Hello to everyone. What's going on with all this talk about menudo 
and nopales? I thought this was a genealogy group, not a cooking 
book................................I'm just kidding.

By the way, in Jalisco we also cook white menudo, not only the red 
one. The last messages brought my attention because menudo as well as 
pozole is closely related to my family history.

You see, my mom Margarita Tapia lives in Jalisco, Zacoalco de Torres, 
and she owns a restaurant where one of her specialties is menudo. 
Fonda Dona Mago, if you ever go to Zacoalco.

A generation back, her mom, my grandma Manuela Martinez, was also 
known because of the delicious menudo she made. Even today, some old 
folks refer to my mom's menudo as "el menudo de Manuela", even though 
she has been retired for more than a decade.

And this doesn't stop with my grandma, because her mother, my great-
grandmother Ambrosia Frias Aguilar, was also famous for her 
restaurant and especially for her pozole. A couple years ago, my 
mother saw an old photograph from Zacoalco's old mercado. This 
photograph belonged to someone else outside our family, but my mother 
bought it from this person because in it there's a sign that 
reads "Cenaduria Bochita". That was the name of my greatgrandmother's 
restaurant, and up until then, my family did not have any picture of 
it.

Well, it is just a comment.

About the poll, I think it shoud stay the same. I submitted my family 
tree a while back in pdf format, but I have found new ancestors, so 
I'll put an updated version of this file soon. I don't know if you 
agree, but I think pdf is a cool format if you want to show your tree 
to other people. It lists your direct ancestors, the surnames, the 
places of origin, and you can move around it with the little hand 
tool. What do you think of this format?