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To Michael Gonsalez:
Thanks for the information you provided to Joseph below. I had to
laugh at the part where you say "those of us who are still in
the early 1900s researching our great grand parents and their brothers and
sisters". It made me feel so old. I am trying to find an immigration
record for my father. He came from Zacatecas in 1913 through the border
crossing at El Paso TX. I would so much like to see a record of his
crossing, but NARA has been no help. The NARA office across the Sound in
Seattle said they do not have the films for border crossings at El Paso for that
period of time. They said that their office in Berkeley, CA or someplace
had them. Since my sister was living in San Jose at the time, she went
there and looked but was not able to complete her search and now she has moved
to Las Vegas. You said you lived in Ft. Worth. Might you have a NARA there
that has the El Paso border crossing records for around 1913?
Thanks,
Emilie Garcia
Port Orchard, WA ----.
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Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 11:56
PM
Subject: Re: [ranchos] Help With
Questions
great. Thanks Michael. I'll have a look and see if I can gleam
a few questions to ask from this material. Yes I knew about the name change
but didn't have it handy when I wrote. thanks again.
joseph
ps:
if you're inclined can you make a folder in the "links" area of the Group
called USCIS (formerly INS) and put the links in this email in it with a very
brief description? then it will be available for later as well
thanks
Michael Gonzales wrote:
Hi Joseph,
If you want to see if INS records contain
information on where an individual comes from you might be interested in the
following sites. As you might know, INS is no longer. The new
Agency is the US Citizenship and Immigrations Services. However, the
border crossing records are still available through NARA. I
have also attached some Word documents on the specific records
that are available and what you can expect to find in them. There are
NARA regional sites. I have one here in Ft. Worth but I believe there
are six total outside of Washington D.C.
Hope this info addresses what you were
requesting below and is of assistance for those of us who are still in the
early 1900s researching our great grand parents and their brothers and
sisters. The links below contain lots of information and you may find
that it won't be neceessary to interview anyone, at least for
now.
Michael
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Original Message -----
Sent:
Sunday, October 09, 2005 8:03 AM
Subject:
[ranchos] Help With Questions
okay some have problems with finding out the
"Where" in Mexico they came
from. I want to eventually get interviews
with people in INS and Social
Security and other gov't offices to see
what information is freely open
to the public that might give clues on
where in Mexico people came from.
Can you all email me directly
with your thoughts on what questions can
be asked of people high up in
these organizations. I'd like to go
prepared and can only think of
these questions:
1) With regards to the freedom of information act
what info is available
to the general public in (their
organization).
2) On the records that are available what kind of
information is usually
collected?
3) What time periods did
these records cover?
4) What preliminary work can the information
seeker perform to
facilitate the look up of records?
5) Are
there specific forms that need to be used for information
request?
6) Are there costs involved with requesting records? And
if so what are
they?
7) Is the informatin regarding your
organization kept at one central
location or might one need to contact
various geographical locations of
your organization to find their
specific record needs?
8) Can you supply the address of locations
on the internet where
a) the address of each
specific information center
b) where
information requesting forms can be
downloaded
c) general
contact information can be found
Help me with this please. I know
I'm forgetting some important questions
that I might only have a one
time opportunity to ask. What would you
like to know about some
relative from some gov't organization that I
have not listed
above?
thanks,
joseph
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