Anyone with the surname Linares?

Question:your odds of finding direct relatives here are slim, but we can often point you where to find them.
I do quick checks in several places, one of those is www.rootsweb.com (in the family files). I see many entries for your name.. it is interesting that it looks like one of the early early California families. Of course, that does not mean it originated there, but the early Hispanic Californians were most often from Mexico, or Spain before that.
The trick (always) is that since most names will be found in a number of places, the accurate way to do it, is to trace your own immediate family back. There is a guide to beginning research there at rootsweb (and other places as well).
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omg, should have left this one for our buddy Ted... one of the files is his, so you KNOW the work is solid.
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?o...

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: your odds of finding direct relatives here are slim, but we can often point you where to find them.
I do quick checks in several places, one of those is www.rootsweb.com (in the family files). I see many entries for your name.. it is interesting that it looks like one of the early early California families. Of course, that does not mean it originated there, but the early Hispanic Californians were most often from Mexico, or Spain before that.
The trick (always) is that since most names will be found in a number of places, the accurate way to do it, is to trace your own immediate family back. There is a guide to beginning research there at rootsweb (and other places as well).
edit-
omg, should have left this one for our buddy Ted... one of the files is his, so you KNOW the work is solid.
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?o...

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Somebody who is from a Latino lineage? Maybe the relatives are from Spain or a Latin American country --- or a Filipino...

I have never heard of the name before but I did find this for you,
Linares
Spanish: habitational name from any of various places called Linares, as for example in the provinces of Jaén, Seville, Salamanca, Cantabria, Burgos, and Soria, from the plural of linar ‘flax field’ (Latin linare, a derivative of linum ‘flax’).
Asturian-Leonese and Aragonese: Castilianized form of Asturian-Leonese Llinares (also L.linares), or Aragonese Linars, habitational names from the towns in Aragon named with the word linars ‘flax fields’.
Spanish (Li?ares): occupational name for a linen merchant, Latin linarius.

Place of
Origin Linares Immigrants
Cuba 7
Italy 4
Spain 4
Venezuela 4
Holland 2
Ireland 1
hope this helps.

http://vitals.rootsweb.com/ca/death/sear...
has 226 of them who died in California 1940 - 1997. Roughly half are married women, so they started out something else. You can put "Linares" in the father's surname or mother's maiden name fields to see others.

The ones I know about raised cattle in Sonoma County, California. They were from the Azores originally. Write to me via my profile if that rings a bell.