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What time were your relatives in Iowa living in a boxcar? I have Blakes from Iowa and during the depression years (dust bowl), 1925, life was very hard. I have my great great grandmothers letter to my great grandmother, letting her know about her sister. She and her husband were working at the gravel pits for $4.00 a day and living in a shanty. During the summer, the heat in the metal shanty was unbearable. Dust that blew from the fields and not to mention the dust in the pits, shortened the lives of the people living in this area. Dust in the lungs caused infections and they had increased risks of pneumonia. You can imagine what your relatives lives were like. Despite all of that, they were happy to have work at a time when many were starving.
Anyway, asides from that, have you tried name variations in your search for Atilano Vargas? I have some Vargas in my Jauregui line and I have found these variations on the spelling of the name, Baragas, Bargas
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At this time some people from valle de gpe would live in similar conditions when they would come north to Trona California to find work. My mother was born in trona in 1928 but my grandparents moved back to the valle de gpe because life was rough in the Usa during the depression.
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Dear GenReys:
What time were your relatives in Iowa living in a boxcar? I have Blakes from Iowa and during the depression years (dust bowl), 1925, life was very hard. I have my great great grandmothers letter to my great grandmother, letting her know about her sister. She and her husband were working at the gravel pits for $4.00 a day and living in a shanty. During the summer, the heat in the metal shanty was unbearable. Dust that blew from the
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Hellow Maureen,
I have a pretty good history of my ancestors in Iowa. They made it to Iowa in October 1916. From what I understand from my great aunt Sister Marilyn they worked in onion fields picking onions for 10 cents (a day?) and they slept in gunny sacks. I do not know why they chose Iowa as their destination though. I believe Victoriano also worked for the railroad once he made it to the US but he and my grandfather (who lied about his age to work in the coal mines) both worked in the coal mines.
-From Mexico to the Midwest
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Dear Mex to Mid:
As part of my husband's genealogy, I interviewed his father about his family history. It was a great story. His father was a beet worker in Wyoming and that is where my father-in-law was born, only to be deported voluntarily back to Mexico during the depression without his birth certificate. The saga of how he came back to the US was another whole story. Anyway, in the early 1900's, he said, trucks would come into the towns in Mexico calling for workers. The US needed manpower to harvest the fields. Men and sometimes whole families would hop on the truck and would travel up and work the fields. As you can see, they were paid little and the work was hard in very difficult conditions. Sometimes they stayed on and started following the crops from one state to another. This was a boom time in the US and many also migrated east and worked in the steel mills around Chicago. When the depression hit, the steelworkers lost their jobs and were deported back. I
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Hello, I'm researching the Alvarado and Hernandez surnames. I am not exactly
sure which part of Mexico the Alvarado surname came from at this time,
although I do know that the Hernandez surname came from either La Blanca,
Zacatecas or Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico.
I am researching Pedro Alvarado, b. 12 Jan. 1883 and his wife, Angela
Hernandez, b. 2 Aug. 1895, as these are my great-grandparents. Their first
born child, Hilario Alvarado, was born in 1916. From what I can figure out they were married in 1919, according to a 1930 US Census record I found for them. I was able to find a border crossing for Angela Hernandez showing that she came over in 1922 with my great-uncle Hilario and my grandfather, Phillip (Felipe) to join her husband, Pedro. They crossed in El Paso, TX and ultimately ended up in Gonzales and Monterey, CA, USA, where their remaining 6 children were born.
At this time I do not know of any siblings for Pedro, nor do I know his
mother's maiden name. I do believe that
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Hello,
I'm just beginning my research and starting off by finding out as much
as I can about the Gonzalez's from Guatimala, Huanusco, Zacatecas.
Guatimala is a small ranch town just west of Huanusco.
I've looked through several rolls from the FHC and have found useful
information, but am hoping for further information about what steps to
take next.
My grandfather's name is Jose Inez Gonzalez, born in Guatimala--birth
year unknown. Jose Inez is the son of Monico Gonzalez, born in 1890.
Monico is the son of Jacinto Gonzalez, born in 1870, who is the son of
Lucas Gonzalez--birth year unknown. From family oral history, I
believe Jose Inez was born sometime in the 1910s. I have looked
through part of the FHC Roll #1089500 (1904-1917), and all of #1083044
(1918-1920) but was unable to find him. (The library closed before I
could finish going through all of the 1904-1917 period.) My oldest
uncle would've been born around 1935, so that means Jose Inez and his wife
would've married around the
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Hi Arturo,My family is from Hacienda La Luz in Huanusco-Calvillo Area,you might know the place. Here's the deal. You have to check both registro civil and church because not everyone did both sets ofacts. Yes, Tabsco (Villa del Refugio) includes all of Huanusco and nearby towns.I have seen most of the films but never got any names from Guatimala.Try looking in Tabasco, Zac those church records are complete, I bet you'llfind him in those films.
Daniel Mendez Camino
> From: agon123@gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 22:43:01 -0400
> To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
> Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] Introduction
>
> Hello,
> I'm just beginning my research and starting off by finding out as much
> as I can about the Gonzalez's from Guatimala, Huanusco, Zacatecas.
> Guatimala is a small ranch town just west of Huanusco.
>
> I've looked through several rolls from the FHC and have found useful
> information, but am hoping for further information about what steps to
> take next.
> My
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Susan Larsen
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spaceoddity6522@yahoo.com
My twin sister and I first began researching our family history four years ago. We have found a lot through Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org. My Great Grandmother, Aurelia Haro Robles emigrated to The United States with her mother from Mexico March 26, 1929. She was born July 19, 1916 in Rancho La Nopalera, Mezquital del Oro, Zacatecas.
Her parents were Jose Doroteo Haro, of Mezquital del Oro, Zacatecas, and Maria Esther Robles of Zacatecas, Zacatecas. Not much is known of Maria’s parents, but I have traced Jose’s to the early 1800’s, each generation from is parents (Pedro Pascual Haro Haro and Agapita Banuelos Villarreal) on are born in Moyahua de Estrada, Zacatecas.
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Greetings!
My name is Mercedes Gomez Villalobos and I am happy to be a new member to Nuestros Ranchos. I'm still learning how to navigate this website. I'm posting as much info as I've managed to research in the last 3 years. I need help if anyone out there knows about these wonderfully mysterious distant relatives. I often wonder where my family came from and from what countries we originated. I understand we have French and Spanish and Indigenous blood. My parents had 12 children we're all alive, including my 105 year old mother. Her mind is sharp and she has wonderful stories to tell us. My father had blue eyes and blond hair, my mother had brown eyes, hair. We're all different from very light hair and skin to medium olive skin and brown eyes.
My father Antonio Gomez Gonzalez b.1899 and mother Virginia Villalobos Aguilera B.1905 both in Canadas, Jalisco. My paternal grandparents: Francisco Gomez Martinez b.1869 , his parents: Nicolas Gomez and Gregoria Martinez.
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