Turn the Hearts Of the Children I

The Authors
LoLyn, born Lola Lynda Jacobs, is the mother of seven children born from 1972 through 1984. At this publishing, she has 12 grandchildren. Her youngest two children, \brent and Lynae.bounced between her and their father with the step mother, step mother for most of their lives, staying with their father during the school weeks and with Mom every other weekend and holiday and eight weeks in the summer time.
By the time LoLyn began the actual writing of this book her older children were married, on missions and working, and going to college. so it became this little family of three who were able to skip around the country and visit museums, memorials and camp sites in 36 different states during three summer vacations. Brent and Lynae each have one baby boy, as of this printing. Lynae’s son is six and Brent’s son is just a few weeks old.
LoLyn has written poems and stories since third grade, which her mother was wise enough to save and encourage. These volumes took four years of research on the trips, research and study of books listed, added upon the many years of genealogy research done by her Uncle Eliseo and  






Turn the Hearts
of the Children
Volume I
an historical novel by
LoLyn Jacobs

Seventeenth century history of politics, culture, social and genealogy in New Mexico

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This project started out as an autobiographical sketch which was to include my mother and my two grandmothers, to be called “Four grandmothers.” As I researched the New Mexico materials, I found it so intriguing that I wanted to share that too with my grandchildren. Over the course of the three years it has taken to research and write and re-write this novel, I have lost track of the exact materials that provided the many quotations, descriptions and historical information I have used.
I originally planned to foot note every quote and every paraphrased description I used, but I found it overwhelmed the book as there were several footnotes per page. Since my purpose is to share information and not overwhelm a reader with a research document, I made the decision to fully acknowledge all the sources by abbreviated footnotes at the beginnings of the chapters, and use a different font face to indicate direct quotes from sources. In some cases I have lost tract of the exact source, and in others, I have paraphrased and rewritten so much I can’t remember where my words take over the original. So to the authors and publishers of the sources I have used, I apologize if I have infringed on any copyrights. I have made many attempts to contact the copyright holders, but most the letters have been returned by the post office.
I have worked to be as accurate as possible about times, places and events and descriptions, using poetic license only to make transitions between the present and past.
Genealogical information is accurate and mostly from Origins of New Mexico Families, and most of that is plagiarized from the source along with the descriptions and tidbits of family history that Chavez compiled. Since these can be found alphabetically in the first half of Origins, I deleted the footnotes telling the page numbers. Page numbers on the copies of pedigree charts are mostly from Origins.
I want to acknowledge and express my thanks to my mother, my two aunts, Marian Baca Candelaria Martinez and Dolores (Lola) Baca Candelaria Salazar, for their stories, both written and oral, and my wonderful Uncle Eliseo who worked so many hours with me decades ago to fill in the pedigree charts from microfilmed church records, cemetery records, and other sources.
This book is a monument to each of them and their families as well.
Dolores = Auntie Lola

The real authors of these books.