Introduction

["euler2luna" <gluna@...>]

Hello everyone. I am George Luna, a recent addition to the ranchos 
group. I started last July researching my family. I knew my 
grandparents names (Casimiro Luna and Maria Marquez) and that one of 
my uncles was born in Juanchorrey. My mother's side of the family
is from El Paso via Chihuahua so I excluded that side of the family 
in my file. Joseph's advice about oral history is great, but in my
case no one (my father and his three brothers and sister) didn't
want to talk about their father when I first got interested in 1973. 
I dropped the subject (a mistake, but I was busy with family and a 
career as a Math professor) until I semi retired (teaching one 
quarter per year). 

My father was born in Taft, California and one brother and sister in 
Arizona and Bakersfield, California, resp. I knew that my grandmother 
and the 5 children were deported to Mexicali in the early thirties 
and that they grew up in Tijuana, BC. My father was working in San 
Diego in 1943 when he was drafted (he was after all a U.S. citizen) 
into the Navy. He served in the Pacific on the destroyer USS Adams. 
He died in 1993. I was born in San Diego in 1940. 

I first found the family in the 1920 census. I also found
Casimiro's parents Macedonio Luna and Secundina Lopez in the same 
census. All were working in San Bernardino on the railroad. Since 
none of that side of the family is in the 1930 census, the online 
search was fruitless. That is when I went to Salt Lake City (I have 
been there three times, a week at a time) and discovered through 
census, baptism, marriage, and death records not only what happened 
to Casimiro and Macedonio (still can't find out about Secundina),
but a pedigree chart  with many de la Torre, Correa , Carlos, 
Gonzalez. I had on my chart a Andres de la Torre and his son Jose 
Maria de la Torre when I connected with the book: José León
Robles de laTorre, Filigranas, Fundaciones y Genealogias, Tepetongo, 
Zacatecas(Torreón, Coahuila: Editorial del Norte Mexicano, 1999). 
Many of the names and fragments coincided with what I had; only the 
Gonzalez portion has discrepancies that I need to check out. In any 
case, at least one direct line has been established to Diego de la 
Torre (born in Spain in 1482) cofounder of Guadalajara, Jalisco and 
first governor of Nuevo Galicia. There is an apt quote by the 
Mathematician Mordell that goes something like "it is the
ignorant 
miner who finds the nugget". 

I apologize for the long post, but I hoped it would explain the 
specificity of my search. I am looking in the Juanchorrey, Tepetongo 
area for: Casimiro Luna, Juana Zuniga, Crescencio Luna, Leopoldo 
Luna, Macedonio Luna, Secundina Lopez, Luisa Correa, Miguel Eusebio 
Gonzalez, Miguel Gonzalez, Ana Maria de la Torre. Maria Rosalia 
Gonzalez, Maria Antonia Valdez, Nicolosa Carlos and anything that 
might connect to the names in the file I posted.

Thanks for your patience.

It continues ?