Arturo I would ordinarily say yes as your work might help someone else, but we are at 80% capacity in the Files area and I want to reserve that for the new members who I am expecting to submit their genealogies in the near future.

thanks for the offer though and if we figure out how to get past this storage problem I'll let you know so you can post this work.

joseph


Arturo ROMERO wrote:

Joseph,

 

 

         I have files of families that I as of yet can not make a connection to my own family. Would you be interested in posting these as misc files? Let me know what you think.

 

 

 

Regards

 

Arturo Romero
Joseph Puentes wrote:

Is there anyone in the group that is just starting off in their
genealogy

Oh wow Emilie,

That is just terrible. But then I make myself wonder what if someone out of
the blue had called me and said this to me before I ever started doing my
geneology thing.

Plus a lot of us are not here legally, you know what I mean? So we just want
to keep a low profile. Of course their could be other reasons as well.

But anyways I will be praying you get a break through.



              ~~glo~~






From: "Emilie Garcia" 
Reply-To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
To: 
Subject: [ranchos] Telephone Oral History
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 15:38:37 -0700

Yes, Joseph, I too have had, if not hostile, then indifferent and evasive
reactions to my inquiries of distant cousins even here in the US. My sister
still lives in Silicon Valley where we were raised, and she found a second
cousin in the phone book that also lives in San Jose. He admitted being
related (his father and our father were first cousins), but when she asked
for a

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Perhaps, the best I may recommend is taking an interpreter, maybe a 
relative or a friend who speaks spanish, with you. Something  that I 
want to add about the phone calls, well, I don't know if this applies 
to all ranchos in Jalisco, but I believe that in some small pueblos 
people may be suspicious about giving information to a stranger on 
the phone. Joseph, can you tell us if you have had people reluctant 
or even hostile while asking for their ancestors' info? The idea of 
calling people is acceptable, but I would rather go to the pueblo and 
talk to the posible primos in person. Well that is my opinion based 
on my own experience. I grew up in Zacoalco and noticed that 
Jaliscienses (or jalisquillos as we are sometimes called), are at 
first a little bit suspicious of foreigners but as we get to know 
them, we are friendly to everyone. Some americans and italians living 
in the area visit my parents' restaurant every once in a while and 
even though my dad does not speak any