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
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