Re: [ranchos] ORAL HISTORY

[Mambo King!!!! <javier_m_barrios@...>]

I did an Oral history on my family's geneology and
believe me, it's something to hear.  It's  very nice
to see and hear the elders of the family speak like
it's nothing.  If you do have elders still around, get
a ideocamera and a few blank tapes and set it up and
just let it run.  The nice thing about that is you can
get their knowledge and history and you can also get a
good videotape of them BEFORE they pass on and the
best part of that is they are telling the family story
to you and to whoever is watching.

Paz
--- yolanda medina-perez <windrocklili@...>
wrote:

> 
> 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
> one draw back is 
> the very sad fact that the files from A-E FILES WERE
> DESTROYED 
> before the new owners offered the collection to the
> University. 
> Thanks to UTEP I now have a little more info about
> my family and 
> some very treasured pictures, Oh and by the way they
> allow you to 
> take a digital camera in and take pictures.     
> Now my QUESTION????
> Have any of the ranchos members done any oral
> history work and if so 
> what would be a good format for genealogy/family
> purposes?  Help 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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Javier M. Barrios