 Contracts were temporal, and the emigration from the "comarca" generally took place in March, to come back for the winter.The most famous and most solicited masons were sometimes out of their homeland for years, and they only came back to get married or to administrate their properties, sometimes also to make their will; however they didn't lose their neighbour status in their hometowns, even if they stayed long years away from it.Normally the family name reflected their origin.