Very good!  In fact, I'm going to use it.

Alberto.
--- Joseph Puentes <makas@...> wrote:

> well, speaking spanish is a must. I didn't say
> speaking fluently but 
> near fluency is a must.
> 
> =============================
> 
> I just tell whoever answers that My name is Joseph
> Puentes and that I'm 
> calling all the Puente and Puentes' in the phone
> book to see if maybe we 
> are distantly related. I go on to say I'm a
> genealogist and have traced 
> the family back to 1730. Tracing my family history
> gives me great 
> enjoyment and I would be glad to share that
> information if i can make a 
> connection between our families. I tell them I think
> we're related 
> because most of the Puentes from [that area] are
> related one way or 
> another.
> 
> if the person answering is young then I ask if maybe
> their parents or 
> grandparents are available to speak with. I also
> make sure to ask if 
> anyone in the family is interested in remembering
> the history of the 
> family, remember the names, or are intereste in
> making the genealogy tree.
> 
> I go on to tell them my parents and grandparents
> names and make them 
> understand that it was my grandparents that were
> born in the Rancho. I 
> try to get across that genealogy is not easy and it
> will take a little 
> bit of an investigation to see if our families come
> from the same tree 
> and that they should be patient.
> 
> ==============================
> 
> "Yo me llamo Jose Puentes y estoy llamando todo los
> Puente y Puentes en 
> el libro de telefono para ver si somos parientes
> lejanos. Soy 
> Genealogista y he hayado las rutas de mi rama de
> Puentes atras hasta 
> 1730. Estudiando la historia de mi familia me
> encanta y gustaria mucho 
> mandarte toda esta informacion si puedo hacer el
> conneccion con nuestras 
> familias. Pienso que somos parientes porque todo los
> Puentes de Santa 
> Maria de Los Angeles son parientes en un modo o
> otro.
> 
> Puedo preguntar si sus padres o abuelos estan en
> casa?  Hay personas en 
> la familia que se acuerden los nombres y conocen el
> arbol de la familia 
> o tienen interes en hacer un arbol?
> 
> Mis padres se llaman Antonio Puentes y Louisa Perez.
> Pero mis abuelos 
> fueron los que estaban nacidos en Jalisco. Ellos se
> llamaron Julio 
> Puentes y Virginia Diaz. Estudiando genealogia no es
> muy facil y para 
> hayar la conneccion de nuestras familias puede ser
> poco duro. Ojala que 
> tenemos un poco de pacencia en la investigacion."
> 
> ==============================
> 
> joseph
> 
> 
> Emilie Garcia wrote:
> 
> > Yes, Joseph,
> >  
> > I would like it if you gave us ideas in what to
> say when we contact 
> > people in Mexico, since they seem to be put off if
> one is not entirely 
> > fluent in Castellan.  Even though I can read and
> understand other 
> > languages after studying them, I can't think on my
> feet fast enough to 
> > speak them. In Italy I spoke mostly Spanish whith
> a few Italian words 
> > thrown in, and they understood me perfectly well
> and respnded in 
> > Italian which I understood.  Same thing in France,
> etc.
> >  
> > Someone in the Jerezano group told me that the way
> to contact people 
> > in Jerez was to ask the radio station to make an
> announcement that you 
> > want to contact people who share the same
> ancesors.  They said that is 
> > the way things like that are usuallly done. 
> Perhaps the newspapers 
> > there would publish such requests too.  My problem
> is that I am 
> > reluctant to call or write the radio stations and
> newspapers for fear 
> > they won! 't understand me, and I wouldn't know
> what to say.
> >  
> > Thanks,
> >  
> >     Emilie
> >     Port Orchard, WA
> >
> >
> >
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