2013 12 - Dec LBGHS Newsletter

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Los Bexareos

Genealogical andHistorical SocietyThose born in Bxar and those who migrated to and made their home in Bxar throughout the ages, whether under the influence of Tribal Lor the laws of Spain, France, the 1stRepublic of Texas, the Republic of Mxico, the 2ndRepublic of Texas, the Confederate States of Amric

the United States of Amrica are known as Los Bexareos.

Their families extend to all the lands of the world. Once a Bexareo always a Bexareo.

A Newsletter via e-Mail December 20

Contents In This Issue

1. LBGHS December Monthly Meeting Facebook LBGHS Web Page

2. Message From The President

3. LBGHS Committees Announcements

4. SAVE THE DATE: The LBGHS Annual Awards and Installation of Officers Luncheon5. Websites That Tell Our Stories Membership Dues Gloria Cadena Scholarship Fund

6. LBGHS November Monthly Meeting

7. LBGHS Merchandise Telling Our Stories -Home Remedies ~ Herbs and Prayers

8. Telling Our Stories -Memory Flashback

9. LBGHS Directory Gloria Cadena Scholarship

10. Telling Our Stories - The Making of Los Ojuelos Ranch Book

11. Genealogy Project - Google Genealogy Search Tips

13. LBGHS Resource Center Publication Sales Web Indexes

14. LBGHS Raffle Publication Announcements

15. Calendar of Events

16. Around The State Message From the Editor Submit Your Articles

LBGHS Monthly Meeting

December 7, 2013

San Antonio Main Public Library9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

SPEAKER: Art Martnez de Vara

TOPIC: The History and Records of San Patricio

Art Martnez de Vara is the current mayor of Von Ormy, Bexar, Texas. Prior to 1880, the community was known as Mann's Crossing, Garza'sCrossing, Medina Crossing, and Paso de las Garzas.

Mr. Martnez de Vara will present his new book "The History and Records of San Patricio de Bexar Church at Bexar, Texas."an Patricio de Bexar Church at Bexar (near present-day Somerset, Texas) began as the Catholic mission to Atascosa and Frio Coun

ocated on the Kinney Ranch in South Bexar County, it served the coal mining communities of Bexar and La Colorada. With the arrivhe Artesian Belt Railroad, the town of Bexar declined as its population moved two miles east to Somerset. Many of the early famili

Atascosa and South Bexar Counties are contained among this books nearly 10,000 entries, including the Ruiz, Herrera, Navarro, Co

ytle, Casias, Kinney, Hayden, Barker and Vara. This volume contains the complete records of San Patricio de Bexar, plus a modern survts cemetery, an 1876 mission census of Atascosa County, and a detailed history of the community. !

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BGHS eMail Newsletter 2 Volume 2 - Iss

L O S B E X A R E O S G E N E A L O G I C A L A N D H I S T O R I C A L S O C I E T Y

M I S S I O N S T A T E M E N T

The mission of Los BexareosGenealogical and Historical Society is

to promote awareness of Hispanicgenealogy and history through

publications, public forums, research,consultations, education, and to

promote the preservation of archival

material for public research.

2 0 1 3 E X E C U T I V E B O A R D

President: Louis J. BenavidesVice President: Jos Lpez

Secretary: Mara Elena MartnezTreasurer: Lillie Johnson

B O A R D O F D I R E C T O R S

2012 - 2013: Anthony Delgado2012 - 2013: Eduardo Hinojosa2012 - 2013: Yolanda Patio2013 - 2014: Eleanor Foreman2013 - 2014: Sylvia Morales

A P P O I N T E D O F F I C E R SHistorian: Norberto MartnezParliamentarian: Jos Hernndez

A wise man once said that grandparentsare responsible for teaching their grand-

children the basics of life, to appreciate lifeand those things that they find in the world.

One of those things is to identify leftovers.Teach them not to throw leftovers away, teach

them to be creative in how they interact withleftovers.

Genealogy is a leftover in a waypeopleforgotten to history, lost in time. Grand-

parents have a responsibility to teach theirgrandchildren about their ancestors. Some-day, we will be the ancestor.

The wise man also said that the greatnessof society is dependent upon how that society

listens to their grandparents because grand-

parents have experience and wisdom. If asociety does not listen, then it will repeat themistakes of the past. A society cannot exist

without the generation that went before it.He continued, a society will cease to exist if i t

does not respect its elders.

WOW! Did you ever think that whenyou took up genealogy that you would be-come the gate keeper to your society and its

future?

My students in Texas History are cur-rently working on their research paperswhere they are comparing the most in-fluential letters in history and determining if

Traviss letter Victory or Death should beranked among them. They are going back in

time to Cicero in 106 B.C., but also as recentas 1976 when Bill Gates wrote his open

letter to the computer hobbyist about whysoftware (apps) should not be free, or Jos

Antonio Navarros 1855 letter telling Tejanosto stand strong, to unite, and to vote in the

face of the Know Nothing Party.

As families come together for Las Posa-das, Christmas, Hanukkah, or the religionthey practice, lets make a special effort to

teach our grandchildren the basics of life andprovide them with positive memories.

Each member of Los Bexareos needsto

search those among us who do not have their

family close by and invite them to join

their Bexareo family, during these holida

On another note, we will be beginnanother 30 years as an organization. Plsend me an email, letter, or call me and sh

with me things that you believe we shoulddoing as an organization. I want to look a

and any ideas that you have because thahow we continue to be successful as a soci

Oh, by the way, the man at the beginnof the article who has spoken about graparents several times this year is P

Francis. !

Louis J. Bena

LBGHS Pres

louis_benavides06@sbcglob

LOS BEXAREOS

PO BOX 1935

SAN ANTONIO TX 78297-1935

www.losbexarenos.org

Message

from the

Presidents

Desk

Los Bexareos Facebook Page

www.narrowswest.

Merry

Christmasand

Happy

Holidays

to

Los Bexareo

FelzNavidad

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LBGHS Committees

Publication Sales Santiago Escobedo santiagodebejar@sbcglobaBudget Lillie Johnson lillie07@swbe2018 Conference TBAFacebook Anthony Delgado 12thfamily@gmailFundraising Olga Hickey olhickey@yahooHospitality Sandra Benavides sandra_benavides@sbcglobaLibrary Dennis Moreno dennis.moreno@sbcglobaMembership Sylvia Morales lousyl@icloudProperty Dennis Moreno dennis.moreno@sbcglobaPublishing Larry Kirkpatrick elindio2@hotmailRegister Ral Guerra warcanamar@aol

Scholarship Mary Esther Escobedo lawhwy@yahooWebsite Dennis Moreno dennis.moreno@sbcgloba

Will YOU Volunteer?LOS BEXAREOS NEEDS VOLUNTEERS. Would you be willing to

contribute to the Society by volunteering for one of the committe

listed above. Are you interested in fund raising? Can you assist t

Hospitality Committee? Are you a proficient user of the interne

Maybe you can help with Facebook or work with the website.

Each one of you has a special talent or skill.

Your ideas and your expertise can greatly advance the cause of th

wonderful organization. Help us help others in their quest to fin

their Hispanic ancestors.

A Los Bexareos Membership

Friends of

Casa Navarro !

WhenTuesday, December 3, 2013

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

WhereCasa Navarro

State Historic Site

If you have additionalquestions or comments pleasecontact:

Sandy Salinas

Friends of Casa Navarro

[email protected]

(210) 365-5536

"TCARA"The Texas Connection to the American Revolution Association

INVITES YOU TO ATTEND THE

THE ANNUAL CHRISTMAS LUNCHEON

December 15, 2013 AT 11:30 a.m.

SONTERRA COUNTRY CLUB901 Sonterra Blvd., San Antonio, TX

(210) 496-1560FEATURING

The Texas A&M - San Antonio Chapter

With Speaker

Judge Robert ThonhoffAuthor, Historian, Educator

Plus

WHITE ELEPHANT GIFT EXCHANGE(Bring ANYTHING from home and take a number Draw a number andchoose a gift If you dont want it, take a gift from someone who already

has a gift. Lots of fun and laughs!)

$25.00 PER PERSONYOUR CHECK IS YOUR RESERVATION

PLEASE RSVPBEFORE DECEMBER 11, 2013BY CONTACTING:

Corinne Staacke

(210) 824-6019

Mail your check to:TACARA

PO BOX 690696San Antonio, TX 78269

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andFriends
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Fort Sam Houston Golf Club

1050 Harry Wurzbach Road

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os Bexareos Genealogical and Historical Society will not have a regular monthly meeting in January. TheAnnual Awards and Installa

Dinnerreplaces the LBGHS January monthly meeting. At this time, we do not have the menu choice nor the cost of the meal. This not

or those of you who wish to save the date, so you can make plans for that Sunday afternoon. When we receive the choice of entrees

meal cost, we will send out an eMail notice. Please be mindful that seats are limited and they will be filled on a first-come-first-serve bas

ou have questions or if you wish to volunteer to assist the Hospitality Committee, please contact Sandra Benavides at (210) 735-8717

[email protected]. !
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Websites That Tell Our

Stories

There is more to genealogy than just gatheringnames of ancestors. Yes, it is important to do the

basics, like pedigree charts, names, dates, places,family work sheets, etc. But, let us not forget thatthere are stories that go with these names. There arehistories in the places and times they lived.Photographs and stories bring our ancestors to life.Here we intend to transport you to websites that tellour stories. !

lamos Tejano Heroes Gain Recognition

Bexar Archives Online

Bexar County Historical Commission

Bxar Genealogy

Children of the Revolucin

Hispanic Heritage Month

PBSDocumentary: Latino-Americans

Somos Primos

Tejano Monument

Texas Tejano

Tell UsYour Stories Do you have a special, interesting, historical,or just a funny story about your relatives that youwould like to share? Un chiste that you would liketo contribute? Email your ancestral stories, and wewill try to print them in this newsletter on a first-come-first-serve basis. !

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~~~~ ~~Experiences that are shared

are added to lifes

beautiful memory books


MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE

You are cordially invited to join/renew your membership to

Los Bexareos Genealogical and Historical Society

Become part of an ever growing family who loves to do ancestra

research. Meet people who share the same interest and love of

genealogy, and people who may be doing research on your

particular family lineages.

To become a member, fill out the 2014 Membership Application

Form and mail it to the address on the form. Better yet, bring th

form with you when you attend our next meeting.

2014 Membership Form

GLORIA VILLA CADENAGENEALOGICAL andHISTORICAL

SCHOLARSHIP FUND

You are invited and encouraged to make a donation to the Glo

Cadena Genealogical and Historical Scholarship Fund. Los Bexare

will award scholarships to students who are or will be attending

accredited college/university. They will be chosen based on their abil

to produce a four generation pedigree chart which is accompanied with

essay of their ancestors.

Los Bexareos is trying to get young people involved in genealog

LBGHS wants to encourage students to embrace their culture a

heritage. The sacrifices their parents, grandparents, great-grandparen

etc. must not be forgotten. The younger generations need to be e

couraged to retell the stories about their ancestors handed dow

throughout the ages. !

Please make your donation to the LBGHS Scholarship Funda

send your check to:

LOS BEXARENOS

PO BOX 1935

SAN ANTONIO TX 78297-1935

Click Here And Join Us

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The Los Bexareos Genealogical and Historical Society held its monthly membership meeting on

November 2, 2013, at the Main Public Library in San Antonio, Texas.

The guest speakers, Sergio A. and Melinda Iruegas, have co-authored numerous archaeologicaleports for the federal and state agencies and private sponsors. Sergio and Melinda specialize in

panish Colonial and Tejano Historical Archaeology and Caddo Archaeology.

They are using their company GTI Environmental, L.L.C. to retrace the precise alignment of thehistoric La Baha Road from San Antonio to

Goliad for the Hispanic Heritage Center of

Texas. This project will have an impact on theproposed redevelopment of the HemisFair

Park.

In order to preserve the integrity of theIndigenous and Hispanic cultures, the President

of Los Bexareos will write a letter to theGeneral Services Administration and/or the National Park services as a Consu

Party. Acknowledgement and preservation of Indigenous Sacred Grounds anBaha Road as an integral part of commerce between the historical cities of

Antonio and Goliad should be considered inany proposed redevelopment of the HemisFairPark. !


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I live and work in Massachusetts. I was driving along Melnea Cass Boulevard in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Those of you who ar

amiliar with the Boston area should know that it is located between Dudley Square in Roxbury and the South end. The low income ho

rojects were to my left as I was stopped at a red light.

I observed a homeless man in his forties, wearing tattered clothing going up to all the cars stopped at the traffic light with a plastic cuwas a hot day, and he had placed his backpack down on the st reet divider in order to approach the cars. As he walked towards my c

ooked down towards the curb, and he bent over to pick up something he saw on the ground. As he picked up the object I could see from

eaction that he was surprised, and he raised the object up to his face, kissed it, raised it up to the sky as if to thank the Lord and then qu

ut it in his pocket, but not before I could tell that it appeared to be a rectangular green piece of paper which I surmised was money, altho

was not able to apprise the denomination of the bill. He went up to the man sitting in the car in front of mine, waiting for the traffic light to

reen and started a conversation with the driver. The driver was kind enough to give the panhandler a peach. At this point the traffic

urned green and all of the cars began to move along to the next block towards their destinations.

As I continued to drive, I remembered a story my mother told me about her family when I was younger. My mother, Mary Rangel (shectually given the name Mara but it had been anglicized to Mary when her birth certificate was issued), was born in 1924. Her parents,

Rangel and Paula Hernndez Nieto were born in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mxico and La Hacienda de Mamulique, Nuevo L

Mxico, respectively. Juan and Paula came to the United States and settled in Austin, Texas in the early 1900s, where they later met and ma

They traveled North to Michigan prior to my mothers birth.In 1924, just prior to Marys birth, Juan Rangel was working in an auto factory in Detroit, Michigan. Juan Rangel worked at odd job

aborer in Texas, but after 1924, what kept the family surviving year to year was the work they all took part in the beet fields of Michigan.

were betabeleros, sugar beet workers. They had been working in the beet fields throughout the 1930s during the depression. Juan answ

he call of the ads of various labor agents advertising for workers in La Prensa newspaper. The family was living at 912 S. Pecos Street in

Antonio. Labor agents for the sugar beet industry began recruiting workers about 1938.1The S.P. Acosta Employment Agency in San Ant

Texas acted in the capacity of general agent for all of the Michigan Sugar Companies.2

An example of an ad in La Prensa(San Antonio, Texas) dated April 8, 1945, Page 10, follows:

ACOSTA LABOR AGENTRepresentante de Consolidated Employment Agency

BETABELEROS: Las salidas para Michigan principiaranmuy pronto, consigo gasolina y llantas a los que la

necesiten. TRANSPORTE GRATIS.

Necesitase mucha gente. Camioneros y solicitantes:vanme o escrbanme inmediatamente....OPORTUNIDAD

DE GANAR MUCHO DINERO....Oficina, 822 buena Vista St., ... San Antonio, Texas 3

As my mother explained: one year they barely made enough money to make the return trip to San Antonio. Unlike the ad promisedever made mucho dinero. Juan was having trouble finding employment in San Antonio, and they had bills to pay, but more important,ad a payment coming due for a plot of land 4which they had purchased on credit in 1937/1938, on which they had hopes of building a h

uan knew he did not have the money for the payment, and he thought he might lose the property.

Mary observed that her father looked worried, and she could not figure out why, but she knew something was bothering him. Marys rother, Santos, had asked Juan if he could go to play with his friends at San Pedro Park. Juan was resistant to allowing Santos to go by hio the park, but in the end Juan relented. When he returned, Santos was very reserved, but his friends were excitedly telling Juan that Sad found a dollar bill at the park. Juan turned to Santos and asked him to show him the dollar bill. Santos took out the bill and

mmediately noticed that it was a $20.00 bill. He gave each of the boys a quarter, and they all excitedly ran off to buy candy from the local ceddler. The next day Juan made the final payment on the plot of land. As was his custom, he then made his way to La Capilla del Seor d

Milagros 5to light a candle in appreciation for the gift provided to him from above.

After 1944, they never went back to Michigan. Juan Rangel died in 1951.6 With the help of his two sons, Jos H. Rangel and SantoRangel, who served in World War II, they were able to build three houses on adjacent lots.

I hope the person on Melnea Cass Boulevard puts the money he found to good use, as my abuelito Juan Rangel did. I wish him luck. !

Thaden, John Frederick,Migratory Beet Workers in Michigan, Special Bulletin 319, East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State College Agricultural Experiment Station. (1942) P. 19.

bid

Newsbank/The American Antiquarian Society, 2004. Source: GenealogyBank.com, accessed June 10, 2013.

The deed had a restrictive covenant which stated: Said property shall not be sold to, occupied by, or leased to any person of Negro Blood. Any violation of such restrictions shall forfeit the title to said prope

e Grantor, or his successors and assigns. Bexar County Registry of Deeds, Warranty Deed No. 144711, dated 16 December 1937, Page 36. This type of restriction reflected the era of segregation and Jim Crow l

exas at the time.http://www.poblar.com/rodriguez/ElSenorDeLosMilagros/ElSenordeLosMilagros.htma, accessed July 13, 2010

Certificate of Death, Texas Department of Health, B ureau of Vital Statistics, State File No: 259.


MEMORY FLASHBACKBy Mara Tovares-Ashmanskas

For Los Bexareos Genealogical and Historical Society

Copyright 2013. Mara Tovares-Ashmanskas. All Rights Reserved.
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LBGHSMEMBERSHIPDIRECTORY

The Los Bexareos Genealogical and Historical SocieMembership Directory - Commemorative Edition is now available to 2

LBGHS members. The 36-page directory includes 221 Individual Joint Membership entries and 19 organization membership entries. Mentries include photographs of the LBGHS members in color.

The main purpose of the directory is to get people togetherenjoy the wonderful world of genealogy with others on a more frequ

basis. You can see which LBGHS members are researching the sa

lineages that you are researching. You can see which members livyour area, possibly you can organize a home research group. Setting a

one day a month to do research with fellow members is a good wayhelp each other break through those brick walls. Group research h

motivate you to do scrapbooks, write stories, do pedigree charts family group sheets. Most importantly, it helps sharing each oth

family research. Use the directory to stay in touch with your felLBGHS researchers. !

Make checks payable to LOS BEXAREOS and mail $15per member/directory to:

SYLVIA MORALES3543BYRON ST

SAN ANTONIO,TX78247-3193

If you have questions, contact Sylvia Morales at:

[email protected]

GLORIAVILLA CADENAGENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND

Los BexareosGenealogical and Historical Society

Membership Directory

San Antonio, Texas

30THANNIVERSARY

COMMEMORATIVE EDITION

THE GLORIA VILLA CADENA GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND was originally conceived adea to involve the relatives of Los Bexareos. This is an important tool to get our children and grandchildren, nephews

nieces to participate in our genealogy research.

THE REQUIREMENTS ARE RELATIVELY SIMPLE. A relative of an LBGHS member must be attending an accredited color university and students graduating from high school that will be attending an accredited college or university. They

required to fill out a four generation pedigree chart to the best of their ability and write a 750 word essay on one or mor

heir ancestors. The emphasis is on, but not limited to, Hispanic lineages. Their entries will be judged on how much of

pedigree chart they were able to complete and the content of their essay.THERE WILL BE TWO ANNUAL WINNERS. Each year two winners will be selected. One female student and one m

student. They will each win a $500.00 scholarship, which will be submitted directly to the college or university they

attending.

THIS IS AN INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM. Los Bexareos Genealogical and Historical Society has members in elestates and in Mxico and England; consequently, since the scholarship is targeted for relatives of LBGHS member

student attending any accredited college or university in the world may apply.

Use this opportunity to get your family involved.

There are two gifts we should give our children: One is roots, and the other is wings. !
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THE MAKING OF LOS OJUELOS RANCH BOOKBy Marissa Martnez


In 2011, my father, Guadalupe A. Martnez, was asked to speakt the dedication of a Texas State Historical Marker ceremony for Los

Ojuelos Ranch. He enthusiastically responded yes, having beenaised there in his early years. Los Ojuelos, Texas was the town of

is mother's family, Nidia Laurel. It was a small ranching com-munity carved out, literally, from the caliche of eastern Webb Countyn the mid 1800s by families migrating out from Revilla, Mxico.

My father had written about Los Ojuelos and the Spanish/

Mexican families who settled there. His previous genealogical bookn Los Ojuelos, printed in 1999 and revised in 2007, continues to be

he de facto standard on the area. In years past, he had given talksn the history as well as ranch life in the early 1900s. His photos of

954, and those of his mother before then, are considered one of theast records of daily life at the ranch. He meticulously mapped out

he houses, showing who lived where. He related memories ofitting at his grandmother's kitchen table as she told the stories of

he various families at the ranch. "No te olvides, don't forget," sheold him.

Dr. F. Michael Black also gained an early appreciation for LosOjuelos. Having been raised in Mirando City, Texas, the next town

ver, Dr. Black did his own research on town inhabitants, doing

xtensive interviews with Zora Sterling, the wife of William "Bill"terling, head of the Texas Ranger group assigned to Los Ojuelos

Ranch in the 1920s. Dr. Black made his own pilgrimage to Los

Ojuelos, camera in hand, in 1969 and documented the buildings heound, then mostly crumbling and in disrepair.

Both men, my father and Dr. Black, explain the irony of theemise of the community. Once a thriving settlement of 400 peoplend its ojuelos, or springs, providing water to neighboring towns

s well, the oil boom in that area led to the area's eventual collapse.

n the rush to drill, the oil wildcatters punched holes through the

water table. With little regard for environmental concerns, therilling rigs pulled up without adequately sealing the holes,

esulting in the draining of the nearby water reservoirs of LosOjuelos. Despite further drilling for water by the ranchers, the

prings dried completely. The loss of water, combined with thencrease in family mobility after World War II, contributed to the

dispersal of any remaining families from the ranch after

Korean War.

In 2010, Dr. Black, along with Dr. Roberto Jurez of the WCounty Historical Commission, submitted paperwork to the T

Historical Commission requesting the placement of an histomarker at the former ranch site. The marker was eventapproved and placed in 2011 with the Webb County Histo

Commission assigned the task to dedicatethe marker.

The dedication occurred on Jan 26, 2012, when aboutdescendants of the three founding Guerra brothers and some

dignitaries gathered in Mirando City, Texas. It was there thafather spoke. So moved was he by the event that he wante

commemorate it with a book.

His original idea was simply to staple together copie

mementos from the day including his remarks and copies of aphotos. Later that spring, he was diagnosed with pancreatic caDuring the summer, the idea for a "coffee-table" type book

shape. We gathered much of the original material surroundinevent including the historical research by Drs. Black and Jur

justify the placement of the marker. We also included a numb

photographs, many of which were previously unpublished

cluding Dr. Black's photo series of 1969, photos from Zora Stefrom the 1920s, and photos from Nidia Laurel de Martnez from

earliest part of the 1900s.

As we watched my fdecline over the summer

found a small run printer could grant us a speciaquest. We sent them the

page of the softcover and

numbered special edition

of the hardcover, which printed and sent back to

overnight. Over the courseweekend, my father sat with

mother on the edge of the and he signed all the pagehad received. We ended

taking him to the hospital a

end of the weekend. He passed away two weeks later.

The hardcover is a signed, numbered, limited edition ocopies ($125). The softcover is a signed, numbered, limited edof 150 copies ($65). Both books are printed on high quality

with 88 out of 120 pages that include color photographs. Youfind out more about my father, the Los Ojuelos ranch, and the b

at http://GuadalupeAMartinez.com. !

Copyright 2013. Marissa Martnez. All Rights Reserved.

Ada Martnez assists her husband, Lupe,

si n the a es o his book.

This book will be sold at the December LBGHS meetin
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GOOGLE GENEALOGY SEARCH TIPSBy Marissa Martnez


At the recent RootsTech in Salt Lake City, Dave Barney, ofGoogle, gave a presentation on how to better use Google, especially

or doing genealogical searches. Here are some of the tips heresented.

Regular SearchesMost people know how to do basic searches such as

Guadalupe A. Martinez Korea

This search will find webpages with the single words Guadalupe,A, Martnez, and Korea in the content. While the results may be

retty good, Guadalupe and Martnez are fairly common names, so

many other pages with Guadalupe Martnez, including pages aboutwomen or felons named Guadalupe or Martnez, or pages with

Guadalupe Hernndezand Felipe Martnez, for example, also show up.Some of you may know that you can improve your results by

sing quotation marks (" ") around certain phrases in order to get anxact phrase. For example, searching on

"Guadalupe A. Martinez" Korea

will return webpages with the exact phrase "Guadalupe A. Martnez"

nd Korea in the content. This search, however, may miss pages thatst "Guadalupe (Lupe) A. Martnez" or "LTC. G. A. Martnez" or

Martnez, Guadalupe Agapito," etc.

At this point I have a few options. I can type these several waysf searching in individually and peruse each set of results separately.

Alternatively, I can change the quoted string to be something morenique, such as

Martinez "Triangle Hill" Korea

Note that just the searchMartnez "Triangle Hill"may find Triangle

Hill Road or Triangle Hill outside Bend, Oregon.)

A better approach is to consider using the OR operator. Thisperator tells Google to search for documents or webpages that have

"Guadalupe A Martinez" OR "Lupe Martinez"

When using this format, you must use it in all capital letters, OR,therwise it will simply search for Oregon.

Another option is to use the asterisk (*) to indicate a wildcard

earch. This will allow you to search, for example for any middleame, such as,

"Guadalupe * Martinez"

A very useful option is to use the "near to" construction. Sayou want to look for the word Guadalupe near to Martnez . Thispproach is helpful for finding both "Guadalupe Martnez" and

Martnez, Guadalupe." This search might look like this

Guadalupe AROUND(2) Martinez

This phrase tells Google to find pages with Guadalupe wtwo words of Martnez . Within two words allows you to ha

middle name or initial, or not, in the content text. Again, youneed to use the AROUND() construct in all capitals in orde

Google to interpret its meaning correctly.

Genealogy Specific"That's all great," you say. "But how do I just get genea

records to show up?" Great question.

Google offers a search that allows you to find all pages that synonyms related to your search term. For example, say you genealogy pages on the Martnez family in Texas. You could try

Martinez TX ~genealogy

Google interprets the tilde (~) to mean, "find pages that genealogy or any synonym related to genealogy." In this synonyms will include things like family and tree. Unfortuna

this search will also return all the Martnez family practice doand the Martnez tree servicebusinesses.

Luckily, Google search allows you to also exclude word

terms, like this

Martinez TX ~genealogy -"family practice" -"tree servi

If your family names are as common as GuadalupeandMar

you may want to try excluding additional words or terms from

search or add terms, like city names, in order to concentrat

pertinent pages. When using the synonym (~) or excludsymbols, make sure there is no space between it and the worterm to which it refers. Other useful synonym searches to tr

~bornand ~died.

Say you want to search on a particular site, but that site doe

offer a search, or the search tool on the website does not seem comprehensive or may give out of date results. You can have G

search the website for you, like this,

Guadalupe AROUND(2)Martinez site:losbexarenos.o

Guadalupe AROUND(2)Martinez site:ancestry.com

"But, wait," you say. "What I'm really looking for are pages tha

about my ancestor who lived between 1850 and 1925. Can youme with that? And, by the way, I don't want to list each year." You can do that too. Try

Guadalupe AROUND(2)Martinez ~genealogy 1850..19

This search tells Google to find webpages with GuadalupeMartnez and synonyms of genealogy (family, tree, etc.) showingdates between 1850 through 1925, inclusive. The format is

numbers/dates with two periods between them and no spaces. date range can be any two years or number ranges.

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Finally, if typing these characters (or remembering them!) is notor you, there is an advanced search page that you can find by going

o http://google.com/advanced_search . On this page you canpecify things to include, things to exclude, and other advancedearch options, similar to the ones we discussed above.

A note about special characters. Remember that Google

nterprets Martnez as martinez, Bexareos as bexarenos, and Jos asose. In other words, you can enter special characters or not, or

apital letters or not. Google will find all matching results. If youare searching on a name that has parts that Google usually ignores,

you can instruct Google to include that in the search by using theplus(+) symbol, such as

+de zavala

In addition to searching content on webpages, Google also has

ome special search tools for images, newspapers, and maps. Let'sake a look at those as well.

Image SearchingSearching for images is fairly similar to searching for text,

xcept the results are all images. My first search example in thisarticle,

Guadalupe A. Martinez Korea

eturned both web page results and a small selection of images,

ome of which are indeed Guadalupe A. Martnez. (Although one isa mug shot of some other Martnez.)

If you just want to search on images but no images come up inyour initial search results, you simply need to click on Imagesin the

Google menu bar at the top of the search results page. Now youhould see just images. Google offers a couple of ways to filter the

mages in your search results in addition to the text search combi-

nation we listed above.

You can find some of these tools by clicking on the "Search

ools" button at the end of the Google results menu bar. The "Searchool" sub-menu allows you to search by image size, aspect ratio,

olors in image (e.g., black & white), and type of image (photo, face,lip art).

Similar to the advanced text-based search, the advanced imageearch (http://google.com/advanced_image_search ) lays out theearch options in an easy-to-use form.

A special feature of Google's image search is its ability to find

imilar photos or to identify a photo. To test this, navigate to themage search (http://google.com/imghp) and click on the cameracon on the right end of the search field. You can either upload a

photo from your local drive of a person or a building or you canprovide a URL of an image to use for comparison. While this search

does not always work, it's kind of neat when it does.

Newspaper Archive SearchGoogle had a project specifically geared toward digitizing old

newspaper archives and putting them online. While ongoingdigitizing efforts for this project were halted in May of 2011, the

already digitized newspapers are still available and accessible

online. You can go to http://news.google.com/newspapersbrowse or search the newspaper archive.

For Texas Hispanic genealogy, there are probably bresources locally in San Antonio and online for searching histo

Texas newspapers, but I thought I'd mention this site for thosyou who may not live in San Antonio or who are searching lin

other parts of the world.Google's newspaper archive is predominantly United S

and Canadian based, but there are a selection of European and opapers collected online.

Dave Barney noted that since Google is data driven, tha

increased usage of this feature may convince Google to contsupport.

Google Maps

Unfortunately, Google Maps does not have a "way machine" feature. That means, all of Google's maps (or Yahoo

Bing's or MapQuest's, for that matter) are all current, satellite-imcontemporary maps. There is no feature, for example to ov

older, historical maps. Neither is there a feature to overlay

photographs onto current street views, although there are aindependent projects working on this. Two such projects

HistoryPin (http://historypin.com) and WhatWasThere (hwhatwasthere.com), both of which offer a handful of photoSouth Texas.

Google Translate

Google translate offers elementary translation of EnglisSpanish. I mention it because it was mentioned as part of the

It will theoretically translate an entire page or website for yotyping in the URL. Click on the resulting link to view the tlation. The links within that translated page will also get transl

While not perfect, these translations may offer clues to help getstarted or get unstuck.

SummaryGoogle offers many ways to perform searches. By using s

of these search tools, you can improve your results and per

make new discoveries on the Internet. As a final note, I'll direct

to http://support.google.com/websearch. This page provides on using the above mentioned feature of search as well as others


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HE LBGHS RESOURCE CENTER & LIBRARY is open to the public on Saturdaysexcept the first Saturday of the month) from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. You will be

ble to do your family research in a very friendly and casual environment. You

will be able to peruse the books and other genealogical information at your

eisure. There will be volunteers to help you with any questions you may have.

hey can help you start your family tree or assist you in your research. It isreferable to set an appointment, so they can dedicate some time just for you.

Call or email Yolanda Patio at (210) 434-3530 /[email protected] or

Dennis Moreno at (210) 647-5607 / [email protected] .

HELP FOR THE BEGINNING GENEALOGISTS. The Society assists individuals inetting started with genealogical research through beginner's workshops.

eginners also receive one-on-one assistance from the more experienced

members of the Society. !


The Library is located

on the campus of Holy

Rosary Parish. The

Church is located at 159

Camino Santa Mara,

just north of Culebra

Road. Park in the noted

parking lot and walk

through the gate to the

courtyard and turn to

the right passing the

first building. !Click to see a

Larger Map

Los Bexareos is fortunate to have Dennis Moreno and YolandaPatio. They are always ready to help someone with their research.People are often referred to them,because they need help in start-ing their genealogy, or they've come to that preverbal "brick wall."Sometimes the load becomes heavy with all the requests forassistance, especially now that Los Bexareos is getting moreexposure. Los Bexareos is well known throughout Texas, as well asoutside the United States. An individual was recently referred toLos Bexareos by Ancestry.com. Apparently, they had exhausted alltheir resources. That person is now a member of Los Bexareos.

There are many experienced members in the Society. Los

Bexareos needs others who will step-up-to-the-plate to offer theirexpertise, their knowledge, and their time to help Dennis andYolanda with the heavy load. Please contact Dennis Moreno orYolanda Patio if you think you can help out. Maybe you haveaccess to a good resource, or you're knowledgeable of a particularregion, or you personally posses information that would be helpfulto others. Whatever your area of expertise may be, just share thatwith Dennis and Yolanda so that they have more resources at theirdisposal.

Dennis and Yolanda man the Resource Center every Saturday,except for the first Saturday of the month. They are a very valuableasset to our organization. Thank you Dennis and Yolanda for allthat you do for Los Bexareos! !

LBGHS

Resource Center&

LibraryParking

Library

CulebraRoad

Cam

ino

SantaM

ara

Publication Sales

When you contact Mr. Santiago Escobedo and let him knowhich publication you want to buy, and you pick it upthe LBGHS regular monthly meeting. All requests mustmade by 10:00 a.m. the Thursday before the schedulSaturday meeting.

You can view the LBGHS book titles by

double-clicking here PUBLICATIONS FOR SALE.

You can contact Mr. Escobedo at this email:

[email protected]

Books and Resources (as of Feb 2013)

Journals (as of Feb 2013)

Family Genealogy (as of Feb 2013)

Facts and Events (as of Feb 2013)

The following list of resources is an ongoing project.

Be sure to keep checking as the list will be updated as

additional indexing is completed.

Introduction to the Index

Index of Articles sorted by Title

Index of Articles sorted by State and Location

Index of Wills, Estates and Death Records sorted by Surnam

LBGHS

Genealogists

Extraordinaire
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Raffle tickets are on sale for $5.00a chance. The raffle will be held at the Installation of Officers and Awards Luncheon on Sund

January 26, 2014. Tickets will beavailable for purchase at the December 7, 2013 Los Bexareos meeting and at the door at the luncheonJanuary 26, 2014. You may also purchase tickets by mail by contacting: Olga Lpez-Hickey at (210) 492-1699 or by [email protected]. You do not have to be present to win. Several fabulous items will raffled: Two historical posters, including one of Tejano hero, Juan Nepomuceno Segun

An original still-life painting in acrylics by local renown artist Mara Ester Valero.

A gift basket of three fine Spanish wines; Spanish cheeses; and other Spanish goodies

Dinner for two at the Palm Restaurant 233 E. Houston, downtown San Antonio. The Palm is one of the finest steakhouses in San Antoni

To Los Bexareos,

The Ro Grande Valley Hispanic Genealogical Society has just completed our new bookwhich we aoffering for sale: Nuestra Seora de Guadalupe, Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mxico, Book III, Marria

Index 1811-1823. It is available for purchase through our website:www.rgvhispanicgenealogicalsociety.com

Thank you,

Ofelia Olss

LBGHSRAFFLEBy Olga Lpez-Hickey


Mara Ester Valero is a well known Still-life artist

from San Antonio, Texas. She studied art at theCoppini Academy of Fine Arts in San Antonio,Texas. She was named Artist of the Month and

Artist of the Year on two different occasions. She

has received awards at art competitions in Houston.Her work has been exhibited in Houston, Austin,

and San Antonio.Ms. Valero resides in SanAntonio, and she paints out of her studio in her

home.

The First Thanksgiving

by artist Jos Cisneros

In an act of thanksgiving for their safe passage across theChihuahuan desert, the Oate entrada arranged for a

feast to be held and asked the Mansos to be their guests.This thanksgiving was the first to be celebrated in what isnow the United States, a full 23 years before that of the

Pilgrims at the Plymouth Colony.

233 East Houston Street, San Antonio, TX

The "Tejano Historical Poster Series" contains 6

leading Tejanos of the Revolutionary era. Each tells a

part of Texas history and the life stories of prominent

Tejano Pioneers. This poster is on Col. Juan Segun.The poster series is based on Texas Tejano.com's

"Tejano Historical Portrait Series."

Portraits were developed using historical forensics in

combination with old family photos.
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Do you have a Save The Date announcement you want to share with your fellow genealogists? If yes, please email your

announcement to [email protected]


LBGHSResource Cente

10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m

LBGHSMeeting

9:30 - 11:30 a.m.Casa NavarroTamalada y Dulces

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Winter Solstice11:11 a.m. CST

LBGHSResource Cente

10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m

TCARAChristmas Luncheon

11:30 a.m.

LBGHS Raffle9:00 - 11:30 a.m.

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From Around The StateAustin : News from Tejano Genealogy Society of AustinCorpus Christi : News from Spanish American Genealogical Association (SAGA)Dallas: News from HOGAR de DallasHarlingen : News from Ro Grande Valley Hispanic Genealogical SocietyHouston : News from Hispanic Genealogy Society of Houston

aredo : News from Villa de San Agustn - Laredo Genealogy Societyan Elizario : News from San Elizario Genealogy and Historical Society

Victoria : News from Victoria Hispanic Genealogical and Historical Society of TexasThis section is dedicated to our sister Hispanic Genealogy Societies throughout the State. Just click on the blue linkand it will take you to their website or their Facebook page


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Please remember that if you are a member in good standing and if someone

elated to you is attending college, or will be a high school graduate in May 2014,

hat student can apply for the Gloria Cadena Scholarship. Members are eligible aswell. Contact Mary Esther Escobedo for more information and/or to receive acholarship application packet. The LBGHS Scholarship Committee attended acholarship Fair at the Caf College. We met some very enthusiastic students

ooking for scholarship funding. This was our first experience with a Scholarshipair, and we left there with high expectations.

I would like to end the year by wishing everyone an enjoyable holiday season.

Count your blessings. Family and friendships are the most precious gifts of all.

I also want to thank the many people who contributed their time, their stories,

heir perspectives, and their suggestions in making the LBGHS eMail Newsletter

he most talked about publication in our genealogical circle. It is your submissionshat makes putting this newsletter together all the more worthwhile. We had some

great comments and positive feed back. My only wish for Christmas is to publishtories from the LBGHS members whom we have yet to hear from. Each one ofou has something special to offera personal experience with your research,

our own perspective of a historical event, or just share an ancestral line in your

wn words. Take any one example from a previous issue and use it as a guidelineo create your own.

Make a New Years resolution that you will do your part andontribute a story or an article for the LBGHS eMail Newsletter.

Again, thank you so much! Lets have the best year in 2014. !

Sylvia Morales

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