SOMOS PRIMOS: Dedicated to Hispanic Heritage and Diversity Issues

Mormons archive vast genealogical records by Mic Barnette, September 19, 2003
HoustonChronicle.com http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/features/2110225
More information on the records and services of the LDS Church for family history research.
Sent by Gloria Oliver oliverglo@msn.com

Si. . . ! We have a new Hispanic PARADIGM!
By Ricardo Castanon rcastanon2001@yahoo.com
September 8, 2003

SUMMARY: HISPANIC THINK-TANK: Hispanics have a new and dynamic PARADIGM! From the rich mixture of indigenous traditions, mestizos have kept the best of their ancestors heritage and passed-on this legacy to our offsprings. These new generations have had to combine the old and the new and it has resulted in a whole new set of qualities that bring out all of their potential for a better future.

To describe this new Hispanic paradigm, it is necessary to realize that our Latin-American origins
group together a large diversity of mores, customs and traditions that although similar, really belong to the various original locations. When these traits and behaviors -no matter how deeply rooted in the individual persona they may be- are confronted with a different set of values and principles, inevitably an adjustment takes place. The original immigrant to this land has to set aside his old perspective and open-up his mind and heart to the new and sometimes blinding ways and means of the modern global society.

This initial adjustment often goes unnoticed. The real and important transition happens when the subsequent generations begin to merge the old and the new concepts. The substance of our old ways and traditions -our culture- has had to adapt to the times, it has transubstantiated. The very essence of our roots is still there though, and will remain as the glue that holds our community together. This solid foundation of valor, perseverance and courage contained for centuries finally has an escape valve to channel all that accumulated energy through. Our ancestors had to accept the imposition of the conquistador ways. Our subconscious was thus conditioned, subjugated and
deprived of all initiative. When the dormant warrior' spirit in our offspring is exposed to the modern ways of opportunity and freedom we enjoy in America today, the best of alloys is obtained.

That is the metamorphosis our young men and women are going through today. This new breed already in the workforce, has been having their Latin roots transmuted into a new and singular Hispanic culture of their own. They are destined to turn history around! From XVI century "conquered" to XXI century conquerors! That is today's Hispanic paradigm! A new culture that uses all the qualities inherited from our forefathers as a fuse to ignite all the potential they have at hand, and forge with wisdom and love for one another the ideal society once predicted by the gods!

Viva AMERICA! Verdad que... Si?
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Ricardo Castanon is an essayist contributing weekly columns to the virtual magazine Hispanic Vista.
http://www.HispanicVista.com . Ricardo is the author of the trilogy "SIMPLE SIMON'S ODYSSEY...facing the big questions" a Latin perspective on practical philosophy. Book information is available at http://www.SimonBook.com . Ricardo is based in El Paso, TX. Contact Ricardo at Rico@SimonBook.com.

Big Congratulations to Albert Seguin ASeguin2@aol.com for making a difference > positive activism.
Great News, read the following!!!!

"Dear Albert:
I apologize for not responding to your e-mail sooner. You may recall that you had recommended adding mention of Texas Revolutionary hero Juan Seguin to World Book. I agree with the recommendation, and an article is in the planning stages. It will be uploaded to World Book Online Reference Center later this fall. Thanks again for taking the time to send us your suggestion."

Dale W. Jacobs, Editor in Chief, World Book, Inc.

Extract: Immigrants emigrating from Calif.and N.Y.
By Haya El Nasser USA TODAY – August 22, 2003
http://www.hispanicvista.com/html3/082503en.htm

A Census report out today indicates that the "white flight" of the early 1990s is not so white anymore. Hispanic, black and Asian immigrants are leaving states that are traditional immigrant gateways for the same reasons that others are leaving: affordability, quality of life and jobs. . "Now, it's a middle-class flight motivated by cost and congestion."

The arrival of thousands of Californians to states like Nevada has created a demand for workers in construction and service industries. In the Midwest and Southeast, immigrants are filling farm and factory jobs abandoned by U.S.-born workers.

The report also shows that a smaller share of new arrivals are settling in states that have been immigrant magnets. About 60% of the foreign-born who came to the USA between 1995 and 2000 went to California, New York, Florida, Texas, Illinois and New Jersey, down from 73% a decade earlier.

"The pioneer immigrant leaves Mexico and goes to California," says Jeffrey Passel, an immigration expert at the Urban Institute. "After a while, he goes to Iowa and gets a job in a pork-processing plant. He sends word to Mexico that, 'Hey, there are jobs here.' "

Suddenly, immigrants skip California and go straight to Iowa. "California is full," he says.
Immigrants moving to California from other states are better educated than those leaving. More education can result in more money to cover California's high cost of living.

In most cases, if more U.S.-born residents leave a state than come in, the same holds true of the foreign-born. New Jersey and Michigan were exceptions. They both lost natives but gained immigrants.

Extract: Census Notes Rise in Hispanic Population

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030918/ap_on_go_ca_st_
pe/pentagon_hispanics_2
By GENARO C. ARMAS, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The nation's Hispanic population is keeping up its explosive growth of the 1990s, led by states in the South and West, the first detailed Census Bureau estimates since the 2000 national head count show.

Georgia topped the list of states with the fastest-growing Latino populations, adding nearly 17 percent between July 2000 and July 2002 to reach 516,000 residents, according to Census Bureau estimates being released Thursday. North Carolina's Hispanic population grew by 16 percent, while Nevada, Kentucky and South Carolina were next.

"Hispanic immigrants are coming here for jobs and quality of life," said University of Georgia demographer Douglas Bachtel. "They are taking jobs that a lot of Americans don't want, like construction, landscaping and in the service economy." California still has the largest number of Hispanics with 11.9 million

California still has the largest number of Hispanics with 11.9 million, about one-third of its total population, followed by Texas, New York, Florida and Illinois. Los Angeles County had the largest population of Hispanics among counties (4.5 million), and Webb County, Texas, on the U.S.-Mexico border, which includes Laredo, was the county where Hispanics comprised the highest proportion of the population (95 percent).

Hispanics are the nation's largest minority group. The Census Bureau released a report in June that found the Latino population stood at 38.8 million, an increase of almost 9 percent in the two years ending July 2002. That was four times the growth rate for the U.S. population overall and about 14 times greater than the rate for non-Hispanic whites.

As the population grows, Hispanics are becoming a more influential and desirable market.

Census Bureau: http://www.census.gov

Extract: Local School Gets Grant; A&M-CC Will Receive 1.35 Million
BYLINE: Icess Fernandez, Caller-Times, Corpus Christi Caller-Times (Texas)
Sent by Carlos Villanueva. MBA. carlosvillanueva@cvinternacional.com July 21, 2003,

A recently awarded $1.35 million grant will help Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi recruit more students, specifically Hispanic students, to computers, math and science programs.

"We have a major Hispanic population and we don't have enough Hispanic students involved in math and sciences," said Carl Steidley, professor and chairman of the university's Computer and Math Sciences Department. "It's also a national trend as well as part of the university's mission."

About 38 percent of students in the Computer and Math Sciences Department are Hispanic, Steidley said. Steidley said he would like to see that percentage increase. The grant is from the National Science Foundation to the College of Science and Technology.

Extract:
De Oro Group, U.S. Bank Home Mortgage and Freddie Mac Form Partnership to Boost Hispanic Homeownership Opportunities; Goal to Generate $1 Billion of New Mortgages Over Two Years, PR Newswire, July 21, 2003
Sent by Carlos Villanueva. MBA. carlosvillanueva@cvinternacional.com

The De Oro Group, U.S. Bank Home Mortgage and Freddie Mac announced today that they are teaming up to bring the dream of homeownership to thousands of Hispanic families.
Through the new partnership, the De Oro Group, one of the largest Latino- owned mortgage companies in Southern California, will benefit from increased access to the secondary mortgage market through U.S. Bank Home Mortgage, a prominent Freddie Mac lender customer. U.S. Bank Home Mortgage and Freddie Mac are also offering technical, financial and marketing expertise including an affordable mortgage product specially designed to help more Hispanic and other borrowers achieve homeownership. This partnership is supported by the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP), and furthers NAHREP's mission to increase Hispanic homeownership by empowering professionals that serve Hispanic consumers.

This important joint effort leverages the key strengths of each participant to achieve a common goal of expanding minority homeownership. It brings together De Oro's knowledge of the needs of the Hispanic community, several NAHREP members, the financial and organizational strength of U.S. Bank Home Mortgage, and Freddie Mac's affordable mortgage product and secondary market expertise. The goal of the partnership is to originate in excess of $1 billion in mortgages for Hispanic families over the next two years.

The new alliance supports Freddie Mac's Catch the Dream initiative announced last year in support of President Bush's Blueprint for the American Dream, which calls for 5.5 million additional minority homeowners nationwide by the end of the decade. As part of this effort, Freddie Mac has committed to increase its mortgage purchases to support minority homeownership and announced 25 initiatives designed to eliminate the barriers faced by minority families.

"This new undertaking will pave the way to bring viable homeownership opportunities to the nation's Hispanic families and communities," said David Stevens, Senior Vice President of Single Family Lending at Freddie Mac. "The disparity between the national homeownership rate of nearly 70 percent and the homeownership rate for Hispanic families of 48 percent shows that the market for homebuyers has plenty of room to grow. Our initiative with the De Oro Group, U.S. Bank Home Mortgage, and NAHREP will help us understand and overcome the barriers facing Hispanic families."

Sent by Carlos Villanueva. MBA. carlosvillanueva@cvinternacional.com

Pulitzer Prize Winner Oscar Hijuelos to Receive Inaugural Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature

Santa Barbara, Calif. -- Oscar Hijuelos, Pulitzer
Prize-winning author of "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love" and other novels, has been chosen to receive the first Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature.

The prize was established by the Santa Barbara Book Council and the University of California, Santa Barbara in honor of Luis Leal, the 95-year-old professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at UCSB
and an internationally recognized scholar of Chicano and Latino literature. It is also supported by a contribution from Wells Fargo Bank.

"Oscar Hijuelos is the first and only U.S. Latino writer to ever receive the Pulitzer Prize in literature," said Mario García, a Book Council member and a professor of Chicana and Chicano studies and history at UCSB. "So this is a major honor to have him receive the first Leal award. It's just a major achievement to get him here."

The son of Cuban immigrants, Hijuelos was born in 1951 in New York City and earned bachelor's and master's degrees in English and writing at the City College of New York. After graduation, he made his living working in an advertising agency for seven years, before publishing his first novel, "Our House in the Last World," in 1983 and earning a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

"The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love," Hijuelos' second novel, was published in 1989 and established him as an important American literary voice. "The Mambo Kings" was nominated for a
National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award in 1989. And in 1990, it won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. His other books include "The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez
O'Brien" (1993), "Mr. Ives' Christmas" (1995), "Empress of the Splendid Season" (1999) and "A Simple Habana Melody" (2002).

"While I am honored to be singled out for this award I want it understood that I am accepting it in the spirit of sharing this special recognition with all Hispanic writers. The collective grace and elegance of our literature is far beyond what any one individual can contribute -- and greater than any
honor" said Hijuelos who will receive a $1,500 cash prize with the award.

Leal, who is credited with being the first to bring attention and credibility to Mexican, Latin American and Chicano writers during his 60-year academic career, said he is honored to be the namesake of the award and to have Hijuelos selected as its first recipient.

"I am very pleased with the selection," Leal said. "I hope that this award may encourage other Latino writers to publish their fiction."

Winnie Yamada, Public Affairs winnie.yamada@ia.ucsb.edu 805-893-4834

Extract: Espeuelas Aiming at U.S. Hispanic English-Speakers
by Alberto Alerigi, Entertainment-Reuters Industry
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030916/media_nm/media_hispanic_dc_1

Fernando Espuelas launched on Monday VOY, a new media company that will produce cable television, music, film, print and Internet content mostly for young Latinos. Unlike leading broadcasters Univision Communications and NBC's Telemundo -- which offer a wide range television programing in Spanish for more mature viewers-- VOY will aim at the English-speaking Hispanic audience.

Espuelas' first produced program will likely be a talk show about successful Hispanics in the United States. This genre has a strong following in the region and hosts like Miami-based Cristina Saralegui or Laura Bozzo from Peru share the same star status that Oprah Winfrey (news) does.

Extract: Language problema numero uno cultural barrier in American society – discrimination and racism numero dos y tres.
http://www.hispanicvista.com/html3/091503immi.htm

New York, U.S., September 10, 2003 (Notimex)- The Spanish-speaking community in the United States considered language as the main cultural barrier to deeply integrate into American society, a poll thrown by a very important business organization revealed.

The Hispanic Business Roundtable poll indicated that a 26.5 % of Latins think that the inability of expressing themselves and communicating in a proper way prevents them in a big way from becoming successful immigrants.

Following the language barrier, discrimination and racism stand as the second greatest obstacle to surmount (13.9%), being education the third one (13.5%)

Nine out of the ten interviewed people (an 86.7%) supported a policy that "helps regulate "undocumented workers' status without a criminal record

Extract: Aging U.S. needs migrant workers,
Associated Press via HoustonChronicle.com http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/2047072

MEXICO CITY -- America relies on millions of illegal Mexican laborers to keep its economy going and it will need them even more as a large chunk of the aging U.S. population retires, Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez said Wednesday.

Speaking at an event organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in Mexico City, Derbez said Washington has to "view migration as a positive thing" and can no longer afford to ignore the plight of millions of Mexicans who risk their lives to sneak into the United States and go to work.
"This subject isn't going anywhere. It's going to be a fundamentally important subject for the United States in the future because of the fact that its population is reaching retirement age at an accelerated rate," Derbez said.

"As time goes on, there will be more evidence that the U.S. labor needs in many areas, especially in the service industry, will require the presence of laborers who come from outside the country," he said. Derbez said Sept. 11 "of course made security a top priority" but said there was "an important human factor to migration discussions" that the U.S. government has overlooked.

Derbez said the U.S. population includes 26 million people of Mexican origin, 10 million of whom were born in Mexico. Every year, another 400,000 Mexicans head north with the intention of staying in America for good, he added.

Deportation of Mexicans & US Citizens in 1930s
Sent by Zeke Hernandez zekeher@juno.com

By Fermin Leal - The Orange County Register, Sunday, August 31, 2003

After seven decades, Trinidad Rubio still feels betrayed by her country. America, her birthplace, rounded up her and her family during the Great Depression and shipped them to Mexico, a country Rubio had never before seen and knew nothing about.

Rubio, a Santa Ana resident for the past 36 years, lived in Los Angeles at the time. But hundreds of Orange County families, mostly workers in the county's countless orange groves, suffered the same fate, as a country that welcomed Mexican immigrants as cheap labor during the 1920s suddenly forced them out when the economy crashed. "I was an American," said Rubio, 75. "My family and others like us did not deserve what this country did to us. We lost everything we worked so hard to have."

This week, state lawmakers will consider sending a resolution to Congress asking it to investigate the little-known Depression-era campaign to deport about 1 million people of Mexican descent nationwide because they were taking jobs from people considered "real Americans." Scholars estimate more than half were U.S. citizens.

FAR JOURNEY
Rubio still remembers her mother, Zenaida, gathering the family's belongings from their two-bedroom home in Los Angeles in 1931 before immigration authorities loaded them onto a bus that took them to the train station. "They told us to grab only what we could carry," said Rubio, who was 4 at the time. "I was too young to understand where we were going, but I knew I was leaving my home for good."

Her mother and father, Pedro, entered the United States in 1916 shortly after they married in hopes of finding work. The eventually had five children, all born in the United States, and bought the Los Angeles house before their deportation, Rubio said.

"They had to leave everything behind," Rubio said. "Authorities told us there were no more jobs, no more money, and no more room for us here." At the station, the family boarded a train that took them 800 miles to the border town of El Paso, Texas. Another train then took them into the Mexican state of Chihuahua, where Rubio would spend the next 26 years.

Anaheim resident Richard Lopez said his mother, two siblings and parents found themselves in a similar situation after they were deported from Los Angeles to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, near the Texas border. His mother, Anna Maria de la Fuente, and her brother and sister were also U.S.-born, he said. "None of them even spoke Spanish and here they were, transported to the streets of Nuevo Laredo," said Lopez, 51.

The family lived in near-poverty in Nuevo Laredo, Lopez said. "They had a house and lived comfortably in the United States, now they were living practically on the streets, scraping for money just so they could eat." After 10 years, they returned.

THRIVING COMMUNITIES
Throughout the late 1920s, about 20 Mexican agricultural villages thrived in central and northern Orange County. Many were built by growers, who offered low or free rent in return for the cheap
labor.

About 400 laborers lived in Campo La Habra, built by La Habra Citrus Association. Mexican families, many with U.S.-born children, lived in the village that was made up of 60 three-room cabins and sat on a breezy hillside a mile west of the town of La Habra. Laborers there earned up to $3 a day working in the orange groves.

The village flourished in the late 1920s with plans to add more homes. Then the Depression hit.
The book "Fullerton Union High School and Fullerton Junior College, 1893-1943," chronicled the shift in mood toward the laborers at Campo La Habra as the economy worsened.

"Community members no longer spoke of 'our' Mexicans. They no longer considered that no white man could pick oranges. Instead, they felt that the jobs done patiently by Mexicans for so many
years should now be given to them," Fullerton teacher Druzilla Mackey said in the book. Before the Depression, Mackey, employed by the citrus association, worked at Campo La Habra teaching
laborers English. By 1934, the village was virtually abandoned. Its residents were either repatriated or decided to leave willingly, disillusioned by the lack of jobs

Throughout other parts of the county, "Americanization" centers, once used to help laborers assimilate into American society, were turned into repatriation centers where local authorities
organized deportation efforts, said Gilbert Gonzalez, a historian and Chicano studies professor at University of California, Irvine.

Jess Saenz, who grew up in Colonia Independencia, one of Anaheim's oldest Mexican-American neighborhoods, remembered seeing trains roll in from Los Angeles carrying hundreds of families on the way to Mexico. "They'd stop here and authorities would cram our repatriates in. Then the trains would roll away," said Saenz, 77. "It was heartbreaking when you'd see all the children crying."

UNCERTAIN FUTURES
Many of the repatriated stayed in Mexico, distrusting of a country that had once welcomed them.
Others came back years later when America once again opened its borders as the demand for labor surged.

The ones who returned often did so to a different city or state, depending on where there was demand for workers. Rubio returned to California in 1960 as a 32-year-old single mother of three.
She spoke no English and didn't receive an education beyond grammar school while in Mexico because no other school was available in her town.

"All I want is for the government to admit what happened to me was wrong," she said. "All I want is an apology."

Extract: The Pancho Villa Remix; HBO Film Raises Questions About What Is Fact, Fiction Richmond Times-Dispatch - September 11, 2003
Source: Hispaniconline.com, Sent by paul@hisp.com

Almost 100 years before embedded reporters provided a firsthand look at the war in Iraq, cameras were set up on another battleground - in Mexico.In 1913, Pancho Villa, hero of the Mexican Revolution, invited Hollywood to film his army in action.

For the privilege of filming his war on behalf of Mexico's downtrodden, Mutual Films must pay Villa $25,000 in cash. Villa is interested in his story being told on film. But he's more interested in financing the revolution.

The result, "The Life of General Villa" released in 1914, is only a footnote to history. Sadly, the film itself no longer exists. But what a footnote, including the manipulation of facts by both filmmakers and subject.

The script from Larry Gelbart ("M*A*S*H") is designed to give viewers lots to think about, especially the blurring between the facts of Villa's actions and the fiction of the film made about him. Another interesting, oddly topical tidbit is the United States' interest in Mexican oil.

Extract: (HBO) TV Movie Shows Pancho Villa As Movie Star
By CHRIS ROBERTS, Associated Press Writer, Tue Sep 2, 3:27 PM ET
Source: Hispaniconline.com, Sent by paul@hisp.com

He hoped his $25,000 deal with the Mutual Film Co. of New York would get him good publicity in the United States and money to buy arms and supplies.

The battlefield footage became the first U.S. newsreel. But like most reality shows, all was not as it seemed. Certain battles and executions were staged for the cameras. Villa's skin was lightened and his hair was styled to make him more appealing.

Along with boots and artillery, Mutual supplied 5,000 Confederate Army uniforms for Villa's scruffy soldiers because the studio wanted to make them look better. Villa, who often transported his troops by train, reserved cars for reporters and a special car for Mutual that allowed its employees to develop and edit film. All sides in the Mexican Revolution used the media — establishing their own newspapers, censoring legitimate media reports, paying money to reporters, editors and newspapers with the expectation of positive coverage.
In El Paso, people would gather on the top of buildings to watch the fighting in Mexico. Metz said a cannon was perched on a road that traverses high on the southern flank of the Franklin Mountains to return fire if the hostilities spilled over the border.

Things went well for Villa until his army suffered a string of military defeats at the hands of another, more moderate revolutionary leader with whom he had broken ranks. Then the U.S. media began to ignore him, Anderson says.

Ultimately, the United States recognized Villa's opponent, Venustiano Carranza, as Mexico's president. The Carranza general responsible for Villa's defeats, Alvaro Obregon, was later elected president and some believe had a hand in Villa's assassination in 1923.

Celebrate the last weekend of Hispanic Heritage Month in Long Beach, California
Oct 10th, Memorial Mass for Gálvez, St. Anthony's Church, 6 p.m., 600 Pine Ave. Oct 11th, Reception, 2-4 p.m. Long Beach Museum of Art, 2300 E. Ocean Blvd. Tour, 3-5 p.m. Museum of Latin American Art, 628 Alamitos Ave.
October 12th, Long Beach Gálvez Concert and Gala, Long Beach Performing Arts Center 300 E. Ocean Blvd.



SCHEDULE FOR GALVEZ CONCERT and GALA OCTOBER 12, 2003

10:00 a.m.	Will-call concert tickets can be picked-up throughout the day. Lobby: Displays and hands-on family history research. Outside: Historical/genealogical society family history displays. Children's activities, face painting, colonial crafts,
11:00-12:30	Hispanic Contributions to the American Revolution Historical Mini-lectures, Meeting rooms 301 and 302 Steven Hernandez Welcome and introduction Clarence Lucas, Sons of the American Revolution Hispanic Outreach Hector Diaz, Gálvez Reenactor From the lips of the General Mildred Murry, Ph.D. Daughters of the American Revolution Mission Project Granville Hough, Ph.D. History Lessons Learned During the Search for Spanish Soldiers and Sailors George Ryskamp Tracking Emigration out of Europe, a World-wide Perspective Steven Hernandez Questions and Closure
11:00-1:00	Two hours of entertainment to include: Los Californios Musicians, Yesteryears Dancers, Swedish, Salsa, Flamenco dancers and re-enactors, Bernardo de Galvez, Governor Philipe de Neve, Father Serra, Juan Pablo Grijalva and Maria Moreno, as her great-grandmother.
12:30-1:00	Cadet demonstration in front of building.
1:00- 1:30	Opening Ceremony- Welcome, posting of colors, Navy Jr. ROTC, Santa Ana High, Dignitaries, Pledge of Allegiance, National Anthem, sung by Humberto Argucia, Los Angeles County Firefighter. Introductions of participants. Retiring of Colors
1:30-2:00	Demonstrations by the Santa Barbara Soldados. Proclamation in honor of Galvez, this will be followed by a short drill of troops as they pass in review to be followed by a volley of musket fire.
2:00	Seating for concert commences. Pre-concert music on the Plaza and in the lobby provided by the Long Beach Millikin High Choir, Brass quintet of Long Beach Poly High, Frances Rios, Pianist, guitarists Jose Zerimar and Jean Fritz.
3:00-4:00	CONCERT
4:00-4:30	Awards and recognition
	For more information on some of the performers, please go to their websites http://www.yesteryearsdancers.com http://www.jashford.com/Pages/Calif2.html http://www.lasoleflamenco.com http://www.passionatedance.com http://www.soldados.us/StBarbara


California State Legislature Recognizes Bernardo de Gálvez Project

California Assemblywoman, Bonnie Garcia, on the right, makes a presentation of the Assembly Resolution, 1415 to Chuck Knuthson, California State Genealogical Alliance Webmaster and Barbara Edkin, President of the Alliance.
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By the Honorable Bonnie Garcia, 80th Assembly District, Relative to recognizing The General Bernardo de Galvez Project Whereas, The General Bernardo de Galvez Project is in honor of the General's efforts on behalf of the American Revolution and to call attention to the sacrifices made by his multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, and racially diverse army on behalf of the American Colonists; and Whereas, This project is being promoted through a series of events, a gala, and the production of a documentary film based upon his life and military exploits during the American Revolution; and Whereas, The following is a partial list of entities and individuals dedicated to the success of the Galvez Project: The Spanish government, Sons of the American Revolution, Daughters of the American Revolution, California State Genealogical Alliance, numerous historians, Soldados, The Orange County Black Chamber of Commerce, the Orange County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Native Americans, and countless educators; and Whereas, The American Revolution was a transatlantic event that involved virtually every European government, and in addition to France's well-documented role in the conflict, Spain also played a vital part in helping to create the United States of America, and the Galvez Project seeks to inform Americans of Spain's monumental contributions to the positive outcome of the American Revolution and the founding of our great nation; now, therefore, be it Resolved by Assembly Member Bonnie Garcia, That she commends and thanks the Hispanic-American Heroes Series as it presents The General Bernardo de Galvez Project, and its Executive Directors: Chairperson Mimi Lozano, Editor, Somos Primos E-magazine, Co-Chairperson Judge Frederick Aquirre, and Program Manager Michael Perez, for educating the American public to the significant contributions made by Spain and Hispanics to the success of the American Revolution. Members Resolution No. 1415 Dated this 23rd day of May, 2003 Signed by Bonnie Garcia Honorable Bonnie Garcia 80th Assembly District

LECTURE PARTICIPANTS

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA OF HECTOR L. DIAZ Born in Puerto Rico in 1955, Héctor L. Díaz is a Psychologist, historian and professional actor by training. He has been researching the Hispanic assistance to the American Revolution since the mid-1980’s, and recreating the Hispanic troops of General Bernardo de Gálvez since 1993. Mr. Diaz is the author of Maryland’s "Senate Joint Resolution 2" adopted in 1997, which recognizes the "Hispanic Participation in the American War of Independence" and of several article written on "COBBLESTONE" Magazine on the same subject and on General Gálvez. Mr. Diaz originated and organized the " Hispanic Heroes Parade" in Washington D. C., which was celebrated annually from 1995 to 1998, and the "General Bernardo de Gálvez. Go to: Royal Presidio Honor Ceremony" which has been celebrated yearly since 1995. Other ceremonies or recreations he has organized or has been part of have taken place at; General George Washington’s residence, Mount Vernon; The Maryland State House; The United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland; and the St. Augustine, Old San Juan, and Natchez, National Historical Sites in Florida, Puerto Rico and Mississippi, respectively. In Héctor Díaz’ opinion; "The greatness of Bernardo de Gálvez rests not only in the fact that he is a Hispanic Revolutionary War hero; his tenacity, intelligence, humanity and bravery, everything about him, is as relevant today as it was 222 years ago, when he was leading his forces to victory against the most overwhelming odds. Gálvez is and will always be an example and an inspiration for everyone, in our times and for the ages to come".

Professor Granville W. Hough’s Background Granville W. Hough of Laguna Woods, CA, is Professor Emeritus, California State University, Fullerton, and a retired Lieutenant Colonel, Regular Army. He has been an amateur genealogist and historian for forty-five years, with more than twenty-five books to his credit, including eight written with his daughter, N. C. Hough, on Spanish soldiers of the Borderlands who served during the time of the American Revolutionary War. Listings of these books may be viewed on the web site for the Library of Congress or on the web site of the Family History Center at Salt Lake City. Granville was a student at Mississippi State University in Nov 1942 when he joined the Army Enlisted Reserve shortly before his 20th birthday. He was soon on active duty as an infantryman, but he was appointed to the United States Military Academy at West Point and joined the class there in Jul 1943, graduating in Jun 1946 with a BS in Military Art and Engineering. He served in the Regular Army as an artilleryman, intelligence analyst, and general staff officer until Jan 1969, concentrating on Cold War and technical intelligence research. After graduating from the Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth in 1959, he was assigned to the Pentagon, where he was able to begin his weekend hobby of genealogical and historical research in the Library of Congress and the National Archives. In subsequent assignments, Granville also graduated from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and the Air War College. The Army had constantly changing needs for people with higher education skills during the Cold War. Responding to those needs, Granville gained a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from USC in 1955, a Master’s degree in Business Administration from George Washington University in 1965, and a PhD in Public Administration from American University in 1971 (after retirement.) From 1969 through Spring, 1992, Granville taught business management at California State University, Fullerton, serving three years of that time as Management Department Chairman. His specialty in teaching was Project Management. In 1991, Granville joined the National Society, Sons of the American Revolution. His research experience has indicated to him that much of the history of the American Revolution is incomplete and misleading. He strongly believes that the NSSAR, and other patriotic organizations, should be at the forefront of revising the history we teach our children about our country and those who have worked with us as allies, co-belligerents, and even as enemies.

GEORGE R. RYSKAMP Associate Professor of History Brigham Young University ryskamp@byu.edu EDUCATION: 1979 J.D., J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. 1975 B.A., double major in Spanish and History, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE: 2003- present Director, Center for Family History and Genealogy, Brigham Young University 1993-Present- Assistant, then since 1999, Associate Professor of History at BYU, Provo, Utah 1979-1993- Attorney in private practice Riverside, CA, probate, tax and business advisement and bankruptcy law. 1975-Present- Accredited Genealogist doing privately funded research, specializing in Spanish language research and United States probate and legal systems. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: Ryskamp, George R..Finding Your Hispanic Roots. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1997. (290 pages) ______, and Peggy Ryskamp. A Student's Guide to Mexican American Genealogy. New York: Rosen Publishing Company, 1996. (168 pages) . "House Histories, Reconstructing Your Ancestors’ Daily Lives." Ancestry 18(Oct. 2000): 34-42. "The De Lema Dilemma: Exploring the Complexities of Spanish Naming Patterns," National Genealogical Society Quarterly 90(June 2002):87-98. . "War and Marriage: Some Reasons for Deportation in Hispanic North America," National Genealogical Society Quarterly 86 (June 1998): 134-137. . "Fundamental Common-Law Concepts for the Genealogist: Real Property Transactions," National Genealogical Society Quarterly 84 (Sep. 1996): 165-181. SELECTED SCHOLARLY AWARDS, PRESENTATIONS, WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES: Académico de Numero of the Academia Americana de Genealogía . Appointment Aug. 2003 Vice Chairman and Commissioner, International Commission for Accreditation of Professional Genealogists, .December 2001-Present. "El linaje noble de Alonso de Sosa, conquistador de Nuevo Mexico: Usando lugar y posición social en la investigación genealógica." II Congreso Iberoamericano de Ciencias Genealógica y Heráldica y XII Reunión Americana de Genealogía, Sucre, Bolivia, August 31-September2, 2003. "Caseríos de Mendiguchia e Yrigoen: The role of the Casa y Casería in Tracing Basque lines before 1600." XI Reunión Americana de Genealogía, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, September 6-10, 2002. "Encircling Perspectives of Family: Intergenerational Transmission of Surnames in Spain, 1500-1900." Virginia F. Cutler Lecture ,FHHS College, BYU, Provo Utah, 25 October 2001. "Catholic Marriage Records as a Source for Determining and Studying Immigrant Origins," Symposium in Genealogy and Heraldry, San Marino (Italy), June 5-8, 2001. "Genealogía en la Frontera Norte de Mexico," Investigación Genealógica antes de 1600," and "El Caribe en los archivos de España," Fortaleciendo Eslabones Familiares: Tercera Conferencia Hispana de Historia Familiar, Provo, Utah. Oct. 2000.

Mildred Murry, Ph.D. Education, 3 degrees from the University of Southern California, B.A.: Sociology, history minor M.A: Counseling and Guidance, history minor E.D. Research emphasis, Educational Psychology, history minor 5 California Credentials Professional Experience Los Angeles Unified School District- 34 years, elementary, secondary, administration University of San Francisco, Adjunct Professor of Education Legislative Aide to the State Assembly Civic research "Documenting Hispanic Influence in North America and U.S. History and Heritage, 1492-1865" Volunteer Daughter of the American Revolution, 22 years National: Vice Chair, resolutions, member of Spanish Research Task Force State: Chairman, Resolution Committee Chairman; California Mission History in Heritage Committee Local: Past Regent, Vice Regent, Chaplan, Historian, currently Librarian Balboa Bay Republican Women, Chairman of the Scholarship Committee Freedom Foundation at Valley Forge Orange County Chapter, Vice President, Sec/scholarships

Clarence Lucas Sons of the American Revolution National: National Trustee State: Past President

Steven F. Hernández Board member of the hosting organization, the Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research. He graduated from California Polytechnic University Pomona in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts in History. Since then, he has been a substitute teacher, at all grades, for the Walnut and Baldwin Park School Districts and a has been a tutor for the past five years. He currently attends Azusa Pacific University in pursuit of both a teaching credential and a Master's Degree. His goal is to become a High School teacher or College/University professor in History (or upper level Math or Spanish). Steven Hernández is deeply aware and proud of his Mexican and Spanish heritage, as he has been researching his family's genealogy for the past ten years. Research and study of his family history, coupled with his passion for history overall, has focused his preferred area of study to the Spanish Colonial period and Early Mexican Independence period, but also extends to Iberian, Latin American, and Western European history as well. He is the Editor in Chief of SHHAR's Genealogical Journal, Volume 5."

History Lessons Learned During the Search for Spanish Soldiers and Sailors Granville Hough, Ph.D. gwhough@earthlink.net In 1996 I learned that the National Society, Sons of the American Revolution, had turned down a California applicant who had no receipt to prove his soldier ancestor had donated one or two pesos to defray the costs of the war with Britain from 1779 into 1783. This seemed a strange denial as the applicant's ancestor had risked his life as a soldier, so why worry about a donativo? I told my SAR chapter I could develop a rationale for acceptance of Spanish soldiers as patriots, and it said go ahead. I knew Louisiana soldiers serving under Governor Bernardo de Gálvez had been accepted as Patriots since 1925, and that French soldiers and sailors who served under General Rochambeau and Admiral de Grasse had been accepted since 1903. So I developed the rationale and looked for applicants to test it. We found two descendants of California soldiers, with clear lineages, and got our first California descendants admitted in 1998. I had no intent of publishing anything, but concluded it might be useful publish the rationale, then to list names of California soldiers, visiting sailors, and other men who were of the right age to make the donativo. My daughter joined me in the research, and we did the first book on California, mostly rationale, then the second book giving the names of nearly everyone in California under Spanish jurisdiction during the war period, and most of their descendants until American occupation in 1848, about 5000 persons. It was interesting research, and no one had ever done such a compilation of Spanish soldiers and sailors. We then did Arizona and Northern Sonora, then New Mexico. We were able to get our first descendant of a New Mexico soldier accepted in 1999. We moved on to Texas where we found a couple of people had already been accepted but there was no composite list. So we did one, including all the territory now under Texas jurisdiction. Up to this time we had worked on more than 20 Presidios, more than 10 flying companies of mounted infantry units, and militia units of the larger towns. When we worked on Louisiana, we encountered our first organized Spanish Regiment, the Regimento de Infanterie de Luisiana. Then we went on through the West Indies in the seventh volume with numerous Spanish and colonial regiments, then finally back to Northern Mexico for the backup units for the Presidios in the eighth volume. We have four more volumes in progress. Along the way, we were questioned on the work we were doing, mainly based on the way people were taught American History. The question was: "How can we accept descendants of Spanish soldiers. Spain has always been our enemy." And that is exactly the way many influential American historians have depicted it. But that is not the way Spanish soldiers and sailors saw it at the time. They, just like Americans, fought the British where they were or wherever they were sent. They celebrated all victories over the British, no matter who won them. But there is one quote from a highly regarded American historian at the time of WW I and is still quoted: He made a statement that John Adams and John Jay in negotiating for peace with Britain had no reason to consider Spanish interests as Spain had been of no help to the American colonies and wished them ill. He apparently knew nothing of Spanish aid or of the DeGrass/Saavedra Accord which governed French and Spanish operations in the Western Hemisphere from July 1781 until the end of the war. He was not aware that a Chesapeake Bay Campaign (Yorktown) was the first item of that accord and that its success was due to five elements, two of them Spanish: Washington's Army, Rochambeau's French Army, DeGrass' French Fleet, Spanish financing, and Spanish covering for France in the West Indies. Nor did this eminent American historian have the faintest idea what SECURED Yorktown, or why the four British staging areas at New York, Charleston, Penobscot Bay, and Detroit were never used by the British to reinvade. Few Americans know that the British were straining mightily in 1782 and 1783 just to hold on in the West Indies. Bernardo de Gálvez was waiting to invade Jamaica during that time with 10,000 troops at Guarico in Haiti. He was joined in Venezuela in Feb 1783 by nearly all of Rochambeaus's American Expeditionary Force which had fought at Yorktown, 10,000 more French troops. French General d'Estaing was lining up 20,000 more French and Spanish troops at Cadiz in Spain awaiting orders to sail. And Bernardo de Gálvez was already designated as the overall commander of the invading forces. The British had to negotiate or lose everything in the West Indies. That imminent threat in the West Indies is what SECURED Yorktown and made it into the victory we celebrate. I will point out two other false beliefs which have harmed our relationships with our neighbors: One is that the War with Mexico began when Mexican troops attacked American troops on Texas soil near the Rio Grande. I defy any historian to show evidence that Texas ever extended south of the Medina River. The Mexican War started when pro-slavery President James K. Polk in May 1848 sent American troops into Mexican territory south of the Medina and Mexicans defended their land. It is clear we started the Mexican War under false pretenses. Another false belief is that the Spanish American War was started when saboteurs blew up the battleship Maine on 17 Feb 1898. I defy any historian to show that there were any saboteurs near the Maine that night, whether Spanish, Cuban, or some other. Most likely, the Maine blew up from instantaneous combustion of overheated coal in confined ship storage. Admiral Rickover headed the last committee to study that explosion. The Navy had destroyed all physical evidence, but had pictures of bent metal. Admiral Rickover's committee reported that the pictures simply gave no conclusive evidence on why the explosion occurred. It seems quite clear, today, that we entered the Spanish-American War under false pretenses. These three fallacies have biased American history and textbooks for generations. They constantly come up in one form or another, in editorials, from TV commentators, politicians, patriotic speakers, and even from reviewers of SAR applications. But the study of service records of Spanish soldiers shows interesting and remote places where they served, each with some relation to the war with Britain. Last December, I predicted the National Society, Sons of the American Revolution, would in time remove all geographic restrictions on where Spanish patriots served when enough SAR members understood the relationships among the nations fighting the British. I mentioned one year, ten years, or even 50 years. It actually happened in just over 50 days when in March of this year, the Society did remove all geographic restrictions. Male descendants of Spanish soldiers in service 1779-1783, can now join our organization, no matter where the ancestor served.

Center for Family History and Genealogy at Brigham Young University George R. Ryskamp, Director A community of family history scholars--faculty, students and volunteers -- working and learning together. - simplify the finding of ancestors - support the training of new family historians and genealogists - aid researchers in their study of families and the populations in which they reside. To accomplish this mission we:
A. Offer Family History training for students on the BYU Provo Campus, at the BYU Salt Lake Center, and through correspondence courses and other distance learning. B. Sponsor projects designed to provide information and/or training aids to the community, including the Immigrant Ancestors Project, training lessons at http://261.byu.edu, and research guides and other resources found at http://familyhistory.byu.edu C. Participate in and sponsor genealogical training conferences. D. Sponsor and supervise student interns throughout the world such as London, Madrid, Bern, Boston, Washington, New York and Mexico City, and provide them with funding assistance. E. Publish The Family Historian (a scholarly journal) and other genealogical publications. The Center for Family History and Genealogy offers the following services to enhance the education and training of students and other members of the genealogical community. Family History Labs: Our two labs are equipped with specialized genealogical software, books, and periodicals and are staffed by students majoring in family history. Hands-on workshops are taught every semester to over 700 students. Student Employees: The Center currently employs about 20 students to conduct research, run projects, staff the labs, and teach lessons giving our students excellent experience in their chosen field of study. Scholarships: Every year six academic scholarships and an internship with the New England Historic Genealogical Society are awarded to outstanding family history majors. Internships: All students majoring in family history are required to serve an internship. Internships provide exposure to the real working world of the family historian/genealogist and are an integral part of the BYU family history experience. In recent years interns have served in many ways both locally and all over the world including England, Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Mexico, and other countries. Tutorials: Choose "Instruction" at Internet site for the Center for Family History and Genealogy http://familyhistory.byu.edu where you will find free online Family History lessons including, "Finding Your Ancestors." Current Projects 1) French Immigrant (Huguenot) Ancestor Database, genealogical information,French Protestants. 2) Mormon Immigration Index CD-ROM covering immigration voyages to the US, 1840 to1925. 2) Video: Family History in the LDS Church Since the Restoration. 4) Monthly Newsletter 5) Immigrant Ancestors Project (see below) 6) Immigrant Experience Bibliography 7) Other research projects using talents of faculty and students.
Immigrants Ancestors Project - Where was my immigrant ancestor born? To locate the birthplaces of immigrants- generally missing on records in arrival countries- the IAP looks for emigration records in European home countries. Emigration records, such as passport files, passenger contracts, vestry minutes, consular records are rich in genealogical information, but largely untouched simply because they are not easily available. Few are microfilmed. Most are accessible only by visiting the archives containing the records and are rarely indexed or sorted. The IAP goals center on those hard- to-find records: IDENTIFY EMIGRATION RECORDS ACQUIRE COPIES EXTRACT DATA ON INDIVIDUALS MAKE INDEXED DATA AVAILABLE FREE Volunteers work via Internet to extract the data from emigration records to create a database of millions of immigrants with their places of origin. At the Center student supervisors check extractions for accuracy before they are added to the database. Anyone can search this free database at http://immigrants.byu.edu . At present the project focuses on emigrants from Germany, Spain, Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, Italy and France, but plans are to add other countries. Funds donated to the IAP will pay wages for student researchers, provide copies of identified records, and support computer development and maintenance. Come join our community of family history scholars, as a volunteer and/or a donor. Help us extract these emigration records


Hay diferentes blasones de los Ortíz, según la región de procedencia, aunque la mayor parte de las ramas utilizan el siguiente, que puede considerarse como más antiguo o primitivo: En Campo de Oro, una estrella de azur; bordura de plata con ocho rosas de gules, segunda bordura componada de gules y plata.		Las estrellas simbolizan la grandeza,la verdad,la luz,la magestad,pero ante todo,,la prudencia. Las rosas son emblemas de belleza, de honra inmaculada, de pureza de costunbres. y de méritos reconocidos. Las borduras representan la cota de armas de los guerreros manchada con la sangre de los enemigos en combate.
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Este apellido es del género de los patronímicos, derivado del nombre propio de Fortunio al que algunos, autores atribuyen origen mozárabe, al igual que otros de su especie, proceden de diferentes solares sin conexión entre si. Desde el siglo XI y siguientes se encuentra muy extendido por toda la Península Ibérica, originándose sus asentamientos mas antiguos en ambas Castillas, principalmente en las denominadas "Montañas de Burgos". Hay diferentes versiones sobre el nacimiento de este linaje, existiendo historiadores que afirman que dicha palabra tiene raíces del sánscrito, viniendo a signifiar "el de fuera".Según Rivarola en su obra "Historia de la Monarquía Española " (1736), su tronco procede de los Duques de Nomandía, concretamente de dos hermanos apellidados Ortíz (?) que pasaron a España a pelear contra los moros,y que posteriormente se establecieron en el antiguo Reino de la Navarra y el Señorio de Vizcaya, añadiendo que uno de sus descendientes, caudillo en aquellas regiones, fue el tronco común de la casa solariega afincada en el Valle de Carriedo ,Santander, y de la que radicó en la villa de Espinosa de los Monteros, Burgos. Baños de Velasco, en una de sus conocidas obras manuscritas del siglo XVIII, "Genealogías",escribe los siguientes versos a "Vi el Ortiz generoso —venir con muy gran denuedo — muy valiente y animoso - de linaje valeroso — y -pobló Val de Carriedo — el cual venía de la línea — del primer Duque Normando —a socorrer a Castilla — con el Norte relumbrando". Al decir de este último autor, los Ortiz pasaron después a Castilla y Asturias, donde fundaron otra casa solar en el Concejo de Colunga y mas tarde arraigaron en Andalucía por medio del Comendador de la Orden de Santiago don Alonso Ortiz,,nieto de don Pedro Ortíz, paladín castellano en el sitio de Sevilla a las órdenes de Fernando III "el Santo", el año 1248,quien se distinguió por su especial arrojo. En el Archivo General de Simancas, Valladolid, se conserva un documento de confirrnación de privilegio realizado a favor de don García Ortíz, en el año 1014, que como Ricohombre le hizo don Sancho IV de Navarra, y en el de 1214, idéntica merced a nombre de don Ortún Ortíz, igualmente Ricohombre, Merino Mayor de Castilla, por el monarca don Alfonso IX. También,entre aquellos fondos, existen numerosas concesiones de hidalguia otorgadas, especialmente por don Juan II durante el siglo XV. Entre las distinguidas estirpes con las que entroncaron, son de destacarse las casas de los Duques de Granada, Duques de Rivas, Marqueses de Benamejí, Condes. de Canillas, Condes de Almodovar, Condes de Vallehermoso, Condes de la Mejorada y otras numerosas mercedes nobiliarias. Los Ortíz hicieron patente su hidalguia a través de varios siglos en las Ordenes Militares de Santiago, Calatrava, Alcántara y Montesa, así como en la de San Juan de Jerusalén y la Real y Distinguida Orden Española de Carlos III, en las Reales Maestranzas de Caballeria y otros numerosos estamentos nobiliarios las diferentes regiones de España. Igualmente, litigó por el reconocimiento de sus preeminencias de sangre ante las Reales Chancillerías de Valladolid y Granada. También ingresaron los de este apellido en las Reales Compañías de Guardias Marinas Españolas, previas las probanzas estatuidas en aquel noble cuerpo naval .Don Jerónímo Ortíz de Sandoval Regidor, Procurador en Cortes y Veinticuatro de la Ciudad de Sevilla, fue agraciado por Felipe V, en 1702 con el Marquesado de la Mejorada; don Isidro Ortíz de Haro, Gobernador y Capitán General de Tucumán en el Virreinato de la Plata, Alguacil Mayor y Perpétuo de la Audiencia y Chancillería de Charcas, Marqués de Haro, por Felipe V, en 1715; don Domingo Ortíz de Rozas, Caballero de la Orden de Santiago, Teniente General de los Reales Ejercitos, del Consejo de S.M., Gobernador de Buenos Aires, Capitán General del Reino de Chile y Presidente de la Real Audiencia de Santiago, Conde de Poblaciones por Fernando VI, en 1757 y don Melchor Jacot y Ortíz Rojano, Caballero de Carlos III, Ministro Togado del Consejo de Indias y Regente de la Audiencia de — Lima,Conde de Pozos Dulces, por Carlos IV en 1790, y don Rafael Ortíz de Almodovar y Pascual de Ibarra, Guardia de Corps y Caballero de Santiago, Conde de Almodóvar, por Carlos IV en 1790, dignidad ésta que obtuvo la Grandeza de España por —Alfonso XII al IV titular en 1875. Don Diego Ortíz de Zúñiga, en su obra "Discursos genealógicos de los Ortices de Setilla, editada en aquella capital el año 1673,trata con profusión de éste linaje y de sus ramificaciones andaluzas. En la reedición que se hizo en 1929, se amplian notablemente los. antecedentes sobre dicho apellido. Don Diego Ortíz de Largacha,natural de Veracruz,donde fue Alférez Mayor,Gobernador y Teniente de Capitán General,ingresó en la Orden de Santiago el año 1668; en 1681, don Bartolomé Ortíz de Casqueta y Ballesteros, natural de Requena, Valencia, Alférez Mayor de la ciudad de Puebla de los Angeles, fue agraciado por Felipe V, el 24 de mayo de 1710 con el título de Marques de Altamira de Puebla siendo Caballero de la Orden de Santiago, desposándose con la poblana doña Ana de Rivera Vasconcelos; don Manuel Ortíz y Cantón, de Poza, Burgos X Capitán de caballos, santiaguista en 1755 y Alcalde Mayor de Ciudad Real de Chiapa,y don Bartolomé Ortíz de Jáuregui,Alcalde Mayor de la ciudad de Puebla en 1692, que vistió el repetido hábito en 1687. Extract from BLASONES Y APELLIDOS, 828-page book by Fernando Muñoz Altea In its second edition, the book can be ordered from blasones@mail.com or at P.O. Box 11232, El Paso, Texas 79995 or by contacting Armando Montes AMontes@Mail.com

Heraldica: Spanish Heraldry site. http://gilberto.bodu.net/Heraldica.html Sent by Bill Carmena JCarm1724@aol.com An Example from the site: ORTEGA: Castellano, su antiguo solar esta en las montañas de Burgos en el valle de Mena, debajo de la Peña de la Magdalena y tambien en Carrion de los Condes. Procede de los Duques de Bretaña; el Rey Don Ramiro I de Leon, dio a uno de ellos en casamiento a su hija Doña Ortega Ramirez. Esta muy extendido por la peninsula. En oro, un peral de sinople frutado de oro. En azur, seis bandas de oro. Bordura de gules con diez aspas de oro. Cuartelado. 1º y 4º: En azur, una flor de lis de oro. 2º y 3º: En oro, una rueda de carro de sable. Bordura de plata con ocho armiños de sable. En oro, cinco matas de ortigas de sinople puestas en aspa. En gules, un leon de oro coronado de lo mismo. En oro, cinco lises de azur. Boirdura de gules con ocho aspas de oro. En oro, un castillo de azur rodeado de ocho panelas de gules. En gules, cuatro rosas de oro puestas en los cantones. En oro, una tao, de gules. En plata, una cruz pate, de gules, cargada de cinco panelas, de oro. En gules, un león de oro, coronado de lo mismo. En oro, cinco flores de lis, de azur; bordura de gules, con ocho aspas de oro. En plata, un palo, de azur.
Don't miss the Gálvez Concert and History Expo, Oct 10-12


Oct 1st, Hispanic Internal Revenue Employees (HIRE) and NARA - Pacific Region Laguna Niguel to hear Viola Sadler HISPANIC FAMILY HISTORY: Wednesday, October 1, 2003 - 11:30 am-1:30 pm Speaker: Viola Rodriguez-Sadler, Board member of the Society for Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research. Ms. Rodriguez-Sadler will introduce those interested in Hispanic genealogy to resources for Hispanic Family History using local records and those available at major repositories such as the National Archives. Tickets to performance events also available at this presentation.

Oct 3rd, Knights of Columbus to hear Michael Stevens Perez For information on attending, please contact Board Member Henry Marquez, 714-670-7237

Oct 4th: Searching Other Record Types Having trouble locating an ancestor in federal census records? Census records are among the most valuable records for genealogical research. But it is not always possible to locate your ancestors' and collateral families in census records for a variety off reasons. Nor do the censuses provide all the information one would wish for, especially the earlier censuses. Gene Cheney, director of the Hemet Family History Center, will speak to us about the use of other records types that may be used as census substitutes or as supplements to the census records. Part 2 of Mr. Cheney's lecture will be presented in Room C at 12:30pm. Mr. Cheney's is the current director of the Family History Center in Hemet, California and serves as the director of education for the Hemet-San-Jacinto Genealogical Society. He has Taught genealogical research classes for 46 years. The Orange County California Genealogical Society General Membership Meeting is held the first Saturday of each month in Meeting Room C & D at the Huntington Beach Central Library. 711 Talbert Ave, Huntington Beach, CA.

October 4th, 6th Annual "Four Generations of Guevaras' Works Art Exhibit Saturday October 4, 2003 / Reception: 7 pm - 9 pm Santora Arts Building, 205 No. Broadway St., Santa Ana, CA INFO: guevarasart@yahoo.com / 949-248 3324 http://www.sanjuancapistrano.net

Orange County Archives Seminar Saturday, October 4, 2003 No Charge-Limited Seating - Register to reserve your seat Meet the new archivist: Phil Brigandi Learn how to use the archives materials: County Records, Historic Building Records and Genealogy Open to all people interested in doing research at the Orange County Archives Free Parking-Old Courthouse Parking Lot (Civic Center & Broadway) Seminar sponsored by the Orange county Historical Commission Old Orange County Courthouse 211 West Santa Ana Blvd. Santa Ana, CA 92701 Voice mail (leave message): (714) 973-6609 Fax: (714) 834-2280 E-Mail: Griselda.Castillo@pfrd.ocgov.com

October 4th first in series at the Center For Oral and Public History Preservation Workshop Series, 2003/2004 COPH premiers a new series of preservation workshops dealing with archival techniques, historical buildings, audio tape storage and migration, and production of documentary films and photographs. Regionally and nationally recognized leaders in their own fields, workshop facilitators come co COPH with years of experience and eagerness to share their respective expertise. Workshops are offered from 9:00am to 3:00pm four Saturdays during the 2003-2004- academic year at the Center for Oral and Public History, CSU Fullerton. This "hands-on" approach offers participants practical guidance, involvement, and the opportunity to exchange ideas with others. Contact Info: Center for Oral and Public History http://coph.fullerton.edu (714) 278-3580 (714) 278-5069 Fax

GRIJALVA COMMUNITY PARK AT SANTIAGO CREEK ANNUAL PICNIC IN THE PARK SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5 11 AM - 2:30 PM This beautiful new park is in the city of Orange and is easily accessible from all parts of Orange County. Take Chapman Ave. east from the 55 Freeway; turn left at Prospect Ave. and go two blocks (north) to the signal at Spring St.; turn left on Spring and proceed along the park perimeter to the end; turn right and continue along the west perimeter to the large parking area. OUR AREA - PICNIC AREA #2 - IS RIGHT THERE WITH BALLOONS FLYING. Our Board member, EDDIE GRIJALVA, the guest of honor at the grand opening of the park, will be our speaker. Bring your picnic baskets with your favorite outdoor fare and we'll provide the punch and coffee. This will be a wonderful opportunity to visit a new Orange County park and renew acquaintances.

Chicano film screening at Libreria Martinez Sent by Anthony Garcia garcia@wahoo.sjsu.edu On October 8th at 6:00 P.M. there will be a Free screening of the acclaimed film "Soldados, Chicanos in Vietnam" at the Libreria Martinez in Santa Ana Ca. The screening will be followed by a lecture and book signing by the Writer/Producer/Publisher Mr. Charley Trujillo. "Soldados, Chicanos in Vietnam" Wednsday October 8th 6:00 P.M. Libreria Martine, 1110 N. Main St., Santa Ana, Ca. (714) 973-7900 For more information on the film, and educational materials on the topic of Chicanos in Viet Nam visit: http://www.pbs.org/pov For more information on Charley Trujillo: http:// www.chusmahouse.com

5th Annual Visionary Award Luncheon Friday, October 10, 2003 Proceeds to benefit Orange County Council, Scouting Outreach Programs Sent by John Palacio Jpalacio@pacbell.net Master of Ceremonies: Michael Carona, Sheriff County of Orange Honoring . . . The Hon. Todd Spitzer and Teresa Saldivar Lunch & Program 12:00 noon Tickets, $100. The Coast Anaheim Hotel (formerly Anaheim Westcoast) 1855 S. Harbor Blvd. Anaheim, CA R.S.V.P. Marcos Nava (714) 546-4990 ext. 106, Fax (714) 546-0415 Email: Marcos Nava - marcosn@ocbsa.org Make Checks Payable to: BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 3590 Harbor Gateway North, Costa Mesa, CA 92626

	Logan School Reunion October 11, 2003 Logan School on the corner of Logan and Stafford was one of the Mexican segregated schools of that time. The school was demolished many years ago, but many of its former students will be reliving some of those memories at the upcoming Logan reunion. Sent by Mary Garcia maryr_garcia@hotmail.com
Many of the residents of the first early Mexican barrios in Orange County have been getting together and conducting their own reunions. Bringing to mind those times when the towns were young and things were in many ways, oh, so different. The early residents bonded, worked hard, celebrated, and lived a life that instilled in them a deep pride and ownership of being part of those eras. Santa Anita, El Modena recently have had their reunions. Logan had a mini reunion in June, 2003 but that only whet their appetite. On Saturday, October 11, 2003 they will be meeting at Logan Park, corner of Stafford & Custer St. with a bigger reunion. Music will be provided by Los Latinos (prior Logan residents), a potluck lunch, a picture display brought by many of the first family of the Logan area, and all will be reliving those good times and feeling the pride of our culture and of our ancestors who made it possible. Logan is thought to be the oldest Mexican community in Santa Ana.

Latina Mothers Awards Banquet, October 11th Familia Latina magazine in partnership with Latino Health Acess will recognize and celebrate Latina Mothers by honoring five mothers at an awards banquet on Saturday, October 11 at the Santa Ana Performing Arts & Event Center. The event is known as Las Madres de Honor (The Mothers of Honor). Categories are as follows: Mama de la Comunidad (Mother of the Community) Corazon Immigrante (Immigrant Heart) Vencedora Victoriosa ( Victorious Overcomer) Triunfadora Jovencita (Triumphant Young Lady) Abuelita Extraordinaria ( Extraordinary Grandma) "Through these events we can say "Thank you" to these mothers and recognize their achievements which might otherwise be overlooked," said Laura Lentz, President of Latino Family Media, Inc. " We think it is critical to continue our event series to honor Latina mothers and their contributions to family and community." The event will take place from 11 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and will include a brunch and entertainment. Gifts will be given as door prizes to mothers attending the event. ATTENDANCE IS FREE, and open to families in Santa Ana and the surrounding communities via reservation only. PLEASE CALL 800/ 509-0072 FOR RESERVATIONS NOW! Viola Myre vmyre@hcoc.org Office Manager, Hispanic Chamber of Orange County 2323 N. Broadway, Suite 305 Santa Ana, CA 92706-1640 Phone: (714)953-4289 Ext:21 Fax: (714) 953-0273

Schedule of Genealogical Workshops, National Archive & Records Administration 24000 Avila Road, 1st Floor East, Laguna Niguel, CA 92677-3497 Fall 2003 Oct. 16th Introduction to Genealogical Resources Oct. 22nd Preserving Your Family's History Oct. 30th Naturalization & Immigration Records Reminder: Reservations Required! Class sizes are limited. Please call (949) 360-2641, ext. 0 to reserve your place in each class you would like to attend. All workshops cost $7.50, payable at the door. Driving Directions: From I-5, exit at Oso Parkway

I feel privileged to share information from an 1981 issue of La Luz. It was sent by Charlie A. Erickson, founder of the Washington-based Hispanic Link News Service. The insight, vision and dedication that Erickson's personal story reveals is an inspiration. A life-commitment was firmly established in 1979. Ericksen, then 51 said he had the idea of establishing an Hispanic news service when he realized there were no Hispanic writers being syndicated in American newspapers.
	The fuel for Ericksen's Hispanic rights passion came from two sources. One, his wife Sebastiana is a native of Oaxaca, Mexico. The other from the days when his five mestizo children were growing up in the barrios of East Los Angeles. "Every part of them that was Hispanic in culture was given no value by the schools or anybody," said Erickson. "They were only measured by that part of them that was Anglo." So in 1979, having accumulated more than 30 years of experience in journalism and public relations, Ericksen quit his job as director of media relations for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. And in January 1980, he established the Hispanic Link News Service with headquarter on N Street NW. He said he chose "Hispanic Link" because "what we're trying to do is be a link between the part of the country made up of different Hispanic backgrounds and the dominant society.
Charlie and Sebastiana on their wedding day.	Holly Lown, an editorial volunteer, Sebastiana, Cynthia Valdez, and Charlie.

"Most newspapers take a very narrow view of the benefits which a bilingual of bicultural people can bring to society. They don't present a Hispanic perspective." "The ultimate proof of our success won't be measured by what happens to Hispanic Link. A better yardstick will be what role we can play in influencing establishment newspapers and syndicates to hire their own Hispanic reporters, editors, columnists and editorial writers - to that this critical viewpoint is finally built into the structure of American journalism." Ericksen continues as a reporter to the Hispanic Link Weekly Report. He was recently selected as one of the top 50 Hispanic Media Publishers, Editors, Reporters and professionals from across the nation by an independent group of judges in the Spanish journalism field.
All life is an experiment. -- Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson Sent by Salena Ashton

Bernardo de Gálvez
Three days of Activities Schedule for October 12th California State Proclamation Speaker bios & text of lectures	History Lessons Learned During the Search for Spanish Soldiers and Sailors Center for Family History & Genealogy, BYU Immigration Ancestors Project

ORANGE COUNTY, CA
Oct 1, Viola Sadler presents to HIRE and NARA Oct 3, Michael Perez presents to Knights of Columbus Oct 4, Searching Other Record Types, OCCGS Oct 4, 4 Generations of Guevaras' Works Art Exhibit Oct 4, Orange County Archives Seminar 6th Oct 4, Center For Oral & Public History	Oct 8, "Soldados, Chicanos in Vietnam" Oct 10, 5th Annual Visionary Luncheon Oct 11, Logan School Reunion Oct 11, Latina Mothers Award Banquet Oct 11, Grijalva Park Annual Picnic Oct 16, NARA Genealogical Workshops Oct 17, Dr. Tomas A. Arciniega