Oh, Arturo, bless you! I will really appreciate your help. I
will send the full info to you at your e-mail address when I get it
together. Thanks again,
Emilie Garcia
Port Orchard, WA --
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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 9:12
PM
Subject: [ranchos] Re: Help With
Questions
Emilie:
I live just a few blocks from NARA's main
building here in Washington
DC. If you give me your father's full
information I can try and look
him up when I am down there next. I
still have not found my
grandfather's border crossing records either and
the people at NARA
are not very helpful... the records and films are not
very easily
useable and the films are horrible quality as well. It
really makes
me appreciate the FHC and the quality of LDS films, systems,
etc.
--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "Emilie Garcia"
<auntyemfaustus@h...>
wrote:
>
> To Michael
Gonsalez:
>
> Thanks for the information you provided to Joseph
below. I had to
laugh at the part where you say "those of us who are
still in the
early 1900s researching our great grand parents and their
brothers
and sisters". It made me feel so old. I am trying to
find an
immigration record for my father. He came from Zacatecas in 1913
through the border crossing at El Paso TX. I would so much like to
see a record of his crossing, but NARA has been no help. The NARA
office across the Sound in Seattle said they do not have the films
for
border crossings at El Paso for that period of time. They said
that
their office in Berkeley, CA or someplace had them. Since my
sister
was living in San Jose at the time, she went there and looked
but was not
able to complete her search and now she has moved to Las
Vegas. You said
you lived in Ft. Worth. Might you have a NARA there
that has the El
Paso border crossing records for around 1913?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Emilie Garcia
> Port Orchard, WA ----.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From:
Joseph Puentes<mailto:makas@n...>
> To:
ranchos@yahoogroups.com<mailto:ranchos@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 11:56
PM
> Subject: Re: [ranchos] Help With Questions
>
>
> great. Thanks Michael. I'll have a look and see
if I can gleam a
few questions to ask from this material. Yes I knew about
the name
change but didn't have it handy when I wrote. thanks
again.
>
> joseph
>
> ps: if
you're inclined can you make a folder in the "links" area
of the Group
called USCIS (formerly INS) and put the links in this
email in it with a
very brief description? then it will be available
for later as well
thanks
>
> Michael Gonzales wrote:
>
> Hi Joseph,
>
> If you want to see if INS records contain
information on where
an individual comes from you might be interested in
the following
sites. As you might know, INS is no longer. The
new Agency is the
US Citizenship and Immigrations Services. However,
the border
crossing records are still available through NARA. I have
also
attached some Word documents on the specific records that are
available and what you can expect to find in them. There are NARA
regional sites. I have one here in Ft. Worth but I believe there are
six total outside of Washington D.C.
>
> Hope this info addresses what you were
requesting below and is
of assistance for those of us who are still in the
early 1900s
researching our great grand parents and their brothers and
sisters.
The links below contain lots of information and you may
find that it
won't be neceessary to interview anyone, at least for
now.
>
>
>
title=http://uscis.gov/graphics/aboutus/history/index.htm
href="http://uscis.gov/graphics/aboutus/history/index.htm">http://uscisgov/graphics/aboutus/history/index.htm<
title=http://uscis.gov/g
href="http://uscis.gov/g">http://uscis.gov/g
raphics/aboutus/history/index.htm>
>
>
>
title=http://uscis.gov/graphics/aboutus/history/articles/MBTEXT.htm
href="http://uscis.gov/graphics/aboutus/history/articles/MBTEXT.htm">http://uscis.gov/graphics/aboutus/history/articles/MBTEXT.htm<
title=http://u/
href="http://u">http://u
scis.gov/graphics/aboutus/history/articles/MBTEXT.htm>
>
> Michael
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joseph
Puentes<mailto:makas@n...>
>
To: LosRanchos<mailto:ranchos@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005
8:03 AM
> Subject: [ranchos] Help
With Questions
>
>
>
> okay some have problems with
finding out the "Where" in
Mexico they came
> from. I want to eventually get
interviews with people in INS
and Social
> Security and other gov't offices
to see what information is
freely open
> to the public that might give
clues on where in Mexico people
came from.
>
> Can you all email me directly
with your thoughts on what
questions can
> be asked of people high up in
these organizations. I'd like
to go
> prepared and can only think of
these questions:
>
> 1) With
regards to the freedom of information act what info
is available
> to the general public in (their
organization).
>
> 2) On the
records that are available what kind of information
is usually
> collected?
>
> 3) What time periods did these
records cover?
>
> 4) What
preliminary work can the information seeker perform
to
> facilitate the look up of
records?
>
> 5) Are there
specific forms that need to be used for
information request?
>
> 6) Are there costs involved with
requesting records? And if
so what are
> they?
>
> 7) Is the informatin regarding
your organization kept at one
central
> location or might one need to
contact various geographical
locations of
> your organization to find their
specific record needs?
>
> 8)
Can you supply the address of locations on the internet
where
>
a) the address of each specific information
center
>
b) where information requesting forms can be
downloaded
>
c) general contact information can be found
>
> Help me with this please. I know
I'm forgetting some
important questions
> that I might only have a one time
opportunity to ask. What
would you
> like to know about some relative
from some gov't organization
that I
> have not listed above?
>
> thanks,
>
> joseph
>
>
>
>
>
>
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