Welcome to Tex-Mex Genealogy

My name is Ray Moralez.  I'm a native of West Texas and like so many others from Texas, New Mexico and the greater Southwest,  I have my roots in Mexico and Europe.  I am not a certified or professional genealogist but rather consider myself an obsessed genealogist.  What began as personal quest to know more about my ancestors turned into a labor of love the more I discovered.   I began to visualize the lives my ancestors must have endured; dealing with the harsh climate and terrain, trying to provide for food and shelter needs, battling disease introduced by the Europeans and the constant threat of native Indian attacks to mention a few.  Yet, I'm quite sure there were probably many good times as well; the thrill of a new adventure for some, dreams of riches for others, the holiday celebrations, marriage and the birth of a child among them.  Much of this would not be known to me had I not started work on this project.

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Today, I have spent thousands of hours scouring, transcribing and indexing church and civil records, university online repositories, census records including military muster rolls and various other sources including some excellent books.  I continue to do that today and only have a few million pages to go!  I have managed to trace various branches of my ancestry back to the early 1600's and some of my roots back to Spain and other parts of southern Europe. I have to say one of the more amazing discoveries I have made thus far, is that for the better part of 200+ years beginning around 1700,  most of my ancestors remained in what is today the state of Chihuahua in Mexico, with relatively little movement.  Why?  That, my friends, is one of the many questions I would like to answer.