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Jiménez.

Headword: 
Jiménez.
Principal English Translation: 

a Spanish surname taken by Indigenous people in the colonial era

Orthographic Variants: 
Xinmenez
Attestations from sources in English: 

An example of a famous person of this name was don Francisco Jiménez, the indigenous "juez gobernador" of Tenochtitlan, a native of Tecamachalco, who was active in the second half of the sixteenth century (ca. 1582, México)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 179, note 67.

A man named Feliphe Xinmenez of San Pablo Mexico is mentioned in the first half of the seventeenth century in parish records of Coatepec on microfilm in the Genealogical Library in Salt Lake City.
Geneaological Library, microfilm 695644, vol. I, 1612–1651

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