Recently I went to the library at UTEP in El Paso and discovered two 
interesting projects, one which deals with oral history and 
basically dealing with their memories of life in El Paso and of 
course how they lived back in the early 1930s, 40s, etc.  My cousins 
grandmother was interviewed and recorded. The conversation was later 
transcribed and is available to the public. The second discovery 
were the files of Cleofas Calleros. During the 1940s, people who 
lived in in the US and were originally from Mexico would go to his 
office for documentation if they needed to go into the interior of 
Mexico. In these records I found pictures of my four grandparents, 
uncles,aunts,cousins and inlaws. Some of the documents give place of 
birth, place, parents, spouse and their prsent adddress. They even 
include a brief physical description.  WOW! what a find, they also 
made copies for me. Just visit the 6th floor at UTEP Library but be 
prepared with list of names and plenty of time. The

Joseph, I didn't get that Ranchos2 maintenance message
and I just tried to access Ranchos2 and I was not
allowed. Can you send me the invitation again? Looks
like last time it did not work.

Guillermo. 

--- Joseph Puentes  wrote:

> 
> Did you get an email with the subject "Ranchos2
> Maintenance (2)"? some 
> did some didn't. We have 59 members in the Ranchos
> group But 72 members 
> of the original Ranchos group.  that means that 13
> of you all are not 
> benefitting from membership to the Ranchos2 group
> and all the 
> information in the "Files" area of that group.
> 
> So if you didn't get that "Ranchos2 Maintenance (2)"
> email you need to 
> contact me so I can send you an invitation to join
> the Ranchos 2 group.
> 
> joseph
> 



		
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Hi, Joseph. My email address is valhdez@....

Guillermo Valdez.


--- Joseph Puentes  wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to put your email address on your file,
> but I can't seem to 
> find your email address. Can you email me privately
> with your email address.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Joseph Puentes
> Ranchos Moderator
> 
> 
> 



		
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Wow cool, I can just taste the Menudo and the history you related makes
me really think. Now your Great Grandmother had to learn her culinary
skills from someone. . .maybe her mom? Reasonable assumption wouldn't
you say. I'd just love to learn why some recipes came about. . .meaning
the social forces at work at different time periods. Maybe at certain
times there was an abundance of hominy but no pigs and some of the
different recipes started to develope. I wish we could find history
books that might trace the food from the specific areas of "our"
research. Also I'd love to read more about the diseases that plagues our
areas. . .I remember looking over the death records for Santa Maria de
Los Angeles and found a group of over 100 people in a row that died of
Cholera in the 1830's. I could only imagine the horror of living there
at that time with disease all around you. I also read about some of the
horrific earth quakes that destroyed many of the iglesias in the late
17

Irma sent me a Happy Thanksgiving note and greeting, well I'm a Turkey boy as on some years my birthday falls right on Thanksgiving but not this year. Well enough of that, Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, happy birthday to me, and bear with me as I start to sharpen my Axe for the holidays.
 
. . . .Sorry to be so blunt but this group is not a free ride for anyone. [mind you its almost free as in some communication will definitely buy you a by]. . .enough of the riddles. . . .
                 . . .if you haven't submitted your genealogy [as in never ever] you need to communicate with me as to when you are going to send it. When you