Is there a collection of immigration/immigrant stories here on the NUESTROS RANCHOS page/site? (If so, how do I go about finding them?) Stories of how an ancestor or parent migrated to the U.S.; how and when did they travel?; why did they come to the U.S.?; how long did it take?; did they come alone or in a group?; where in the U.S. did they eventually settle?
I think it would be interesting to compare and contrast the immigrant stories. (Or is this just a hare-brained idea??)
Natalie in VA
Natalie,
No, your idea is not hare-brained Arturo already has a file called "Poems and Cuentos" that is for poems so far, but I'm sure he could open another file for "Immigrants' Stories". I love to read such stories. It fleshes out for me what the stories of my own immigrant ancestors might have been being that I never knew any but my father and he never talked about his experiences during the Revolution in Mexico and the trip to the US or his early years here.
I was born in Colorado in 1939 and raised in California, so I don't have the family knowledge that some of the other members have. My mother was American/Nuevo Mexican/Tewa and we were immersed in that culture that had existed there for 400 years and they considered my father's relatives "foreign newcomers". They were always talking about their ancestors, and my father never got a word in edgewise, nor did he want to. He would just shake his head and complain later about the archaic Spanish dialect they spoke that
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I have a short bio of my father's journey from Mexico to the USA which I sent
to the group on 30 July 2006. I guess it is in the General Genealogy and
History section. I could expand it to include my grandfather and my uncles.
The Estrada family migrated from Etzatlan to Guadalajara and then to Mexico
City and finally to Monterrey.
Gloria Estrada McCrary
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Immigrant stories