A sad story but a happy ending.
Our story is almost the same.  After my grandfather
Alberto Duarte Vasquez died in 1923, in Mapimi, my
grandmother Maria Luz Cuevas Luera gathered all of her
5 kids and headed for El Paso, Texas, where she lived
and eventually died after some 40 years.  The Mexican
civil war of 1915 and the flu epidemic devastated most
of the population of central Mexican states.  Over
half of my dad's family died because of the flu
epidemic, which led of my grandfather's heavy drinking
and eventual death.  

The good part of this story is that my grandmother saw
that there was no future for her kids in Mexico and
did something about it.

But can you imagine, my ancestors to come to the new
world about 1550 and prospered in Zacatecas and
Chihuahua, become ranchers, farmers, generals,
lawyers, governors, teachers, musicians, after a short
time in new Spain and Mexico, but eventually all this
was lost for most of them, and they came to this
country penniless but with hope. And again, we are
building a new generation of teachers, writers,
engineers, accountants, managers, officers, lawyers,
politicians, and farmers, all in this country called
the United States of America. We are lucky!

Alberto Duarte Prieto
Santa Maria, California



--- Emilie Garcia <auntyemfaustus@...> wrote:

> My father, Guadalupe Olague, born in Jerez, Zac. on
> January 28, 1903, immigrated to the US via Juarez-El
> Paso in 1913.  He had legal alien status.  His
> father and grandmother and sister settled in Brush,
> Morgan County, Colorado, where I was born in 1939. 
> In 1941 my father, at my mother's insistence (she
> was a native of New Mexico), became a Naturalized
> Citizen.  During WWII, my father and his uncle and
> cousins relocated to Northern California where they
> obtained jobs in defense plants.  He had sent my
> mother, my sister and myself to my mother's
> relatives in New Mexico. My father was a welder at
> the shipyards that were building the Liberty ships. 
> After the war, he went to work as a welder for
> Westinghouse in Sunnyvale, CA, and he sent for us
> around 1948 and they bought a house in San Jose near
> Willow Glen.  My husband's mother and siblings also
> moved to California around the same time from El
> Paso, TX.  My husband was a friend of one of my
> cousins.  We married in 1962 and lived in Silicon
> Valley until 1996 when we retired and moved to
> Washington State.  My sister and her sons have moved
> to Las Vegas, NV.  Our parents are buried in San
> Jose at Calvary Cemetery.
> 
> Emilie Garcia
> Port Orchard, WA.Get more from the Web.  FREE MSN
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City Hall......
My 3 uncles went to Mapimi, Durango, to get copies of
their birth certificates in and about 1952, also.  The
Mapimi city recording clerk charged them $5.00 for
their certificates; he offer to put any date they
wanted on the births certificates!

--- Emilie Garcia <auntyemfaustus@...> wrote:

> I have a link to my father's family tree in
> WorldConnect in the files for this group.  My
> grandfather was Francisco Olague and my grandmother
> was Gorgonia Garcia.  I have searched the IGI and
> the LDS films for Jerez, but have not been able to
> find a birth record there for either of them, nor
> for my father. My father obtained a birth
> certificate by going to Jerez and hiring a lawyer
> there prior to his filing for Social Security
> benefits. Francisco's father was Pedro Olague and
> his mother was Rafaela Tinajero.  Yes, that is my
> father's Social Security record you found in the
> SSDI  I was just relating the story of how and when
> my immigrant father came to the U. S. in response to
> someone's asking how our immigrants came to the U.
> S.
> 
> Emilie Garcia
> Port Orchard, WA
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Arturo Ramos
> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 5:22 AM
> To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [ranchos] Re: My Father's Immigration
> 
> What were the names of your grandfather and
> grandmother?  The  
> baptismal records of the parish in Jerez, Zacatecas
> are extracted  
> through the end of the 1800s on the LDS Church's IGI
> database, so you  
> should be able to find their records there, but
> there are lots of  
> Olagues in that city so you will need some more
> information... Do you  
> have a copy of your grandfather's birth certificate
> or know what his  
> maternal (second) last name was?
> 
> Go to http://www.familysearch.org and select
> International  
> Genealogical Index on the left and then type in your
> last name and  
> select Mexico and Zacatecas in the region fields at
> the bottom.
> 
> I take it this social security death record is your
> father's?
> 
> Guadalupe OLAGUE    
>     Birth Date: 28 Jan 1903   
>     Death Date: Sep 1966   
>     Social Security Number:  523-12-6413   
>     State or Territory Where Number Was Issued: 
> Colorado  
>    
>   Death Residence Localities  
>     ZIP Code: 95112   
>     Localities:  San Jose, Santa Clara, California  
> 
> 
> --- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "Emilie Garcia"
> <auntyemfaustus@h...>  
> wrote:
> > My father, Guadalupe Olague, born in Jerez, Zac.
> on January 28,  
> 1903, immigrated to the US via Juarez-El Paso in
> 1913.  He had legal  
> alien status.  His father and grandmother and sister
> settled in  
> Brush, Morgan County, Colorado, where I was born in
> 1939.  In 1941 my  
> father, at my mother's insistence (she was a native
> of New Mexico),  
> became a Naturalized Citizen.  During WWII, my
> father and his uncle  
> and cousins relocated to Northern California where
> they obtained jobs  
> in defense plants.  He had sent my mother, my sister
> and myself to my  
> mother's relatives in New Mexico. My father was a
> welder at the  
> shipyards that were building the Liberty ships. 
> After the war, he  
> went to work as a welder for Westinghouse in
> Sunnyvale, CA, and he  
> sent for us around 1948 and they bought a house in
> San Jose near  
> Willow Glen.  My husband's mother and siblings also
> moved to  
> California around the same time from El Paso, TX. 
> My husband was a  
> friend of one of my cousins.  We married in 1962 and
> lived in Silicon  
> Valley until 1996 when we retired and moved to
> Washington State.  My  
> sister and her sons have moved to Las Vegas, NV. 
> Our parents are  
> buried in San Jose at Calvary Cemetery.
> >  
> > Emilie Garcia
> > Port Orchard, WA.Get more from the Web.  FREE MSN
> Explorer  
> download : http://explorer.msn.com
> 
> 
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