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My name is Theresa Torres Mata, I was born in Roswell, New Mexico to Johnny and Teresita (Torres) Mata, in 1953. I started my research about thirty years ago.
At first I thought I only needed to know about my grandparents, but as the years passed it turned out that I have gone back to the early 1600's.
I have done more research on my mother's side, mainly because of easier access to church records and being around the family.
My mother, uncles, aunts, and many family members and friends gave me a lot of information and stories about the family.
My father was not a Catholic so there weren't church records to research. I keep finding information and have many stories to share.
I decided to share as much as I can to leave a gift for our family to treasure for ever.
Be sure and look at the family tree. I have entered 2082 individuals, 648 marriages, and the earlist birth was 1665 of Jacinto de Inigo Lopez Sanchez.
Charlie Bowdre and "Doc" Josiah Scurlock married two of Fernando Herrera's daughters. They rode with The Regulators in the Lincoln County War along with Billy the Kid. Fernando was known as an expert marksman. Another daughter of Fernando was my great-great-grandmother Maria Alta Gracia. She was married to William "Billy" Gill, who discovered the first gold mine in Nogal, Lincoln County, New Mexico.
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