Asturian-American Migration Forum

Hello, I have relatives currently living in Salinas who are Cueto. I believe they are my mother's first cousins but I will have to double check. let me know if this information might be useful to you. I am in the process of getting my family tree down on paper which is rough going for me as I don't ...

I just wanted to post very briefly to say that my mother's maiden name is Rua and I was Cecilia Josefina Suarez Rua before coming to the states in 79. As far as I know, however, none of my maternal grandfather's family immigrated to the US. I too have also understood that Rua meant "street"...

My spelling in Castellano is poor and in Asturianu just forget it so please correct me. Absolutely fio/fia for son/daughter. Famme for hunger. Gijon is Xixon. Nenya for girl, jueyos for eyes... a song my mother sings "Tienes unos jueyos nenya y unas pestanyas y una lengua parlera con que me eng...

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From my mom's cookbook and the way I grew up eating them and do to this day. 1/2 kilo de lentejas Un poco de pimenton Un trozo de cebolla Aceite Una rama de perejil Un diente de ajo Una cuchara de pan molido Un hoja de laurel Una vez escogidas y limpias las lentejas se dejan unas horas en remojo en ...

I've only recently come to learn that some of the words I've been using all my life and understood to be Castilian are actually Asturian. I had to laugh out loud when I read the post on here about "fartuco" :D Any other very obvious hold-overs from Castilian speaking Asturianos? :) Cecilia...