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Dear friends, family, and primos. .



I hope you enjoy this issue with the surprise opening story, a true
account of a friendship between two different species.



Don't miss, under U.S., the  move to incease federal employment of
Hispanics, also the all-day conference at the University of California,
Irvine, held January 23rd on the Latino-Jewish Connection, under
Sephardic.



Teachers, if you would like your class to appear in Somos Primos,
please send a photo and the name of the school and city.  Check Santa
Ana Century High School photo under Orange County.  Teacher George
Aguirre says he students read Somos Primos and use it for research
purposed.



Sincerely,  Mimi



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UNITED STATES

National issues

Hispanics Underrepresented In the Federal Workforce

Letter to the Washington Post by J.V. Martinez

Hispanics are Underrepresented at All U.S. Gov't Levels

Pew Finds Occupational Divide Between Hispanics, Whites Widening

Excerpt from an email by Al Gallegos,  January 20, 2006:

Call to action, panelist Gilbert Sandate, January 13, 2006

Brent Wilkes and LULAC responds, Meeting set for February 8th

Hispanic leaders call for congressional help

How to become a Certified Federal Job Search Trainer

Sample Resolution for National LULAC Week

Eliseo Vasquez Medina

Former Chavez Ally Took His Own Path

UFW: A Broken Contract," four-part series in the L.A. Times, Jan. 11

It's Providence! Statue Memorial to Honor Cesar Chavez in New England

Jack Nava Dies, Driving Force behind Cesar Chavez stamp

Pregnant Migrant Workers Work In Fields Despite Major Risks

Scholarships Available For Migrant Students Interested in Teaching



Education

National Family & Fatherhood Conference

Latino/a Literature in The English Classroom

Hispanic High School students

TCU to begin teaching district workers simple, career-related phrases

UTA, Mountain View team up to fill shortage of nurses, teachers

Harvard Waives Tuition for Underprivileged Children!!!!

National poetry contest $20,000 scholarship, high school competition 



Culture

Rene E. Herrera

Moctesuma Esparza

Bikers "adopt" buddies to fight child abuse



Business

Brightstar Corp. Tops $2.2 Billion in Annual Revenue



ANTI-SPANISH LEGENDS

Book: "The Spanish Impact on the Forging of the United States. 

             What History Failed to Tell Us"

Mormon role vital to West / Mormons Founder Made West Possible

Response to above article by Rubén Sálaz Marquez, Ph.D.



MILITARY HEROES AND RESEARCH

Cold Water Ministry in Iraq

Grand Ball, 11th Airborne Division Association of Southern California

The Angels who Landed at Dawn

Bittersweet Memories

American GI Forum, Felix Longoria, Sr. Chapter , press release

Searching U.S. Military Records



SPANISH SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Patriot Ancestors from Cuba, Part 1

Evidence of 16th-Century Spanish Fort in Appalachia?

The Continuous Presence of Italians and Spaniards in Texas, since1520



SURNAME

Apellido Robles

Una linea de Robles, de 1695 hasta José León Robles de la Torre

¿Qué hay en un nombre?



CUENTOS

El Sueno, The Dream by Richard Sanchez

Mamagrande Guadalupe's Story, 1917 Flu Epidemic By Frank Sifuentes

In a Pickle by Ben Romero

Brown Eggs and Ham by Ben Romero

Riddle of Mexico's "corpse bride" draws crowds



DICHOS

TAO TE CHING translated



ORANGE COUNTY, CA

Century High School Students, Somos Primos readers

Feb 4: Stay Connected,1980's Reunion/Birthday Party for Ruben Alvarez 

Feb 11:  Concierto del Amor

Feb 18:  Mendez vs Westminster Civil Rights Tour

March 1:  Hispanic Family-Owned Business Conference

Folklorico troupe Relámpago del Cielo Celebrated its 30th anniversary

Project Looking for Interviewees For California Story Fund Project 

Recap:  SHHAR Quarterly meeting

March 11th, Save the date, SHHAR second quarterly meeting of the year

    Ruben Salaz Marquez, author of: EPIC OF THE GREATER SOUTHWEST



LOS ANGELES, CA

Feb 12: Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Director Sonia Marie De Leon De Vega

Feb 17 &18: Conference of California Historical Societies

Feb 18: 19th Century California artists

Feb 26: Centennial open House

Artist's Forum on Art & Politics, display runs until February 6th

New Book:  "Always Running : La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. "



CALIFORNIA

Californios and the Birth of the State of California, Part 2

Being Straight about how the State of California became the 31st state

San Diego Latino Film Festival: March 9-19, 2006

Meet the "Huertas"

California Pioneer Register and Index 1542-1848

Vocabulario Californio and SHHAR Spanish Colonial Terms

Hemet-San Jacinto Genealogical SocietyFamily History Seminar      



NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES

Golden Spike National Site Center Receives Two Research Grants

LDS to put microfilm in vaults on Internet

FYI - Canales, Garcia and Salinas Family Trees

George Ryskamp, appointed Director: Basque Family Heritage USA, BYU



SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES

Vaqueros: The First Cowboys of the  Open Range



BLACK

National Archives Experience present Hoxie

"Kindred Project"

DNA pinpoints family histories

Black Heritage Month



INDIGENOUS

Feb 8th: Keeping Chinuk Wawa Language Alive

The Agua Caliente Cultural Museum Oral History Project

Crossroads & Intersections

Key to Tribal Territories

Navajo Help Save Unique Sheep From Extinction

Introduction to several Mexican Indian tribes



SEPHARDIC

Latinos & Jews-Conference on Historical & Contemporary
Connections

Secret Synagogue

Revered Kabbalist Rabbi dies in Israel

Remnants of Crypto-Jews Among Hispanic Americans by Gloria Gold  
Woodrow Eugene Longoria

Israelite Ancestry URL



TEXAS

Casa Blanca Monument Recovered

The Royal Connections by George Farias

Dressed in history, RoseMarie LaPenta

Feb 18th: George Washington Parade

March 2-5:  275th Arrival of Canary Islanders to the Presidio de Bejar

Spaniard Americans by Alex Loya

Dallas Historical Society -- Launches Brown Bag Lunches

Religious Studies Program & Center for Mexican American Studies

Book: Guadalupe and Her Faithful

5th Annual Commemorative Lecture in Mexican American History



EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI

Louisiana's 'Islenos' Torn Apart by Katrina

Cookbooks Available

Novels feature Louisiana and Texas

Lorenzo and the Turncoat

Obituary Index Goes Live



EAST COAST

Feb 9th: Ken Burns speaks at the National Archives

How to increase Hispanics' profile in federal work force, June 27, '05

Ensuring Equal Opportunity: Hispanic Program Makes Progress, Feb '05



MEXICO

Book: Mis Recuerdos by Jose Leon Robles de la Torre

Director General del Consejo Editorial  Gobierno del Estado de Coahuila.

Discurso de Dr. Maestro y Licenciado Pedro Hector Rivas Figueroa

Personajes de la historia,  Dr. Luis Maeda Villalobos

Dr. Luis Maeda Villalobos/one of the five gentlemen

Book: Baptisms in Tamaulipas

Book: Echoes of the Conquistadoes

A Successful Researching Trip

Book: Matrimonios y Bautismos de la Hacieda de Santa Maria, 1804-1845

La Familia Plaza

Casa imperial mexicana

President Carlos Salinas-de-Gortari, among Descendents of Don Jose
Esmiliano

                               Salinas Villarreal

Fallecimiento de Barbara H. Stein



CARIBBEAN/CUBA

Cahuita Symposium on Slavery, Culture and Religion

In Cuba, 9,240 victims - and counting



SPAIN

Forget that long lunch: Spain sends workers home early to boost families

Os Judeus de Lepe

¿Lo Conseguiremos Averiguar¿

Archivos de la lista GENEALOGICA@...



INTERNATIONAL

Ecuadorean outliving the world at 116

Prof. Cesare Giraldo

Recommended Links



HISTORY

Correction of George Washington letter to Conde de Floridablanca

Fun tidbit: George Washington and a Spanish Jackass

The Most Read Writer



FAMILY HISTORY

Library Of Congress Wants Your Family History

Ten Free Things to Do on Ancestry.com

Genealogy Services: Genealogists Seek DNA Testing Services

Sample  "Genealogy Pointers"

A Guide to Hidden Features of Google and Yahoo Engines

Maureen A. Taylor helps readers analyze old family pictures



ARCHAEOLOGY

Oldest mural of Maya people found in Guatemala, painted about 100 B.C.

Elite Women Made Beer in Pre-Incan Culture

New Digs Decoding Mexico's "Pyramids of Fire"

Teotihuacan Home Page

Archaeologists: Old Canals Found in Peru



MISCELLANEOUS

If I Had My Life to Live Over

by Erma Bombeck

(Written after she found out she was dying from cancer.)

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