Re: My Father's Immigration

["Arturo Ramos" <arturo.ramos2@...>]

What were the names of your grandfather and grandmother?  The 
baptismal records of the parish in Jerez, Zacatecas are extracted 
through the end of the 1800s on the LDS Church's IGI database, so you 
should be able to find their records there, but there are lots of 
Olagues in that city so you will need some more information... Do you 
have a copy of your grandfather's birth certificate or know what his 
maternal (second) last name was?

Go to http://www.familysearch.org and select International 
Genealogical Index on the left and then type in your last name and 
select Mexico and Zacatecas in the region fields at the bottom.

I take it this social security death record is your father's?

Guadalupe OLAGUE   
    Birth Date: 28 Jan 1903  
    Death Date: Sep 1966  
    Social Security Number:  523-12-6413  
    State or Territory Where Number Was Issued:  Colorado 
  
  Death Residence Localities 
    ZIP Code: 95112  
    Localities:  San Jose, Santa Clara, California 


--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "Emilie Garcia" <auntyemfaustus@h...> 
wrote:
> My father, Guadalupe Olague, born in Jerez, Zac. on January 28, 
1903, immigrated to the US via Juarez-El Paso in 1913.  He had legal 
alien status.  His father and grandmother and sister settled in 
Brush, Morgan County, Colorado, where I was born in 1939.  In 1941 my 
father, at my mother's insistence (she was a native of New Mexico), 
became a Naturalized Citizen.  During WWII, my father and his uncle 
and cousins relocated to Northern California where they obtained jobs 
in defense plants.  He had sent my mother, my sister and myself to my 
mother's relatives in New Mexico. My father was a welder at the 
shipyards that were building the Liberty ships.  After the war, he 
went to work as a welder for Westinghouse in Sunnyvale, CA, and he 
sent for us around 1948 and they bought a house in San Jose near 
Willow Glen.  My husband's mother and siblings also moved to 
California around the same time from El Paso, TX.  My husband was a 
friend of one of my cousins.  We married in 1962 and lived in Silicon 
Valley until 1996 when we retired and moved to Washington State.  My 
sister and her sons have moved to Las Vegas, NV.  Our parents are 
buried in San Jose at Calvary Cemetery.
> 
> Emilie Garcia
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