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Dedicated
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TABLE OF
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AUGUST 2000, Issue 8
Editor: Mimi Lozano, mimilozano@aol.com |
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Immigration
is not a problem to be solved, June 26,
Governor George Bush to the 71st National Conference of the |
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County, CA Orange County Fair Lowrider Magazine Latino Fatherland Sep 28: Boy Scouts Soccer Players Los Angeles, CA Mission San Gabriel Eddie Varon Levy White Bison Trek Spanish radio California Muwekma Ohlone Santa Barbara News-Press A Personal History Texas |
Southwestern
United States Sep 1-3: Soza Reunion Oct 14: Legado Latino Conf New Mexico Research Death of Governor Rosas Baca Ranch Mesa Verde National Park Jewish Records Inaugural Hispanic Football East of the Mississippi Mexico
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Caribbean/Cuba Histories of Cuban Families Passenger Lists to/from Son by Four International News History Miscellaneous |
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Complete
information on the following heritage events will be found under the
area where the event will take place. Aug 11-12: Elizondo Family Reunion, MX Sep 1-3: Soza Family Reunion, AZ Sep 4: San Gabriel Mission, CA Sep 11: Mesa College Hispanic Day, CA Sep 13: Santa Ana College, CA Sep 7-10 : 21st Texas State Hispanic Confer Sep 30: Boy Scouts Visionary, CA Oct 14: Legado Latino Conference, UT Oct 14: Mexican-American Museum, CA Oct 21: Redescubriendo Nuestra Historia, http://www.hispanicevents.com./ http://www.calhum.org/ http://www.hispanicheritagemonth.org. |
SHHAR
Board Members: Bea Armenta Dever Edward B. Flores Mimi Lozano Holtzman Gloria Cortinas Oliver Peter Carr Teresa Maldonado Parker Charles Sadler Laura Arechabala Shane http://members.aol.com/shhar Questions: 714-894-8161 SHHAR and Somos Primos are maintained entirely by volunteers. No paid staff. |
| Contributors: Elaine Coronado, Gloria Cortinas Oliver, Mary Gervassi, George Gause, Marcos Nava, Dr. Greg Smestad , Robert Smith, Mira Smithwick, Gil Villarreal, Lillian Ramos Wold. Short issue because of the fair, I am sorry I could not use more articles, but please continue sending. |
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A Report on the Orange County Fair We are very proud to announce that
our booth,
the Won
Two First Places: by Mimi Lozano When I was 12 years old, my Uncle Oscar Chapa was invited by the California State Fair in Sacramento to sell Mexican food at the yearly State Fair. In 1946, after World War II, Oscar and his brother-in-laws had built the Mexico Cafe in Stockton, California from the ground up, brick by brick. Someone from the Fair Board had eaten at the newly opened Mexico Cafe in Stockton and liked the food. During World War II, the California State Fair was not held. September 1947 was to be the renewal of the annual fair. Would Oscar consider setting up a Mexican food booth? Accepting the invitation and challenge, soon the entire family was involved with preparing tamales in mass, soaking corn leaves, burning the skins off of the chilies, scraping the seeds out, shelving, sorting. The excitement of the first after-the-war 1947 State Fair was intense, not only for the Chapa clan, but for the rest of the state as well. Uniformed with white shoes, the family was ready, aunts, uncles, cousins, but Uncle Oscar was the foundation, the rock. Though the days were sometimes 12-14 hours long, I enjoyed every season. Eventually other fairs were added, the Stockton, Fresno, San Diego, Vallejo, Pleasanton, and many others. From the time that I was 12 until I was 22, I worked the fairs, meeting people that I would never have met. seeing a life style totally different, horse trainers, cattlemen, carnival workers, barkers, gamblers, jockeys, performers, artists. The list goes on, but all selling a product, a service, or a talent. So it was, when Daughters of the American Revolution member Dr. Mildred Murry suggested that SHHAR take a booth at the fair, we did. Fifty years later, another Chapa (me) was getting involved with a Fair, but to sell a new Mexican heritage product - not food, but family history. Over 800,000 people attended the 17-day fair this year. The theme was chili peppers. In support of SHHAR, the History room staff of the Santa Ana Public Library prepared an interesting history of the chili pepper and supplied us with copies to distribute. (Click on) Four computers were in place, one with access to the internet. The other three were used to demonstrate and research the millions of family records found in Family Search, a program created, organized, and as of last year distributed via Internet by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon). In addition to providing the computers, the LDS Church loaned sets of the database disks, which includes world-wide family information. Also LDS members were encouraged to volunteer. The diversity in our booth and those that we served was exciting. Our multi-cultural volunteers were able to help family researchers with roots from all over the globe, from the Philippines to Trinidad, from Egypt to Costa Rica, from Wales to Russia, from Spain to France, from England to China. Within the United States, Hispanics, blacks, indigenous, and Asians expressed a great desire to start a family history. The grasp of understanding what America is, and was, is apparent and came into clear focus at the fair. All ages, cultural, and economic levels sought out or stumbled on our booth. We distributed just under 7,000 How to Start work sheets. Making a very broad subjective analysis based on the literally thousands that I have spoken to, I would say that about: 80% of minorities have not begun a
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warm thanks to the many volunteers who helped man the booth, without
whom, it would not have been possible.
Ruth Alatorre |
Joaquin/Ann
Gracida Keith Gypr Albert Harnden Bill Harper James/Anne Hilzenloope Jim Howard Alan Jones Jim Kimmel Craig/Lora Kinder Martha Kirton Jay/Joyce Lillywhite Kitty Matter Ophelia Marquez Jim/Penny McCready Ken Merrill Glenn/Ella Miller Juanita Miller Marilyn Mitchell Robert Moore Kristan/Marcos Nava Allison Neser Art Nelson Gloria Cortinas Oliver Carlos Olvera Carolyn Ortiz Teresa Parker Dale/Pat Peterson Kyle Peterson Gwen Petty Gene/Jackie Pickens Rosa del Pilar Paul/Barbara Phelps Jeannie Poole |
Lindi
Poole Scott Spafford Kim Rapier Don/Debby Rex Caroline Rober Scott Roberts Jay Robertson Jeff Robinson Peni Rowe Julia Fuentes Rueda Valentin Rueda Maria Nuvia Ruiz Barney/Jenny Torres LaVon Satterfield Joe Slines Ted Schoppe Frank/Merrilye Simkins Paul/Shanna Snow Gerald/Carol Tolman Art Tuverson Monty Wilchecke Ernest/Ruth Ann Wilkins Jim Zanotti Jose/Leticia Vargas Beverly Voale Brenda Warr Lillian Ramos Wold Robert Wynn Special thank you to Dick Clift, our in-booth genius. No matter who or where people were looking, Dick was always able to find a clue. |
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The Lowrider Magazine 20 years ago Lowrider debuted. The magazine has gone from being hand delivered in barrios to the nation's top-selling automotive magazine on news stands, with a circulation of 220,000. Curing its ride to the top, the magazine stayed true to its two missions: catering to the young, Mexican-American male population and highlighting Chicano culture. Now, the magazine's publisher, Ricardo Gonzalez, aims to be more family oriented, hoping to appeal to a culture that places much emphasis on family activities. Lowrider relocated from Pomona to Fullerton more than a year ago as part of corporate restructuring. With Orange County's changing demographics, it makes good business sense to be here. Orange County, with 2.7 million residents, has about 100 car-club chapters, with at least 18 members in each chapter, magazine writers estimate. Low riding has huge crossover PL and is becoming more popular among African-Americans, Asians and whites. The hobby even has hit Japan's hip car culture, with the Japanese version of low rider magazine. The magazine, started out as a rebel's publication and has political roots. Three Chicano activists attending San Jose State University started the magazine in the 1970s partly to highlight their communities need and culture. It regularly runs articles titled "Raza Report." Critics say the magazine perpetuates stereotypes of Latinos and women. Lowrider Demographics, source Lowrider magazine: Readers average ages 22 Extracted from article by Valeria Godines, Orange County Register, 7-25-00 |
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National Latino Fatherhood and Family Institute The National Latino Fatherhood and Family Institute oversees a dozen programs linked to America's growing fatherhood movement. The Institute's focus is on the Latino culture, which has simultaneously spawned an admirably high level of two-parent homes yet suffers the legacy of countless violent or drunken fathers. The Institute's values are simple: A man keeps his word, does not harm his circle of family, friends and community, and holds utmost respect for women. The two-year-old Institute was an outgrowth of National Compadre Network- an organization of 2000. The Institute operates on a budget about $1 million, most of it from federal and state health agencies dedicated to family planning. There's been an increased focus in recent years on the fathe it rs rolled in families, spawning groups like Promise Keepers and the National Fatherhood Initiative. In addition efforts to come to grips with the problem of teenage pregnancy have resulted in more programs per man who became fathers and early age. Carlos Sanchez, a 37-year-old ex-gang member who serves as a mentor at the East L.A. Institute, says the Institute's values are aimed at countering the spiral of violence. " I found that my dad was the way he was because that's the way my grandfather treated him. And the reason my grandfather treated him that way. . . He was full of hate, anger, pain, heard, fear. We need to break that cycle." Extracted from article by Jose Cardenas, L.A. Times, 7-25-00
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Orange County Council, Boy Scouts of America Manuel Lino, a former Boy Scout in his native El Salvador is a super Scoutmaster in Orange County. Lino spends one night a week with his son's troop in Westminster and then the next three nights leads troops in Santa Ana, Costa Mesa and Tustin. Other volunteers know Lino is special; they voted to give him the Award of Merit, the highest honor given to a volunteer by other volunteers. "The the boys need it," Lino says. "I prefer to be involved. Scouts keep kids from going the wrong way." Orange County Register, 7-9-00 The Orange County Council, Boy Scouts of America is serving and education 94,000 young men and women annually throughout Orange County. If you would like to support Manuel Lino and all the other fine Boy Scout volunteers, attend and/or sponsor the 2nd Annual Visionary Luncheon to be held next month, September 28th in Anaheim, California. Proceeds will benefit the Orange County Council's Scouting outreach programs for Latino youth across Orange County. For more information contact Marcos Nava, 714 546-4990, ext. 106
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Outside Looking In, Soccer
Players Sidelined by Immigration Status Dave McKibben, Los Angeles Times, July 8, 2000 "Esaul Mendoza, a flashy forward, led Orange County high school soccer players in scoring often with a helper teammate Irving Islas, a sturdy midfielder. Goalkeeper Hilario Arriaga, with his guile and agility, kept opponents from scoring. The trio of seniors form the nucleus of an Estancia High team that won the southern section division IV boys' soccer championship last spring, and caught the attention of college recruiters. But now the cheering has stopped and graduation day has passed and the boys don't feel much like champions anymore. Mendoza, Islas and Arriaga who played their hearts out for a chance at college scholarship or a spot on the U.S. national team - abruptly learned that their status as illegal immigrants might -- their dreams. Universities and community colleges seemed no longer interested and the boys face an uncertain future. What happened to Mendoza, Islas and Arriaga isn't all that rare. There are more than 800,000 illegal immigrants under the age of 18 in California said Harry Pachon, president of the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute in Claremont, which specializes in Latino issues. Hundred are Southland high school athletes, whose status bars them from taking their games to the next level in United States. What is unusual, however, is that the three have Estancia's Coach Steve Crenshaw on their side. He is helping them navigate legal hurdles to seek a student Visa and other documentation that will allow them to pursue a college education and a chance to play the sport they love. He is not deterred by the uphill battle the boys face." . . . . . "There are numerous cases of kids [who] had the talent . . . but have had to stop short because of their citizenship problems," said Steve Sampson, former U.S. national men's team coach and now a director with the California Youth Soccer Association. "the kids get punished and we get punished because of our inability to integrate them into the national-team process."
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Mission San Gabriel's
229th birthday celebration
Members of the Los Pobladores 200 will be retracing their ancestors footsteps from the Mission San Gabriel to El Pueblo de Los Angeles. The event will start at the Mission at 6 am, with a nine-mile (3 hour )trek to the Union Train Station and Olvera Street, Los Angeles. There will be a birthday cake cutting celebration and other entertainment at the Plaza. All registered walker's will receive a T-shirt commemorating the event and will be entered to in trying to win a free week vacation in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. The WALK is a reenactment of the original settlers final nine-mile track in San Gabriel mission to the Los Angeles River, where on September 4th, 1781, they founded el Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles. The founding of Los Angeles came 10 years after Mission San Gabriel was founded in 1771 as the fourth Mission established in the Franciscan chain of 21 California missions. If you would like to participate in the walk, send a letter with your name address, phone, fax and e-mail to: El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument For more information, contact Robert Smith
(310) 847-4147
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Los Angeles Resident First person abroad to be named to the Mexican Congress Eddie Varon Levy, a 42-year old legal U.S. resident has been named as the first person abroad to be named to the Mexican Congress. The son of a Mexico City jeweler, Levy is a Los Angeles resident, a legal consultant to lawyers with Mexican clients facing immigration problems, or clients who are hoping to establish a business in the U.S.. He also has a office in Mexico City that provides similar services for U.S. visitors. Appointed to his seat by the PRI under the country's system of proportional representation, he plans to commute to a second home in Mexico. He wants to be a voice for Mexican ex-patriots throughout the U.S. as well as for Mexican residents in and around Mexico City, the region from which he was officially selected. Los Angeles Times, 7-10-00 This year was the first time any party ran an expatriate as a candidate for Congress - in part because he estimated 7 million to 10 million Mexicans living in the United States have only recently become a potential constituency. Of the 500 seats in Mexico's Congress, 300 representatives are elected directly. An additional 200 are assigned to various parties based on the percentage of votes they received in the election for the lower house, or Chamber of Deputies Varon Levy said his goals as a congressman will include improving the lives of Mexicans in United States. He wants to allow them to vote outside of Mexico and to create 25 additional congressional seats that would go to deputies elected by Mexicans living abroad. Orange County Register, 7-10-00 |
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Trek from Los Angeles to D.C. Ends The participants were seeking to raise awareness about the twins scourges of substance abuse and domestic violence, they say must be addressed in Native American communities. On the path from California to Washington - by way of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia - the Walker's net with local tribes, conducting information sessions about 12-step rehabilitation programs and leadership workshops for tribal leaders. Don Coyhis, head of White Bison, the Colorado-based nonprofit organization that sponsor the walk, summarize their message at the gathering in Washington: "our nation can heal from chemical addictions. . . and family violence," Coyhis said. Native American communities have long been plagued by high rates of alcoholism and alcohol-related crime. the 1999 study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that 70 % of incarcerated Native Americans had been drinking at the time they committed their offenses, nearly twice the figure for the general population. Coyhis said he conceived of the walk after hearing about a 5-year-old on a reservation in Wyoming whose drunken father pummeled her to death because she had dialed 911 as he was beating her mother. Some experts attribute the high rates of substance abuse and broken homes within the native American population to family disruptions and other episodes of uprooting that occurred during the last two centuries. "Probably a lot of people think that all happened such a long time ago but, when you think of it in terms of families, it could be that somebody's great grandfather was killed at the Wounded Knee Massacre [of the Oglala Sioux by the U.S. Army in 1890 in South Dakota], and that's certainly is going to have an effect," said Mark Van Norman, director of the Office of Tribal Justice at the U.S. Justice Department. Abstract from article by Jacqueline Newmeyer, Los Angeles Times, 7-11-00
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Los Angeles Radio KSCA-FM Spanish language remained in the No. 1 slot. KSCA AND KLVE are both owned by Dallas-based Hispanic Broadcasting Corp. Los Angeles Times, 7-19-00the
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Muwekma Ohlone Indians The San Francisco Bay area's Muwekma Ohlone Indians are one step closer to victory in their long run the battle to gain federal recognition. U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina has given the Bureau of Indian Affairs until July 28 to schedule completion of its review of the tribes membership and history. the bureau examines genealogical, historical and legal records of tribe seeking recognition. Tribes must document that they are distinct and have been represented by continuing governments throughout their history. But the process is widely criticized: Tribes occasionally wait as long as 25 years for decisions. San Jose state lecturer and historian, Alan Leventhal has helped Muwekma Ohlone tribal members trace their history and compiled 4000 pages of genealogical records and other documents dating to 1773. Associated Press via Los Angeles Times, 7-8-00
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Santa Barbara, California Newspaper Purchased The sale would transfer the 155-year old newspaper from the corporate family of New York Times Co. into the hands of one of Santa Barbara's wealthiest but lowest-profile citizens, who has no background in newspapers or journalism. Analysts estimated the News-Press would fetch more that $90 million. McCaw - who is worth about $1.5 billion, according to Forbes magazine - declined to be interviewed. But aides say she was motivated by a desire to bring local ownership to the newspaper she reads every day and save its historic downtown Santa Barbara office. Article by Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times, 7-11-00 |
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A Personal History of California by Dr. Greg Smestad People who study history are often asked what good can come of their painstaking and dedicated work in archiving and understanding the past. How often do we hear the phrase, "Oh, that’s all in the past" ? I can personally attest to the fact that the present is very much a child of the past, yet sometimes this child is ignorant of the ironies that time and events create. We hear a lot these days about increased immigration of Mexicans into California, and about Latinos gaining in population and in status. There is often concern expressed, by the present "majority", about these trends. The images we often see are of desperate people struggling to come to this land of opportunity and wealth to create a better life for their families and their descendants. We hear of the debate over bilingual education. How few of us are alive to remember that this was once the opposite situation, that until 1846, California, and much of the west, was part of Latin America, and it was Americans that were unwelcome foreigners. The language of colonial California was, in fact, Spanish, and California’s Constitution, just last year celebrating it’s 150th anniversary, was written (in Monterey) in both Spanish and English. You see, I am a descendant of one of the families that came to California in 1776. My grandmother on my mother’s side is Velma Lucille Bernal. We are the descendants of Juan Francisco Bernal, and Josefa de Soto, who came to California with their children on the Juan Bautista de Anza expedition of 1775/1776 from Sinaloa, Mexico. The members of the de Anza expedition came to "Alta" California at the command of King Carlos III of Spain in search of a better life for their families and their descendants. At the time when the British colonies on the east coast were just declaring independence, California had already been settled by a different kind of pioneer. They came when the California territory, or "department" as it was called, was the possession Spain. In 1824, after three centuries of Spanish exploration, military conquests, and colonial activity, Mexico declared its independence, and the department of California became part of a new Latin American republic (Mexico). The settlers of the de Anza expedition, called Pobladores, included family names such as Castro, Pico, Peralta, Lara, Galindo, Sanchez, Moraga, Arrellano, Castro, Bernal, Mesa, Tapia just to name a few. These families became the "Dons and Donas", ranch owners of immense tracts of land during California’s Mexican period. Due to tensions over Texas, a war broke out in 1846 between the U.S. and Mexico. In July of 1846, American marines, under the command of Commodore Sloat, annexed California from Mexico. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo ended the war, but nine days before the treaty was signed, gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill near Sacramento. Shortly, tens of thousands of American immigrants poured into California during the "Gold Rush" in search of better life for their families and their descendants. The names I uncovered during my search for a more personal view of history took on a significance that became more apparent as the story unfolded. After visiting the Contra Costa and Moraga Historical Societies, and meeting one of many distant Californio cousins, it was suggested that I could be a descendant of the grandson of Juan Francisco Bernal, Juan Bernal, of the Rancho Laguna de los Palos Colorados near Moraga, California. Thanks to people who value the past, records had painstakingly been saved over the years that allow one to reconstruct it. As I went through these records, I found entries that directly linked Juan’s son, Nicolas Bernal, with the children of the next generation that included Dionosio Bernal, my grandmother’s father. I also found entries for Dionosio’s mother, Maria Encarnacion Andrea Sibrian. The many times my grandmother had shown me Maria Encarnacion’s picture we were unaware that she was the daughter of none other than Rose Marie Pacheco. This is the same Pacheco family for which Pacheco pass is named. I also found records that showed that Juan Francisco’s son, Apolonario Bernal, and his wife Teodora Peralta, once found an American immigrant named John Gilroy at the beach in Monterey. Apolonario and Teodora found John Gilroy dying, and brought him to the Peralta's San Antonio Ranch, where they nursed him back to health. This was the man to which the town of Gilroy was later named, an event that would not have taken place had events taken a less compassionate turn. More disturbing were the other records of Nicolas and his father, Juan Bernal. Juan Bernal may never have lived on his land. He died in 1847 while in his 40s, and was blind in his later years. His son, Nicolas, born in 1833, and his brothers, were raised by his mother and a step father, Ramon Higuera. Remember this name later, Higuera. Coming back to Nicolas, court records described a man afraid for his life. In one translation from Spanish, he writes, "…so strong is the prejudice against him that at the time of his arrest, he was in imminent danger of being hanged by a mob, and was only rescued by the strong efforts of the sheriff." It later continues, "…that on the night about midnight of the day on which he was released on bail, the house of his relative Senora Leodora Soto was forcibly and without warrant broken open, when the residents (mostly defenseless women) had retired to rest, by an armed band of twelve or more disguised persons, and was wantonly and indecently searched for the alleged purpose of finding and summarily hanging the body of the undersigned….. [Nicolas Bernal]" This was surely an example of the racial tensions that existed between the Americans and the native Hispanic Californios. At the time when U.S. Commodore Sloat had taken control of California, he told the Californios that they would enjoy all the rights that they had under their former regimes. This did not turn out to be the case. Establishment of the U.S. Land Commission, under legislation sponsored by California Senator William Gwin, and passed into law March 3, 1851, threw the burden of proof of ownership on every Californian who claimed land. American immigrant attorneys leaped for joy since the Californios needed their services, and these attorneys turned out to be shrewd land speculators. Another file found that Nicolas Bernal was in court again after the prior incident. It was the common practice, as the Americans came to California, to keep the Californios in court so that they would have to sell off their land to pay for expensive translators and lawyer fees. This was the case for Nicolas. The date of the end of the case and the recorded date for Nicolas’s death correspond, February 27, 1867. The trial must have directly or indirectly contributed to his demise. Dionosio was born in April of 1865. The dates show that, like his father before him, my grandmother’s father grew up without the full benefit of his father. Propagating through the generations, a thread can start to be woven into a tapestry that begins to connect how our family’s history is linked to that which is told, and often untold, in the history books. But history is not just about books. It is about understanding the reasons why things have turned out the way they have, and for finding directions that time and events seem to be flowing. Many consider the pursuit of such things the work of the idle, but I believe that there may be a higher force at work. Over ten years ago, long before I discovered the names in the story of our personal view of history, my cousin, Deanna Bernal, married a Higuera. Without prior knowledge of the past, there is yet again a Bernal-Higuera union. Another cousin, who until recently had not been told the story of the Bernals, has a son who is now over eight years old. At the last minute after the child was born, the proud parents gave the son the name Nicolas. The parents don’t know why they gave the son the name that they did; they claim that it "came out of the air." So what was the name that my grandmother and her siblings never knew? It was Nicolas. This was the key to linking our families records with the historical accounts of the Bernal family who came to California in search of a better life for their children and their descendants. And who was it that had saved the records some of the Californios and had guarded them in recent times? There were many, but one man stands out, a man named Brother Dennis of St. Mary’s college. This is unremarkable until one realizes that Dennis is the Anglo name for my grandmother’s beloved father, Dionisio. My grandmother, Velma Bernal, was born December 13, 1901 in the century that has just passed. She too passed before the answers to these questions were fully answered, but her death in December of 1998launched me into a quest to take up her search described above. She died not knowing the history that is kept from many books, and many minds of the people who have come to California since those early days. Now anew rush is underway in California. With the dawn of the information age and the race to connect the world via the internet, the "Silicon Rush" brings families to California in search of a way to turn this element into gold. These new families, like the generations before them, come to California in search of a better life for their families and their descendants. How will history record the lives and accomplishments of these immigrants? Photos and information along with historical references to the Spanish Land Grant era, appear on the Velma Bernal Mendoza web pages, Dr. Greg Smestad
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Annual Texas Conference on Hispanic Genealogy and History in Corpus
Christi, September 7-10, 2000, Omni Bayfront Hotel, 900 N. Shoreline, Corpus Christi. For information: SagaCorpus@aol.com |
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Padre Island, Texas Information about a legal decision
concerning Texas was forwarded by George Gause, Mira Smithwick and Gil
Villarreal. It is a "revolutionary," said, Armando C. Alonzo, associate
professor of history at Texas A&M University and author of Tejano Legacy:
Rancheros and Settlers in South Texas. The legal battle concerns a narrow barrier island
which stretches some 160 miles along the Texas Gulf Coast from Corpus Christi to Brownsville.
It is is now the Padre Island National Seashore. The beaches are dotted with condominiums,
resorts and restaurants. Abstract: [After four days of deliberations, the all-Latino jury decided
Kerlin, has been committing fraud and conspiring against the Balli
family ever since he bought Padre Island in 1938. Every Southwest borderland Hispanic will be watching this case.
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Extracts
from a Rand Study Comparing two states is tricky because student populations vary so widely. But Texas and California, the nation's two largest public school systems (combined, they educate 21 percent of U.S. children), have much in common demographically: In both states, close to half the students are Hispanic or black (compared with 22 percent nationally during the study period) many speak English as a second language, and one quarter live in poverty. Kati Haycock, director of the Education Trust, a Washington-based nonprofit group that focuses on improving education fro minority and poor children. . . . On every measure, Texas beats the pants off California. The Rand study, which uses National Assessment of Education Progress tests in reading and math as a common benchmark, finds that Texas's success owes a lot to higher spending on small classes (a reform California now has in place) and on preschool. But many analysts, including Rand author David Grissmer, also say the secret of Texas's success can be spelled t-e-s-t, specifically the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills, TAAS. Jane Bounds, president of the citywide PTA in Waco, says "teaching to the test" isn't necessary bad: The things that are tested on TAAS are your basic, essential skills that you need to get through school." Estimated reading and math test score variations for similar students in 44 different states from 1990-1996, listed Texas at the top and California at the bottom. Texas> # 1 California > # 44 Texas student for example would score nearly 12 percentile points higher than a comparable student in California. Source: Rand U.S. News and World Report, 8-7-2000 [For a complete analysis, please read the report in U.S. News and World Report or contact Rand.] |
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Soza
Family Reunion, September 1-3 |
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Strengthening Family Bonds, October 14, 2000
Registration fee before September 25th: $15. per
person Mail to: Legado Latinos-Inscripciones
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Reporting on Legado Latinos
Conference
We are bringing professionals from Puerto Rico that will address issues dealing with the migratory process in the Caribbean, name changes due to
persecution and were the records in the Caribbean are located. They will also bring information on Venezuela and Haiti. One of the speakers is the
president of the Genealogical Association in Puerto Rico. The other speaker is the Dean of the Genealogy Department at the University of Puerto Rico. One of the highlights of the conference will be the participation of members from the National Archives of Spain. They will address us and bring much
light on the information they have and how we can benefit from it. This is very important, no matter what country we come from, we all have our roots
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Monumental New Mexico Research Available
There are 20 volumes, hard book-bound, 8-1/2 by 11, approximately
19900 pages, over 135,000 names. To date these books are in: In addition to museums, libraries, individuals, and internet sites, the following references are cited:
"WITH ALL ARMS" A STUDY OF A KINDRED GROUP |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS VOLUME I |
VOLUME
XII MARTIN SERRANO, HERNAN (CON'T) MARTINEZ, SALVADOR MASCARENAS, FELIPE MEDINA, ALONZO MESTAS, Juan MIRANDA, BLAS (CON'T IN VOL XIII) VOLUME XIII MIRANDA, BLAS (CON'T) MONDRAGON, Juan MONTANO, LUCAS MONTOYA, BARTOLOME (CON'T IN VOL XIV) VOLUME XIV MONTOYA, BARTOLOME (CON'T) MORENO, AGUSTIN NARANJO, DOMINGO ORTEGA, SIMON ORTIZ, NICOLAS VOLUME XV PACHECO, GERONIMO PADILLA, JOSE PINO, JUAN BAUTISTA QUINTANA, JOSE RAMOS, NICOLAS RINCON, LAZARO ANDRES RIVERA, SALVADOR ROMERO, BARTOLOME (CON'T IN VOL XVI> VOLUME XVI ROMERO, BARTOLOME (CON'T) ROYBAL y TORREDO, PEDRO SAIZ, AMBROSIO (SAENZ) SALAS, BERNADINO SANCHEZ de YNIGO, JACINTO VOLUME XVII SANDOVAL MARTINEZ, JACINTO SANTISTEVAN, ANDRES SEDILLO RICO ROJOS, PEDRO SENA, AGUSTIN SILVA, SALVADOR SISNEROS, BARTOLOME TAFOYA ALTAMIRANO, Juan TELLES JIRON, JOSE (CON'T IN XVIII) VOLUME XVIII TELLES JIRON, JOSE TENORIO de ALBA, Juan TORRES, CRISTOBAL TRUJILLO, DIEGO (CONT'D IN VOL XIX) VOLUME XIX TRUJILLO, DIEGO (CONT'D) VALDEZ, JOSE LUIS VARELA, ALONZO (JARAMILLO) VOLUME XX VARELA, PEDRO (de LOSADA, CONT IN VOL XX) VIGIL, FRANCISCO (MONTES) VILLALPANDO, Juan ROSALIO |
THE 22 MEN IMPLICATED IN
THE DEATH OF GOVERNOR ROSAS
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Baca Ranch
The House overwhelmingly approved a plan to spend $101 million to purchase the 95,000-acre Baca Ranch - known as the "Yellowstone of the Southwest" - despite criticism that the price was too high. Critics say the federal government is paying far too much for the ranch northwest of Santa Fe, which the late Texas oil tycoon James P. Dunigan bought for $2.1 million in 1962. The Baca Ranch is almost completely surrounded by federal land, including the Santa Fe National Forest and Bandelier National Monument. It includes the Valles Caldera, a 1-million-year-old collapsed volcano measuring 14 miles across. It's also home to one of the largest elk herds in the country, as well as fishing streams, hot springs, forested mountains and broad, grassy valleys. Under the plan, the federal government would buy the ranch and open it to the public. A nine-member board of trustees, at least five of them New Mexicans, would manage it as a working ranch and try to make enough money to cover maintenance and operations. [An article was included in the January issue of Somos Primos. The U.S. government granted the land to its first owner, Luis Maria Caeza de Vaca in 1860. It was run as a sheep ranch.] |
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Mesa Verde National Park
More than 17,000 acres have been charred of the Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado but the wildfire which raged to the area uncovered many sites giving archaeologists a better understanding of the people who used to live there. A dozen archaeologists companies the firefighters to help identify new sites. Mesa Verde is the nation's largest archeological preserve, with more than 4000 identify sites, nearly 400 of which were discovered after a 1996 fire. Clark archeologist have mapped those sites and are studying how they relate to the cliff dwellings and other structures built when the ancestors of Pueblo Indians known as the Anasazi lived in the area between A.D. 550 and 1300. Article by P. Solomon Banda, The Associated Press via OCR, 7-24-00
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Jewish Record Database
Richard E. Turley Jr., managing director of family and Church History Department for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, presented a database of Jewish records to the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies July 9. The convention, held July 9-14, was attended by some 630 people and held in Salt Lake City. Included in the database are a worldwide catalog of Jewish records on film, microfiche, and books available at the Family History Library. Nancy Goodstein compiled the the information. Sister Goodstein explained that "the Jewish people have worked so hard on indexing and researching their families. We want to assist them in their efforts." The new electronic catalogs will help Jewish researchers search specific categories, including concentration camps of the Holocaust. The database, on a compact is, is also available to all patrons of the Family History Library. Church News, week ending July 22, 2000
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Inaugural
Hispanic College Fund Classic
Texas Tech and New Mexico have finalized an agreement to play in the inaugural Hispanic College Fund Classic to open the 2000 football season. The game, set for August 26 at Texas Tech's Jones Stadium, will kick off the career of first-year Tech coach Mike Leach. The meeting will be the 37th all-time between Texas Tech and New Mexico, with their Red Raiders needed the serious 29-5-to, including a 34-7 when at New Mexico in the teams last meeting in 1995. Submitted by Win Holtzman, The Insider's Perspective, July 2000
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Racquetball
The University of Memphis' Javier Moreno, a Mexican National Team member, grabbed the men's Intercollegiate Championships, No. 1 singles and doubles titles with fellow teammate, Caesar Carillo, who won the gold in No. 2 singles. Former Mexican national team member Luis Munoz came out of a three-year retirement to help out Arizona State with the No. 1 singles bronze medal and seven of Southern Colorado's medals were thanks to Mexican students on the men's roster. The Mexican athletes' s sweep of the No. 1 divisions marked two-straight years that the U.S. players have been shut out of the top intercollegiate singles titles. Could it be that this years fierce competition from south of border is a warning that the U.S. domination in the sport may becoming to an end? Racquetball, July-August 2000, submitted by Win Holtzman
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Primera
Reunion de Decendientes de Francisco de Elizondo y Urdiñola
En Aguascalientes, Ags. Mexico el 11 y 12 de Agosto de 2000 Si usted es de apeido Elizondo no se pierda esta primera historica reunion donde podra obtener informacion acerca de sus origenes en España y el nuevo mundo. Si es aficionado a la Geneologia o desea conocer su historia familiar esta es su oportunidad para conocer a otras personas con muchos años de experiencia en la investigacion de sus origenes y decendientes. Lugar: Si necesita resevarvaciones puede llamar a cualquier de los siguentes hoteles. Hotel Western Medrano, José Maria Chavez
No. 400, Tel. 0149 15-56-00 Hotel Calinda Francia, Fco I. Madero No.
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Tel. 0149 18-73-00 Hotel Holiday Inn, Nieto y Plaza
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Wild Goats in Baja
In June, a team of 14 Mexican and U.S. scientists traveled to the island of Guadalupe (off the coast of Baja California) to document the destruction that wild goats have inflicted on the island. The goats were brought to the island by Russian seal hunters in the mid 19th-century. One-fifth of the island's 34 endemic plant species, found nowhere else in the world, have become extinct because of overgrazing. Five of nine endemic birds species have also perished. Even the islands water supply is being affected . However the Mexican Navy is defending the 15,000 goats. The Navy believes the goats are important to national security. Specifically they supply an important source of food for the 25 Mexican sailors stationed on the island year-round. Los Angeles Times, 7-23-00 |
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Men to Share Housework in Mexico
On July 22, 2000, Mexican women went on strike. Hundreds of women -mates and farmers, Hall's wives and professionals- marched down the main Boulevard in Mexico to demand man share domestic shores and publicize a one-day household work stoppage. A few men showed for the March caring placards reading, "I'm ready to share the housework." July 22 was designated International Housework Day by the 1995 U.N. international women's conference in Beijing Mark Stevenson, Association Press, via OCR, 7-22-00
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America Online launched AOL Mexico
AOL hopes to capitalized on the increasingly close cultural and economic ties between United States in Mexico and has teamed up with the Latin American media company the Cisneros Group to large AOL Mexico and future ventures in South America. AOL Mexico will offer the same range of features provided to customers of the English-language service, but with Spanish content provided by El Universal, Mundo Soccer, CNNenEspanol.com, LatinStocks.com and others. AOL spokeswoman Tricia Primrose declined to say how many consumers AOL hopes to sign out that said there are about 400 million Spanish-speaking consumers around the globe ,including 30 million in United States. AOL will offer a free, 90-day trial service, and will began to marketing campaign on Mexican television, radio and in newspapers in the fall, Primrose said. The paid service will be 219 pesos per month, roughly the equivalent of the $2195 monthly US fee. Source: Paul Tolme, The Associate Press, via OCR, 7-12-00
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Wendy in Mexico
Wendy's International Inc. announced that it plans to open 100 new Wendy's restaurants in Mexico over the next decade. Wendy's based in Dublin, Ohio, has eight restaurants in Mexico. The first new Wendy's was to be opened in July in Ciudad Juarez, and future expansion will focus on northern Mexico before going nationwide. Orange County Register, 7-11-00 |
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Lillian Ramos Wold
selected special information
Poncitlan is a sixteenth century icon. Between Ocotlan and Guadalajara is the town of Poncitlan, which was a very important settlement in pre-columbian times. On its plaza stands the convent of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, founded as early as 1533. Inside, above the alter, is an ancient sixteenth century statue of the Virgin Mary. "Our Lady of the Rosary" is one of four identical statues brought from the Old World to the New in 1548, on the direct orders of King Charles V of Spain. The other three statues were all sent to Guadalajara but only two of them - one in the Cathedral and one in the church of Santa Monica, have survived to this day. The third statue was destroyed in 1936, when an arsonist set fire to the magnificent altarpiece of the San Francisco Church. Ponictlan celebrates its religious fiesta, in honor, naturally, of Our Lady of the Rosay, for nine days ending on the third Sunday in November. This town is also renowned for its minature teasets. Ocotlan, one of the largest lakeside towns, is located where the only river which drains the lake, the Santiago, flows off to the north towards Juanacatlan falls and Guadalajara. Its name simply means "the Indian village near the pine trees", by the natives. On the town square, the older of the two churches, the Chapel of Concepcion, is a sixteenth century Franciscan chapel, rebuilt by the Augustines in the 17th century, and recently restored to its former glory. It was one of the few buildings to survice the disastrous earthquake which struck the town on the 2nd of Oct. 1847. The day after the earthquake, at the open-air mass celebrated in the plaza for the survivors, a resplendent cloud suddenly appeared in an otherwise blue sky, producing a vision seen by thousands , of Christ on the Cross. The site of the mass is now marked by an obelisk. David Cardona and Francisco Sanchez del Castillo later painted a series of fine large works depicting the earthquake, the vision and the hearings held afterwards to establish its authenticity. |
| Mary Gervassi found a website on Tamzula, Jalisco > www.tamazula.comTamzula Jalisco. |
Cuban
Research Johanna de Soto
found two outstanding websites for Cuban researchers.
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Passenger
Lists to and from Cuba Passenger Lists Prior to 1600 from Spain to Cuba Passenger Lists 1600- 1701 from Spain to Cuba Passenger Lists after 1701 from Spain to Cuba Passenger Lists arriving at Key West, 1898-1920 The information is well organized and easy to access, for example:. |
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Son by Four The male vocal quartet, Son by Four is the first tropical fusion act to cross boundaries in the Latin pop, Mexican regional, romantic Latin and English-language pop radio markets in the U.S. - without releasing an English album first. With roots in Orlando Florida the bilingual, bicultural Latin pop act with R&B, gospel and hip-hop influences have penetrated virtually every major Latin radio market in the nation. Lead singer, Angel Lopez said, "we planned to keep true to our roots, and pray God would give his strength now to survive all the attention and hardship and travel and lawyers." All four men in the group mentioned God often and say, as does Lopez, "he is the fifth element in our group." The group originated in 1992 driven by Javier Montes Quiles' love of singing. Three of the singers are relatives, Puerto Rican by birth and still live in their respective Puerto Rican towns. Los Angeles Times, 7-2-00
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Greenland's
Inuit Indigenous
The United States and Danish governments are negotiating with Greenland's Inuit indigenous with plans for a national missle defense (NMD) site at the northermost hunting village of Greenland, Pituffik. The Thule Air Base built on Pituffick was established in 1951 when Denmark consigned it to U.S. authorities. Both Greenland's home-rule government and officials in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, which retains control over security and foreign affairs, insist that any NMD role for Thule must be agreeable to Russia. Inuits still make up nearly 90% of Greenland's 56,000 population, and despite the near extinction of the traditional hunting lifestyle elsewhere on the huge island, they want Pituffik back so they can resume trapping and fishing on its bountiful shores. Los Angeles, 7-23-00
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Peruvian Ruins Found
An American explorer credited with discovering several major Indian rulings in Peru's rainforest has pulled back the jungle curtain to reveal another ancient city lost in time. Gene Savoy said, "I think it's Cajamarquilla, one of the fabulous law cities of the Chachapoyas people." Savoy described the Chachapoyas as tall, fierce, fair-skin warriors were defeated in the late 15th century Inca ruler shortly before the Spanish entered. Archeologist Miguel Cornejo, one of 47 mem bers of Savoy's expedition, called the find "a completely new discovery that constitutes a major contribution to Peruvian archeology and the world." The site, measuring 25 square miles, includes stone roads weaving through a network of massive terraced cliffs and at least 36 burial towers, said archeologist, Alberto Bueno. Both Bueno and Cornejo wsere assigned by the Peruvian government to accompany Savoy. Savoy has discovered dozens of Peruvian rulings since the early 1960s. The three most important were Vilcabamba, the last refuge of the Incas; Gran Pajaten, a citadel city atop a jungle-shrouded peak; and Gran Vilaya, a complex of more than 20,000 stone buildings in a damp, fogbound region of the Andes that Peruvians call the "jungle's eyebrow." Abstract from article by Rick Vecchio, The Associated Press via OCR, 6-4-00 Submitted by Glovia Cortinas Oliver
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Nuestra
Senora de Atocha
he treasure hunters who discovered the gold-laden Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha have found another part of the wreck that is yielding gold bars, money chains, silver coin, and jewelry. "We think is probably going to be bigger than the initial mother load," said Morgan Perkins, they representative of the Fisher family. Treasure hunters Mel Fisher, who died in 1998, found the first silver from the Nuestra in 1971. the family found the main pile in 1985. The Nuestra, carrying millions in golden silver buillion is bound for Spain from the New World when a went down in a hurricane about 30 miles west of Key West in 1622. The Fishers' company, Treasure Salvors Inc., has recovered artifacts estimated to be worth 200 million to 500 million. Cruise have uncovered three solid gold bars, 120 silver coins, several gold chains, of gold of the medallion of possible Aztec origin and assorted other pieces of Indian jewelry believed to come from South America. Associate Press via Los Angeles Times, 7-20-00
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Mediterranean Sea Archeologists scouring the Mediterranean Sea bed found a 2500-year-old ruins of submerged cities that until now were known only through Greek tragedies travelogues, and legends. This is the first time historians have found physical evidence of the existence of the law cities, which were famous not only for their riches and arts, but also for numerous temples dedicated to the gods Isis, Serapis and Osiris, making the region an important pilgrimage destination for cults. "We have an intact city, frozen in time," said French archeologist Franck Goddio, who led the international team in the search. The team worked for two years ...in waters 2230 feet deep using modern technology, including the use of magnetic waves to map the area. Numerous ancient texts speak of the importance of the region and the cities of Menouthis and Herakleion. Gaballa Ali Gaballa, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiguities, Egypt's top archaelogy body, said, "It is the most exciting find in the history of marine archeology." He said the cities - probably built during the waning days of the pharaohs in the seventh or six century B.C. - will be left as they are in the sea, and only smaller pieces will be retrieved for museums. Abstract from article by Vuay Joshi, The Associated Press via OCR, 6-4-00 Submitted by Glovia Cortinas Oliver
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World War II Memorial
The controversial $100 million World War II Memorial plan for the National Mall was approved July 20th despite objections that it is any illegal intrusion on grounds set aside for the Lincoln Memorial. The votes followed a long and bitter public hearing in which opponents charged that war memorial would spoil the sight line between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington monument and did not belong on land intended to honor Abraham Lincoln. The project will be emblazoned with 4,210 large goals stars - each representing 100 Americans killed in World War II. Abstract of article by Michael Kilian, Chicago Tribune via OCR, 7-21-00 |
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President Lincoln and Soldiers Home National Monument
On July 7th, the cottage where President Lincoln spent the summers during the Civil War and composed the final draft of the Emancipation Proclamation was named a national monument. The site, surrounded by 2.27 acres, will be renamed the President Lincoln and Soldiers Home National Monument. The stucco house, built as a luxury summer home by Washington banker about 1842, looks today much as it did when Lincoln - and later, three other presidents - enjoyed the privacy of the largest state about three miles north of the White House. It was purchased in 1851 for use by Army veterans and when the building no longer was needed as a dormitory the house was offered to Lincoln for his use. Restoring the cottage to the way it looked in the 1860's will cost from $3 million to $4 million and is expected to take three years to complete. The grant comes from the White House Millennium Council's preservation program, Save America's Treasures and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Washington Post via the L.A. Times, 7-7-00
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Slaves Helped Build the Whitehouse
Rep. John Lewis, a longtime civil rights activists, had heard rumors over the years that the lavish halls he roamed each day were constructed by African-American slaves. Recently. . . Historian Ed Hotaling presented Lewis with a actual Treasury Departmental pay slips dating from the 1790's that show the federal government paid Plantation owners $5. per month per slave to build the capital and the White House. The Treasury Department pay slips showing that out of the 650 laborers on the White House and Capital projects, 50 were free blacks and up to 400 were slaves. Many of these workers did their jobs off-site, constructing materials and preparing for construction. Hotaling said more than 200 slaves labored on-site. "We shouldn't try to hide it and say that it didn't happen," Lewis said. "Is good for America. It's not just good for the African-American community. It's good for the entire nation." Abstract from article by Stacey Zolt, Scripps Howard News Service via OCR, 7-23-00
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George Washington Tried for Treason
On July 20, 2000 the closings session of the American Bar Association conference in London put leaders of the revolutionary war on trial, in full period costume - Washington and for high treason and King George III for tyranny. The mock trial forced Washington to answer to criminal charges for breaking his oath of loyalty to the King and inciting rebellion in the kingdom. The cross-examination of Washington reflected the debate over the 1775-1781 American War of Independence: Was it possible for
Washington to have come to a peaceful resolution with Britain? The king in turn, was brought before a mock U.S. court in a civil suit laid by a fictitious victim of the Revolutionary War. Washington was accused of treason in part for ordering British troops to continue fighting Patriot forces despite the adoption of the Declaration of the Independence hot July 4th, 1776. After two hours of deliberation, four of the six jurors found Washington not guilty. Under British law, and unanimous verdict would have been required to acquit him. As for King George, jurors could not agree on whether the United States had the right to try him or whether he enjoyed sovereign immunity in a foreign state, an argument put forth by his Majesty's lawyers. They split put up The up to the 3-3. Article by Caroline Byrne, Associated Press via OCR, 7-21-00
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Lock Houses on the Potomac River
Leasing a historic lock house from the National Park Service enables a Washington and, D.C. area couple to live amid the beauty the Potomac River. The barges long ago stopped traveling the 180-mile canal between Georgetown and Cumberland, Maryland. The lock houses were built about 170 years ago, home to lock-keepers who day and night let freight boats pass through. Lock house 6 is now home to David and Jill Drupa who signed a ten-year lease with the National Park Service under a program to ensure the preservation of historic buildings. Over the next few years, park officials hope to rent 40 structures, including Spartan lock houses, rural cabins and more flashy accommodated engineer's houses, up and down the historic water way. Information about the National Park Service Historic Property Leasing Program is available online, at http://www.nps.gov/choh Article by Manuel Perez-Rivas, Washington Post via LA Times, 7-11-00 |
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Divers on the latest expedition to the
Titanic
will scour the wreckage. David
Walker, operations manager for the latest expedition by salvage company RMS
Titanic Inc. confirmed estimates that the diamond shipment believed to have been
stored in the front cargo hold could be worth about $300 million.
Orange County Register, 7-21-00 |
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Hot
Chile Peppers/Capsicums Timeline |
| 7000-5000 B.C. | Traces of domesticated chile pepper found in Tehuacan, Pre-Columbian Mexican |
| 5200-2000 B.C. | Native
Americans were growing chile plants, one of the oldest cultivated
crops.
Pre-Columbian domestication of cultivated plants such as chile pepper, maize, beans, and squash. |
| A.D. 1492-1600 | Christopher
Columbus introduced hot-tasting capsicums or chile peppers to the Old
World.
Spanish conquest of West Mexico. Spaniards discovered red chili peppers as a staple food of the Aztecs, Spanish word chili or chile comes from the Nahuatl word chilli, which also means red. Forty varieties of chile peppers are identified in Mexico |
| A.D. 1600-1800 | Spanish colonists planted seeds and grew chile peppers in New Mexico, the Southwest, and California. |
| 1890-1903 | Orange County chili peppers industry started in Anaheim by German and Chinese farmers. The Anaheim green/red chile variety was developed by H.L. Musser. |
| 1906-1919 | J.
Allen Knapp's chile business moved from Anaheim to Garden Grove.
J.A. Knapp built the first drying processing plant in Orange County,
California.
The California Packing Corp. (Del Montge) opens a cannery of Anaheim green peppers in Santa Ana. Chile and pimiento crops valued at $1,125,000. |
| 1920-1930 | J. Allen Knapp received the title of Chili King. Controlled 80% of Orange County production. |
| 1930-1939 | Orange County ranked first, in California, in chili pepper acreage. Col-Compack built a chile dehydrating plant in Santa Ana, California. |
| 1940-1942 | Japanese-American farmers in Orange County became the largest growers of chiles. In 1942, Japanese farmers were forced off their land to relocation camps. |
| 1940-1970 | 15,000 pounds of chile were processed in Orange County's two chile plants located in Santa Ana and Westminister. |
| 1970-1980 | Chile pepper planting in Orange County started to decline to 667 acres. In 1980, the last commercial chile fields disappeared. |
| 1982-1986 | Chile plant demolition in Garden Grove, and the last chile factory closed in Westminster. |
| 1990 - | Cal-Compack Foods chile dehydrating plants, in Santa Ana and Garden Grove, are the only evidence of the county's once booming industry. |
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Grande
Suite - A Review by Jeff Rowe, Orange County Register
July 11, 2000 For the genealogist this is the Rolls- Royce of research tools. Some 350 million names are accessible via the Grand Suite to the databases and websites linked the programs. In all, the package contains 31 CDs, enough information and references to keep even a professional researcher point for months. The software allows users to build personal family history charts, including audio and video clips. Centerpiece of the Grande Suite is a 3-dimensional charts that allows the user to view their entire family history in color coded animation. Videos pictures and documents can be attached to individual names. Grande Suite may not take you all the way back to Eve and Adam, but it's hard to imagine family tree software that would get you closer to your regional routes than this comprehensive package. Among other tools Grand Suite includes the Social Security death index from 1936 onward and the entire 1800s censes which is digitized, indexed and linked to an image of the original handwritten pages. Additionally, the package includes a comprehensive, 374-page user manual and 182 page book "Netting Your Ancestors," by Cindi Howells, considered one of the nation's top authorities on genealogy. A well-constructed tutorial guides the user through the various elements of this program, which is almost overwhelming in scope. Grande Suite includes a one-month subscription to Ancestry.com and one free search by professional genealogist databases containing one billion names. $89.95 A beginner version of Grande
Suite 8.0 is called Generation's Beginner's edition 8.0 and sells
for $49.95.
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Sleeping at your Desk! 1. They told me at the blood bank this might happen. 2. This is just a 15 minute power-nap like they raved about in that time management course you sent me to. 3. Whew. . . Guess I left the top off the White Out. You probably got here just in time! 4. I wasn't sleeping! I was meditate the on the mission statement and envisioning a new paradigm. 5. I was testing my keyboard for drool resistance. 6. I was doing a highly specific Yoga exercise to relieve work related stress. I use discriminatory towards people who practice yoga? 7. Why did you interrupt me? I almost figured out a solution to our network problem. 8. The coffee machine is broken. 9. Someone must have decaf in the wrong pot. 10. Amen Submitted by Maria G. Benitez to El Mensaje, Edition 19, Vol. 2, April-June 2000 8/14/00 |
