Nuestros Ranchos Test Site

The Hispanic
Conference in Salt Lake City will be held Saturday, October 14, 2006.  I
am expecting to receive the program schedule soon and will post it

Hi Esperanza,

My father was born in Tepatitlan de Morelos, Jalisco, Mexico. I have
been looking for relatives or someone who may have known his
relatives there. Does anyone in your family know the Romero or de la
Torre families from that area? My father's name was Ramon Romero,
his parents were Castulo Romero and Sofia de la Torre, his
grandparents were Manuel Romero and Marcelina de la Torre. Sofia's

Just a reminder that the Northern Cal meeting is scheduled for this
Saturday, March 4th at 11:30. All the past participants have been
notified and have received copies of the agenda. Any other interested
parties, please direct your questions directly to me: mcortez3@gmail.com

Thank you,

Maria

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Natalie; The first meeting, as is so common, was a just "get to know everybody" type. I just was so happy to put faces on the names. It is now more fulfilling to see Peggy Delgato's name (example) and know her as a real person that I have met and spoken to. Once the ice is broken, the subsequent activities can be planned with more confidence and with people you "know". For me, it was especially nice to meet Deena Ortiz. We had a common interest and it was nice to share a moment.

I had a great conversation with a great guy who was a Vietnam Vet, like myself. I came away with information more valuable than a link to my family. The food was great and the conversations were equally facinating. But Olivia's husband (really great and interesting guy) told me about the VA hospital and registration for the disability benefits. Olivia, please thank him for me.

Any Rancho members planning to attend the following conference?

March 18: MAJOR EVENT: Hispanic Family History Conference, Riverside
George Ryskamp, BYU Center for Family History & Genealogy
Classes by Spanish/English, Prof. Ryskamp and BYU students

Saw this listed in the Somos Primos table of contents (posted o/a Mar
1, '06)- check Somos Primos for details (I guess).

I was searching the NARA site (www.archives.gov/) and came across
this bit of information that may be of interest to those who reside
in So. California:

Genealogical Workshops at NARA's Pacific Region
(Laguna Niguel, CA)

All classes begin at 9:30 AM and are held at NARA's Pacific Region,
24000 Avila Road, 1st Floor East, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677. Class
sizes are limited. Please call (949) 360-2641, ext. 0 to reserve your

What a sweet story, Joseph.  Darn it!  A reminder

I am over at the National Archives looking up border crossing records and am having no luck finding El Paso crossings from 1916. Does anybody know if these crossings are available on microfilm anywhere? The college student staff member who is working here tonight told me that those years for El Paso are not filmed... but I want to make sure.

On a brighter note, Chris Pineda, I have found the border crossing records for your great-grandparents Nicanor Pineda and Emilia Gonzalez.

I've looked at all the messages regarding the SoCal meeting - but
haven't found information regarding the proceedings of the meeting
(except for the wonderful lunch the rest of us missed; excuse me for
drooling). What was the agenda? What things were discussed? Could
someone please share some insights into what went on in the meeting,
what you got out of it, and if you will schedule another. Thanks for

Well it is that time again............time to do your shopping and get ready for Capirotada. Tomorrow is fat Tuesday as they say in New Orleans but for "nosotros los Mexicanos" it is time to prepare for Ash Wednesday. Not only do we prepare capirotada but we begin to prepare all the other lenten meals which means meatless pero muy sabroso.   Today we purchased el pan bolillo at the panaderia La Sonorense. Tomorrow we slice the bread lengthwise and toast it in the oven. Hubby diced all the dried fruit today to use for the capirotada. He shelled the peanuts and will toast them tomorrow. He went to Supermercado Mexico today and purchased Canela, piloncillo, tomatillos, queso Oaxaca and we will be ready to roll tomorrow.   For the rest of the meal we bought nopales, dried favas which in spanish are habas and the dried, powdered shrimp. We will make tortas de camaron con nopales en mole rojo. We will shell

Okay folks I would like to EMPHASIZE that you all should be carefully
checking out the http://nuestrosranchos.org website. It won't be very
very long before we start a push toward making the full transition over
to the new site. Arturo has built a great website that has everything
that the Yahoo group had that we were using. If I were you I would mosey
over there and click on a few links and upload a few files and join the

First of all I would like to thank all of those members who have already sent me money for Esteban Valdes Salazar's publishing efforts. I have to date received $150 in donations. Between my father and I, we pledge to match all the donations we receive so thus far we will be getting Mr. Valdes $300.

My parents will be leaving by the middle of March back to Villa Guerrero and my father will be delivering the money in person to Mr. Valdes. If there is anybody who would like to donate but has not done so already, please send your dontation ASAP.

First of all I would like to thank all of those members who have already sent me money for Esteban Valdes Salazar's publishing efforts. I have to date received $150 in donations. Between my father and I, we pledge to match all the donations we receive so thus far we will be getting Mr. Valdes $300.

My parents will be leaving by the middle of March back to Villa Guerrero and my father will be delivering the money in person to Mr. Valdes. If there is anybody who would like to donate but has not done so already, please send your dontation ASAP.

I'm so happy and thankful for the continued support from Mimi Lozano
and the Somos Primos website.



See our entry to Somos Primos under "United States" and then below the
education section in the Culture section. Just do a "find" for the word
- podcast



joseph



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http://www.somosprimos.com/sp2006/spmar06/spmar06.htm





Dear primos, family, and friends. . .  

Hope all are well in this season of spontanous weather changes . . .



To facilitate searching through previous issues of Somos Primos, my
grandson Luke have created a single file of all the Tables of
Contents for the 2002-2005 issues. 



All the Tables of Contents are connected, which means you can do a category
search based on the division in Somos Primos, such as BLACK or SPAIN,
or a keyword search  on the titles.  An overview of the
contents of Issues 2000 and 2001 is facilitated by the use of a subject
index created by John P. Schmal.



Once you have identified the issues of interest, then go the homepage
and click to any issue of interest. Hope this helps.



www.somosprimos.con/toc.htm   
Tables of Contents, 2002-2005

www.somosprimos.com/sitesearch.htm  
Keyword search

www.somosprimos.com/yearindex.htm   
Index, 2000-2001







UNITED STATES

National issues

Focus on Veteran Rights For increasing Hispanic federal employment! 

Naval Academy Summer Seminar (NASS) Program 

Focus on Conversion of qualified Hispanic interns to federal
employment!

Developing Internal Policies for placing Interns in Federal Employment

USDA International Internship > Seeks INTERNS, deadline MAR 15, 2006

Smithsonian Internships  > Spring Internship Fair, 26 April 2006

2/8 Notes: NHLA-Federal Government Under-representation of
HispanicsEducation



Education

Cesar Chavez  & Bernardo de Galvez

Successful marriages confer academic benefit on children

Hispanic advocates sue Texas over ESL and bilingual programs

Yahoo discussion Groups

Nuestra Family Unida podcast project   

WALKOUT Screening  > March 1, 2006, HBO > March 18th

Octavio Gomez, Cameraman Helped Cover Latino Civil Rights Movement



Culture

Latino TV characters seen as  the hot gift

Sibling Writing Team Surprises Again

Prestigious festival accepts S.A. filmmaker's maiden effort

Adding Color to Red, White and Blue



Business

The inexorable rise of Latino USA

New Latina Voz on the Web

For Hispanics, Farming is a Growth Industry

Some day laborers report being abused and cheated in their pay



ANTI-SPANISH LEGENDS

Get Fuzzy

Gold enduring Mystique

California Gold Rush and the "49ers"

The greatest theft in history

Smithsonian and the Spirit of Ancient Colombian Gold

Latinos in the Smithsonian Revised

Targeted Minorities

Fuss and feathers at the U. of I. 



MILITARY HEROES AND RESEARCH

Guy Gabaldon Documentary Finally Completed

Texas Vietnam Veterans



SPANISH SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Cesar Chavez y Bernardo de Galvez: Sons and Souls of California.

Patriot Ancestors from Cuba (Part 2, F-J) by Granville Hough, Ph.D.



SURNAME

Lafon

The Descendents of  Doctor Antonio Fernando Lafon Chapa

S: Armorial Popular          

CUENTOS

Selling the San Antonio Light During WWII

Chicken Breast

Se Trata de Dinero, a stab at pure fiction

Carmen's Dream of Going to Summer Camp, 1941

Summer Camp

Uncle Rey

The Bull Before His Time



ORANGE COUNTY, CA

Sal Castro, Bringing History to life for students

March 4: Story Time for Kids and Adults

March 11: SHHAR Meeting: Ruben Salaz "Epic of the Greater South West"

March 16: Ruben Salaz to speak at Libreria Martinez Bookstore



March 18: MAJOR EVENT: Hispanic Family History Conference, Riverside

                George Ryskamp,  BYU Center for Family History  &
Genealogy

                Classes by Spanish/English, Prof. Ryskamp and BYU
students

Bowers Kidseum

Actors Wanted: Hispanic/Latin-American, and Multi-Racial

In need of luncheon or dinner speakers, contact, contact your editor.



LOS ANGELES, CA

^In need of 2006 luncheon or dinner speaker? Look at article above ^

March 1: WALKOUT by Moctezuma Esparza and James Edward Olmos



March 18: MAJOR EVENT: Hispanic Family History Conference, Riverside

                George Ryskamp,  BYU Center for Family History  &
Genealogy

                Classes in Spanish/English, by Prof. Ryskamp and BYU
students

                Click for more information

March 24, 25, 31st and April 1st Cesar Chavez y Bernardo de Galvez

Conversations North of Mexico, Mental Menudo Art

Hispanics for LA opera, Celebrating the 15th Anniversary of HLAO



CALIFORNIA

March 18: MAJOR EVENT: Hispanic Family History Conference, Riverside

                George Ryskamp,  BYU Center for Family History  &
Genealogy

                Classes in Spanish/English, by Prof. Ryskamp and BYU
students

                Click for more information.



March 2006 marks the 40th anniversary of Chavez's lead 1966 march

The Original California Constitution was a Spanish-English document.

CALIFORNIOS and the Birth of the State of California, 3rd in a series

Noriego Who?

Legendary Queen of California -- Califa

Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation

Sacramento pioneers re-interred in Sacramento County Cemetery

New Latina Court Commissioner

Los Californianos Recommended Reading List

Juan Francisco Permission to Marry

Nieblas - use SF newspapers for DOD

Colonial Life in Spanish California During the North American Revolution

In need of luncheon or dinner speakers, contact, contact your editor.



NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES

"Building a Lasting Legacy."

Computerized Genealogy Conference

March 10-11, 2006



SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES

Ku Klux Klan Had Short Life in El Paso

Alien Arrivals to El Paso click

Book:  Ringside Seat to a Revolution by David Dorado Romo

Book: Cottonwood Saints

Tunnel underneath the US/Mexico border



BLACK

The African Presence in México From Yanga to the Present

Book: My Soul To His Spirit:

            Soulful Expressions From Black Daughters To Their
Fathers   

Research shines spotlight on an unsung L.A. pioneer, John Ballard

At Burial Site, Teeth Tell Tale of Slavery

Taking 'Roots' to a DNA level, PBS series

Family Tree Magazine E-Mail Update

Mall Site Is Chosen for Black History Museum



INDIGENOUS

Native American Film Festival and Cultural Weekend, Palm Springs

Grand View, Hualapai Indians are building a glass walkway 

Now Available: The Flora Patencio Cahuilla News Index Database

Earliest Maya Writings Found

Geraldine Janis 1928-2005, Lakota Defender of Tribal Rights

Chiapas / Mayan Indians

March 25: 7th Annual Southern California Indian storytelling Festival

Health disparities among Native Americans

The William Duncan Strong Southern California Photograph Collection



SEPHARDIC

Crypto-Jews Among Hispanic Americans:  Consuelo Luz Arostegui

Semitism and Anti Semitism in Arizona and Sonora:

           An Ethnobiography of Experience and Insight

Universalism in Jewish Thought





TEXAS

TCARA in George Washington Parade in Laredo, Texas

National Hispanic Sports Hall of Fame

Royal Realities

March 3-5: Canary Islanders Symposium

March 29:  Writing Historical Fiction

Book: My Grandfather's Grandfather by Tomás Rodríguez Benavides

Thirty-Five Years of Struggle and Triumph: Mexican Americans in Tejas

Book: The Continuous Presence of Italians and Spaniards in Texas

             as Early as 1520, Chapter 3 by Alex Loya



EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI

Louisiana State Museum Grand Opening in Downtown Baton Rouge!

"They Came in Ships..."

Louisiana Infantry 1779-1781 (Spain)

Yahoo group: Canary Islanders of Louisiana.



EAST COAST

Alien Arrivals at El Paso

Mall Site Is Chosen for Black History Museum



MEXICO

My trip to Juanchorrey by Helen Mejia Z.-Savala

S: Otra vista del viaje a Juanchorrey

S: Personajes de la historia, Obispos de Zacatecas

S: Homenaje; A Jose Leon Robles de la Torre

S: March 27-29 IV Seminario:

             Reforma, Intervención francesa y Segundo Imperio

Mexico City Aerial view

The African Presence in México From Yanga to the Present, go to Black



CARIBBEAN/CUBA

Black Hispanics, Lane College, Tennessee Conference

Diario de la Marina: The Jaruco Articles

The Birth of a Puerto Rican



SPAIN

Book: Basque Diaspora

Book: La Identidad Vasca en el Mundo:



INTERNATIONAL

Arde el obispado

Libros

News From My Uncle in El Salvador

Esteban Gomes

Simon de Alcazaba y Sotomayor



FAMILY HISTORY

Most Europeans descended from hunters

The Official Federal Land Patent Records Site

Example of Ancestry.com resources

Free genealogy databases

S: Buscadores Especializados y Metabuscadores, (Internet resources)



ARCHAEOLOGY

Tribute to Tezcatlipoca

Excerpt: Inca Show Pits Yale Against Peru

Last September, at the Hispanic Genealogy Conference held @NARA,
Washington, DC, one of the presentations had to do with "Mexican
Border Crossing (Immigration) Records. The presentation was given by
Claire Prechtel-Kluskens, and most of the details of her presentation
can be found at the following NARA site:
http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/immigration/border-mexico.html
It is very detailed, and should be read with care.

I just want to express my view and comment about our recent meeting that we had in Southern California.

First of all, I offer my thanks and appreciation to Olivia Jaurequi and her husband for being such wonderful hosts. I can imagine all the hard work and preparation that it took to take care of the group. The food was delicious and plentiful. My only regret is that I started with the Mole, beans, rice, salad,and the tasty Carne Asada and by that time, I had no room for the Menudo and pan dulce! Maybe next time I'll start with the Menudo.

To whoever wants to see pictures of our meeting, please email your email your address to me so I can send you an "invitation" to view them. You can email me at:
scooterpie1968@charter.net
or
scooterpie1968@yahoo.com

test 1111- from Joseph

Hi,   Thank you for the info, I have already saw this infor, but like you noticed, the name of the woman is different, thats why i didn't pay much attention on it.   You say that that is not uncommon?, can you explain me a little bit? I've just started to search my genealogy and there are a lot of things that i haven' understand at all!   Thank you § have a great day!!   Monica

ranchos@yahoogroups.com wrote:

There are 2 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

1. [Nuestros Ranchos] Juan De La Rosa and Narcisa
From: arturoramos
2. Re: New to the group
From: Peggy Delgado

John (or someone who has it)
can you email me a copy of the group picture we took on Saturday?

Thanks so much!!!

Peggy Delgado

:o)

p.s Or better yet, post it to the "ALBUMS" file, here on
Nuestros Ranchos....

John (or someone who has it)
can you email me a copy of the group picture we took on Saturday?

Thanks so much!!!

Peggy Delgado

:o)

p.s Or better yet, post it to the "ALBUMS" file, here on
Nuestros Ranchos....

To whoever wants to see pictures of our meeting, please email your
email your address to me so I can send you an "invitation" to view
them. You can email me at:
scooterpie1968@charter.net
or
scooterpie1968@yahoo.com

Peggy Delgado

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