OCTOBER  2001, Issue 7 
Editor: Mimi Lozano, mimilozano@aol.com

          Dedicated to Hispanic Heritage and Diversity Issues
          Publication of the Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research © 2000
http://members.aol.com/shhar      714-894-8161

Content Areas

United States . . . . . .  .3
Orange County, CA . .10
Los Angeles, CA. . .  13
California . . . . . . . . . 14
Northwestern U.S. . . .17
Southwestern U.S.. . .18
Texas . . . . . . . . . . . .21
East Coast . . . . . . . . 28
Mexico . . . . . . . . . . .29
Caribbean/Cuba. . . . .70
International . . . . . . . 71
History . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Miscellaneous . . . . . 78

Sincere thanks to all those who have shared their research or articles and websites.  Somos Primos is helping many Primos because many Primos are helping. 

The XII Travelers Memorial of the Southwest is the first regional memorial of its kind in the United States. This memorial consists of 12 heroic bronze monuments celebrating the multicultural contributions of both men and women to the development of the Southwest.
Beautiful art:  http://www.twelve-travelers.com/wip_083101.html    
Sent  by  Frank Padilla.

UNITED STATES

Below is a short description:
In Mexican American Odyssey, Thomas H. Kreneck not only traces the influential life of Houston entrepreneur and civic leader Felix Tijerina but also shows how Tijerina's enterprise influenced and reflected the trends in Mexican American development during years that were crucial for the Hispanic community. Kreneck outlines a pattern of identity and assimilation that has been traced in broader terms by other scholars, who have called Tijerina's contemporaries the "Mexican American Generation."

Felix Tijerina was born in 1905 in Mexico, although he publicly claimed to have been born in Texas. He worked his way from busboy and waiter to owner of a profitable, well-known chain of Mexican restaurants. The story of his economic success parallels that of other self-made American
business leaders. But his contribution did not end there. He was an active leader of local, state, and national Mexican American organizations, and in those groups he worked to advance the Hispanic community and promote social harmony. Moreover, Kreneck demonstrates how
Tijerina's life and efforts symbolized the history of a people who, by the time Tijerina died in the mid-1960s, were no longer lost in a sea of voices and ineffectual.

Emerging as a leader in such mainstream groups and boards as Rotary International and the Houston Housing Authority, Tijerina was a pioneer in Mexican American interaction with Anglos. He was particularly noted for his efforts on behalf of Mexican American education. While serving an
unprecedented four terms as national president of LULAC, from 1956 to 1960, he launched an internationally acclaimed educational initiative called the Little School of the 400, to teach English to preschool Spanish-speaking children.

Through Tijerina's life, Kreneck illustrates the intricate relations between Anglos and Mexican Americans during the early and middle years of the century. He identifies both prejudice and opportunity in Tijerina's environment and analyzes the qualities that allowed the man to flourish
within those circumstances. He also shows how Tijerina and his colleagues responded to the black civil rights movement that swept the South in the later years of his life.

Mexican American Odyssey thus portrays a significant individual and places him within a larger context as a member of a generation whose importance still affects society at large.

"The work is very impressive and will be recognized as an important contribution, especially in the field of Mexican American biography."—Emilio Zamora, author, The World of the Mexican Worker in Texas.

THOMAS H. KRENECK is head of Special Collections and Archives at Texas
A&M University—Corpus Christi. A specialist in developing local research
resources, Kreneck founded the Mexican American archival component at the
Houston Metropolitan Research Center.

The cost of the book is $39.95. You can purchase it from the Texas A&M University Press at http://www.tamu.edu/upress/BOOKS/2001/kreneck.htm
or from http://www.amazon.com

The Hispanic voting bloc is diverse and growing -- and may have enough clout to place one of their own in the Oval Office. Here's a look at this revolutionary power shift.

By Contributing Editors Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts

The most dynamic new voice in American politics speaks both Spanish and English, celebrates Cinco de Mayo as well as the Fourth of July and has gone from crossing borders to entering boardrooms in growing numbers. Hispanics now form the largest minority in the country, and one of them could occupy the White House in our lifetime. How does "Hail to El Jefe" sound?

That potential president already is out there, part of a new generation of Latino and Latina leaders who are establishing outposts in Congress, state legislatures and city halls. "It's just a matter of time," says Harry Pachon, president of the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute in Claremont, Calif. "There's a cadre of elected officials getting the experience, credibility and background they need to run for higher office."

Extract . . .  http://usaweekend.com/01_issues/010909/010909hispanic.html

Sent by Cindy Lo Buglio

By comparison, states like Hawaii, California, N3ew Jersey and New York all had higher percentages of "sandwich homes" - a household where someone lives with a parent, as well as his or her own child. 

Orange County Register, 9-7-01

Extracts from: Hispanic Influx Induces Teaching Changes 
 - CNN.com - August 30, 2001 Ringwood, Oklahoma (AP) -- 

Teachers in places newly transformed by a wave of Hispanic immigration are learning to be creative as they face classrooms filled with children who often can't understand a word they say. "A good teacher will do something," said Van Anderson, director of bilingual education at the Oklahoma Education Department, which provides teaching resources.  Schools are bolstering their English as a Second Language programs, recruiting bilingual staff and training teachers in methods that make learning easier for non-English speakers. 
 
Outreach methods in classrooms in Arkansas, Nebraska, North Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Oregon, Oklahoma, Nevada, Idaho, Kentucky and Kansas saw the nation's biggest jumps in Hispanic enrollment between 1990 and 1997.

The change started about eight years ago in Ringwood, a once-homogenous community of 424, about 65 miles northwest of Oklahoma City, where most jobs require sweating for oil or wheat. Now nearly 60 percent of the town's children are Hispanic. 

"At first I thought `How are we going to do this?"' said Susan Fike, the elementary school principal in Ringwood, where the Hispanic population more than quintupled to 155 in the last decade. 

Unable to speak Spanish, teacher Kim Childs had to rely on Hispanic children who spoke a little English to help as translators. Desperate to communicate with her pupils' parents, she started a basic adult English class. 

Some 200 miles west, educators in Guymon went to the hallway of the local pork processing plant to teach English to working parents so they might help their children with homework. 

Elementary schools once filled only by white farm children are now 60 percent Hispanic. Pupils learn both English and Spanish, and progression in reading and math is based on ability, not grade levels. 

Superintendent Rob Ziegler is proud that the district's overall standardized test scores are at the national average. But he said every community has to take its own approach in addressing the challenges of reaching immigrant students. "There isn't any recipe you follow that's going to answer all 
your questions," he said. 

Many schools are reaching out to the parents of Hispanic children through adult education, translators at parent-teacher meetings and Spanish versions of all documents. 

A few years ago, the district decided to cut the mainstay German classes that reflected a part of the area's heritage. It replaced them with Spanish. "I thought that was a good idea to teach Spanish," Mrs. Rojas said. "Not because it's my language but because everyone speaks Spanish now." 

Christianity Among the Indians of the Americas

http://www.marquette.edu/library/collections/archives/Indians.html

The Marquette University Archives is committed to documenting the ongoing story of Christianity in Native North America. Since 1977, the department has acquired the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions records and 16 other collections. This material documents the histories of urban and rural missions and parishes; the values and attitudes of clergy, religious, and laity; the history and customs of Indian tribes; and the cultural interaction between Native Americans, church leaders, and U.S. government officials. Documentation is significant for tribes within Alberta and Ontario, Canada; Chiapas, Mexico; and 17 states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. In addition, the library's general collection holds over 30,000 related titles.

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• Academic
  • Abilene Christian University - Margaret and Herman Brown Library
  • Alvin Community College
  • Amarillo College - Lucille King Lynn Library
  • Amberton University
  • Angelina College
  • Angelo State University - Porter Henderson Library
  • Austin College - George T. and Gladys H. Abell Library Center
  • Austin Community College
  • Bat Conservation International Library
  • Baylor University Libraries
  • Blinn College
  • Brazosport College
  • Brookhaven College
  • Cedar Valley College

OMAHA - Hefty, green-glass, 16.9-ounce bottles of Coca-Cola haven't been common in the United States for almost a quarter of a century. But if sales of the Mexican-bottled product in area stores are any indication, the heavy glass bottles are making a comeback.  The first crates of Mexican Coca-Cola made their appearance in an Omaha grocery store two months ago at the Wholesale Food Outlet store near the downtown area. They've been flying off the shelves ever since.

Maria Santiago, 23, said she was pleasantly surprised to find the glass-bottled Coke at the store. She left Mexico for Omaha four years ago and had missed the glass bottles.

The product's appearance in an Omaha grocery store is not a sign of some global strategy by the Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Co., which has $20.5 billion in annual sales, but rather a marketing effort that has generated results for the grocery and its three stores in Omaha and in Greeley, Colo., and Muscatine, Iowa.

Executives at the grocery's parent company - the Nash Finch Co. - thought the bottles would appeal to Hispanic consumers, who often complain that Coke bottled in the United States tastes funny. However, the buyers didn't realize how popular Mexican Coke would be with middle-aged Anglo consumers, who have been snapping them up because of their similarity to the Coke bottles of their youth. Mexican Coke is similar to the Coke sold in the United States in the early 1970s, both in taste and packaging.

The largest Mexican bottlers of Coca-Cola still use sugar cane and continue to rely on glass bottles, decades after their U.S. counterparts switched to cheaper and lighter plastic bottles and corn syrup. Mexican Coke is slightly sweeter than U.S. Coke.

http://www.journalstar.com/nebraska?story_id=4271&past=
http://www.politicomagazine.com/

ORANGE COUNTY, CA

Libreria Martinez is proud to announce that they will be hosting a book signing for his new book at 7 p.m, 1110 N. Main St., Santa Ana, CA 92701  Thirteen Senses picks up historically where Rain of Gold stopped.  Limited seating, go early.  Information:  (714) 973-7900   rueben@latinobooks.com                                                       

For information, call Elizabeth Kraft, (562) 596-8478  

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Orange County Multi-Cultural High School History Book

A Garden Grove nonprofit group hopes to improve relations in Orange County by showing historical and cultural connections that ethnic groups share. The Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance will partner with Latino and African-American groups to highlight these facts by creating a guidebook to help high-school teachers incorporate these lessons into history classes. To link these national historic events to Orange County, OCAPICA will work with students to interview local residents who were prominent in history.

Orange County Register, 9-5-01 
  

Archaeological Research in Orange County

"Treating Orange county as part of Southern California, with its trade links to Baja California and the southwest, has allowed us to see larger patterns of culture in music, dance and mythology," said Paul Apodaca, a Chapman University professor and editor of an archaeology journal. 

Working with archaeologists, other scholars and other tribes has helped local American Indians recapture their culture, said Joyce Stanfield, another Acjachemen leader.

Orange County Register, 9-18-01 

LOS ANGELES, CA

Los Angeles National Cemetery
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California    Total records = 85,825

http://www.interment.net/data/us/ca/losangeles/lanat/index.htm

Originally a 20 acre tract of land for the burial of residents of the National Home of Disabled Volunteer Solidiers, the Los Angeles National Cemetery was later expanded to 114 acres. The first interment was that of Abner Prather, a member of the 4th Indiana Infantry, on May 11, 1889. There are also 14 Medal of Honor recipients buried here.

U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs Database

Records of burials were provided to this website by the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs, on July 2, 2000. This is not a complete list of burials, only those that are on file with the VA.

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CALIFORNIA

California Native American Language Map
California Studies at SFSU, especially "California on the Internet" and "California Books" http://bss.sfsu.edu/calstudies/

The California Native American Language Map, of Native American groups related by language. Has a link to the California Tribes site, with a map, listings of the tribes, and how to contact the tribal councils, plus much more.
http://bss.sfsu.edu/calstudies/NativeWebPages/ca%20web%201.html 
Sent by Carol De Priest   mailto:depriest@azstarnet.com   http://www.azstarnet.com/~depriest/

ROOTSWEB REVIEW: RootsWeb's Genealogy News
Vol. 4, No. 38, 19 September 2001, Circulation: 868,349+
(c) 1998-2001 RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/

http://lcweb.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/casites.html

• Autry Museum of Western Heritage
• Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive (University of California)
• California Academy of Sciences Library, Special Collections
• California Historical Society
• California Institute of Technology
• California Lutheran University
• California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, Special Collections
• California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Special Collections
• California State Railroad Museum Library
• California State Archives and Golden State Museum
• California State University, Bakersfield, Special Collections
• California State University, Chico, Special Collections
• California State University, Dominguez Hills, Special Collections and Archives
• California State University, Fresno, Special Collections
• California State University, Fullerton
• California State University, Long Beach. Special Collections and Archives
• California State University, Los Angeles
• California State University, Northridge
• California Views (Photographic Archives)
• Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies, Fresno
• Center for Process Studies, Library and Special Archives

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The Bancroft Library   University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
(510) 642-6481 (reference desk)  (510) 642-378 http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/

Bancroft Collection of Western Americana and Latin Americana, Rare Book Collection, History of Science and Technology Collection, University Archives, the Free Speech Movement Project, Bancroft Library Pictorial Collection, Mark Twain Papers and Project, Regional Oral History Office

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http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/5733.htm

NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES

         Still time to attend Two major conferences at BYU 

JORNADAS IN GENEALOGY AND HISTORY: FAMILIES CROSSING FRONTIERS
OCTOBER 10-12, 2001 Provo, Utah,       Registration: $30.
Organized by the Center for Family History and Genealogy and
Deparfrment of History of the Brigham Young University

The Spanish In Utah:  Lost Treasures of Utah,  Copyright© 1999 

http://www.users.qwest.net/~utahtreasure/spanish.htm

A fascinating account of the Spanish explorations throughout the west.  It also includes a:
List of major expeditions and events and a map of Spanish trails in Utah.  
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SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES

Mission 2000

http://www.nps.gov/tuma/M2000.html

Mission 2000 is a searchable database of Spanish mission records of the Pimería Alta (southern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico) containing baptisms, marriages, and burials from the late seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century.  Names of persons associated with each event (i.e., priest, baptized, parents, godparents, husband, wife, witnesses, deceased, etc.) and personal information about each person are included. The ethnicity of names include O’odham, Yaqui, Apache, Seri, Opata, Yuma, Mexican, Spanish, Basque, Catalán, Gallego, Andalusian, Valencian, German, Swiss, Austrian, Bohemian, Italian, and others.  Mission 2000 presently contains more than 4000 events and over 10,000 names of people and their known personal information. It is an on-going project taken from the original mission records and updated weekly on the Internet.  A majority of the present information comes from the Guevavi Mission register (1739-1767), but watch for more information in the future from the mission registers of Arizpe, Caborca, Cucurpe, Cocóspera, Horcasitas, Magdalena, San Ignacio, Suamca, and Tumacácori. The search is based on names in the database.  If you do not find what you are interested in, try a different spelling, or type only the first few letters of the name.  Since ancient spellings varied greatly, a partial spelling will list all entries with those particular letters.  Each person listed in the results will have a Personal ID Number shown in blue.  Click on the number of the person you are interested in to see his or her specific personal information. Included with the personal information will be a listing of all Event ID Numbers, shown in blue, with which that person is associated.  Click on any of those numbers for a display of information concerning that particular event.

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The Online Archive of New Mexico is a single, integrated source for searching and navigating finding aids to archival collections. These finding aids, usually called guides or inventories, contain descriptive information about archives and manuscript collections housed at research institutions in New Mexico.

There are two ways to locate research material at this site:

• You may browse through title lists of collections under the name of each participating institution. These lists provide direct links to each finding aid.
• Or you can use the search function to perform a keyword search across all finding aids. You may also limit keyword searches by institution. For more information on searches, go to Search Tips on the Search page.

http://elibrary.unm.edu/oanm/

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TEXAS

                                         Visiones de El Paso              Photo by Anne Hinton Pratt

A church youth group designed and painted a large mural depicting the culture and history of the El Paso area.  The lead artist Christie Keime, a Coronado High School senior had to adapt plans to fit onto one 139-foot wall.  A big challenge was keeping the perspective as the wall ran downhill, but Christie solved it with a skyline and distant mountain range at the top of the street.  the rest of the mural was of settlers, buildings and landscape.

A10. EL..ICIO S. FIGUEROA Nació el dia 22 de marzo de 1940 y Falleció el 14 de julio de 1940 
A11. (Tree) Unmarked, overgrown with vines. Unknown. 
A12. Unmarked mound 
A13. PORFIRIO HERNANDEZ Nació 2-9-1880 Falleció 4-16-1947 Un recuerdo de su esposa e hijos 
A14. Unmarked. (Hollow metal stake.) 

ROW B (Half row, begins at tree to right of A10.) 
B01. Senora REYES VALLEJO Nació 1-10-1838 Falleció 11-19-1942 (? Age would be 104) Un recuerdo de su hijo Porfirio Huerta Q.E.P.D. 
(Followed by 4 empty spaces) 
B02. AURELIA HERNANDEZ MORENO Nació Nov.12, 1920 Falleció Nov. 7, 1949 Un recuerdo de sus hijos y sus nueras y nietos E.P.D. (Pink granite headstone)

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Texas Knights of Columbus Historical Commission 

http://archives1.archives.nd.edu/CTKC.HTM

convention of the Texas State Council of the Knights of Columbus, May 1923. Beginning in 1926, Paul J. Foik, C.S.C., of St. Edward's University in Austin, was the group's permanent chairman. The minutes of the convention which created it defined the original goal of the commission: "...the work to be done consists in the preparation for a history of the Catholic Church in Texas (1836-1936) as a centennial volume." Members of the organization included Carlos Castaneda, librarian of the Garcia collection at the University of Texas. The history was to comprise six volumes.

The first phase in the work of the Commission involved tracking down all archival sources containing information relevant to the task at hand. Much of the groundwork which later proved valuable to the Commission was carried out by Dr. Herbert Bolton, who explored, and published a very comprehensive guide to, the archives in Mexico. His guide, entitled Guide to Materials for the History of the United States in the Principal Archives of Mexico, was published by the Carnegie Institution in 1913. Many of the documents included in the present collection are described in Bolton's Guide.

The Commission eventually collected documents from a variety of sources, most notably the General Archives in Mexico City, the General Archives of the Indies in Seville, the Archives of the College of Santa Cruz in Queretaro, and the Archives of the College of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Zacatecas. These last two were important educational centers for the colonial Spaniards, and missionaries who settled Texas and other provinces were largely trained there. Both schools ceased operations in 1908, and so the Commission was racing against time in order to obtain the documents stored there before they were scattered, lost or destroyed. As for the archives in Spain, the Commission obtained the cooperation of the Royal Court and the jefe (chief) of the Archivo General de Indias, who personally searched the archives and supervised the work of the copyists.

(Information above was obtained primarily from the Proceedings included in this collection.)

Series Description

II. Archivo General de Indias -- Audiencia de Mexico. These papers are largely concerned with Spanish explorations, and French intrusions, on the Bahia del Espiritu Santo. This series of documents bears the identifying label 61-6-20. English translations or synopses, both handwritten and typed, of some of the documents are included. Of these, the handwritten version is considerably more accurate, though somewhat harder to read.

III. Archivo General de Mexico. These documents, from the General Archives in Mexico City, concern a wide spectrum of Spanish affairs in the New World, divided into several collections.

• A. Historia -- History. This collection covers the years 1684-1808. Individual volumes included indices of the documents they contain. Each Volume number represents a bound volume in the archives in Mexico.
• B. Provincias Internas -- Internal Provinces. These volumes are more focused topically than those in the History collection. Unlike History, all volumes focus on the internal affairs of Texas. Individual topics are identified on the folder list, and many volumes include indices.

V. Documentos Para la Historia Eclesiastica y Civil de la Provincia de Texas. This collection comprises Tomos (Volumes) 27 and 28 of the Coleccion de Memorias de Nueva Espana (Collection of Memories of New Spain), a subset of the Historia section of the Archivo General de Mexico. Volume 28 was published in Spain, as part of the Coleccion Chimalistac (1961), by Jose Porrua Turanzas. The Turanzas edition appears to be a more accurate transcription of the documents than the version presented here, which includes many more modern spellings than the Turanzas. Index included.

VI. Miscellaneous documents. This series comprises records from the mission of Nuestra Senora del Refugio at La Bahia, as well as the Colegio de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe de Zacatecas (the College of Our Lady of Guadalupe at Zacatecas). Like Queretaro, Zacatecas was an important training school and staging area for the missionary priests.

VII. Texas Knights of Columbus Historical Commission documents. Papers connected to the work of the Commission.

VIII. Texas Knights of Columbus Printed Matter. Historical studies printed by the Commission, largely edited by Paul D. Foik, with some written by Foik and some by Carlos Castaneda. Also included are the printed Proceedings of the Commission's regular meetings.

IX. Texas Knights of Columbus Microfilm. Records of the Commission and papers of its leaders, Paul J. Foik, James P. Gibbons, and Carlos Castenedas; with information on Catholics in Texas and the Southwest, the Irish in Texas, American Indians, anti-Catholic political parties, and routine Commission business. Twelve reels. (MTKC)

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         Finding Aids: Spanish and Mexican Land Resources
                          http://www.glo.state.tx.us/archives/find_spanmex.html

The Texas General Land Office is the repository of original Spanish and Mexican land titles in Texas. Along with a variety of associated materials, these records make up the Spanish Collection, which constitutes the primary source of documentation for land distribution in Texas prior to 1836. The Spanish Collection is also a rich source of information for studying the settlement of Texas and the activities in the empresario colonies prior to independence. The records encompass the period from 1720 to 1836, but the bulk of the material is from 1824-1836. Some of the most frequently sought records are discussed below. For other records and more detailed descriptions, see the individual finding aids.

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EAST COAST

The 19-year-old son of a black Seminole leader is suing the United States for denying him federal benefits afforded all Indians and a part of the $56 million that the government finally agreed in 1991 to pay the tribe for taking Florida.

 The story of the black Seminoles is complex.  They were a distillation of as many as 36 tribes.  Chief Osceola was half-Scottish and half-Creek Indian and married a black Seminole.  Today, there are 2,500 registered black members in the Great Seminole Nation of Oklahoma.  Seventy-five percent of the tribe were moved there after the Second Seminole 
War in 1838.

In the late 1600s, African slaves who escaped Carolina plantations and dodged slave-hunters through dangerous Indian country gained freedom by crossing the St. Mary's River, an international border that divided Spanish and British colonial territory.

So many fled into Florida, that in 1693, the Spanish settlement at St. Augustine began freeing the runaway slaves if they agreed to convert to Catholicism and protect the northern border from the British, according to Jan Landers, author of "Black Society in Spanish Florida."

Orange County Register,  Extracts from article by Scott McCabe, 8-26-01

ALLIGATOR When Spanish Conquistadors first traversed Florida, they found rather large amphibious reptiles, calling them El Lagarto. This in English later became Al Ligator or alligator. 
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The Family Tree - February/March 1998 

MEXICO