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Dear Friends and Primos:

Happy New Year. The beginning of the year is always a reminder that we can start fresh, with resolutions to make changes, improving our lives and surroundings. With that same intent, you will see changes in both the format and articles included in Somos Primos. To facilitate reading, I've included more 2 and 3 column layouts and have limited the length of the issue.

Most of us have a general understanding of US history; but, I've added a new category, Historic Tidbits. This section will include little known historic facts. These tidbits will serve as reminders, and will be easy to share with others. The Tidbits can fortify and reinforce your individual efforts to clarify our historic presence in the development
of the United States. We are too many to be invisible . . .
understanding our presence is needed.

A recent comment on the televised history program, stated Collective Learning is what makes humans different from other animals. Something to think about. The ability to share what we have learned scientifically has produced changes so quickly that for many of us, it is difficult to keep up. Through the power of the Internet, sharing is at a state, never before imaged. In the late 40s, I remember party-line telephones, now each individual can connect virtually with the world on a little hand-held phone; but, what are we sharing?

I am really grateful for Cuentos being shared by readers. I read about courage, compassion and strength of character that drives individuals. I read about the love that we have for one another, the admiration, and the pride in the accomplishments of family members, or even someone with the same surname.. It is the accumulation of all our personal stories which explain who we are.

Please share your stories. They don't have to be long, but rather focused on a special, treasured memory, funny, sad, crazy, happenstance, tradition. There is a reason that you remember it.

For February, Valentine Month, it would be wonderful to share stories about your Abuelitos y Abuelitas, Tios y Tias, or your sweetheart, your children's successes. Maybe there is someone in your life, not necessarily a family member, but someone who made a difference in your life. . . honor their memory. Share it, as if you were telling a story. Your memory of them matters.

Larry Garza adds a spiritual vision, with a dimension is difficult to
grasp: "I believe the Internet is one of the greatest Breakthroughs in the history of the human race. It will be an eternal record until there is an apocalypse of the human race. Once it's on the Internet it becomes an eternal record."

God bless, Mimi

TABLE OF CONTENTS, January 2014

UNITED STATES
The Stories That Bind Us By Bruce Feiler, New York Times
Cuento: A letter from your future mother-in-law
Cuento: Happy Birthday Dr. Hector by Daisy Wanda Garcia
Cuento: Years of Advances, Some Miles Yet to Go by Daisy Wanda Garcia Latinos ready to become the next "greatest generation" by Larry Bystran Needed, a Hispanic Leader? by Carlos E. Cortés Radiobilingue.org celebrating 28 years The Power of Compassion by Shelley Hoss Love + Gratitude = Thanksgiving, by Juana Bordas The Border: A New Cultural Concept, Feb 20-22, 2014 NCLR, National Conference and Family Expo, July 19-22, 2014

HISTORIC TIDBITS
Hispanic discoveries and explorations in North America Los Principes celebran en Miami los 500 años de Ponce de Léon Rare Film From 1932 Voces Oral History Project Our Real Roots

HISPANIC LEADERS
Rudy Hernandez, Medal of Honor Recipient April 14, 1931 to December 21, 2013, Dies at 82 Dr. Jose R. Hinojosa, Emeritus Professor, August 7,1937-December 1937-Dec 3, 2013 Dies at 76= George Rodrigue, Cajun Artist, March 13, 1944 - December 21, 2013 Dies at 69 Sam Coronado, Artist, Cultural leader, 1946-November 13, 2013 Dies at
67

LATINO PATRIOTS
Bob Hope an Ansolute Must See
Navy Planning, Reminiscences of a Naval Aviator Recently on Texas Originals: Cleto Rodríguez Latina Style Magazine Military Rank

EARLY LATINO PATRIOTS
Bernardo de Gálvez llama a las puertas del Capitolio

SURNAMES
De Apellido Pinzon por Angel Custodio Rebollo Capitan Manuel Nobles Canelas por Angel Custodio Rebollo

DNA
Americas' Natives Have European Roots by Ed Yong Study links gene variation to a darker view of life by Meeri Kim Our 2013 Expanded mtDNA Groups by Crispin Rendon

FAMILY HISTORY
Cuento: The Early Years by Daisy Wanda Garcia
Cuento: Serendipity from Abuelita by Marge Vallazza Alician Reunites with Sibling after 78 Years Apart, By Julie Neal How to Type Spanish Letters and Accents (á, é, í, ó, ú, ü, ñ, ¿, ¡)

EDUCATION
Stolen Education Documentary by Enrique Aleman Carlos Guerra Scholarship Awarded to 8 Students Bilingual Education Produces a More Diverse Mind and Society Roane County High School , Kingston , Tennessee

CULTURE
The “Toros de Fuego” and “Torito Pinto” by Eve A. Ma, Ph.D.

BOOKS AND PRINT MEDIA
Mexican Americans in Texas History, editors: Emilio Zamora, Cynthia Orozco, Rodolfo Rocha A Multimedia Encyclopedia: Multicultural America, edited Carlos E.
Cortes
Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education Dr. Omar Valerio-Jiménez Wins $1,000 Book Award The Alamo, an Illustrated History by George Nelson Charro Days in Brownsville By Anthony Knopp, Manuel Medrano, Priscilla Rodriguez, Brownsville Historical Association Compassion of the Feathered Serpent: A Chicano Worldview By Ysidro Ramón Macías Mexican American Colonization during the Nineteenth Century:
A History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands by José Angel Hernández

ORANGE COUNTY, CA
Honoring Charles Sadler, SHHAR Leader
January 11: Don Garcia, Updates on New FamilySearch.org Brushing Up On His Past by Fermin Leal

LOS ANGELES, CA
Cuento: The Delivery Room by Mimi Lozano
Cuento: Reaching for the Best Fruits, by Mimi Lozano
Mini-Bio: We Lost One of Our Own, David Jacobson by Sylvia Contreras Is nothing sacred? By Eddie Morin Research in the LAPD Historical Collection at the LA. City Archives

CALIFORNIA
California 150th Anniversary
Mini-Bio: Two Early Families in Agua Mansa, by R. Bruce Harley Manuelita Renaga Martinez Matilde Trujillo Sepulveda
Mini-Bio: Sister Ernestine Muñana, Sisters of St. Joseph The Tropics of Pocho-Ché by Juan Felipe Herrera January 20th: Montoya Family Presents a Memorial Celebration

NORTHWEST US
Cuento: ‘Main thing hurt, was my heart’ by Marta Salinas

SOUTHWEST US
Map of México in 1836
Difference between the old Spanish Trail with Camino Real Romance of the Ranchos
Cuento: Extract of segment from Count on Me, Tales of Sisterhoods and Fierce Friendships, edited by Adriana V. Lopez, Road Sisters, by Stephanie Elizondo Griest, pg. 45-47
Cuento: El Tranvia, Stories from the Barrio and Other Hoods by Margarita B. Velez pg. 39-40
Cuento:: Woolworth's End, El Paso from Barrio and Other Hoods by Margarita B. Velez, pgs.70-71 Historical Novel: My Days as a Colonist/Soldier with Don Juan de Onate
- Part 3 by Louis F. Serna

Texas in 1776: Tejanos where we came from by Ben Figueroa, Kingsville Record

TEXAS
Cuento: Amarillo Had a Snowstorm by Viola Rodriguez Sadler
Cuento: Daughter of Immigrant Parents by Bonilla Read
Cuento: Grandma V and her Tamales by Sylvia Villarreal Bisnar
Cuento: Beneath the Shadow of the Capitol by Ramon Moncivais
Cuento: 1954 Laredo Flood by Ermestp Uribe and Gilberto Quezada Old documents . . . . History of Laredo Texas Tidbits City of Edinburg to Donate 93 Acres to New UT University
2014 Battle of San Jacinto Symposium
The Tejano Side of the Texas Revolution
Austin History Center, Discover Your Story Mexican American/Latin@ Manuscript Collections

MIDDLE AMERICA
Apellidos en la provimncia: Camarias
Claro Solis, Little Hands, extract from Hero Street, USA by Marc Wilson From Plasencia to Plaissance, Los Isleños March 8- 9, 2014: Los Isleños Heritage & Cultural Society Museum & Village Festival Canary Islanders Heritage Society of Louisiana

EAST COAST
Photo: 1929 Grand Central Station, New York
Cuento: Esperanza—Hope, Gratitude, and Celebration by Juana Bordas NYPD retired cops speaking up for Joe Sanchez

INDIGENOUS
Secret Bids Guide Hopi Indians’ Spirits Home
Cuento: Indian Mesa or the Adventure that Almost Killed Me by Tony Santiago

ARCHAEOLOGY
Neanderthal Woman's Genome Reveals Unknown Human Lineage

SEPHARDIC
Sephardic Horizons is now on Facebook
History of the Sephardim . . . . Historia de los Sefarditas

MEXICO
Some Pictures of Guerrero Viejo, comments by Ernesto Uribe and Jose M.
Pena
Exploring Colonial Mexico
Families of Santiago, Nuevo Leon, Mexico Volume Five

Los seguientes por Ricardo Raúl Palmerín Cordero:
Cabalgata Del Centenario de la Creación del Ejército Mexicano Museo de la Batalla de la Angostura Estimados hermanos del Héroico Colegio Militar, Antigüedad 1964-1967 El Notable Poeta Mexicano Don Juan de Dios Peza Bautismo de Carlos,Ysidoro, Martin, José, María, Ramón, Rafael, Joaquin, de la Santisima Trinidad Carrera y Lardizaval.
Voton de Fierro, Bautismo del General de Comanches Bautismo Jacobo, Pablo, Luis Gonzaga del Dulce Nombre de Jesus

CENTRAL/SOUTH AMERICA
Cuento: August Uribe Climbed Stratovolcano Cotopaxi, Ecuador
Ernesto Apomayta Chambi, Peruvian artist
Cuento: A Christmas Away from Home, Lima, Peru by Cathleen Vargas
Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, Argentina

PHILIPPINES
The Adoption of Names By Eddie AAA Calderón, Ph.D.
The 2013 Miss Universe and Miss Grand International Beauty Contests
by Eddie AAA Calderón, Ph.D.

SPAIN
Un monumemto en busqueda de un heroe
Andrés de Urdaneta y el Tornaviaje. Por José Antonio Crespo-Francés
España, entre el cielo y la tierra

INTERNATIONAL
Cantino planisphere
Germany's biggest synagogue, on Rykestrasse in Berlin, reopened
Jewish Art Work Stolen by Nazis, Now in Holland
Egypt's Latest Fatwas from Salafis and Brotherhood by Raymond Ibrahim
Canadian Muslims Protest "Honor Killing" Label As Racist by Abigail R.
Esman
Christian Man Prays for Muslims Stoning Him by Joseph Parker