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Thank you Angie:
I never believed that Thomas Edison had a Mexican
father. I am wondering if the author bothered to check out his
source...
I guess you can't believe everything you read,
authors are only human and will make mistakes.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 2:42
PM
Subject: [ranchos] Re:
Scientists/Inventors
Here is a partial family tree for Thomas Alva Edison:
http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/thomas-edison/
Here
is a bio page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Alva_Edison
Hope
this helps,
Angie
--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "John
Gonzalez" <1gnzlz@v...>
wrote:
>
> Hi Joseph:
>
> I ran into a bit of
information that I find hard to believe.
> I have a book titled:
Teocaltiche Tierra de Arrieros y Hacendados
con
> Familias
Ilustres. The author is Nicolas de Anda Sanches.
>
> On
page 47. I quote: " Tambien de este linaje desciende Dn. Juan
de
> Alva que era arriero o carretero en el siglo pasado y que segun Dn.
> Victoriano Salado Alvarez, iba hasta los estados de Nuevo Mexico y
> Texas, a él se le atribuye ser el padre del "scientifico
patentador" de
> miles de inventos, Dn. Tomas Alva Edison, nos lo
comenta en el
capitulo
> II de sus Memorias, correspondiendole a
Encarnación de Diaz, ser la
> abuela de dicho personaje."
>
> I always thought that Thomas Edison's family came from
Canada.
>
> Can anybody shed some light on this? Any
ideas?
>
> John Gonzalez
> Wildomar
CA.
>
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