My Ancestral History

This weekend, mom, Camile, Makayla and I took a trip to Glendale, CA to visit the grave site of Domingo Arvizu . That in itself was an adventure. Getting to the cemetery was easy, finding the burial plot was a challenge. We eventually found Space G and a huge tombstones among other smaller and more battered tombstones. It simply read:Domingo Arvizu Fellecio (passed away) Febrero 20, 1912 EDAD (Age) 83 Anos Nativa De Mexico When I spoke to the record department the week before, she told me that unfortunately not much was said about him except that he was buried on the 21st ( immediately the day after he died) that he was Mexican and that he was buried with 3 other people who were unnamed. I figured those names would be listed on the tombstone but they weren't. I know that Domingo and Francisca had 2 still borns and 2 children that died in infancy. I originally thought that maybe Francisca was buried here with her husband and 2 infant children, however, it hardly ...

It has been a while, but I've been so distracted with the vast amounts of information I've been finding that I haven't had time to update the blog. The information I've found in the past couple of days have been so exciting I have to get it out. I recently discovered an interesting resource on ancestry.com. They are message boards dedicated to specific last names. I decided to browse them in the names of Lujan, Avila and Arvizu. The latter proved to be fruitful. I found a message responding to someone's inquiry about Domingo Arvizu. This person claimed to be a great great grandson of Domingo and suggestioned searching somoprimos.com for more info. I was very very confused by the site and thus turned of by it and gave up. The message also said that Domingo was buried in Glendora, CA. Seeing as this message board is over 7 years old I decided not to reply and ask for info. I didn't think it would help. So instead I googled cemeteries in Glendora and called t...