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Dedicated
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OF CONTENTS JUNE
2000, Issue 6
Editor: Mimi Lozano, mimilozano@aol.com The table of contents has
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County Symposium-Immigration New Auxiliary Bishop Hispanic Library Collection Native Voices Jim Thorpe California Sesquicentennial Los Angeles, CA California
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Mexico Palomas, Mexico Matamoros, Tamaulipas Seeks Family Stories Cuautinchan, Mexico Rogues and Their Results A Trojan Horse in Mexico Nombres Toponimicos Filigranas, Fundaciones y Caribbean/Cuba International
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Benavente Manny Camacho Chavez Roberto Camp Christopher Cameron Peter Carr Russell Contreras Marjorie De Martino Johanna De Soto Barbara Edkin Art Garza |
George Gause Lorraine Hernandez Granville W. Hough, Ph.D. Gabe Gutierrez Elas P. Herbeck Everett B. Ireland Galal Kernahan Alex King Misty Kirby Jackie Lamorie |
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Nelson LeDeane Miller Carlos Olamendi Brian O'Neel Elvira Zavala Patton Richard D. Perry George R. Ryskamp Robert Smith Mira Smithwick Pancho Vega |
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". . . the truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior
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Orange County, California |
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Solution Seeking Symposium on Immigration Issues
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Bobby McDonald, Executive Director of the Orange
County Black Chamber of Commerce says that the book, The Black Latino
Connection will be available after June 30th. |
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An Ethnic First: Soto, Now
Orange County's Auxiliary Bishop
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| With special thanks to May 13 speakers Bill Doty, Archivist with the National Records and Archives Administration, John J. Schmal, Caroline Bernal, and Board members, Gloria Oliver, Laura Shane, Bea Dever, Charles Sadler, Ed Flores, and new Board member Peter Carr, for conducting a very successful public meeting at the Santa Ana Public Library. |
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Santa Ana, California's Central Public Library
In response to the publicized desire to develop a more inclusive historical representation of the Hispanic presence in Orange County, SHHAR held a meeting at the Central library. New Board member, Peter Carr conducted the meeting and presented SHHAR's donation to the History Room of : |
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Native Voices for Change
May 20th a kickoff ceremony was held at UC Irvine for "Native Voices for Change." Made possible by a grant from California Endowment the program represents cooperation between tribal groups, the University of California, Irvine and UCLA. Noting that more than half of American Indians now live in cities, organizers said native people are often isolated from health-care by cultural misunderstanding's, stereotypes and the lack of access to health information. As that his life can be honor reservation, once Indians lead for cities, they trade once said hurdles and headaches for another, experts say. The problem is especially acute for elderly Indians. "Elders in particular having encountered blatant racism and also have suffered the pernicious effects of stereotyping," B. Josea Kramer, a Los Angeles position, wrote in a 1992 article in the journal Cross-Cultural Medicine. "Older American Indians report that they fear non-Indian health professionals, do not expect to be treated fairly by them, and anticipate adverse contact experiences." Dr. Laura Williams, an assistant professor of family medicine and member of the Juaneno and Gabrieleno tribes is the force behind a program. "This is a marriage between the UC I community and the tribes. . . There is such a lack of major data on urban American Indian needs. We need to collect that dated to get the ball rolling on programs and even policy." With her program, Williams hopes to create a medical model that incorporates Western medicine and traditional American Indian healing, she said. Los Angeles Times, 5-21-00 |
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Jim Thorpe Fundamental Elementary School in Santa Ana, California finally celebrated its grand open, delayed to be closer to the late athlete's birthday. The Jim Thorpe school is the Santa Ana Unified School District's 35th elementary school and the first in the district to be named after a Native American. The school officially opened its doors in September, but the district wanted to wait to celebrate the grand opening on a day that would coincide with Thorpe's birthday on May 22. Orange County Register, 6-1-00 For an excellent 4-page article on Jim Thorpe, read, Jim Thorpe, the Greatest Athlete of the 20th Century written by Alexander Ewen, and published in the Smithsonian's Spring 2000 issue of the National Museum of the American Indian. Among the facts: Thorpe was born James Francis Thorpe on May 28, 1888, near Prague, Oklahoma to to Hiram Thorpe, who was half Irish and half Sac and Fox, and Charlotte Vieux, who was part Potawatomi. Football's popularity, thanks largely to the legendary exploits of Jim Thorpe, led team owners in 1920 to organize the 'American Professional Football Association, soon renamed the National Football League. Thorpe was appointed its first president. Truly, it was Thorpe who ushered in the era of modern football.
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Free 150th Birthday, California Keepsake Available
by Galal Kernahan, Published in La Voz Newspaper, April 30, 2000 Copies of the PROCEEDINGS of the California Sesquicentennial Symposium, published by University of California, Irvine will be available to the public free of charge as long as supplies last. The PROCEEDINGS contain official remarks and presentations made November 13, 1999, at the only observation anywhere of the 150th anniversary of ratification of the Original Bilingual 1849 Constitution, our state's English/Spanish "birth certificate." The Symposium was a cooperative commemoration organized by Los Amigos of Orange County and the Society for Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research, SHHAR, in cooperation with the programs of Chicano Latino and Latin American studies, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs of the University of California Irvine. The concept was suggested by noted author, Dr. Alejano Morales. Lead Sesquicentennial organizers for Los Amigos were SHHAR President Mimi Lozano Holtzman of Westminster and Historic Enactor and Descendant of historic Constitutional delegates, Maria Moreno of La Habra. The Metropolitan Water District (MWD) provided specially designed presentation folders for the event. Contents of the publication include a Dedication by UCI Student Affairs Vice Chancellor Manuel Gomez and a Foreword by LOS AMIGOS Chair Amin David as well as "Thoughts on the History of California's 1849 Constitution" (inserted in the Congressional Record October 13, 1999) and Opening Remarks by Galal Kernahan. Two scholarly papers are featured: "The Continuing Legacy of Manifest Destiny in the Lives of Chicanas/os" by Gilda Laura Ochoa, Ph.D. -, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Chicana/o Studies, Pomona College, and "The Ideology of Empire and Chicano Educational History" by Gilbert G. Gonzalez, School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine. Closing remarks are by State Senator Joseph Dunn (Garden Grove). For information about obtain a copy from UCI, call Student Affairs Associate Director Marjorie DeMartino at (949) 824-4813 |
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The first historic preservation project in Orange County - and in the state of California - was Mission San Juan Capistrano, in 1895. |
Archeological investigations have taken place throughout Orange County since the 1930s. |
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Don Tomas Feliz Adobe
For years the Don Tomas Feliz Adobe, located in Los Angeles, was believed to have been built in 1845. New research revealed sets the date earlier, back to 1795. Research confirmed the Mexican general, Andres Pico and American Lt. Col. John C. Fremont signed the accord ending the U.S. conquest of California at the Adobe on Jan. 13, 1847. Referred to as Campo de Cahuenga, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority hired archeologists to oversee the a on-going excavation efforts by the city's subway diggers. The land was part of the Mission San Fernando's grazing properties. The adobe is believed to have been a home or ranch quarters, about 33 feet by 100 feet, which is much larger than previously thought. Located very close to universal studios much of the Adobe site is located under a parking lot and sidewalks. "Everything is still up in the air," said Guy Weddington McCreary, president of the Campo de Cahuenga Historical Memorial Association. "We want to preserve history and keep as much of it as intact as possible. But sometimes you can't, so you have to see how much you can salvage." Los Angeles Times, submitted by Alex King, 1-18-00
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Stage Coach Days Before the railroads came to Southern California the stage coach was the only means of public overland transportation in the area. The first stage lines running from Los Angeles to San Diego were established in the 1850s. In 1852, service on and the regular basis had been established. The major route was through Orange County to San Diego. While never subject to Indian attacks, it was subject to robbers, flooding and road washed outs. In 1872 the stage was scheduled for two trips per week. If The fair was $20 on a stage built for nine passengers inside and two outside. Many times the stage coach departed with a driver and up to 13 passengers. Without the proper loading of this stage, the ride can be very rough on the driver and the passengers. In the 18'70s and 1880's $2. per day was a common wage, thus the stage coach trip to San Diego represented ten days wages and required about 30 hours aboard the stage coach.All stage's service had stopped by 1887. While Indian attacks where not a problem, one occurrence of drunk driving did occur. The sole passenger realizing the condition of the driver jumped from the stage coach just before the driver drove the stage off a 100-foot bluff. Both the driver and the horses were killed in this accident. Source: County Courier, May 2000
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The mother who inspired the 1991 best-seller, Rain of Gold died June 2 in Oceanside, California at the age of 89. Gudalupe Gomez Villasenor was born May 30, 1911 in La Lluvia, a remote mining town in northern Mexico's picturesque Copper Canyon. Her birth came amid the bloodshed of the Mexican Revolution. The stories of her childhood, and the arrival of American miners to the canyon, helped inspire the 1991 three-generation epic of the family's move from Mexico to the United States which has been described as a Latino "Roots." Gomez Villasenor and her family moved to the United States in 1923 and worked in agricultural fields in California and Arizona. She married Juan Salvador Villasenor. The family eventually settled in Oceanside as ranchers and had five children. Author Victor Villasenor said . . . . he recalled his mother in her later life saying, "I began to see that every person's life is so important and so wonderful. . . . If a person just takes the time to think about their life, they realize it is una cosa sagrada," - a sacred thing. Orange County Register, 6-6-00 |
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Anza Trail Culminated in San
Francisco The conference will pay tribute to the soldier and explorer Lt. Colonel Juan Bautista de Anza and the early settlers. De Anza traveled 25,000 miles exploring what is now the American Southwest and northern Mexico. He then led a group of colonists through unknown territory from Mexico to California, to found a presidio at the port of San Francisco. There were30 families in all numbering 240 (84 of them children under the age of 11.) With them they brought 600 head of cattle, 165 pack mules and two horses for each colonist. A moving city! Culminating in a successful arrival on June 27, 1776. The colonists viewed the Golden Gate harbor after a trek of almost nine months. It is designed as a cultural exchange and immersion in the lifestyles of the varied cultures who settled, lived, and traveled along the Anza Trail. The Presidio includes the site of the original fort which was built by the colonists under the direction of Lt. Joaquin Moraga. For more information
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The poll also said that the trend is likely to continue, will probably benefit the
state Of California's Democratic Party more that the Republican Party, and could affect the political make-up of the state for years to come. In 1998 Gov. Gray Davis, a Democrat, received 61 percent of the Latino vote over Republican Dan Lungren. Sent by Russell Contreras www.todos.com Tel. 480-460-7646; Fax 480-460-5456; or write to Politico, 1020 E. Mountain Vista Dr., Phoenix, AZ, 85048. |
The CSGA has undertaken a project to locate city directories for any area in California for the years 1929 1930s and 1931. The city directories will provide a substitute for the lack of a completed Soundex Index for the 1930 Census. The 1930 census will be released on 2,668 microfilm rolls on April 1, 2002. There will be approximately 1000 roles for the 1930 Soundex. Not all the states have been indexed. The city directories only cover larger urban areas and not the surrounding rural areas in most cases, but they will be a valuable finding aid to genealogists using the 1930 U.S. Census. Everett B. Ireland, CSGA Newsletter, Vol. 18, No. 3 (March 2000)
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Sutro Library Sutro Library of San Francisco is discontinuing their "New Arrivals Lists"" which has always been in hard copy. The new arrivals will now be posted on the web site of the California State Library home page. www.library.ca.gov OR directly through the California State Library catalog at www.lib.state.ca.us The Sequoia Gen. Soc., Inc. |
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Cabazon Band of Mission Indians in California The Cabazon Band of Mission Indians in California is developing its Resource Recovery Park, situated on 640 acres of desert, north of the Salton Sea. One of the goals is to host various types of recycling businesses. However, two of the three business deals which involved a relationship between the tribe and non- Indian investors resulted in a financial dispute. The non-Indian businessmen are frustrated. They feel a fair legal resolution is not possible. The local tribal judge tribal is also chairman of the Resource Recovery Park. The tribe's director of legal affairs, Patrick Schoonover, says that when businesses partner with Indian tribes, they are signing contracts with soverign government entities which unique legal systems that differ from conventional civil courts where business disputes are usually resolved. Los Angeles Times, 5-15-00
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Long Beach California Grand Prix A look at the entrants for the 26th Long Beach, California Grand Prix |
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Adrian Fernandez, 34, very Fernandez has received similiar wecomes after walking into |
Juan Montoya |
Columbia Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Miami, Fla. Valencia, CA Nazareth Miami Beach, Fla. Ohio Argentina Biscayne, Fla. Las Vegas, NV Mexico Coral Gables, Fla. Scottsdale, Ariz. Japan Weston, Fla. Brazil Las Vegas, Nev. Pompano Beach, Fla. Mexico Canada Miami Paradise Valley, Ariz. Miami, Fla. Spain Miami, Fla Los Angeles Times, 4-12-00 |
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San Diego Presidio |
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Bowen's Island Land Records, 1758-1875 Submitted by Johanna de Soto Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library,
drtl@drtl.org A general overall view is that most of the information gathered is for the period 1830 to about 1920, but a valuable collection for anyone with family roots in the San Antonio area. Collection number Doc 5172 Deeds, a permit and a manuscript map associated with property in the vicinity of Bowen's Island, an area within a bend of the San Antonio River. Deeds date from 1758 to 1838. An envelope included with the papers indicates that the property may have been part of the Bowen family estate. Names associated with papers: Bowen, Mary E. | Brudo, Anna Maria | Castillo, Manuel Yturri | Cosio, mariano | Flores, Gaspar | Pena, Francisco de la | Places associated with papers: Goliad | San Fernando de Bexar | San Antonio | Subjects: Bowen family | Bowen's Island (San Antonio, Tex.) | Land titles--Registration and transfer--Texas--San Antonio | San Antonio (Tex.)--History--Sources | San Antonio (Tex.)--Maps, manuscript | |
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Rick De Julio, Futuro McAllen Preservation Committee Chairperson
and member of the Hidalgo County Historical Commission, presented a
program telling Futuro McAllen members are working hard to strengthen their neighborhoods and improve the overall quality of life in McAllen. Besides 15th Street, several other neighborhoods have unified with an emphasis to fix up their homes. Members have attended many programs and meeting and exchanged ideas trying to preserve architectural structures and historic neighborhoods. For more information contact Historical Society President,Virginia Haynie Gause at 686-3914 (evenings). Submitted by George Gause
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| Granville Hough, Ph.D. reports that his fourth study on the the Texas Spanish Patriots will be finished shortly. SHHAR will be distributing. |
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Texas RootsWeb 62 Million New Names on RootsWeb Now |
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Please recommend Books George Gause, I would VERY MUCH appreciate all of you sharing with me the titles
of new books (genealogy, history, etc.) and other research materials which deal with the geographic area from Laredo to Corpus Christi south to Brownsville, Texas as well as the three Mexican states of |
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HOGAR, Hispanic Organization for Genealogy And Research http://community.dallasnews.com/dmn/hogar |
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Tohono O'odham and Kumeyaay Indians For centuries, Indians have lived on lands straddling of the U.S.-Mexican boundary. Now the crackdown on crossings threatens to a way of life that never depended on checkpoint or visas. In related efforts,23,000 members of the Tohono O'odham, Arizona and and San Diego California's Kumeyaay Indians have joined U.S. and Mexican officials in testing a novel program to provide Mexican passport and U.S. border crossing cards to Mexican members who typically lack so much as a birth certificate. As a key step, the San Diego tribe is conducting a census in 7 indigenous communities Baja California. Kumeyaay leaders would like Mexican Kumeyaay eventually to be able to work freely on the U.S. side as language teachers or to sell handmade baskets and pots and U.S. Indian casinos. I Leaders propose a more daring answer: changing U.S. nationality law to grant citizenship to enrolled tribal members in Mexico and to treat tribal identification cards as proof. The proposal reflects a growing desire to fix what leaders consider a historical oversight- that the group was not taken into account in 1853 when Mexico lost half of its land to the United States, land which had occupied for centuries. Likewise, tribal officials said no arrangements for passage was made in the 1930s, when the tribe was recognized by the United States. The Tohono O'odham Nation is the sole U.S.-recognized tribe that enrolls Mexican members, many of whom belong for tribal voting purposes to the 11 Tohono O'odham districts in United States. Discussions at the public meetings shift from the Tohono O'odham to English than to Spanish and back again without translation. Tribal members from both sides have traditionally gathered each year, some on foot, for religious pilgrimages in Mexico. On the U.S. side, a cave atop 7700 foot Baboquivari Peak is considered home to I'itoi, the most important Tohono O'odham deity, and is a sacred prayer spot for those in crisis or seeking forgiveness. The Tohono O'odham tribe had been very poor, but two tribal casinos in Arizona have resulted in a $52 million profit last year. The tribal elders are hopeful to improve the medical care of its members. The Kickapoo tribe in Texas won U.S. citizenship and crossing rights for its Mexican members in the 1980s. That group and a separate Kickapoo tribe are seeking to reopen the offer of citizenship for their members who lived on the U.S. side but migrate each winter to Mexico for traditional religious services. Los Angeles Times, 5-8-00 |
New Mexico Genealogical Society Website Issues go back to 1962 and can be ordered at: http://www.nmgs.org/geneal.htm Submitted by Roberto Camp mexicomarketing@yahoo.com |
If you have information about your society's activities, a family reunion, or other event which would be of interest to other Hispanic researchers, send the information to Donie Nelson, a member of the Genealogical Society of Hispanic America, Southern California, is maintaining a Hispanic Calendar of Events. doniegsha@earthlink.net Forwarded to Donie by Sam-Quito
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Detroit, Illinois, the Nation's New Mexican Boom Town Detroit, IL is being hailed as the nation's new Mexican boom town. In in the southwest section of Detroit, skilled Mexican trades men are resurrecting shells of scorched houses purchased for as little as $20,000 the population of Mexican nationals has nearly doubled the population in the Southwest section. The three local Roman Catholic parish is happy to added to weekend masses in Spanish to accommodate new arrivals who started showing up in large numbers six years ago most directly from Mexico. West Verner Avenue, the main strip is lined with evidence: Mexican bakeries, paleta shops, taquerias, tortillas factories, Mexican grocery stores. Since 1994, about 35 businesses have opened and dozens have expanded, business groups said. An $8 million mercado and welcome center will be built next year. They say they came to escape rising costs and growing hostilities against immigrants California, Arizona and Chicago, and to reunite with older relatives who had been cashing in on Detroit's labor shortage for more than a decade. It took two decades for 32-year-old Jose Zamudio and his wife, Anna, to decide to give Detroit a try. So far, their gamble has paid off. Zamudio is earning $18 and our as a brick layer for a construction company. Six months ago he and his wife bought a three-bedroom duplex for $40,000 The majority of the families settling here come from villages in Jalisco, Mexico. More than 40,000 of the people who live in southwest Detroit are either from Jalisco or have relatives there, said Maria Elena Rodriguez, who is a Detroit native and president of the Mexicantown Community Development Corp.. Some of the businesses are named to honor Jalisco and its towns: Arandas, Jesus Maria, and San Ignacio. The connection is so strong that caravan of adults and children's load up their cars each January and returned to the towns to celebrate las fiestas patronales, a 10-day Festival held in honor of patrons saints. "We go back, so they know we are proud to be from Mexico, from Jalisco," said Guadalupe Guzman, 70, who moved here to work in the steel factories in 1950. He and his family returned to Jesus Maria every year. Nichole M. Christian, New York Times, via Orange County Register, 5-21-00 |
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The Three Flags of Michigan The city of St. Joseph, Michigan, has three flags in its city seal... one of the flags is the flag of Spain. it is there to commemorate the following event: St. Joseph was previously known as Fort St. Joseph and was a British outpost. Prior to l776, a Spanish military group, that also included indigenous people, attacked, defeated and burned Fort St. Joseph, and then left. --- This is commemorated by the Spanish flag being on the city seal of the present day city of St. Joseph, MI---- Of note: the Spanish were here BEFORE l776. From the Mid-west, PANCHO VEGA 13 sends us: |
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Melungeons The multi-ethnic people known as the Melungeons have been a part of the Appalachian folklore for over 200 years. Dr.N. Brent Kennedy, author of the 1994 book, The Resurrection of a Proud People: Un Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing in America concludes that the Melungeons were descended from groups of Spaniards, Portuguese, Turks, Berber's, Moor's, Jews and others who arrived on these shores between the arrival of Columbus and the establishment of Jamestown. Generations of intermarriages with Europeans, Native Americans, and African-Americans resulted in the people now known as Melungeons. A conference was held in May. For more information write to: Third Union, PO Box 4042, Wise, VA 24293 |
Louisiana Indian Mounds The Indian mounds deep in the northeast corner of Louisiana don't look like much. The mounds and their purpose are a mystery, but they have become a touchstone for archeologist studying the middle archaic - around 6000 - 3000 B.C. "Many people thought the middle archaic was people running around doing hunter-gathering for 3000 years," said Mark Barnes, a National Park Service archeologist. "They were much more sophisticated than we thought." Scientist have dated the remains to 5,400 years ago. Los Angeles Times, 1-1-00 |
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Genealogy a Threat to Privacy |
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Family history has become the third most popular hobby in the United States and the second most popular topic on the Internet.A 1999 AT & T survey of WorldNet Service subscribers found that 99% of respondents expressed interest in searching for their roots. More than 2 million web sites are currently devoted to family history. This number increases almost daily. Family history sites receive phenomenal attention. For example, FamilySearch.org was overwhelmed with 50 million hits an hour during its first day on the web. The site remained popular and netted 1.8 billion hits in its first 10 months of service.
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New PBS Series Ancestors, the highly successful PBS series, is back with a new host, an updated format, thirteen new episodes shot on location around the world, and the most current information about the quest for family history. This new series reponds to viewers' suggestions that the episodes include more "how-to" information about family history research. For more information: <www.kbyu.org/ancestors/> |
The titles of the episodes are: Records at Risk Sent by Lorraine Hernandez |
Genetic Revolution Spin off In one of the more unusual spin offs of the genetic revolution, the growing number of funeral homes are offering to save DNA from the deceased. For a fee of between $100 and $350, and embalmer takes a tissue sample -- a strand of hair, a dab of blood, or cells swapped from inside the cheek -- and ships it to an outfit that preserves the cells for 25 years or more in a deep freeze. "It's like buying insurance," said Wayne Worgan, president of LifeTree Technologies Inc., says genetic information from those stored cells may help defendants head off serious illnesses, such as cancer. Some diseased genes can be traced within a family only by studying DNA from several generations. U.S. News and World Reports, May 8, 2000
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Family History Department of the LDS Church has shipped the new CD Catalog for Windows to all family history centers in the United States and Canada. This version of the catalog is separate from FamilySearch, and is also available to individuals for use at home. It sells for $5.00 from the Distribution Center. (It requires a Pentium and Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher.) The DC order number is 50081. |
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City Directories The Library of Congress has a research guide on city directories on their web site: It is Research Guide #18, "Telephone and City Directories in the Library Of Congress: A Finding Guide," by Barbara B. Walsh. Of particular interest is a statement in the guide: "A major project is underway to microfilm the Library of Congress's collection of telephone directories from the pre-Phone fiche period (before 1976). At president, directories for Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, and California candy requested by users in the Microform Reading Room (LJ 107)."
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http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/genealogy/ Everett B. Ireland, CSGA Newsletter,
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New Genealogical Tools
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From: Tomas Benavente
tbenavente@aol.com We are please to announce the launch of our new Hispanic magazine online latinreporter.com our mission is to promote our culture, our people and we will be covering celebrities, beauty fashion and Hispanic lifestyle. We like to extend you an open invitation to visit and support us and at the same time keep us in mind for you events, we will be happy to publish it in our events section. Nos sentimos orgullosos de anunciarles el lanzamiento de nuestra revista cybernetica latinreporter.com nuestra mision es promover nuestra gente y nuestra cultura y cubriremos los siguientes topicos artistas,moda,belleza y el estilo de vida hispano,al mismo tiempo le extendemos una abierta invitacion a visitar nuestro sitio de esa manera ud nos apoyara y nos ayudara a crecer, estamos a sus ordenes y con gusto publicaremos en nuetra seccion (eventos) sus festividades y eventos. |
Diversity This year the major networks have included more minorities in the 1999-2000 television season. The nearly unveiled fault TV schedules from ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox to feature of more minorities -practically blacks-in starring rolls on several new series. However, that the nose, Asian Americans, Native Americans and other cultural groups are still largely absent from the TV landscape noted Doug Alligood, advertising executive. "The situation on diversity is slightly better than last season, but it certainly is not revolutionary," Alligood said. "And perhaps it's better that way. If more diversity had been tried and there were not miraculous results, the networks could have said, `we tried it, it didn't work.'" Los Angeles Times, 5-20-00
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| As Spanish-language dot-coms struggle to cope with a discouraging stock market, a major portal for U.s. Hispanics, Quepasa.com, has fired a third of its 90 employees and is searching for a buyer or merger to keep itself going. Orange County Register, 6-1-00 |
To visit other states in the USA at: http://www.usgenweb.com/statelinks-table.html Or other countries at: http://www.worldgenweb.org |
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Table Talk Week
Teacher Mary Mathews decided that families eating together was important. "When I was being raised, eating together as a family was automatic. And we did it with our family as the children grew. I think it even shows up in class. The kids who regularly ate dinner with their families just seemed more grounded," she said. "It opens the lines of communication, she said. "It's positive and we as parents can really help our families in something as simple as eating dinner together." Her belief in families eating together prompted her to declare March 12-18 as "Table Talk Week" in the state of Washington. She prepared a brochure, "Table Talk, Strengthening Families at Mealtime," and passed out more than 6,000 copies to raise awareness that "families that eat together tend to be more happy. Church News, 5-6-00
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The history of America is the story of immigrants, whether from Europe, Asia, Latin America or Africa. The federal government has documentary records for many immigrants. Since the 1940s, The Immigration And Naturalization Service (INS) has maintained Alien Registration Case Files, or "A-Files", on all known immigrants since the passage of the Alien Registration Act 1940. There are an estimated one million cubic feet of "A-Files, are kept for 75 years and then become eligible to be destroyed. Of those "A-Files", 650,000 cubic feet are relatively current files in INS's own storage, the remaining 350,000 cubic feet are relatively non-current files. INS contracts NARA to store a majority of the noncurrent files at Lee's Summit, Missouri, with approximately 35,000 cubic feet stored at NARA's San Bruno, California Records Center. In 2015, the first group of "A- Files" will be eligible to be destroyed. Access via the electostatic copies or personal review may be obtained through INS by obtaining and sending to INS a completed Freedom of Information Act Request Form G-639. Many "A-Files", contained valuable documents such as rare photos and family records for each immigrants from their initial investigation through naturalization. Sample files include Holocaust survivors; Chinese Americans in the "confession and amnesty" program; Japanese War Brides; political refugees from World War II through to the Vietnam War. NARA has the authority to designate any government records that are older than 30 years for its permanent historical collection. Researchers/Genealogists are urged to write U.S. Archivist at 8601 Adelphi Road, Rm. 4100, College Park, MD, 20740-6001 and Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner act 425 I. Street, Northwest Washington, D.C. 20436. Forwarded by Barbara Edkin, CSGA Newsletter, Vol. 18, No. 3 (March 2000)
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With the help of infrared thermal imaging cameras, history could be rewritten. History buffs using the cameras that can scan objects as deep as 25 feet underground or find moisture seeping into walls took images of the underground features left by the camp. They drew two important conclusions: the 4500 prisoners died at Salisbury and that dysentery, not harsh treatment, took many of the lives. Orange County Register, 5-9-00 |
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It all began in 1862 during the Civil War when Union Army Captain Robert Ellicombe was with his men near Harrison's Landing in Virginia. The Confederate Army was on the other side of the narrow to strip of land. During the night, Capt.Robert Ellicombe heard the moan of the soldier who lay mortally wounded on the field. Not knowing if it was a Union or Confederate soldier, the Captain decided to risk his life and bring the stricken man back for medical attention. Crawling out his stomach through the gunfire, the captain reach the stricken soldier and began pulling him towards his encampment. When the captain finally reached his own lines he discovered it was actually a Confederate soldier, but the soldier was dead. The captain lit a lantern. Suddenly he caught his breath and went numb of with shock. In the dim light, he saw the face of the soldier. It was his son. The boy had been studying music in the South when the war broke out. Without telling his father he enlisted in the Confederate Army. The following morning, heartbroken, the father asked permission of his superiors to give his son a full military burial despite his enemy status. His request was partially granted. The captain had asked if he could have a group of army band members play a funeral church for the side at the funeral. That request was turned down since the soldier was a Confederate. Out of respect for the father, they did say they could give him only one musician. The captain chose a bugler. He asked the bugler to play a series of musical notes he had found on a piece of paper in the pocket of his dead son's uniform. This wish was granted. This music was the haunting melody we know now as "taps" that is used in all military funerals. These are the words to "taps": Day is done,Gone the sun, Orange County Register, Vol. 34, Issue in 5, May 2000 |
Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, the Canadian television commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record: This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all Beaver. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent written and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans support in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States. When France was endanger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it. When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped. The Marshall Plan and Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars in to discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those of countries are writing about the decadent, war-mongering Americans. I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion United States dollar build its own airplanes. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC 10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman women on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon - not once, but several times - and safely home again. You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hunted. They are here on our streets and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from maw and paw at home to spend here. When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke. I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the health of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake. Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around. They come out of these things with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those. Stand proud, America! Wave that flag! Wear it proudly!! Submitted by Brian O'Neel, via Internet, 4-20-00
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Mexican town of Palomas sends 250 children a day to attend school in
Dedming, N.M. They are American citizens, most born in U.S. hospitals
of Mexican parents. Many of these students have made the daily weekday
trips since kindergarten.
The border, a point on a sidewalk. Velia Gandarilla, a 17 year old who has made the trip is a model of successful assimilation with excellent English and Spanish speaking skills. The youngest of nine children, she is an honor student, plays the violin, been one of 5 prom queen nominees. Although she considers yourself a Mexican rather than American because of where she lives, she plans to join the U.S. Navy. Los Angeles Times, 5-14-00 |
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in http://www.avantel.net/~gtayer/EncuentroIng.html Submitted by George Gause, ggause@panam.edu |
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Looking for Mexican Genealogy Stories Hello. My name is Mike Mavretic and I work for Chedd-Angier Productions. We are documentary film producers working on a new exhibit for the American Family Immigration History Center, a new wing of the Ellis Island Immigration Museum in New York due to open next year. The exhibit will consist of a series of short documentary films about people researching their families' histories. As we begin our work on these films, we'd like to talk to people who are involved in such research and who are interested in sharing what they've found. We are most interested in those who have made some good progress in their own family histories as opposed to those who are just starting out. As I am looking specifically for people of Latino/ Hispanic heritage, I am very interested in learning more about the stories of some of the members of your group. If any of you would be willing, I would really like to talk with you in the near future about your experiences.If any of you are working with children on genealogies, then that is a bonus. Also, we would prefer not to use professionals, since one of the points of the documentaries is that anyone can learn about their family histories with a little bit of effort. Thank you, Mike Mavretic mmav@chedd-angier.com ps - it does not matter if your family didn't come through Ellis
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Rogues and Their Results Mexico owes the existence of its most dynamic city to a man who almost became the world's largest tamale. Tiajuana is a place of glamour and later, of dust and dreams. People are everywhere. Men stand at the roadside are walked lines of cars offering painted vases, Aztec calendars, statues of Jesus, Batman and birds. Hundreds of dwellings spread across the hillside. There are dignified homes at peace behind wrought iron. There are, where dirt streets began to die above the city, makeshift shelters thrown up by new arrivals. Changes everywhere. Nothing stands still. A man and his pushcart might be a symbol for Tiajuana. He may sells snow cones or tacos, ice cream or fruit. It does not occur to anyone who buys a savory tamale, peels back its warm corn-tusk wrappings and sinks teeth into it - that a proud general once almost met his hand as a larger version of the same item. On January 13, 1845, Antonia Lopez de Santa Anna fled a rising sea of defeat and disaster. He was then almost 42. Disguised as a muleteer, he hoped to make it to the coast and away to safety. Around him was a country in chaos. He was one of the symptoms and one of the causes. Historical forces may have been moving with a force their own. But, if individuals influence the course of events at all, he played a sorry and influential role. He had been a royalist, republican, liberal, conservative and dictator. The only consistent elements in his performance were his supreme egotism and hunger for glory. Concerning everything that happened there were always two versions: Santa Anna's and that of others. His life alternated between the sensational and the absurd. Spectacular sallies heightened the farce that inevitably followed. In 1835, just before departing Mexico City to straighten out matters in Texas, he boasted. If the U.S. were found to be aiding the rebels, he would march right on to Washington and raise the Mexican flag over the capital. His troops overwhelmed the fool hardy freebooters in the Alamo. It was by his brutal orders that all prisoners were executed after Goliad. Surprised by Sam Houston at San Jacinto, he ran like the rabbit, hid, put on cast-off clothing from an abandoned cabin. When Texans spotted him crossing of field, he dropped to the ground and pulled the blanket over himself. Taken prisoner, he first said he was a common soldier. Then he claimed to be in an aide to Santa Anna. When brought into camp, other Mexican prisoners recognized them and gasped, El Presidente! A few years later, he puffed himself up over his part in the silly "Pastry War," the French pretext for this action was damage done to a French bakery. For this and other supposed affronts and injuries, Mexico was ordered to pay 600,000 pesos. A French punitive expedition captured the island fortress of San Juan Ulloa at Veracruz. Santa Anna raced off to protect the nation's honor. The Mexican general had been in the port city only long enough to go to sleep when French forces came ashore. Cooked Because it took a bomb to knock down the city gate, Santa Anna was jolted awake a few minutes before a party came to arrest him. He rushed downstairs, still struggling with a handful of clothes as French officers came up. They detained him just long enough to ask which was Santa Anna's room. His aide turned out to be the courageous one. It took pistol wounds and sabre cuts to subdued him. Santa Anna's rallied a few Mexican soldiers outside the city. By now, the French leaving. They posted a cannon loaded with grape shot to cover their embarkation. When Santa Anna charged, two of his soldiers and seven of his men were cut to pieces. Others were wounded, including the General. His horse was killed under him. He was hit in the left hand and leg. The leg had to be severed and replaced with a wooden one. In the General's version, he lost 25 men. The invaders left 100 fallen in the streets. He heroically drove them into their boats at bayonet-point. "We conquered yes, we conquered, " he said in his reports to the Minister Of War. "Mexican arms secured, glorious victory in the Plaza; and the flag of Mexico remains triumphant. I was wounded in this effort and this will probably be the final victory that I shall offer my native land." Better for Mexico if this had been indeed Santa Anna's final victory. Santa Anna recovered from the amputation and in subsequent victories lost more than half of Mexico's national territory. How often were long-suffering Mexicans to been reminded by Santa Anna of the blood he shed in their defense. He insisted the leg be buried with full military honors. Many came to regret he had not given all of himself depth is . . And less of Mexico. This then was the man dressed as a muleteer, fleeing the fury of the disgusted people in 1845. All his insufferable bungling, posturing and despotism seemed about to catch up with him. Indians jumped the little party near Xico. His companions scat |
