Nuestros Ranchos Site

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, Alberto Duarte  wrote:
>
> The information on Walt Disney I got from a magazine
> that I once subscribed to called "Hispanic".  But I
> never did check out their source.  
> 
> Also, the baseball player's name was Ted Williams.
> 
> Alberto

Alberto,
 
See http://www.hispanicmagazine.com/2000/mar/Letters/ and http://
hugetinymistake.blogspot.com/ for comments on Ted Williams' parents.

See http://www.snopes.com/disney/waltdisn/illegit.htm and http://www.neta.com/
~1stbooks/disney.htm and http://www.guardian.co.uk/friday_review/story/
0,3605,608815,00.html for Walt Disney's parents. I am not sure the evidence is solid for 
Disney for him being Hispanic; he does have a good history for bigotry and alcoholism 
however.

Ed

Hola Ranchos members:

Check out this link:  http://www.adabi.org.mx/adabi.htm

This is a group in Mexico City that was formed to preserve the
Historical Archives and Libraries of Mexico.  Organizations are sent an
invitation to petition for project funding.  They are required to
complete the project or return the funds to Adabi.  The projects range
from $5,000 pesos to 12,500 pesos (that's
roughtly $500-$1,200 US) per
project.  One project in Durango was to scan, catalog and create a
database.  ADABI donated the scanner, the computer and a desk.  The
recipient committed to completing the project within 10 months.  They
show other projects where old maps have been restored, etc.

Maria

The information on Walt Disney I got from a magazine
that I once subscribed to called "Hispanic".  But I
never did check out their source.  

Also, the baseball player's name was Ted Williams.

Alberto

--- Emilie Garcia  wrote:

> Alberto,
> 
> I have heard of the Hispanic or Latino heritage of
> Rita Hayworth (Rita Cansino), Anthony Quinn (my
> father-in-law knew him in El Paso-Juarez in the
> 1920's as well as Gilbert Roland), but Walt Disney? 
> I heard from someone in my Reveles line whose father
> worked at MGM in the 1920s-1940s and knew all these
> people, that Walt Disney was a Spaniard of Sephardic
> Jewish heritage, but that guy turned out not to be
> reliable.  He claims to be a Sephardic Jew.  I found
> out later that the Reveles' in Los Angeles are all
> buried in the Catholic cemetery, including this
> guy's father.   Where did you hear about Walt
> Disney?  I have never heard of a reliable source for
> that information.
> 
> Emilie Garcia
> Port

here is where you can find the current online Family History Library
records: http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/

and here is an article about it:

http://genealogy.about.com/b/a/201217.htm

joseph

 

href="http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2005/12/12/editorial2.html?t=printable">http://seattle.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2005/12/12/editorial2.html?t=printable

 

Here is a link to a story by a reporter who paid a visit to Cuautla.

 

Emilie Garcia

Port Orchard, WA ----

Leticia,

 

Up here in Washington State, in the Northwest US, there are about 320 Mexican restaurants that are owned and staffed by people from a little place in Mexico called Cuautla, Jalisco.  Are you familiar with Cuautla?  On the map, it looks like it is way out in the middle of nowhere southeast of Guadalajara. It looks like most of the people in that town came up here.

 

Emilie Garcia

Port Orchard, WA ---

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leticia leon wrote:

One historical era of my ancestors rancho started around the 1980's.
My ancestors land became the land of the absent (well regarding this
story matter), young people emigrated to US east side the most, and I
don't know yet how they started, but they opened taco shops -one brand
name is "taqueria Jalisco"-, one of the two pioneers died soon from
cancer illness, the other nowdays sells concessions of his brand name,
the widow of the death one converted the ranch of my
great-greatgrandpha into a spanish hollywood mansion style vacation
retreat but kept the old adobe house. Well, one day, out of my
delirious mind trying to drive a time travel machine, had the idea of
enter a web site: jesusmariajal.com, cause even when many times I just
visited

Regarding Tomas Alva Edison...
A couple of years ago, I had a number of people from
Zacatecas tell me that Tomas Edison was originally
from Zacatecas.  Hard to believe it, but possible. 
And why not, Walt Disney was of latino parents. So was
Rita Hayward, Anthony Quinn, George Bush Jr., Governor
Richardson from New Mexico, the last major league
baseball player to hit over .400 (William's I
believe), Linda Ronstadt, and many others that I
cannot remember.  And I sure there will many more
within our life time.

Hey, don't forget we come from great stock.

Alberto Duarte Prieto
Santa Maria, California

--- aajay1073  wrote:

> Here is a partial family tree for Thomas Alva
> Edison:
> http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/thomas-edison/
> 
> Here is a bio page:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Alva_Edison
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Angie
> 
> --- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "John Gonzalez"
> 1gnzlz@v...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Joseph:
> > 
> > I ran into a bit of information

Hola Ranchos members:

Check out this link:  http://www.adabi.org.mx/adabi.htm

This is a group in Mexico City that was formed to preserve the 
Historical Archives and Libraries of Mexico.  Organizations are sent an 
invitation to petition for project funding.  They are required to 
complete the project or return the funds to Adabi.  The projects range 
from $5,000 pesos to 12,500 pesos (that's roughtly $500-$1,200 US) per 
project.  One project in Durango was to scan, catalog and create a 
database.  ADABI donated the scanner, the computer and a desk.  The 
recipient committed to completing the project within 10 months.  They 
show other projects where old maps have been restored, etc.

Maria

Jose Alfredo,
According to the Plan General de la Obra in Tomo I, Torres, de la Torre-
Ledesma, and Romo de Vivar will be covered  in Tomo IV.  That book has 
not been published. 
Maria 

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, jjetmech01@a... wrote:
>
> Maria 
> I am interesteed in two families the first is Romo de Vivar and the 
other is 
> the De La Torre families.
> I am also interested in getting information on how I could acquire 
the books 
> of the Retonios de Espania en la Nueva Galicia
> Thanks 
> Jose Alfredo De La Torre Romo
>

You're welcome. And for those of you out there who have ancestry from
Los Altos, you can also claim a parentesco with Sor Juana Ines de la
Cruz. Her great-grandfather, Diego Ramirez de Santillana-Arellano, is
also the ancestor of many, many alteños. Another son of his named
Gonzalo settled in Jalostotitlan and got intertwined with the Mendoza
lineage establishing the Ramirez de Mendoza lineage.

Please open the attached file. You may want to first print it if you
actually plan on being able to read it.

I also have the alteño lineage of Tomas de Alva (aka Alva Edison) from
either Lagos de Moreno or Encarnacion de Diaz, Jalisco. According to
the legend, his parents travelled up to the United States and was
adopted by the Edison family. There might be something to the legend,
because in Lagos and Encarnacion there a lot of members of the family
de ALBA\ALVA. If you check out the 1850, 1860, and 1870 United States
Censuses on Ancestry.com, you will see that he as not

Steven Hernanadez:
Thank you for the information on Sor Juana - she was who first came to 
mind when I read Joseph's question. 

Everyone:
Now - for those familiar with timeline history for Aguas., Jalisco, and 
Zacatecas: What was going on in those localities during Sor Juana's 
lifetime (1648-169* - can't remember the exact year)?

Everyone: Happy New Year, and may you have many research sucesses in 
2006.

Natalie Castro Coleman in VA,
researching CASTRO, GARCIA, DUEÑAS from Hacienda Astillero and (Rancho?)
San Miguel(Valparaiso District), and Sombrerete, Zacatecas.

Here is a partial family tree for Thomas Alva Edison:
http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/thomas-edison/

Here is a bio page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Alva_Edison

Hope this helps,
Angie

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "John Gonzalez" 1gnzlz@v...> wrote:
>
> Hi Joseph:
> 
> I ran into a bit of information that I find hard to believe.
> I have a book titled: Teocaltiche Tierra de Arrieros y Hacendados 
con 
> Familias Ilustres.  The author is Nicolas de Anda Sanches.
> 
> On page 47. I quote:  " Tambien de este linaje desciende Dn. Juan 
de 
> Alva que era arriero o carretero en el siglo pasado y que segun Dn. 
> Victoriano Salado Alvarez, iba hasta los estados de Nuevo Mexico y 
> Texas, a él se le atribuye ser el padre del "scientifico 
patentador" de 
> miles de inventos, Dn. Tomas Alva Edison, nos lo comenta en el 
capitulo 
> II de sus Memorias, correspondiendole a Encarnación de Diaz, ser la 
> abuela de dicho personaje." 
> 
> I always thought that Thomas Edison's

my shallowness provoked me to ask the question. I was hoping for an
example or two and you all provided them. thanks.

joseph