Confirming Your Participation: Files, Links

[makas@...]

[Note to the group: The quick and simple of finding out if you are 
included in those that have sent in your genealogies is to look in the 
files or links area of the group for your name or for those few without 
names, the names of your ancestors {i'm going to correct this soon}. 
Here is my current list of those represented so far:
Files Section
    Acuna Family Tree.rtf  (two braids: give me the name you want me to 
label your file under please)
    Alexandra Ramos Soto
    Alicia Avelar Carrillo
    Angel Cervantes' Ancestors
    Angie Godina's Ancestors
    Arturo Romero's Ancestors
    Barrios and Ybarra (Please send me your name to put on your file)
    Brendeen Longoria
    David Muro Y Carol Turner
    Deborah Ortiz' stuff
    Dora Gómez
    Esther Valencia
    EvieVillegas
    Helyn Sparkman de Castaneda
    Irma Gomez Lucero's Ancestors
    Janet Valeria Iglesias' Ancestors
    JonWalkerFamily Ancestors
    JosephPuentes' Ancestors
    Juanita Hinojosa
    Maria Cortez' Ancestors
    Maria Elena Gutierrez-Uhlenburg
    Mary Gervassi's Ancestors
    Peggy Delgado
    Raymond Jauregui
    Rich_Kitty Cortez' Ancestors
    Ronnie Reynoso
    Rosalinda Ruiz' Ancestors
    Sandoval & Ocampo (Please send my your name so I can put it on your 
file)
    Stella Locke's Ancestors
    Steven Hernández's Stuff
    T. Remaly 's Ancestors
    Yolanda Gomez

Links Section:
    Charles Clark
    Deena Ortiz
    Jose Luis Macias

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     I sure hope you all don't think I'm being such a tyrant about 
this. My dream was to gather "serious" researchers into a single group 
to support and help one another. In my opinion there is no support or 
help without a minimum of participation. If I was wanting lots of people 
the group could easily be hovering around 100-125 people by now as I 
have not allowed membership to those that refuse to answer my "Ranchos 
Requirements" email that simply states: 1) do your own research 2) share 
your research with the group.
     My belief is that many more of us in the group are related. I'm 
going to do a DNA test on myself shortly via Gary Felix's "The Genealogy 
of Mexico Surname Project" from FamilyTreeDNA-
http://members.tripod.com/~GaryFelix/index63.htm. In time I'm hoping 
others of you will be wanting to submit your DNA so we can see if we're 
related. But the next best thing is to find it on paper. DNA is 
absolute. But finding it on paper is soooooooooooo great and would 
certainly be good enough for me to accept you into my family as a "somos 
de la misma sangre, digo, mi casa es su casa" relative.
     If any of you want help submitting your Genealogy but are not 
feeling up to the technological challenge of the procedure then 
communicate with me and we'll work together on it. I'm real easy to get 
along with as long as there is some sort of communication involved. I'm 
willing to say that I'll accept almost any excuse except, "se me lo 
comio mi perro."]