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Dear Friends, Family, and Somos Primos readers:

Somos Primos, beginning its 16 years of monthly online issues is welcoming, along with you, 2015.

December 9, 2014 ended with a huge win: Spanish General Bernardo de Galvez, received Honorary United States citizenship from Congress in recognition of the importance that Spain's contribution was in achieving independence from the British. In addition,a Bernardo de Galvez'
portrait was hung prominently, fulfilling a promise made 231 years ago by the US Congress. It is located in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee room, right next to President Eisenhower's portrait.

There are diverse and varied heritage activities across the country revealing an awakening to the positive historic Hispanic/Latino presence in the United States.

These heritage projects are taking many forms, organized by individuals, groups, schools, churches, museums, special events, displays, non-profits/for profit, and even government agencies promoting the story of the Spanish presence and heritage. This is a history which has been sadly excluded, misinterpreted, or demeaned . . . the stories of our ancestors.

If we each challenged ourselves to share our family history, in some public venue, what a shift of consciousness could be achieved.
Possibilities are endless, in your schools, libraries, oral history
projects, local newspapers, blogs. We can individually and within our
sphere of influence, contribute. Facts are strong witnesses to the truth.

If you hesitate to speak out publicly, share your stories in Somos Primos. Others have shared their stories and you have read them in the pages of Somos Primos.
We have all benefited. Your experiences matter. Your thoughts and
lives mattered. They shaped you and you shaped others.

God bless America and God bless Israel.
Happy New Year.

Mimi
www.SomosPrimos.com

Click here: Somos Primos
http://www.somosprimos.com/sp2015/spjan15/spjan15.htm

Dear Friends, Family, and Somos Primos readers:

Somos Primos, beginning its 16 years of monthly online issues is welcoming, along with you, 2015.

December 9, 2014 ended with a huge win: Spanish General Bernardo de Galvez, received Honorary United States citizenship from Congress in recognition of the importance that Spain's contribution was in achieving independence from the British. In addition,a Bernardo de Galvez'
portrait was hung prominently, fulfilling a promise made 231 years ago by the US Congress. It is located in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee room, right next to President Eisenhower's portrait.

There are diverse and varied heritage activities across the country revealing an awakening to the positive historic Hispanic/Latino presence in the United States.

These heritage projects are taking many forms, organized by individuals, groups, schools, churches, museums, special events, displays, non-profits/for profit, and even government agencies promoting the story of the Spanish presence and heritage. This is a history which has been sadly excluded, misinterpreted, or demeaned . . . the stories of our ancestors.

If we each challenged ourselves to share our family history, in some public venue, what a shift of consciousness could be achieved.
Possibilities are endless, in your schools, libraries, oral history
projects, local newspapers, blogs. We can individually and within our
sphere of influence, contribute. Facts are strong witnesses to the truth.

If you hesitate to speak out publicly, share your stories in Somos Primos. Others have shared their stories and you have read them in the pages of Somos Primos.
We have all benefited. Your experiences matter. Your thoughts and
lives mattered. They shaped you and you shaped others.

God bless America and God bless Israel.
Happy New Year.

Mimi
www.SomosPrimos.com

TABLE OF CONTENTS
UNITED STATES
Sometimes Congress takes a while to keep its promises Across the nation, historians were watching Historical figure Gálvez gets his due — finally by Jose Antonio Lopez Dr. Carolina Crimm, shares the December 9th unveiling of the Galvez portrait A thank you from Teresa Valcarce Graciani all the help in getting the Bernardo Galvez Portrait Hung La Libertad de Los Valientes. Historia de Bernardo de Galvez is on Facebook December 16, 2014, Honorary citizenship conferred on Bernardo de GalvezLatinos in Heritage Conservation: Launching a National Network Reagan-Bush Family Fairness: A Chronological History University of Southern California Alum, Frederick Aguirre, goes on the record for Latino patriots
2015 will Bring the Most Latino Congress in U.S. History How DACA Has Improved the Lives of Undocumented Young People El Lejano oeste espanol olvidado: De Pedro Rivera a Jose Antonio de Rubi
por José Antonio Crespo-Francés
Book: The Spanish Army in North America 1700-1793 (Men-at-Arms) by Rene Chartrand

HERITAGE PROJECT
Art, History & Culture:
Walking the streets of Spain while sketching and listening for voices from the past by Eddie Martinez HISTORIC TIDBITS Hector Perez Garcia, M.D., Historical Marker has been installed at its original site
Youtube: Looking back: In the Land that Made Me . . Me Christmas in Goliad, Tejano Author's photo: December 6, 2014 Latino History: An Interchange on Present Realities and Future Prospects Creating the Past and Its Futures: Historians at Work, Call for Papers Deadline January 15, 2015 Kate Smith and the Story Few Know Today learn more about our Presidents HISPANIC LEADERS Herman Badillo, U.S. Congressman August 21, 1929 - December 3, 2014 Juan Flores, Professor/Author September 29, 1943 – December 2, 2014

AMERICAN PATRIOTS
Great News for Roll Call by Alfredo Lugo Ohio Boy's $20 Gift to Soldier Multiplies Hispanic Generals and Admirals. Barbara A Mitchell USS Kidd marks Veterans Day with first military director by Mark H.
Hunter
New Members to VA Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans includes Latinos Fall 2014 Activities of the 65th Infantry Regiment “Borinqueneers”
On Veterans Day: In Memory of all who fell, Honoring all who Served -
Reflections of an Octogenarian by Felipe de Ortego y Gasca

EARLY LATINO PATRIOTS
Rosters of Tejano Patriots of the American Revolution 1776-1783 Bernardo de Gálvez y la Independencia de los Estados Unidos Por Antonio Sánchez de Mora Fixed Regiment of Spanish Louisiana Love And War The Romance of Bernardo and Marie Felicite By Joe Perez

SURNAMES
The Royal House of Plantagenet and their Descendants of New Spain By John D. Inclan Inside of every human being are our ancestors, Heraldry of the WorldDNA The Basque

FAMILY HISTORY
US Census 1850-1890 and Military Records Chart of Cousins ~ How They Are Related Gleaning information from photos and family members FamilySearch Adds More Than 125.4 Million Indexed Records/Images to the United States How to GET Goals, not SET Goals in 2015 by Juana Bordas The Black Telephone

EDUCATION
True Story of the Kids Who Beat MITs Best Robots
2015 Women of Color in Political Science Workshop Meet Ellen Ochoa,Ph.D., 1st Hispanic Woman in Space Echoes of Incarceration, a documentary project produced by youth with incarcerated parents U.S. encourages students to study in Mexico by Lorena Figueroa Lessons from Arizona: Mas sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo

CULTURE
Tobin Center Lags In Latino Inclusion, Antonia Castañeda, Arturo Madrid
and Tomás Ybarra-Frausto
I need to hear music IN SPANISH in my life by Margarito J. Garcia III, Ph.D.
What do Ireland and Mexico have in common? Let me count the ways by Gil Sperry

BOOKS AND PRINT MEDIA
Genie's Gifts: "My 15 Grandmothers" by Genie Milgrom Publishers & Authors may now enter the 2015 International Latino Book Awards Spare Parts by Joshua Davis Gabriel García Márquez life work acquired by The Harry Ransom Center Writing through Revelations, Visions and Dreams by Stella Pope Durarte Special Books: Books that Change American History Three Decades of Engendering History: Selected Works of Antonia I.
Castañeda
Timer Warner Signs on as Primary Supporter for NALIP Latino Film Incubation Program

ORANGE COUNTY, CA
January 10th, 2015, SHHAR Monthly meeting: Author, Alex Moreno Areyan SHHAR Report on its 2014 Season Thank you from John Inclan

LOS ANGELES COUNTY
Introduction to The House of Aragon by Michael Brakefort-Grant Ancient Colombia: A Journey through the Cauca Valley
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, January 31, 2015–December 31,
2015
Resurrected Histories: Voices from the Chicano Arts Collectives of Highland Park
January 14 through February 5, 2012

CALIFORNIA
California Robles Family Researcher
View from the Pier by Herman Sillas
San Ysidro: Voices and Visionaries: Rosalinda mendez Gonzalez, Ph.D.
California Association of Bilingual Education, 2015{ 40th Annual Conference and Exhibit ShowNORTHWESTERN, US The New Magdaleno.org is Here!

SOUTHWESTERN, US
They walk into a hole, what they see is mind-blowing by Todd Briscoe Introduction to: Purgatory in Palomas...Marjorie Lilly in Desert Exposure CARE (Caregiver Advise, Record, Enable) Act by Miriam Davidson.
The Kings and Queens of the Duke City Taco Truck Boom Maria Conchita Marquez de Lucero and husband John Lucero Honored Mexican American Studies On Trial Raza de Oro-Vaquero My people are taught by Misael Chico Ramirez?

TEXAS
Alamo Cenotaph: Site of Historic Interest For Texan of the Year, I nominate Ruben Garcia by Robert Moore Spanish Land Grants Not Honored by the United States Rosters of Tejano Patriots of the American Revolution, 1776-1783 by Jesse O. Villarreal Sr.
San Antonio Historical Association to celebrate its seventy-fifth year in January 2015 Going Home by Daisy Wanda Garcia Latin Legacy, Eva Longoria, March 15, 1975 by Christopher Perez The String of Pearls of the Lower Rio Grande by José Antonio López December 5, 1791 -- Karankawa Crossing to Matagorda Island Found November 24th, 1835 -- Republic of Texas authorizes Texas Rangers Navarro Casa Cenotaph - State honor and ongoing major project.

MIDDLE AMERICA
Notas Latinas, a weekly radio program broadcast Migrant farmworkers remain crucial to harvest

EAST COAST
Manhattan's Unknown History: El Barrio Español de Nueva York Plaque of 126 Spanish Citizens martyred as American Revolutionary War patriots Capitulos de la Relacion Suscinta del Descubrimiento de la Floria por los Españoles

AFRICAN-AMERICAN
December 11th, 1886, Black Farmers National Alliance and Cooperative Union Formed Bernardo de Galvez Honorary Citizenship by Michael N. Henderson PEN Oakland Acceptance Speech and Report Nina Serrano

INDIGENOUS
In the Land of the Headhunters: British Columbia's first feature film celebrates 100 years Fiesta in San Miguel de Allende - Dancers, photos by David Bacon Navajo Nation buys ceremonial masks at Paris auction, rescues masks

SEPHARDIC
The de Riberas of Spain, Chapter 2 by Michael S. Perez America’s Hispanic Evangelical Christians Growing and Support the Jewish State Sephardic vogue, Argentine immigrants fueling Jewish revival in Spain Stories By Andy Porras: Gilberto Bosquez Saldivar Aristides de Sousa Mendes The Conquistadores and Crypto-Jews of Monterrey by David T Raphael A Guide to the World's Most Jewish City Outside of Israel: New York

ARCHAEOLOGY
Port Royal, Kingston Harbor, Jamaica

MEXICO
La Capilla de Ojo Zarco
El Historiador Silvio Zavala (1909-2014)
12 de Diciembre, se celebra a Virgen de Guadalupe Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico descendent of King Ferdnand II by John Inclan La Biblioteca Daniel Cosio Villegas
Asunto: La Familia Carvajal y EL Relato visual de lo prodigioso guadalupano LIBRO DE DEFUNCIONES DE PARRAS, COAHUILA. AÑO DE 1846.
Libro de Defunciones de Parras, Coahuila. Año de 1846 Juan Fernandez Posible Descrubridor de Nuava Zelanda por José Antonio Crespo-Francés General Don Vicente Riva Palacio Hacienda de Pozo Hondo, Matrimonio de Casimiento de Indios, Teodoro Garcia y Agapita AlbarezCARIBBEAN Florida International University Libraries acquisition of Cuban genealogy collection Cuba and the US to restore diplomatic relationships, comments by Eddie Calderon, Ph.D.
CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA
First Unlooted Royal Tomb of Its Kind Unearthed in Peru

PHILIPPINES
International Beauties From The Philippines; Update by Eddie AAA Calderón, Ph.D.
Boxer Francisco Guilledo Induction in 1994 into the International Boxing Hall of Fame One Million Filipinos and the Booming Outsourcing Business
by Eddie AAA Calderón, Ph.D.

SPAIN
Juan Latino
Magellan Expedition's Voyage the World (1519-1522) Duchess of Alba, the world's most titled aristocrat, dies El Archivo Diocesano digitalizará libros y registros de parroquias de la Isla Tenerife Monumento a Blas de Lezo: Juan Carlos I presidirá el homenaje ciudadano Blas de Lezo y la Defensa Heroica de Cartagena de Indias El Ayuntamiento de Palos por Angel Custodio Rebollo Escubrimiento de America / Nuevo Estudios Timeline Spain thru 1899Fate of Ex-Muslim Critic of Islam Hangs in Balance

INTERNATIONAL
Introduction to Germans Rise Up Against Islamization by Soeren Kern
25 Maps to Help You Understand Your World The Barbados Cricket Buckle- follow-up news!