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Subject: Somos Primos December 2015
Somos Primos December 2015
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Dear Primos and Friends:
You'll notice a new category in the Table of Contents: Oceanic Pacific.
Through the numerous recent submissions which I have received from Dr.
Carlos A. Campos y Escalante, my awareness of the contributions made by Spanish sailors and soldiers has greatly expanded.
I realized that I had absorbed a history with a Northern European perspective, east to west colonization from the Atlantic Ocean, not giving proper attention to Southern European explorations and colonization among the nations on the rim of the Pacific Ocean.
Although, I knew that Basque whalers were sailing in the Pacific Ocean in the 1500s and Spanish soldiers were marrying Japanese women in the 1600s, I had not investigated further. Briefly,from the Rosario and Haro Straits of the San Juan Islands, in the north to Chile in the south, the Spanish were exploring, mapping, and colonizing throughout the Pacific Rim. In 2016, I plan to seek out and share more on this expanded view. I am truly grateful to Dr. Campos y Escalante for this new and more correct view of our grandparents contributions to world history.
Thank you for all your wonderful assistance in sharing heritage items, family records, your latest involvements in promoting a better understanding of the Hispanic/Latino presence, and our glorious mix with peoples of the world. J. Gilberto Quezada certainly shared a visual treat.
Wishing you and your loved ones a Feliz Navidad y Prospero Nuevo Ano.
Abrazos, Mimi
SOMOS PRIMOS December 2015
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Old Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe that my parents visited in
1945 ~ J. Gilberto Quezada