 Welcome to the Domain of the Moctezuma Family! This site is a family website, and my hope is that it will aid all my relatives, both near and distant, in finding out who is related to whom and perhaps in initiating contacts with long-forgotten friends and relatives. The family tree is not really a genealogical tree but rather a family chart showing all the families related to the Moctezumas over the last four generations. The basic chart is the Moctezuma family. To find out about my uncles and aunts (and I had ten of them) on my mother's side, and their children and grandchildren, click on my mother's name, Refugia Carrie Saenz, to go to my grandparents. To proceed to my second and third cousins and other distant relatives, click on my grandmother's name, Refugio Garza, to reach the two families of Eusevia Garza, my great grand mother. From there you can move forward through two major clans: the three daughters of Concepción (Concha) Garza--Juanita, Viola, and Perla--and the daughter of Angela Salazar, Herminia. I realize that there may be some who are sensitive about having their names and other personal information posted on a website. Please let me know by email and I will be happy to make any changes. The Word document containing the entire family tree (updated frequently) is available here: Family Tree. I have also posted a family album of photos of the Moctezumas and the numerous folks related to them, both ancient and recent. Most of the photos were discovered recently in photo albums left behind after my mother died. Thus, it is not a comprehensive set of photos of relatives on the family charts, but whatever my mother kept in her albums. And since my mother is not alive, some of the individuals on photos without inscriptions cannot be identified. So if any relatives or friends can identify some of them, please let me know. And of course, if anyone has better or additional photos to add to this album, I would be delighted to post them. For those who are interested in Brownsville history, click on the following site to get an idea what our hometown looked like when my mother and her brothers and sisters were growing up. The collection has about 8,000 photos of South Texas, including close to 3,000 of Brownsville. (South Texas Border, 1900-1920, Photographs from the Robert Runyon Collection) If you just want to see a sampling of Brownsville photos, go to "Selected Photographs from the Robert Runyon Collection." To contact me, please send a message using the online form. - Carlos Moctezuma |