RAUL N. LONGORIA'S GENEALOGY DATABASE

My database of family members begins with the present and extends back to the 14th century. The Longoria branch extends back to Alonso de la Pontiga in Asturias, Spain, and is by far the most extensive branch here. Other notable branches here are my wife’s Alcala and Garza lines, my mother’s Villarreal line and my paternal grandmother’s Treviño and Vidaurri lines.

The database includes over 11,100 individuals. The best way to navigate through the database is to first go to the Surname List and locate the surname of an individual you are interested in. Clicking on the surname of interest will take you to a list of all the individuals with that surname. Then you can follow the links to his ancestors or relatives in the database.

A WORD OF ADVICE AND CAUTION: Much of the information in my database came from other published sources and some came from personal correspondence with other individuals. In all cases I consider the information to be very reliable and accurate. However, I did not attempt to collect original documents to verify the information on all of the individuals in my database. I verified only those in my own immediate family and some of our more recent antecedents. Many of my sources obtained their information by deciphering original documents and, as with any other work of that type, it is possible that a few transcription errors and/or interpretation errors may have been made. THE READER OR USER OF MY DATABASE SHOULD DO THEIR OWN VERIFICATION OF THE INFORMATION PROVIDED THEREIN.

NOTE: My first database published on this website included a connection to the royalty of Spain and Europe, through Alsonso de Estrada, whom much evidence indicated was an illegitimate son of King Ferdinand. However, research done by Jose Antonio Esquibel, reported in Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research Vol. IV (1998), presented very compelling evidence as to Alonso de Estrada's true lineage. Esquibel's research convinced me that Alonso de Estrada was not an illegitimate son of King Ferdinand. In an earlier SHHAR report (Vol. I, 1994) titled "Lines of Descent from Don Alfonso XI, Rey de Castilla y Leon, to Don Ruy Diaz de Mendoza y Arrellano", Esquibel presented eight lines of descent linking King Alfonso XI to Don Ruy Diaz de Mendoza y Arrellano, who Esquibel states is "...presumably the same man of this name who was the husband of dona Catalina de Salazar...". If this presumption is correct, and it appears to be, then there is a connection to the royalty of Spain and Europe after all; this time, through Don Ruy Diaz de Mendoza. I revised my database in 2003 to incorporate this research by Jose Antonio Esquibel.

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Raul N. Longoria
7028 Golden Gate Drive
Fort Worth, Texas 76132
817-294-7336

Created 24 Dec 2007 with RootsMagic Genealogy Software