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Here is the translation of your "chiste" Jose.

The father of a wealthy family sends one of his older sons to the 
U.S. so that he could learn English.  The son went to one of the best 
schools in the country and after a while the father calls him and 
asks him, "So how is it going with your English?"  The son 
responds, "Gosh, Dad, I can't seem to learn English and I am 
forgetting my Spanish."  Then the Dad tells him anxiously, "Well you 
had better come back then son, lest you become a mute."

Agradecemos mucho que hagas el esfuerzo de escibirnos en ingles.  A 
mi me cuesta bastante escribir en espanol tambien, pero sigamos 
haciendolo como podamos y asi vamos mejorando, no...

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, José Román González López 
 wrote:
>
> To the great fellow Joseph:
>    
>   Thanks for your message.
>    
>   I hope not to say in my e-Mail messages an incorrect expression, 
but I know that my English is very bad. Any way I don't like offend 
to anybody, I don

To the great fellow
Joseph:

 

Thanks for your message.

 

I hope not to say in my e-Mail messages an incorrect _expression_, but I know that my English is very bad. Any way I don't like offend to anybody, I don't use "offensive words", and my intention is other. In my house

The translations below - because of the way they are written and the way they sound, seem to
come from a web translator.  My translator translates that way.  of course I do better but what's below gets the meaning across.  I had no problem understanding it.  I rather admire the principal fact that JRGL is brave enough and puts out  the effort to communicate with us any way he can. 

 

Elvira

 

Thank you Emilie for talking about this subject. I find it 
heartwarming that so many group members are willing to share 
their 'extra' help in finding the records for our ancestors.  People 
who don't do genealogy find our passion for finding ancestors 
strange.  My sister said I am a genealogy addict, I told her I was 
just passionate about finding all those who got me here in this day 
and time.  There are times when I don't get much sleep because of 
dreams that ultimately open doors to more lines or names.

In doing records I find it's much easier to find the Spanish 
ancestors than the Indio or Mulato lines due to a lack of last names 
sometimes.  I found that my Espanol ancestor Guadalupe Mendez 
married a Mulato woman, Francisca Valencia in 1833.  Francisca 
haunted my dreams until I decided to pursue her lines. I took her 
Rolon ancestor back to about 1660 and found them in and out of 
slavery. I was proud when they were free in 1680 and inslaved again 
in 1715 with my "love

This is an excerpt from an article in the latest World Wildlife Federation Newsletter:

 

    "For reasons not fully understood, millions of North American butterflies from southern Canada and the eastern United States migrate south each year to just a few mountaintops in Michoacan

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, Joseph Puentes wrote:
> here is a picture of the Sacramento Ranchos Meet up. Not everyone in the
> picture is a Ranchos Member but there were 8 members present:

> if any others of those attending want to do a write up of the event
> would be great.
I drafted an agenda for our next meeting in March 2006.  I can e-mail you that and if you think others would be interested you can post it to the group.  Overall, I think it turned out very well.  We had a good turnout and the group may grow.  I've had others express an interest in attending the next meeting.

>
> joseph
>
> ps: maybe next time you get together you can try to plan it around when
> Debra Ortiz is in Sacramento.
>
I did neglect inviting Deborah to this meeting, but have since e-mailed her and invited her to the next meeting.  She lives here in town, so she wouldn't have to travel.  However, she is a busy lady. 

Maria

Marge:

That history of Monte Escobedo is what got me on Leonardo de la Torre's 
trail.  It is very interesting because many of the heirs took on the 
name Covarrubias, who were prolific among the few Spanish families that 
were in the Totatiche area in the 17th Century and it looks like a lot 
of the land that was owned by Francisco Escobedo was around Totatiche.  
I think there are references to el Rio Guajuquilla, which I have found 
out from other sources is today called the Rio Cartagenas which runs 
through Totatiche.  


--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, Margarita Vallazza  
wrote:
>
> http://www.monteescobedo.com/historia/fundacion/fundacion01.htm -
tells 
> the history of the Escobedo family and of the town founded by the 
first 
> immigrant.
> 
> http://www.rootsweb.com/~cafara/MemProfile.html - tells about a 
> Dominguez family emigrating to El Paso...pretty interesting stuff.
> 
> Just cut and paste the website address or copy it.  Enjoy!  Marge:)
>