Asturian-American Migration Forum

Dear Eileen: I had a few minutes free this morning, so I checked on that Fire Chief in California you talked about. Jose's son Thomas M. Fernandez was listed in the San Francisco 1900 Census as a fire chief of the area. He lived to at least 1930 where I find him as a retiree living with a family in ...

Dear Eileen: I spent a couple hours looking up your family. I found a Jose and Catherine Fernandez living in Manhattan in 1880. Jose was 49 years old and born in Spain. His worked at a resturant. His wife Catherine was born in Ireland. In 1880 she was 43 years old. They had the following children li...

Dear Eileen:

What information are you looking for? I have access to the US census documents and I can tell you how to get your ancestors Civil War records, if you have not done so already.

Dear Corsino: I used www.infobel.com to find addresses of people in Europe. Just click onto Spain and follow the directions. I think you will have an easier time finding the relatives of the refugees with the less common names. For example: I only found a handful of people in Spain with the surname ...

Dear Jomaguca: If the Football player is of Spanish ancestry, he could be related to Francisco Verdin (brother of our grandmothers) or he could be related to Luis Verdin Lopez (brother to our great grandfather: Guillermo Verdin Lopez). These are the only people with the surname Verdin that came to A...

Dear Jomaguca: There is a possibility, but not all Verdins in America are from Spain. There is a large group of people with the surname Verdin in Louisiana and another in South Carolina. These people are of French descent. There are also some Verdins in Ohio who are of Belgium descent. But I confide...

Dear Corsino: Yes I am optimistic, but it is because I have had so much luck in finding my family from Spain. With the invention of the internet things are so much easier to research. Last year the only thing I knew for certain about my family from Spain was my grandparent's surnames. I put queries ...

Dear Terechu: Thank you for clearing up that point. I never learned about the Spanish Civil War in school [ or at least I do not remember doing so ], therefore I am somewhat ignorant on the subject. Even after reading about it in the last few months it is still confusing to me. It must have been a t...

Dear Corsino: Yes, I agree it is a long shot. I guess this is a very interesting story because we are all of Asturian descent. I guess you should wait until you see if there is a large response from Spain. If you end up with a dozen families responding and begging for a reunion, then that might be e...

Dear Corsino: You should not only contact the Spanish media, but it is important to contact the Media in the USA. A good friend of mine was in similar situation to yours. He and his two sisters were evacuted from Vietnam in the 1970s. All of their family records were in another Airplane that crashed...

Dear Corsino:

If Elisa is not a member of the forum, Bob or Art will know how to get ahold of her.

Dear Corsino: Congradulations! That was quick! You are correct, many families in Spain may want to know if their children are in the USA. I think at least one Forum member is a newspaper reporter in Asturias. I think her name is Elisa Campo. Perhaps she would know how to get the information out to t...

I just received a letter from a very long time resident of Clarksburg, WV. She informed me that Anna Menendez did not marry Alfred Raschella, but his brother "Babe" Raschella. Alfred did have children named Loretta and Alfred, but they are not related to me. Anna and "Babe" Rasch...

Dear Corsino: I found a website that you might find interesting. I do not think it will help your search, but it is interesting. It is www.spanishrefugees-basquechildren.org As for the Quakers you might want to contact the American Friends Service Committee. It is the branch of the Quakers that help...

Dear Corsino, You might want to make the same query on the message boards at some of the other genealogy sites, such as www.genforum.genealogy.com , www.ancestry.com or www.rootsweb.com . This will increase your chances of success since many of your friends may have not been from Asturias. I would d...