Dear Jose,
It's not a very big town but it is a lovely one! I did get to go to a cemetery called El Panteon de Dolores (there was more to the name, but I cannot recall it.) It was very interesting. Some of graves are covered by elaborate headstones and huge carved marblery. A few are very distant relatives or family connections of my grandmother's. What was also sad about this site was that here these folks had spent a LOT of money to perpetuate their existence and the cemetery was so neglected and overgrown with weeds. One grave had a broken slab and bees had made their hive inside. My husband, our guide, and myself were the only ones there and it was a sobering experience.
Sorry, I don't know anyone's address or anything. Leonardo de la Torre Berumen and Bernardo del Hoyo Calzada are two gentlemen whom I met on my trip. Bernardo and Leonardo collaborate a lot on historical research. You might be able to get Leonardo's email address from Mimi Lozano's Somos Primos newsletter. Marge:)
On Jun 30, 2005, at 1:50 AM, zendean wrote:
Margarita;
My great grandfather and ggmother were from Jerez, Zacatecas. I wonder,
is it a big town ? Francisco Macias and his wife Leonarda Ramirez are and
have always been a mystery to me. My Aunt told me that they visited them in
Zacatecas when they were little and that the Macias's lived on a farm there.
I wonder if you know some one that is there now that I can correspond
with to ask about them.
Jose Macias
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From: "Margarita Vallazza" <TeaCozyGran@...>
To: <ranchos@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 8:51 AM
Subject: Re: [ranchos] FOOD:Mole/Pipian/Genealogy
> My dad's mother was from Jerez, Zacatecas, and she died just before my
> sixth birthday so I don't have a lot of memories of her but here's one
> or two:
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> I remember her fixing something called atole, which I didn't like, but
> remembering it from a fog of some years' distance, I would say it's a
> healthy drink. She also had prunes in her oatmeal, so when I'd pop in
> to visit her in the morning and she had some, I'd be served a dish of
> it and enjoy it. I liked it better than my mother's porridge (which I
> realize now was a true Scots dish). At special times, don't know what
> they were, Abuelita would have capirotada, which I didn't like too
> well. Remember, I was just a kid!:)
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> I'll have to think about some more food...some of it was just the food
> from northern Mexico that my grandfather liked--he was from Chihuahua
> city.
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> I wish I had had the blessing of more time with my grandmother, maybe I
> would have learned things about her family in Zacatecas. I believe
> even she didn't know a lot about her family history and I say that
> because my Tias, dad's sisters, don't know much about their mother's
> life in Zacatecas. I'm the one who told my Tia Carmen that my abuelita
> had a full sister named Paula, a full brother named Jose (who died in
> 1919) and 2 half-sisters and a half-brother...they never knew! People
> in the old country NEVER discussed anything private. Marge:)
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