thanks Janet. This is fun. we should try to make the list 20-30 items
long. I've added a few at the end.

joseph

Janet Valeria Iglesias wrote:

1. No man is truly well-educated unless he learns to spell his name
at least three different ways within the same document. I resolve to
give the appearance of being extremely well-educated in the coming
year.

2. I resolve to see to it that all of my children will have the same
names that my ancestors have used for six generations in a row.

3. My age is no one's business but my own. I hereby resolve to never
list the same age or birth year twice on any document.

4. I resolve to have each of my children baptized in a different
church -- either in a different faith or in a different parish.
Every third child will not be baptized at all or will be baptized by
an itinerant minister who keeps no records.

5. I resolve to move to a new town, new county, or new state at
least once every 10 years -- just before those pesky

If you see your email address in this list you need to immediately email
me at: makas@... If I don't receive communication from you I'll be
forced to unsubscribe you from the Ranchos group on Jan 31, 2006. I
understand there are good reasons why you haven't submitted your
genealogy yet and all I want to do is open a dialog so we can discuss
this subject.

Sincerely,

Joseph Puentes Owner/Moderator

=============================

Si miras su direccion del internet aqui manda me un email immediamente
a: makas@.... Si no oigo de usted voy cortar su subscripcion del
grupo Ranchos el dia 31 de Enero de 2006. Entiendo que hay razones
buenos porque no has mandado su arbol genealogico y nomas quiero entrar
en conversacion de esto.

Sinceramente,

Joseph Puentes Dueño/Mediador



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I thought this was hilarious. Just wanted to share!



1. No man is truly well-educated unless he learns to spell his name
at least three different ways within the same document. I resolve to
give the appearance of being extremely well-educated in the coming
year.

2. I resolve to see to it that all of my children will have the same

names that my ancestors have used for six generations in a row.

3. My age is no one's business but my own. I hereby resolve to never
list the same age or birth year twice on any document.

4. I resolve to have each of my children baptized in a different
church -- either in a different faith or in a different parish

I thought this was hilarious. Just wanted to share!



1. No man is truly well-educated unless he learns to spell his name 
at least three different ways within the same document. I resolve to 
give the appearance of being extremely well-educated in the coming 
year.

2. I resolve to see to it that all of my children will have the same 
names that my ancestors have used for six generations in a row.

3. My age is no one's business but my own. I hereby resolve to never 
list the same age or birth year twice on any document.

4. I resolve to have each of my children baptized in a different 
church -- either in a different faith or in a different parish. 
Every third child will not be baptized at all or will be baptized by 
an itinerant minister who keeps no records.

5. I resolve to move to a new town, new county, or new state at 
least once every 10 years -- just before those pesky enumerators 
come around asking silly questions.

6. I will make every attempt to reside in counties and

Hi Arturo,
Thank you for posting the photos of your trip to Mexico. How wonderful 
to share such a trip with so many family members. Thanks, too, for 
sharing the oral history.

Natalie in VA

Arturo, thank you for sharing your photo's and the family memories of 
the history of your family and the area they lived in.  I've only been 
to Mexico once in 2003 but the words and  photo's brought back 
beautiful and sometime sad memories.  The photo of your father at his 
ancestral home brought back the memory of me standing in front of my 
gr-grandparents, Vicente Castanon and Maria Gertrudis Caldera, adobe 
home in El Durazno, Jerez Zacatecas.  My family is also lucky to have 
a recording and transcription of my grandfathers sister talking about 
1916 and what brought about their leaving Mexico, she says her 
parents, Vicente and Maria Gertrudis, would never would have left if 
not for the revolution and the starvation it caused.  My grandmother 
Juana Sanchez (Castanon) was the only one who would go visit family in 
Mexico and once her mother died in 1953 she never went back again. My 
father visited in 1936 and then me in 2003. 

Thank you again for sharing,
Linda in Everett