RE: [ranchos] Telephone Oral History

["glo Sandoval-Fuentes" <gloriafuentes@...>]

Oh wow Emilie,


That is just terrible. But then I make myself wonder what if someone out of 
the blue had called me and said this to me before I ever started doing my 
geneology thing.
Plus a lot of us are not here legally, you know what I mean? So we just want 
to keep a low profile. Of course their could be other reasons as well.
But anyways I will be praying you get a break through.



              ~~glo~~






From: "Emilie Garcia" <auntyemfaustus@...>
Reply-To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
To: <ranchos@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [ranchos] Telephone Oral History
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 15:38:37 -0700

Yes, Joseph, I too have had, if not hostile, then indifferent and evasive 
reactions to my inquiries of distant cousins even here in the US.  My sister 
still lives in Silicon Valley where we were raised, and she found a second 
cousin in the phone book that also lives in San Jose.  He admitted being 
related (his father and our father were first cousins), but when she asked 
for a meeting, he kept putting her off saying he didn't know anything about 
family trees, etc.  Our father and his father are long gone. He said his 
mother might have some pictures.  When my sister called the mother, she 
denied having any pictures or documents (which is hard to believe).  My 
sister has been calling his mother, and she keeps putting off meeting with 
her.  My sister tried calling the cousin again, and he had changed his phone 
number!  Talk about being wary and suspicious!
Since we are female, have no brothers, and my father had no brothers, my 
sister and I have been looking for male Olague relatives in order to submit 
DNA to the University of Arizona to see which haplogroup our father belonged 
to.  Imagine trying to get a person like our reluctant cousin to submit a 
DNA sample when we can't even get to first base!  We might have to bribe him 
 or one of his sons big time.  We'll see.
Emilie Garcia
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