Autobiography of Donaciano (Don C.) Montoya who was born 1 June 1922 in Mimbres, New Mexico. He was the son of Thomas Encinas Montoya and Liugarda Chavez. Don married Adelina Hernandez 13 December 1940. He was the father of two children. Descendants lived in New Mexico, Oregon and elsewhere.

The Quintana family originated in Spain and arrived in Mexico as part of the early Spanish colonizing. Joseph De Quintana was born in Mexico sometime between 1645 and 1651. He married Nicolasa Valdes Altamirano and they were the parents of four children. One of their sons, Miguel De Quintana (1677-1748), moved north to New Mexico in 1693 and settled in Santa Fe. He married Gertrudis De La Santa Trinidad Moreno Trujillo. They later moved to Santa Cruz,...

Family of Annie Louise Allen Ward (1897-1977), the only daughter of Malachi Weston Allen, Jr. and Artymesia Hodge. She was born in McKinney, Collin Co., Texas. She married 1) 1913 in Collin Co., Texas, Charles Lee Ward (d. 1918). They had three children. She married 2) 1920, William Dow Ward (b. 1899), the brother of Charles Lee Ward. They had eight children. Some early ancestors lived in Massachusetts and Tennessee. Descendants live in Texas, California...

Lorenzo Montoya married Maria Manuela Ganzales. They are listed in the 1830 census of Jemes, New Mexico. They were the parents of six children. Their great great grandson Feliberto Montoya was born Oct. 27, 1910 in La Jara, New Mexico. He married Josefa Casaus in May of 1936. He is the grandfather of the author's husband, Angelo (Jamey) Montoya. Feliberto and Josefa moved to Salt Lake City where they lived for a few years before moving back to New...

Luis Maria Cabeza de Baca was born 26 Oct. 1754 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He married 3 times: (1) Maria Josefa Lopez, 24 Nov. 1777 (died 2 Apr. 1797); Ana Maria Sanchez, 11 Apr. 1798 in Santa Fe, New Mexico; (3) Maria Encarnacion Lucero in Pena Blanca, New Mexico (born 28 Mar. 1791 in Cochiti, New Mexico). Luis died in Pena Blanca, New Mexico in 1833.

Francisco Montes Vigil was born about 1702 in Santa Cruz, New Mexico. He married Antonia Ribera Jiron Del Castillo about 1720 in Santa Cruz, New Mexico. Antonia Ribera died 3 July 1743 in Santa Cruz, New Mexico. Francisco then married Lorensa Molina Quintana 8 June 1744 in Santa Cruz, New Mexico.

Chiefly, genealogical tables that appear throughout 22 volumes of a related title by the same author, The Quintana's. Some of these charts contain new information from further research or as received from other researchers. .

Jose Christoval Gonzales was born 13 November 1753 in Sante Fe, New Mexico. His parents were Juan Hilario and Maria Francisca Segura. He married Ynes Ortiz. They had thirteen children. He died in 1828. Manuel de la Trinidad Paez was born in about 1725. He married Maria Antonia Martin in 1746/47 in New Mexico. They had nine children. Descendants of these two families, Feliberto Gonzales (1885-1960) and Aurelia Paiz (1893-1993), married in 1914 in Gulnare,...

Pedro Lucero de Godoy, son of Juan López de Godoy and Ynés Gonzalez Jaramillo, was baptized in 1599 in Mexico City, Mexico. He came to New Mexico in 1617 as a soldier. He married Petronilla de Zamora, daughter of Bartolomé de Montoya Nd Maria de Zamora, in about 1621 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. They had four children. He married Francisca Gomez y Robledo, daughter of Francisco,Gomez and Ana Robledo, in 1641. They had seven known children. He died...

Nicolas Ortiz married Catalina Castro. They had one known daughter. He married Mariana Vargas Barba Coronado 26 May 1676 in Santa Vera Cruz, Mexico. They had five known children. They settled in New Mexico in 1695.