Wow Emilie, there sure are quite a bit of films I noticed that they even have films from Durango, and many for the Chihuahua, newspapers archives. I need to find a person at UTEP that has a good grasp of what the films contain and where they are located. I saw many Ayuntamiento films on the list. What a huge playground and what's great is that you can copy a page from a film and download it to a flash stick, for free. Thanks again for the heads up!
Yolanda
You are welcome, Yolanda, but you still didn't tell me what in particular you are looking for in those films. The reason I ask is that you have helped me before (remember when you went to the library and looked up my husband's grandfather's immigration form?). I wondered what areas of Mexico you are looking for, and if they are the same as mine, I might ask if you could look up some things for me too. I go every few years to El Paso and the Mesilla Valley to visit relatives and do research at the public and university libraries there, and next time I go, I'd like you to show me around the films, etc. Maybe we could have lunch, etc.
I did have a contact at the UTEP library, she was the acting head there, but she transferred to the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. She gave me two numbers, but no names, at UTEP to ask for specific help before I go to that library: Microfilms Dept. (915) 747-5681 and Special Collections 747-5697. Good luck. I hope you find someone that is helpful. When I went to the University Library in Las Cruces, I was intimidated by the restrictions at their Special Collections (they deal with original manuscripts and you have to check all your belongings and wear white gloves) but then the head lady found out we had common ancestors, so she instructed her staff to microfilm anything I wanted. I came out of there with whole books copied, etc.)
Emilie
----- Original Message -----
From: Yolanda Bobby Perez
To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Microfilm Collections - Special Collectionsat UTEP
Wow Emilie, there sure are quite a bit of films I noticed that they even have films from Durango, and many for the Chihuahua, newspapers archives. I need to find a person at UTEP that has a good grasp of what the films contain and where they are located. I saw many Ayuntamiento films on the list. What a huge playground and what's great is that you can copy a page from a film and download it to a flash stick, for free. Thanks again for the heads up!
Yolanda
Emilie
I would love to do lunch, you just let me know and I will be ready. The public Library downtown has been closed for the last year due to new construction. It is scheduled to open some time towards the end of Oct. Quien sabe???? ver es creer...We just discovered another treasure at the UTEP special collection dept on the 6th floor. Maybe this time we will have more luck in doing lookups for the ranchos members. There is another huge set of boxes full of documents of the 1940s of people who wanted to go to Mexico for a visit or business. I will take my list of names again and see what happens. As for the people I am researching they are from Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Longinos Bugarini or Bugarin whose entire family lived in Zacatecas for generations. H was born around 1868 in Tlaljomulco, Guadalajara, Jalisco. He became a lawyer and practiced law in Chih. around the early 1900s to about 1915. He remarried after his first wife died, he married Basilia Anchondo of Chih.
Emilie, If you go to the photos section in ranchos you will see him. He is my suegras father, my husband's grandfather. I wrote a poem about her and I might send it in to ranchos, it's entitled "La China", it's about Dona Sofia Bugarini de Perez, a dynamo of a lady.
Anyhow the other people I am looking for are from Camargo, Chih. also known as Santa Rosalia de Camargo. The surnames are Medina, Saavedra, Saenz and Baltazar. The other place is Mapimi Durango, where the Saavedras/Balthazar came from. Are any of these areas in your family? Let me know how I can help
Yolanda
Microfilm Collections - Special Collections at UTEP
Wow Emilie, there sure are quite a bit of films I noticed that they even have films from Durango, and many for the Chihuahua, newspapers archives. I need to find a person at UTEP that has a good grasp of what the films contain and where they are located. I saw many Ayuntamiento films on the list. What a huge playground and what's great is that you can copy a page from a film and download it to a flash stick, for free. Thanks again for the heads up!
Yolanda
Microfilm Collections - Special Collectionsat UTEP
You are welcome, Yolanda, but you still didn't tell me what in particular you are looking for in those films. The reason I ask is that you have helped me before (remember when you went to the library and looked up my husband's grandfather's immigration form?). I wondered what areas of Mexico you are looking for, and if they are the same as mine, I might ask if you could look up some things for me too. I go every few years to El Paso and the Mesilla Valley to visit relatives and do research at the public and university libraries there, and next time I go, I'd like you to show me around the films, etc. Maybe we could have lunch, etc.
I did have a contact at the UTEP library, she was the acting head there, but she transferred to the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. She gave me two numbers, but no names, at UTEP to ask for specific help before I go to that library: Microfilms Dept. (915) 747-5681 and Special Collections 747-5697. Good luck. I hope you find someone that is helpful. When I went to the University Library in Las Cruces, I was intimidated by the restrictions at their Special Collections (they deal with original manuscripts and you have to check all your belongings and wear white gloves) but then the head lady found out we had common ancestors, so she instructed her staff to microfilm anything I wanted. I came out of there with whole books copied, etc.)
Emilie
----- Original Message -----
From: Yolanda Bobby Perez
To: research@nuestrosranchos.org
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Nuestros Ranchos] Microfilm Collections - Special Collectionsat UTEP
Wow Emilie, there sure are quite a bit of films I noticed that they even have films from Durango, and many for the Chihuahua, newspapers archives. I need to find a person at UTEP that has a good grasp of what the films contain and where they are located. I saw many Ayuntamiento films on the list. What a huge playground and what's great is that you can copy a page from a film and download it to a flash stick, for free. Thanks again for the heads up!
Yolanda
Microfilm Collections - Special Collectionsat UTEP
Emilie
I would love to do lunch, you just let me know and I will be ready. The public Library downtown has been closed for the last year due to new construction. It is scheduled to open some time towards the end of Oct. Quien sabe???? ver es creer...We just discovered another treasure at the UTEP special collection dept on the 6th floor. Maybe this time we will have more luck in doing lookups for the ranchos members. There is another huge set of boxes full of documents of the 1940s of people who wanted to go to Mexico for a visit or business. I will take my list of names again and see what happens. As for the people I am researching they are from Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Longinos Bugarini or Bugarin whose entire family lived in Zacatecas for generations. H was born around 1868 in Tlaljomulco, Guadalajara, Jalisco. He became a lawyer and practiced law in Chih. around the early 1900s to about 1915. He remarried after his first wife died, he married Basilia Anchondo of Chih.
Emilie, If you go to the photos section in ranchos you will see him. He is my suegras father, my husband's grandfather. I wrote a poem about her and I might send it in to ranchos, it's entitled "La China", it's about Dona Sofia Bugarini de Perez, a dynamo of a lady.
Anyhow the other people I am looking for are from Camargo, Chih. also known as Santa Rosalia de Camargo. The surnames are Medina, Saavedra, Saenz and Baltazar. The other place is Mapimi Durango, where the Saavedras/Balthazar came from. Are any of these areas in your family? Let me know how I can help
Yolanda