Aaaaw, what a disappointment for us, Joseph, but good for you. Arturo would be a great leader also if he was chosen. Marge.

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> On Apr 12, 2016, at 19:54, Sylvia Lottes wrote:
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> Joseph,
> Glad to hear you've recovered from the car accident. Sad to hear you're
> retiring from managing the website but I'm sure it will free up time for
> you to enjoy doing other things.
>
> Thanks for all you've done to get the website up and running. It's been an
> amazing source of information for me and I've directed many people to this
> website who've reached out to me because of potential DNA matches.
>
> Wishing you the very best in your new world of retirement!
> Sylvia Cruz Lottes
>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 3:00 PM, > wrote:
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>> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 11:34:21 -0400
>> From: "Joseph Puentes"
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>> Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] Marty Puentes/NGGS/Retirement
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>> Here is a message I sent along to be posted either entirely or partially on
>> the NGGS facebook page (you all might want to start talking about the last
>> two sentences):
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>> One day in 2002 while recovering from a terrible car crash that my wife and
>> I were in (we both fully recovered), I was fooling around on the internet,
>> bored, and just decided to google "Puentes". Well lo and behold there was a
>> hit on "someone" looking for information about my father, his brothers and
>> my grandfather Julio Puentes from San Jose, CA. That day changed my life. I
>> contacted the person who posted the question and it turned out to be my
>> cousin Marty Puentes. I just want to acknowledge publicly that Marty is the
>> main reason I started doing genealogy which led me to starting the
>> http://nuestrosranchos.org group in 2003 which gathered people together
>> researching Jalisco, Zacatecas, and Aguascalientes that eventually led to
>> the fabulous group: Nueva Galicia Genealogical Society
>> (http://www.nuevagalicia.org/). Thank you Marty, you have advanced our
>> family's history in your search for answers to our past.
>>
>>
>>
>> Marty Puentes is the grandson of my Uncle Martin (dob 1912) brother to my
>> father, Antonio Puentes (1914) two of 8 children of Julio Puentes (1886)
>> and
>> Virginia Diaz (1886). Virginia Diaz is in picture one and six of the slide
>> show (http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/history/article71081497.html). In
>> the
>> first picture she is sitting next to her mother Antonia Santa Maria (1862)
>> with my father Antonio on her lap and my uncle Martin to the far left along
>> with various other Tio's and Tia's. In the pistolero picture you see my
>> grandmother Virginia sitting with a sibling on her lap but the man holding
>> the pistola is my Great Grandfather Francisco Diaz (1862) with his mother,
>> my GG Grandmother, Andrea Torres (1833) to his left. Notice that Antonia
>> Santa Maria is also holding a pistola (on Francisco's right).
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>>
>>
>> Hello NGGS you all are doing great things in advancing your own
>> genealogical
>> family history and sparking wide spread interest in OUR rich history via
>> outlets like: Facebook, http://www.nuevagalicia.org/,
>> http://www.pbs.org/weta/finding-your-roots/,
>> http://www.guadalajaradispensas.com, and just via word of mouth from one
>> interested person to another interested person. Thank you for all your hard
>> work and all you have done. In the near future I'm going to be retiring
>> from
>> helm of the http://nuestrosranchos.org group. So don't be surprised if
>> soon
>> you are asked to do MORE if that group is to be continued. . .
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>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>>
>>
>> Joseph
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>> Joseph Puentes
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