Re: [ranchos] Margarita's rememberance of Jerez, Zacatecas

[Margarita Vallazza <TeaCozyGran@...>]

Dear Jose,
It's not a very big town but it is a lovely one!  I did get to go to a cemetery called El Panteon de Dolores (there was more to the name, but I cannot recall it.)  It was very interesting.  Some of graves are covered by elaborate headstones and huge carved marblery.  A few are very distant relatives or family connections of my grandmother's.  What was also sad about this site was that here these folks had spent a LOT of money to perpetuate their existence and the cemetery was so neglected and overgrown with weeds.  One grave had a broken slab and bees had made their hive inside.  My husband, our guide, and myself were the only ones there and it was a sobering experience.   

Sorry, I don't know anyone's address or anything.  Leonardo de la Torre Berumen and Bernardo del Hoyo Calzada are two gentlemen whom I met on my trip.  Bernardo and Leonardo collaborate a lot on historical research.  You might be able to get Leonardo's email address from Mimi Lozano's Somos Primos newsletter.  Marge:)
On Jun 30, 2005, at 1:50 AM, zendean wrote:

> Margarita;
>      My great grandfather and ggmother were from Jerez, Zacatecas. I wonder,
>  is it a big town ? Francisco Macias and his wife Leonarda Ramirez are and 
>  have always been a mystery to me. My Aunt told me that they visited them in 
>  Zacatecas when they were little and that the Macias's lived on a farm there.
>      I wonder if you know some one that is there now that I can correspond
>  with to ask about them.
>
>  Jose Macias
>  usa20@...
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>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: "Margarita Vallazza" <TeaCozyGran@...>
>  To: <ranchos@yahoogroups.com>
>  Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 8:51 AM
>  Subject: Re: [ranchos] FOOD:Mole/Pipian/Genealogy
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>  > My dad's mother was from Jerez, Zacatecas, and she died just before my
>  > sixth birthday so I don't have a lot of memories of her but here's one
>  > or two:
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>  > I remember her fixing something called atole, which I didn't like, but
>  > remembering it from a fog of some years' distance, I would say it's a
>  > healthy drink.  She also had prunes in her oatmeal, so when I'd pop in
>  > to visit her in the morning and she had some, I'd be served a dish of
>  > it and enjoy it.  I liked it better than my mother's porridge (which I
>  > realize now was a true Scots dish).  At special times, don't know what
>  > they were, Abuelita would have capirotada, which I didn't like too
>  > well.  Remember, I was just a kid!:)
>  >
>  > I'll have to think about some more food...some of it was just the food
>  > from northern Mexico that my grandfather liked--he was from Chihuahua
>  > city.
>  >
>  > I wish I had had the blessing of more time with my grandmother, maybe I
>  > would have learned things about her family in Zacatecas.  I believe
>  > even she didn't know a lot about her family history and I say that
>  > because my Tias, dad's sisters, don't know much about their mother's
>  > life in Zacatecas.  I'm the one who told my Tia Carmen that my abuelita
>  > had a full sister named Paula, a full brother named Jose (who died in
>  > 1919)  and 2 half-sisters and a half-brother...they never knew!  People
>  > in the old country NEVER discussed anything private.  Marge:)
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