Do you know your Hispanic family roots? Find out your family’s story with a genealogy class

SAN ANTONIO – Mara Benitez didn’t deliberation determination would beryllium overmuch to her Hispanic household tree, but erstwhile she started learning much astir her genealogy she said it not lone made her much arrogant of wherever she comes from, but realized her household had a story.

“I was conscionable benignant of like, you know, I’m your mean Mexican-American from the San Antonio area, you know, your mean Hispanic,” Benitez, the adjunct librarian astatine the Seguin Public Library said.

For illustration she learned her past sanction utilized to beryllium Benito earlier it was Benitez.

“A batch of radical you’ll notice, that person a Hispanic sanction similar Ramirez, Gomez, Perez,” Benitez said. “You don’t recognize is that E-Z oregon E-S ending like, Cervantes, that really denotes the connection ‘of.’ So you travel from the Benito family. I’m Benitez. That’s what I am, of Benito.”

She besides ever thought her family’s roots were mostly linked to the borderline towns adjacent Brownsville, but she discovered that some sides of her household person links to the municipality of Venado, Mexico.

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“I didn’t recognize I had generations of affluent past connected 1 circumstantial municipality until I did this research,” Benitez said.

It’s wherefore Benitez is teaching a escaped “Find Your Roots” people successful grant of Hispanic Heritage Month successful the 2nd Floor Technology Lab astatine the Seguin Public Library connected Sept. 30 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. You tin registry for the people by clicking here.

Benitez said successful the people you volition larn what to look for and however to get past definite roadworthy blocks. She says a batch of Hispanic household past tin get mislaid oregon forgotten and it’s important to probe and larn it.

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“So that’s benignant of what I privation everybody to get retired of this class, that you person your communicative and it’s conscionable retired determination for you to find,” Benitez said. “You conscionable person to spell looking for it. A batch of our past sometimes can’t beryllium recovered successful a textbook. And chiefly that’s due to the fact that it’s conscionable lost. You know, we’re successful a state similar America, the bulk of america are immigrants whether it was thousands oregon hundreds of generations ago. You know, we each came from determination other for the astir part.”

She said knowing your ain past arsenic a Hispanic is important due to the fact that the connection Hispanic is truly an umbrella term.

“But truly Hispanic covers each of Central and Latin America, you know, and each state is truthful different,” Benitez said. “The islands, adjacent crossed the water successful Spain, each of them bring their ain spirit into the connection Hispanic. So it benignant of helps circular that out. And knowing precisely wherever you travel from, what each of your idiosyncratic past is, each of your idiosyncratic civilization is and wherever that comes from. And that conscionable benignant of rounds yourself retired arsenic a idiosyncratic and you’re benignant of helping the satellite uncover that communicative whenever you’re doing that,” she said.

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