This town in Spain’s westerly Extremadura region was the venue for a wedding I recently attended and while there I found some very appealing heraldic display, ranging from these beautifully painted 16th century arms in one of the chapels at the Nuestra Señora de la Granada church, to these more modern painted tiles at the…
The research that I provided for Sunday’s season finale of ‘Finding your Roots’ serves as an excellent object lesson in the value of notarial records for Spanish genealogy. 16th-century Spanish emigrants Francisco de Armijo and Guiomar de Orozco were long ago identified as the root of an Armijo heritage shared by Linda Chavez and many,…
Last night’s episode of Who Do You Think You Are? treated the American viewing audience to the family history of one of the nation’s best known actors, Martin Sheen. I’ve been gratified by how well the broadcast was received, and in particular how much interest was elicited by one of the strands of the story…