Roots Project is currently undergoing our member check-in and wanted to verify that you are still active and interested in being a member of the project. Are you currently assigned to or working with one of our Sub-projects or Teams? We have many new teams so have a look on the Germany project page for the list of them. Is there a particular Team or area you are interested in participating with? I would be delighted to help you get setup in one or more of our collaborative teams!

We use Google groups for internal project collaboration, so if you are not yet setup for access feel free to submit a join request and we will get that approved as quick as possible. We also ask that members check their follwed tags to make sure you are following the correct project tag (GERMANY) so you don't miss any disucssions in G2G.

We really appreciate your contributions on WikiTree, and thank you for all the work you have been doing. We look forward to hearing back from you and that you will decide to be part of the project as we move forward with the new teams for the project.

Please respond by email. I look forward to hearing from you soon!

Kylie ~ Germany Project Leader

Hi Steve,

Welcome to the Germany Project. Please read the Germany project page add GERMANY to your list of followed tags, and can you please send me a private message with your email address so i can add you to our Google Group. The group is where our project communicates.

Thanks for joining, I look forward to working with you.

Kylie Haese ~ Germany Project Leader

Thank you, Steve. I added the resources

Hi Steve, I noticed you have hidden a question (about old handwriting) that other people and I had answered on g2g. I think the answers would be useful for many people, so I wonder why you've hidden them?

Steve:

The Kurfürstentum Hessen, also referred to as Hessen-Darmstadt, had about 800,000 inhabitants at the time you are interested in and Becker is not an unusual name. I'm afraid that you won't get very far unless you can narrow your search down to a town or at least a region. Helmut Jungschaffer

Hi Steve, Thank you for the offer. I am the most gringo of gringo's. When in College, i took 2 years of French.. That French has helped me decipher a little Spanish. The small town I grew up in had no Spanish speaking citizens, thus the high school did not offer any languages.

I usually look for the sources which have a translated version. Or do a google translate..

Glad you took the mentoring course.

Mary

The 1850, 1860, and 1870 Census takers caused so many problems for me! One census completely skips the valley 75% of my family lived in. They misspelled so many names that it took me forever to hunt down those records. The problem wasn't their English - it was that they didn't speak Spanish or understand the colonial culture.

I feel sorry for your great-grandmother. It must have been a really hard start to her life.

Hi Steve,

Don't worry for now about those accent marks. You'll learn them over time working with the records. Your valuable research should have given you a great start with documenting your ancestors!

Mindy ~ WikiTree Mentor

No, the census workers, who as you know had be an educated english speaker able to read and write, recorded her as a servant or slave, never family. Her last name was Lobato, Even though the Church would not recognize/accept her Apache mother, all four of the children were baptized in the Catholic Church in Bernalillo-- got those nice records in hand. What I found as strange was that years ago after I pulled and cited the specific New Mexico census record on-line that used the word 'slave' had later been altered to (on-line) to the word servant. If you were to download the same document now it would say 'servant'. It is just sort of sad that the Lobato relatives who took her into their home, would not recognize her as family. She lived with them for 15 years without that 'acceptance'.

Hi Steve, was the word used on the Census for your 2xgreat-grandmother "criada?" If so, while it is sometimes defined as a servant, it had another meaning in colonial New Mexico. A criada (or criado) was a native or part-native person who was basically adopted by the family. They were usually not treated like servants and sometimes even took on the family's name.