Jose Maximo Simeon Valenzuela - Help me find my connection to him

exactly what are you trying to do? connect Clara in the profile above to the Jose Maximo Valenzuela profile?

how were Margaret and Clara related?

so you are trying to find the connection between the great grandparents and the 3rd great grandparents.? (assuming the 6 generations were through them,,, rather than her great grandparents from one side were Arnaiz and her 3rd GG on the other were the Valenzuelas.

I have come across before some old California records.. I know there are good old Santa Fe NM. They were all Catholics,, so the church records will be there if not burned.

Margaret was the sixth generation of her family to be born in California. Margaret’s great-grandparents, Manual and Dolores Garduna Arnaiz, homesteaded in Kenworthy Valley in the 1800’s. Her third great-grandfather, Jose Maximo Simon Valenzuela, was born at the San Diego Mission in 1791.

this has some great sources at the bottom. Looks like Jose had a lot of daughters...probably one married
plus 2 wives and a mistress.

https://schwaldfamily.org/getperson.php?personID=I11192&tree=Ro...

I uploaded the 1910 Census. gives her mother and father's birth. and shows the sons that are still at home then.

https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000179231508878

So if the article's generations are correct, then Clara Dolores (Arnaiz) Hill's Mother's mother was a daughter of Jose Maximo Simeon Valenzuela.

This book in the profile says that Clara's father's mother (Teresa) came from Spain around Cape Horn, and the ancestry tree referenced in Teresa's profile has the linked records for the Chilean baptism of Teresa's husband Eugenio Arnaiz (Clara's father's father).

page 60
https://books.google.com/books?id=Oav8FO-AMYsC&lpg=PA59&ots...

Then if the 1910 Census says that Dolores Garduna Arnaiz's mother was born in California (father in New Mexico), then Clara's mother's mother (who is Unknown in the tree), would be the daughter of Maximo for the generation numbers to work.

The GENI tree has her 'maiden' name as Baca, but many people misunderstand Spanish name orders..

Look for a Valenzuela daughter who married a Garduna in (probably) California.

The ancestry tree has Clara as Clariza Daria Arnaiz 1884/1960 who married Wellman and Hamilton.

It has Delores Baca b. 15 Apr 1861 d. 12 Mar 1931 the daughter of Jose Manuel Quintana and Maria Manuel Velarde, but no dates or any other info on them (might not be correct)., because the linked 1870 Census in the ancestry profile (which has a California birth/death and the other things that match) also has Delores's parents as Luberto Baca (31 in 1870) and Louisa Baca (25 in 1870) and everyone born in Sonora, New Mexico. So that might be wrong also.

has her husband (paternal grandfather

confusing wording. Meaning that Clara's father's family came from Spain and Chile, not California.. so the California link is on her mother Dolores side.

I hate we can't edit. And Dolores father has a last name Garduna,, which then can't jump to a father Valenzuela... So either the generations in the article are wrong and missing 1 generation... or it's the maternal grandmother you are looking for... or it can ALL be wrong. LOL

Looks like you found it. I'm still trying to figure out the search criteria for the Huntington Database.... If the surname is actually Guarduno,,, then the parents should be changed also,,, as they are Garduna.

I forgot that the San Bernardino Mission was San Gabriel Arcangel

A forefather is typically someone older than your grandfather.. although it could be your grandfather. It's older than your father or mother. The Mexican Army was only active in California from 1822 (it took a year to organize after Independence from Spain) up to 1847 after losing the Mexican American War..... I think Mexico started land granting mission land in the 1830s near when they were dealing with Texas. I live in LA 1987-1996. My dad was born there and I have a bunch of great and great great uncles near Hemit, and Escondido, LA, and up north in San Marin and Palo Alto who had moved there from Iowa and Wyoming starting in the 1880s.

It's nice that Auntie Fannie found time for the Anza Thimble Club

Baca could be a nickname. Vaca is pronounced Baca... for someone skinny. Since vaca means cow. Mexican Spanish weirdly insulting that way but meaning to be nice. I didn't see anything related in the family names.

Baca can also mean "little berry"

The obit for Fannie Contreras, Valley Pioneer, said she was a charter member of the Anza Thimble Club.

I'm missing something. I just saw 2 obits, neither had an Antonio Baca.. where is the link to where he is mentioned? I saw a marriage to Manuel Quintanna in the ancestry info.