When I met him in November 2000, he did not. However, his friend and kinsman (and mine, too), Leonardo de la Torre Berumen has email (just look in Somos Primos). Leonardo has written many articles for SP. Marge:)
On Aug 20, 2005, at 4:31 PM, Alberto Duarte wrote:
Marge:
Does Mr. Bernardo del Hoyo Calzado have an email
address? I've read his book for a copy of years, and I
also want to the Dolores cemetery when I visited Jerez
a couple of years ago.
Regards.
Alberto Duarte Prieto.
Santa Maria, California
--- Joseph Puentes <makas@...> wrote:
>
> A Personal Research Adventure of a Scots-Irish
> Mexican American
>
> by
> Marge Vallazza
>
> For most of my life, I knew little of my personal
> Mexican heritage. I
> knew a lot about Mexico and its history but because
> my Scots mother was
> our primary caretaker, I knew and cared more about
> my Scots and
> Anglo-Irish heritage than my Hispanic one. After my
> trip to Mexico last
> week, it's a neck to neck race.
>
> I had been looking forward to this trip for a long
> time. Its
> preparations including hours of research at the
> local Family History
> Center here in Overland Park; several hundred
> dollars worth of books,
> microfilm copies, xerox copies; extensive
> communication with travel
> agents, international airlines, Mexican national bus
> lines, Mexican
> archivists, and the like. Why? All because my maiden
> name had been the
> equivalent of Mary Smith, my father's mother's
> maiden name was the
> equivalent of Jones, her mother-in-law's was the
> equivalent of
> Brown...well, you get the picture.
>
> I wanted to find something different about me (other
> than I have a
> unique background of being a Scots-Irish Mexican
> American! Not too many
> people have THAT kind of background!) and find
> something I did. My
> father's mother's mother had an uncommon surname and
> my grandmother and
> her parents came from a place in the central
> highlands in Mexico called
> Zacatecas. The capital of Zacatecas state is also
> called Zacatecas and
> is listed under UNESCO's Cultural Heritage treasures
> for its lovely 16th
> and 17th century colonial architecture.
>
> My grandmother's hometown was Jerez, located about
> 45 Km from Zacatecas.
> In my research, I have gotten as far as the early
> 1700s but have stopped
> to gather data on my multi-great grandparents and
> their siblings and
> their children. However, on my trip, I had an
> interview
> with the author of a book I had purchased here in
> Kansas City over the
> internet from a bookstore in San Antonio (Borderland
> Books, owner,
> George Farias) that specializes in Hispanic
> genealogy and history
> books. I wanted Bernardo del Hoyo Calzado to
> autograph my copy of his
> book (Panteon de Dolores, which translates to
> Cemetery of Sorrows),
> which documents many of the mausoleums and tombs of
> the wealthy in 17th
> and 18th century Jerez, Zacatecas.
>
> In his book, had run across some of the same
> surnames, I have discovered
> in my own family tree! Included in that family tree
> was the name de
> Llamas, which means the Flames and Saldivar, which
> is a Spanish name
> from the Basque region of Northern Spain. De Llamas
> was the maiden
> surname of the maternal grandmother of one of the
> most famous poets in
> Mexico, Ramon
> Lopez Velarde, who was also from Jerez and is buried
> in the Cathedral in
> Mexico City.
>
> When I finally got a hold of Bernardo, I stammered
> out who I was and why
> I was calling. He graciously invited my husband and
> me to his home and
> said to me that, based on my surnames, especially
> the Saldivar, he and I
> were related. Upon our arrival in his home at the
> appointed time the
> next day, I discovered that he was a professional
> genealogist. He rolled
> out this tablecloth sized tube of paper covered with
> an immense minute,
> detailed chart. He asked me how far back I had
> gotten and then asked me
> if my Saldivars were Spanish or mestizo at that
> point. I showed him a
> copy of a microfilmed baptism certificate that
> showed my ancestor is
> listed as Spanish, which would only occur if the
> parents were European.
> He looked over his chart, zeroed in on a name, and
> said, "This is likely
> your ancestor--he is a descendant of the union
> between Hernan Cortes and
> Montezuma's daughter." I guffawed and replied that I
> found that hard to
> believe...my goal had not been to link to them but
> to learn something of
> the family in that part of the country. He was
> adamant that this was so.
> He also said to me that I needed to provide the
> links back at least 100
> more years. It shouldn't be difficult once I cross
> back from the year 1700.
>
> Lastly, because my grandmother's provincial town was
> so small, families
> have intermarried over the centuries. However, I
> have read a quote that
> "war is the great equalizer" or words to that
> effect...several
> revolutions in Mexico have provided new blood
> (despite the shedding of
> it as well) and scattered the people as they fled
> north for their lives.
> That's what happened to my grandmother and her
> family.
>
> They appeared in Cuidad Juarez across the border
> from El Paso, Texas
> around 1913...that's the time a huge, bloody battle
> occurred in Jerez
> during the Mexican Revolution--this was lasted from
> 1910 to 1920.
> Another battle took place in Zacatecas in 1914...it
> was a hellish time for
> everyone. But by then my grandmother and her family
> were away from
> there. Who knows when my grandmother met my
> grandfather, who came from
> Chihuahua City? My father was born in Juarez in 1923
> and who would have
> guessed that 22 years later, thanks to another war,
> he'd be thousands of
> miles away in Scotland, where he met and married the
> love of his life?
> Once again, thanks to another "great equalizer"
> yours truly is here to
> tell this tale.
>
>
> Marge
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