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Joseph, Use the Resource disk, that I sent you. go to the geographical index, look under Jalisco, and click on the 2000 census info. It is a .pdf file. Open the search option, and try a combination of letters, and see if you find you town. Thanks, Jonathan --- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, Joseph Puentes <makas@n...> wrote: > > oooh, oooh, oooh!!!! I just got off the phone from collecting some > critical Oral history from an Aunt that has been very very reluctant to > talk to me about her mother or my one and only Solid Brick Wall: Antonia > Lopez. I got confirmation that Antonia Lopez is indeed her name. she is > my maternal grandmother! Hurrah!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > anyway now here is the most important information that she gave me: > > she said that she was from a town that sounds like Juclaclan > (who-cla-clan). > > Can all of those that have great imaginations and have studied your > specific areas of Jalisco send me any town, pueblos, ranchos or anything > that even remotely sounds like Juclaclan. > > Boy if I could just break this one line I would be so far in heaven you > might not hear from me again. > > I can't believe it I really can't. . .this aunt just opened right up and > talked to me so natural. I think she saw how persistent I had been all > the while not being pushy to get info from her. I would just > occassionally call and establish a good repoire with her and just > casually toss in tidbits of my research. I never pushed her and then > today she just started talking about her mom. . .what a great great day > it is for me!!!! > > as you can see I'm so so happy! > > now I hope to find this Juclaclan. . .she also said that she and another > aunt of mine once went there [she couldn't remember what it was close > to] and that the only thing remaining of it was a pile of stones where > it had once been. hmmm a ghost town. > > thanks for your help. . . > > joseph

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