Alas you have no worries about getting me up. It is insomnia, and there are nights when I cannot sleep. Rather than toss and turn trying to get back to sleep, I just get up and work quietly on the computer, so I won't wake everyone else up!

Our Rocha and Bejar relatives would cross over the border to work in the beet fields of Wyoming. When there was rumor that the steel mills needed workers, they headed to Northwest Indiana. This was just before the depression. When the depression hit, the family was deported back to Mexico as there was no work and no way to make a living. I love the border crossings on Ancestry.com as it documents the comings and goings with the verbal family history. It has given me the date of the deportation and now I need to find some time to check the library. I am told that when families were deported, there would have been a posting in the area paper. Some of the children had been born here in the States, but were sent back to Mexico with the rest of the family. Although the children spent the depression years in Mexico, when they became of age, they crossed back over to the States.

Our Jalisco connection is the maternal side of the family tree with the Alviso's and Jaurequi's. The Alviso's crossed over the border and worked picking cotton in New Mexico and parts of Arizona and then fruit in California. They had a farm in Jalisco, but during the 1920's the area became unstable and their livestock and crops were often stolen and the girls were never safe, so they made the decision to come to the States. One of the oldest daughters had already married and come with her husband to Indiana, so the Alviso's also had family in Northwest Indiana. The connection is not in Mexico for the Bejar's and the Alviso's, but in steel mill country!

Give me some time and I will leaf through those records and scan them for you.

Esperanza, like you I find many of the families from Michoacan leaving there in the late 1700's and going to Jalisco. I don't know if it was the economy but I find my ancestors moving from Valle de Guadalupe, Chilchota Michoacan to the Lagos area, then on to Atoyac, Zapotlan El Grande and then on to Tamazula within a 10 year period. I also found many other families including, Alvarez Del Castillo, Gutierrez, Mendez, Valencia, Morfin, Fuentes, Orosco, Amescua, Arias, Baldovino,Magana and Garcia and a host of others from Michocan I can trace who are living in the same parts of Jalisco.

Linda in B.C.

Latina1955@aol.com wrote:
Wow....

I did not mean for you to get up early...and to cause you so much
hardship...but if you can...and at your convenience....absolutely..send what you can....

Are your Rocha family relativelt recent ancestors from Jalisco? I am
seriously thinking that Michoacan was a "camino" for those who might have ended up
in Jalisco....it makes sense...particularly because the terrain is so
similar...and the proximity....

Esperanza

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