I am thankful for the New Family Search Program

I just imagine what my great-grandmothers would have looked like holding their babies on their laps.

This week I found some of my second great-grandfather and grandmother's family. Their children were listed and some were submitted by the LDS Extraction program as recent as 1991. I realized that over the years I have done much of the extraction program for others. I had no success in pinpointing my ancestors residences.

I had also searched many years for my own ancestors, but did not have the specific location of their whereabouts. It was pay back time for me after I paid it forward for others to received their work as a result of my paying it forward for them.

I found the siblings of my great-grandfather, Eufemio Canchola. His parents were Francisco Canchola, from Arandas,Jalisco, Mexico. His wife, Soledad Magana had four children listed from what I found. My great-grandfather was the oldest, with two brothers, and one sister. These were submitted to different temples, the Seattle Temple in 1986. The Mesa Arizona Temple in 1990-91. The third sibling, will be submitted to Mt. Timpanogos for baptism, endowment and sealing to parents.
Francisco Canchola was married to Soledad Magana, with their four children, Eufemio, Maria Antonia, Regino, and Lucio De Jesus. They are listed with their mother's name shown as after Canchola Magana. I am grateful to have found this branch of the family.
Canchola siblings, my grandmother, Maria del Refugio aka Cuquita and her brother, Reynaldo Canchola, 1925

I just recently found my grandmother, aka Nane and Maria del Refugio Canchola who needed to be linked to her parents the end of March when Beth was here from Seattle. I have since also found my grandmother's parents and siblings, whose work for a sibling is ready to complete. She was married to my grandfather, Ricardo Rodriguez.

I have a strong testimony of this work and how it comes to pass as we do our part, the Lord does the rest. There is no doubt there is an earthly connection and reason for this to come together since the ordinances for my grandmother were completed for her to be linked to her own parents. It strengthens my testimony how the Lord works in our lives. We just have to be diligent and obedient.

I am looking for my file with the photos of my grandmother with her brother, Reynaldo Canchola. I will post it later when I find the files.


Okay, I found this photo and saved it off my blog here. I really don't know how to find the pictures I know I have in the computer. So I just did the copy off what I have in the right column of this blog space.
This is Eufemio Canchola, my paternal great-grandfather. He resembles my our father and have similar hands, hard working and very dexterous.