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digital photoghaphy

Hi prima how are you?



yes you can get great quality with a digital. i use a 3 (but these days
a 4 or even 5 might be better for the same price around $300) megapixel
camera with a very small portable tripod. I set it with no flash and
the setting of the camera set for close up (called a macro setting--get
a camera with a good close macro setting in the order of just a couple
of inches). I even have a set up where in the reader I bought a no
glare piece of art board cut to the size of the reading area and I put
a regular binder under it so the triangle shape of the binder elevates
the art board toward me and the angle is not so sharp on taking the
picture.



I have some pictures of this tilt set up. . .the files are large and if
you are interested email me and I'll email them to you.



remind me in a few days and I'll optimize the pictures and put them in
an email to you.



remind me okay?



joseph





Susana Leniski wrote:

Joseph:
 
You mentioned in one of your

digital photoghaphy

Joseph:

 

You mentioned in one of your previous e-mail that
you could take pictures with a digital camera of records. A year
ago, during a trip to the library in SLC a French group were taking
pictures in  the same way. They had a big digital camera, and a
tripod.  I was very interesting about your remark because of course the
potential savings, but more important, many times the images are better in
the reader that in the photocopy machine (I guess is the lighting). I don't know
anything about digital photography. What is the quality of the images?, What
type of camera you should have?  What features your camera should have? Any
tips? Do you need the tripod?.

 

Thanks

 

tu prima Susana

 

Dialog of the Dead --> with the Living

Emilie,
sorry for the mix-up, they came over legally
in 1916.  It's just that had they came over in this age of racism, they'd
be look down upon-and every brown face I see now I see someones grandparents,
parents, brother or sister.
 
Also, please read Mr. Reveles' books. 
They aren't novels but vignettes, short stories that are very
entertaining.
 
thanks for your input!!!
 
Peggy Delgado
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From: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
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Garcia
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 3:58 PM
To:
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Subject: Re: [ranchos] Re: Dialog of the
Dead --> with the Living

Peggy,
 
I am glad to see good reviews of Daniel's books.  I've known about
them since his nephew told me about them, but I usually don't read novels, so
I haven't bought any of them.  I think I will now. 
 
Daniel's father Nicolas was from Jerez, Zacatecas where my father was
born also.  They came over legally

Historical facts from records

Hello Erlinda,  uses in human behavior derive from need;. families would be clans in the early days of settlements. Padrinos had to be members of the clan, temples woud be maybe days on foot or horse riding, so preventing the death or a new born every catolic cristian have the virtue to act as a baptism provider, afterwards the priest would aknowledge and confirm that baptism. and  yes there were slaves, clans with slaves. My ancestors were clans,  and intermarried relatives  on and on, so nowadays many carry on the same surnames. Just a reality based thought.  Leticia Leon
 
Erlinda Castanon-Long escribió:

I'm working on baptism and marriage records for my Gutierrez and
Alvares del Castillo families who lived in
Tamazula Jalisco from
1760's to my grandmothers departer to the states in 1923.  I found
them in Chilchota Michoacan  before that going back to about 1620 or
so including the maternal lines Morfin, Valencia and Lievana. In
this town I've found 3

Historical facts from records

I'm working on baptism and marriage records for my Gutierrez and 
Alvares del Castillo families who lived in Tamazula Jalisco from 
1760's to my grandmothers departer to the states in 1923.  I found 
them in Chilchota Michoacan  before that going back to about 1620 or 
so including the maternal lines Morfin, Valencia and Lievana. In 
this town I've found 3 different lines of Gutierrez.  Gutierrez de 
Raya, Gutierrez de Robles and just plain Gutierrez, my line with 
intermarriages with the other two Gutierrez families.  My line of 
Gutierrez are Mestiso with the other two being Espanol.

I'm finding in the records facts that I hadn't seen before and was 
wondering if others have encountered them in other states too.  I'm 
find exclavos Espanoles, that was something I had not encountered 
before.  How would a Spaniard end up a slave?  Another finding is 
how many babies were baptised at home by a regular person when they 
were afraid the baby was going to die or in danger and then later

Dialog of the Dead --> with the Living

Peggy,
 
I am glad to see good reviews of Daniel's books.  I've known about
them since his nephew told me about them, but I usually don't read novels, so I
haven't bought any of them.  I think I will now. 
 
Daniel's father Nicolas was from Jerez, Zacatecas where my father was born
also.  They came over legally around the time that the US threw open its
doors to refugees from the Mexican revolution (1915).  I have done some
work on those lines, since I encountered one of Daniel's brothers on the
Jerezano.com website several years ago and we compared notes.  We may be
related collaterally; the places and names seem to match.  Nicolas Reveles
was a painter (pintor) in Jerez, and he later, along with his son Antonio,
designed sets at MGM in the 1920s, 30s and 40s.  
 
It is sad that those open doors slammed shut, and I was surprised to hear
that your grandparents had to cross over illegally.  My father crossed
over at the El Paso, TX border crossing where Daniel's father

Dialog of the Dead --> with the Living

Hi, Victor,
 
Thanks for sending that article about Fugitive Slaves in Mexico.  I
for one was not aware that many slaves prior to the end of the Civil War sought
refuge in Mexico, and that Mexico for the most part refused to extradite
them.  Since my father, who was from Jerez, was so bigoted against blacks
and asians, I am surprised that American black slaves were protected by Mexico.
That sympathy may have come from their stuggles with Spain over the abuses
suffered by the landless Indians and Mestizos, and they viewed Anglos with the
disdain they viewed the Spaniards.  Maybe it was also just to get back at
Americans for the previous invasion of Mexico.
 
Speaking of my father, my recent diggings further back into his lines who
lived around Tepetongo, Zacatecas and its environs such as Marecito,
Salitrillo, Salitral, Estancia, turned up records that show that two of his
lines (Suriano and Quijas) on his paternal side were mulatos or mulatos
libres.  Wouldn't he have

Immigration standards

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Through my husband, I have a 60 year-old aunt, who has been trying to get a
visa just to visit her daughter.  The daughter had to prove her financial
status as part of the visa process - and still she was denied entrance -
twice!  I guess they think that she will be coming over to work or collect
freebees of some sort....

 

Esperanza

Immigration standards

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, Jessica Castaneda  wrote:
>
> I work with migrant workers in my job. I am appalled sometimes at the
> amount of difficulties and prejudices they face. It is virtually
> impossible for those that are illegal to become "legal".

Jessica,

I agree that there are major problems with immigration laws and
standards in the USA, and that these issues need to be addressed. I do
not wish to minimize that at all but simply to observe it is difficult
to get into many, if not most, industrialized countries of the world.
If you are an American, you will find it difficult to get into
Australia, New Zealand (nearly impossible), and some countries in
Europe on a permanent basis. My English, Asian, Indonesian, Turkish,
and Australian friends tell me horror stories about trying to obtain
appropriate papers to "work" here in USA on more than a temporary
basis. Everybody wants to work in a country where if you work hard
enough you will be rewarded.

The kind