Re: Help Please Help

["mexicanfhr" <jonathan@...>]

Joseph,

Use the Resource disk, that I sent you.  go to the geographical index,
look under Jalisco, and click on the 2000 census info.  It is a .pdf
file.  Open the search option, and try a combination of letters, and
see if you find you town.

Thanks,
Jonathan

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, Joseph Puentes <makas@n...> wrote:
> 
> oooh, oooh, oooh!!!! I just got off the phone from collecting some 
> critical Oral history from an Aunt that has been very very reluctant to 
> talk to me about her mother or my one and only Solid Brick Wall:
Antonia 
> Lopez. I got confirmation that Antonia Lopez is indeed her name. she is 
> my maternal grandmother! Hurrah!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> 
> anyway now here is the most important information that she gave me:
> 
> she said that she was from a town that sounds like Juclaclan 
> (who-cla-clan).
> 
> Can all of those that have great imaginations and have studied your 
> specific areas of Jalisco send me any town, pueblos, ranchos or
anything 
> that even remotely sounds like Juclaclan.
> 
> Boy if I could just break this one line I would be so far in heaven you 
> might not hear from me again.
> 
> I can't believe it I really can't. . .this aunt just opened right up
and 
> talked to me so natural. I think she saw how persistent I had been all 
> the while not being pushy to get info from her. I would just 
> occassionally call and establish a good repoire with her and just 
> casually toss in tidbits of my research. I never pushed her and then 
> today she just started talking about her mom. . .what a great great day 
> it is for me!!!!
> 
> as you can see I'm so so happy!
> 
> now I hope to find this Juclaclan. . .she also said that she and
another 
> aunt of mine once went there [she couldn't remember what it was close 
> to] and that the only thing remaining of it was a pile of stones where 
> it had once been. hmmm a ghost town.
> 
> thanks for your help. . .
> 
> joseph