I'm happy for you.  Maybe someday I can be as
successful.

Alberto.

--- Joseph Puentes <makas@...> 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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