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Linda,
When was it that your father visited Durazno and was asked if some people
in California had black skins? You said 1836, but did you mean 1936 or
1986?
That reminds me of what I once witnessed somewhere in Mexico or Jalisco or
Zacatecas a long time ago, around the 1960's, I guess (the last time I was in
Mexico was 1968). An African-American tourist and his family (wife, two
kids) were walking down a street, he with a camera slung around his neck,
wearing shorts and sneakers, all gawking at everything. Unbeknownst to
him, he and his family were being gawked at too. A small girl
near me, a mestiza or Indian looking child, said to another child, "MI-ra los
NeGRItos!" (in a sing-song type of voice that I guess denotes pity or the
like). I couldn't believe that a small child would refer to a huge grown
man in the diminutive 'negrito", but they also do that when referring to Asians
- "chinitos" -- whether they are Chinese or Japanese. They truly
don't know their own history.
Emilie Garcia
Port Orchard, WA ----
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Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 12:13
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Subject: [ranchos] Siblings marrying
siblings
Hi Alberto,
In my family in Jerez Zacatecas the Mulato's
were assimillated and
through the years by marrying into Espanol and
Mestizo families they
eventually thought they were Espanol and Mestizo
only.
My Alcala family records show them as Alcalan and Mulato Libre or
Indio depending on which brothers marriage record you read in late
1700's. They come to Jerez by way of Valparaiso and Fresnillo to
live
in Labor de Marquez by 1780. By 1815 my direct ancestor Marcial
Alcala had
married an Espanol woman and therafter they thought of
themselves as
Espanol!
Abt. 1865 my ancestor Maria Marcos Alcala married Ambrocio
Caldera
and the Caldera family always said they were Espanol. If I
remember
correctly you and I share the Caldera line. I have found 1
record
that suggests that the Garcia line married into the Caldera lines
twice in late 1700's were also Indio and possibly Mulato, the record
refers to him as Collote... I have the Garcia line in at least 2 of
my
lines.
When my father visited El Durazno, Jerez in 1836 he was asked if
there really were people with black skins in California? They said
they had never seen such a person and knew nothing of the history of
slavery in their own community. It's nice to reclaim through
genealogy
the people who got me here..
Linda in Everett.
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