Pursuit for a better life

By Stephanie Flores

Mexico to

United States

Great Grandparents fathers

side (fathers dad side)

• My great grandfather Francisco was born in 1902, in Cuastecomate Nayarit, and then migrated to San Pedro in 1918.My great great grand father was registered as a foreign citizens.

• My great grandmother Edobiges Jimenez, she was born in 1901 in San Pedro Lagunillas, Nayarit.

Francisco Avina & Placida Pimentel

Great Grandparents On my mothers side (her fathers side)

My grandparents

fathers parents

My grandfather Ramon Flores was born in 1934, he born and raised in San Pedro Lagunillas, Nayarit. He has lived there all of his life, but has traveled to other cities around Mexico and has been to California, but he says that he would never leave his “pueblo”.

My grandmother Esther Suarez was born in 1942. She was also born and raised in San Pedro, Lagunillas Nayarit. My grandmother enjoys coming to California but she also states that she would never leave here pueblo.

Grandparents

Mothers parents

Grandmother Maria Teresa Comparan

Grandfather Jose Avina Pimentel

They where both born and raised in Vista Hermosa Michoacán

Agriculture has always been part of my grandfathers life. Every year he is growing corn, beans, sugarcane, and maguey.

Religion

This church is in San Pedro Lagunillas, Nayarit.

It was built in 1805 Over the years its

been remodeled by the people in the pueblo.

Terebinth-Pistacia PalestineThe terebinth is not a common tree. There are only three of these trees in the whole world left. They say that this is the type of tree that was used

to make the cross where they crucified Jesus

My father

My father Jose Adan Flores was born in 1968. He was born and raised in San Pedro.

At age 15 he came to California for better opportunities and to help his family back home.

The port of entry my father and mother used was the Tijuana, Mexico border.

immigrated

1987-1997

My father arrived to California in 1987. He moved in with his aunt and uncle that where living in California for 3 years. He lived in Pomona, West Covina, and Ontario

New beginning

1997-2013 Summer of 1997 my father

bought his first house in Chino hills.

He brought us to chino hills to get his family out of the ghetto. And to give us a better life style.

Eight years later we moved to another house in chino hills because the family was growing.

TraditionsMy family and I go to Mexico every year to celebrate Christmas and New Years we have been going for almost 15 years straight.

For thanksgiving we like to gather the both sides of the family. As for being Mexican we like to eat/make tacos, tamales, menudo, and many more foods.

We also fallow the Catholic traditions

A family can be traced back for decades,

but everything is a mystery from where our origins really came from. As in me I know I’m Mexican-American because both my parents were born in Mexico but had my siblings and I in the United States. But having the opportunity to talk to my grandparents I still believe I have some Spanish blood in me. By just looking at my grandmother and her great grandparents. My family belongs in the 4th wave, which started from 1918-present day.

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