New leads to research

My oldest sister helped me add some (mostly living) relatives to my database over the weekend. She was a lot of help, mom will be even more help once I get her onboard with the idea.

I've been searching FamilySearch for some names that either I didn't have before or that I hadn't searched before. I've been making a habit of looking for other things with the same source information, which is generally just two clicks away. I get a lot of siblings and other relatives by doing this, although it's a little tedious. I basically open up everyone with the same surname from the same source and look for ways they link to what I already have. (Another person with the same surname baptised at the same church two years later with the same grand-parents? Yeah, that goes in my database.)

In doing this after finding a marriage date for my great-grandparents, I found a few more suspect people.

My great-grandparents, Guilebaldo Echeverria and Refugio Morfin were married at the Nuestra Senora De Guadalupe church, in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico on July 2nd, 1879.

Federico Echeverria and Julia Bonilla were married at the same church on July 5th, 1979. (Just 3 days later!)

Aurelio Figueroa and Trinidad Morfin were married at the same church on January 20th, 1880. (5 months later.)

Oronato Milanes and Jesus Echeverria were married at the same church on November 4th, 1883. (4 years later.)


These are in fact the only records matching the two surnames I'm tracking that were extracted from the church's records. In my mind, I find it very likely that these were two sibling groups. Unfortunately, although marriage records or birth records would give me these people's parents' names, the marriage documents from the church do not. The three couples I'm unsure of are going in my research database for now.