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Josie Cavazos was 15 years old when her mother passed away from ovarian cancer.
Nearly five years later, this 62-year-old woman wishes she could have asked her mother during her childhood or c mo lleg a servier for twenty minutes at Home Cafe, which later changed its name to Andy’s Home Cafe in 1977.
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“I didn’t realize that I was so young that I had a very nice ventana to listen to these stories and talk to my family about their history and their families,” said a recent Marte.
Josie and her 44-year-old daughter Christina were among the people who met at the Leonel J. Castillo Community Center at the beginning of this month to learn genealogy and to look into their family history. The two-hour session is specifically designed for Hispanic and Latina families that occasionally struggle with the time of rastrear to their antepasados.
Carlos Cant, an adjunct history professor at the University of Houston and the founder of the Collective of Educators Progresistas (COPE), which hosts the seminar, stated that Latin and Hispanic heritage has not been inventoried or cataloged to the extent that it has been European heritage.
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There is a lot of information. However, nothing has been inventoried or revised, and I’m adi Cantu.
According to their Facebook page, COPE’s mission is to uncover, preserve, and promote underrepresented histories, establish partnerships with defense groups, non-profit organizations, higher education institutions, and resource centers, and provide safe learning environments for all communities.
In order to achieve this, the non-profit organization partnered with AARP to host the seminar and brought in four experts to teach the fundamentals of genealogy.
Ramiro Contreras, investigador independiente, aconseja a los genealogistas en ciernes que empiecen su proyecto de investigaci n recopilando informaci n b sica sobre su familia inmediata y creando un rbol geneal gico. Using the archives on the website comoAncestry.com, you can find people who lived around 1950 and worked toward the end of the century.
According to Contreras, the document’s bureaucracy was established in 1950.
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Los registros digitalizados del censo de EE.UU. y los certificados de bautismo son especialmente tiles para las familias hispanas y latinas, explica Contreras.
These records are telling us a story, which is below. Nos est n hablando, y cuando hagas clic en ellos te hablar n y te contar n algo sobre la vida de tus antepasados .
Si se buscan registros de pa ses latinoamericanos o de Espa a, los expertos recomiendan acudir aFamilySearch.org. El sitio web, gestionado por la Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los ltimos D as, tiene una amplia colecci n de registros internacionales, dijo Carl Smith, gerente del Centro de Investigaci n de Historia Familiar de la Biblioteca Clayton.
Smith dijo que el centro, ubicado en el Distrito de los Museos, es socio afiliado del repositorio morm n y tiene acceso a registros que de otro modo se mantendr an privados.
Smith tambi n se al que el centro de investigaci n posee una de las mayores colecciones de historias familiares publicadas e in ditas del pa s, con m s de 100.000 vol menes y 3.000 publicaciones peri dicas.
La inmensa mayor a de los registros a n no est n en l nea. Y no lo estar n durante nuestra vida , a adi .
Marina Flores Sugg dijo que asisti al taller para aprender m s sobre c mo puede investigar ambos lados de su extensa familia. Como tejana de cuarta generaci n, Flores dijo que sabe poco o nada sobre su herencia mexicana.
Hemos perdido muchos contactos que sol amos tener con M xico porque hemos estado aqu durante mucho tiempo , dijo.
Una cosa que s sabe es que su bisabuela trajo al abuelo de Flores a Houston porque no quer a que el entonces joven de 12 a os fuera reclutado por el revolucionario mexicano Pancho Villa. Tambi n recuerda que alguien le dijo que su abuelo se hizo cortador de carne al mudarse a Texas.
l era el que cortaba la carne en filetes, diferentes tipos de filetes , dijo Flores. El carnicero s lo mata al animal .
Flores tambi n recuerda que su bisabuela ten a una casa en Canal Street, en el East End de Houston, y una gran m quina que la matriarca utilizaba para planchar la ropa.
Mi madre me dice, es imposible que te acuerdes de eso, Rena, porque ten as dos o tres a os . Yo le dije mam , yo me acuerdo’ , cuenta Flores.
Cavazos dijo que su madre creci en Dewalt, Texas, se cas joven y trabaj como camarera en Andy s, el restaurante de Houston de toda la vida. Aparte de eso, no sabe mucho m s sobre Guadalupe Castillo Waterhouse o c mo vivi su vida.
Cavazos espera que al aprender m s sobre su madre, sabr m s sobre ese lado de la familia y lo que los trajo a Texas.
Tengo peque os retazos, pero nunca me he sentado con nadie de mi familia para conocer la historia completa .
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