I just want to thanks both Marge Vallazza and John Gonzalez for
their help in translating the message I send to people that express their
interest in joining the group.

Unless some of you have some very strong
feelings about changes this is the way its going to be.     .but
if you do have a strong opinion please let me
know.

thanks,

joseph

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

Saludos,

Gracias por el interes
que tiene en hacerse miembro de Ranchos (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ranchos/) 
Ranchos es un pequeño pero dedicado grupo de investigadores serios. 
Aquí está la
descripcion del grupo:

"Este grupo es
para personas que estan activamente buscando sus Raices Mexicanas.  El
objetivo de este grupo cibernético es para

----- Original Message -----

From:
Joseph Puentes

To: John Gonzalez ; marge
vallazza ; LosRanchos

Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 2:50
AM

Subject: [ranchos] 1st Complete
Draft

I just want to thanks both
Marge Vallazza and John Gonzalez for their help in translating the message I
send to people that express their interest in joining the group.


Unless some of you have some very strong feelings about changes this
is the way its going to be.  .   .but if you do have a strong
opinion please let me
know.

thanks,

joseph

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

Saludos,

 

Gracias por el interes que tiene en hacerse miembro de
Ranchos (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ranchos/) 
Ranchos es un pequeño pero dedicado grupo de

I just want to thanks both Marge Vallazza and John Gonzalez for their
help in translating the message I send to people that express their
interest in joining the group.



Unless some of you have some very strong feelings about changes this is
the way its going to be.  .   .but if you do have a strong opinion
please let me know.



thanks,



joseph



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



Saludos,

Gracias por el interes
que tiene en hacerse miembro de Ranchos (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ranchos/) 
Ranchos es un pequeño pero dedicado grupo de investigadores serios. 
Aqí está la descripcion del grupo:



"Este grupo es para
personas que estan activamente buscando sus Raices Mexicanas.  El
objetivo de este grupo cibernético es para poner en contacto
genealogistas serios que tienen raices en Jalisco, Zacatecas, y
Aguascalientes, y así facilitar las investigaciones genealogicas de los
miembros.  La intención, pero nunca la regla, es pemanecer enfocados en
los ranchos de Jalisco, Zacatecas y

great now the Fiesta gets bigger. . .two sets of families are
celebrating.



congratulations. . .joy, joy, joy!



joseph





readysetgo95814 wrote:

I agree and have my own story to share. I recently found a link to 
Anna Arellano (Jose Munos' wife).  Anna and I both descend from the 
same set of 7th great-grandparents (Manuel Castañeda and Maria 
Antonia de la Torre). We all live in Northern California and I had 
the pleasure of meeting them recently.  My feelings are just as 
Alberto said, blood relatives are forever.

Maria Cortez


--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, Alberto Duarte  
wrote:
  

Congratulations.  Blood relatives are forever, no
matter how many generations have past.

Alberto Duarte
Santa Maria, California

--- Joseph Puentes  wrote:

    

Donde va hacer la fiesta?. . .piñata, tamales,
mariachis, tragitos y 
bailando.

what a happy day it is! For more than a 100 years or
maybe more than 200 
years your families lost each

I added a new folder in the "links" area called "Handwritting" please
feel free to add other links to this folder.



thanks,



joseph



ps: one day we'll have to do a major back up of all the resources we've
collected for the site. Looks like it will be a job.





aajay1073 wrote:

Under Genealogy.com Research guidelines, Deciphering Documents and 
Handwriting there are a few articles:

1) Reading Handwriting
http://www.genealogy.com/00000010.html

Towards the top of this document it says:
"Watch out for double S's. The first S in a pair was often written to 
look like a lower case F."

2) Guidelines for Reading Old Documents
http://www.genealogy.com/68_sperry.html

The material at Genealogy.com is a good read if you have a chance to 
browse over there:
http://www.genealogy.com/developing_research_skills.html

Good luck,
Angie

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, Joseph Puentes  wrote:
  

I was watching a documentary about American Slave Narratives. In one 
    

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