Ancestry

 

Maternal

Grandmother Lineage: DELGADO

 
My maternal grandparents met and wed in El Paso, Texas on October 3, 1921. They had two children there (my Aunt Stella and my Mother) then moved to Los Angeles and had three more children: Mario, Alice and Roy. My Grandmother died in 1933 during childbirth, a fate that would befall her daughter Alice in 1952. All the Espinosa children attended Los Angeles schools including Belmont High School
My maternal grandmother with her brothers and sisters and mother. From left, Lupe (grandmother), Frank, Francisca (great grandmother), Josephine, Arcadio, Clorinda. Dated 1919
The Delgado sisters--Clorinda (upper left), Josephine (upper right), Aurora (lower left), Guadalupe (my grandmother, lower right) (c. 1920). Maternal grandmother, Guadalupe Delgado Espinosa (1904-1933). Picture c. 1930?
Maternal grandmother with my great aunt Aurora, c. 1930 Maternal grandmother with Uncle Roy Espinosa. c. 1932
Full-sized picture of my maternal great-grandmother Francisca Delgado (1870-1971). Picture c. 1953. She lived in Los Angeles so I knew her. She was born in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico. The picture on the left is from the Highland Park Journal in 1970 announcing the 100th birthday of my maternal great grandmother. With her is my great aunt Josephine Delgado (1905-1997).
Grandfather Lineage: ESPINOSA
 

 

 
Thanks to my cousin, Mario Espinosa, Jr. I have reconstructed the Espinosa lineage back several generations.

Great grandparents--Anastasio Espinosa and Ygnacia Quezada (m. 6/24/1882)

Great, great grandparents 1--Miguel Espinosa and Librada Villasenor

Great, great grandparents 2--Hilario Quezada and Petra Rivera

 
Maternal grandfather, Juan Espinosa (1895-1972). Picture c. 1920?

 

 Maternal great uncle, Jose Espinosa (1890- ?? ). Picture 1919.

Maternal grandfather (on right) with unknown friend. c. 1930?

 

 Maternal grandfather,  Picture c. 1940.
   

The Espinosa Sisters c. 1945 (full-size pictures)
Aunt, Stella Madrid (1922 - )

Mother, Molly Navarro (1924 - 1982)

Aunt, Alice Colo (1928 - 1952)

 

The picture on the left includes my aunt Stella, aunt Alice, uncle Roy, uncle Mario, and mother (c. 1945).

 
 

Paternal   

Grandfather Lineage: Navarro

 
 
The picture on the left was painted by my great, great,...n, grandfather in 15,000 b.p (before present). No, really!! I had my Y-DNA tested a few months ago and the results concluded that my R1b1 haplogroup points to distant paternal ancestors (the Navarros going back eons before the name even existed) who migrated to Western Atlantic Europe (Ireland, England and northern Spain) during the last ice age. I'm Cro-Magnon which is quite a relief because I thought for sure I was part Neanderthal. Turns out my ancestors are the ones who made sure the Neanderthals' days were numbered.  From Spain some Navarro made his way to Mexico (trying to find out when), most likely intermarried with the natives, then migrated to the US in the 1920s.

 

 I don't know much about my paternal grandfather other than he was born in Mexico around 1900 and probably died there in 1940. He and my grandmother had two sons born in Chicago IL. Joe in 1924 (my father) and Alfred in 1927 (my uncle).
Paternal Grandfather, Jose Navarro. Picture is from 1929 possibly Chicago, IL or Mexico. His father (my Great Grandfather) was Jose Maria Navarro and his mother (my Great Grandmother) was Refugio Garcia.

 

Grandmother Lineage: Alcala

 

 
My Paternal Great Grandmother, Guadalupe Ceja Alcala (L) and Grandmother, Zenaida Alacala Licon (R). c. 1950. My paternal great grandmother, who I had the privilege of meeting when she visited from Mexico in the early 50s, lived in to her 90s. My paternal grandmother,  was born in Mexico in 1903 and died in Los Angeles in 1992.
 
The War Years
Dad and Mom at the Hollywood Palladium c. 1944. Inscription on back reads in part "To my son whom I haven't seen...your father...Auxerre, France, June 12, 1945..."  
       
       

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