Asturian-American Migration Forum

I belong to a FB page for Villamayor https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=cosiquines%20de%20villamayor The members are super helpful, in fact, one member, in particular, has the entire town's genealogy in his head! Armando Fernandez Ortiz is amazing...i bet he could help you. I suggest you join th...

hello familia...i am helping my cousin Norma Caso to piece together her family and i know they are cuestas but am having trouble. i would love to see the book about angel to discover their relationship. i have it on ancestry but cant make the connection,,, HELP!

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Hi Elvira, my name is Cynthia Garcia Tamargo and i have a facebook page entitled Tamargo's Around the World. There is a member by the name of Jo Ellen...i am assuming that you know of her as she says she is the ggdaughter of your grparents...if not, please let me know and i will put you in touch. Un...

according to an article that i read in La Gaceta, (a spanish/english/italian newspaper in Tampa), the knife sharpener who also traveled around and had their own "language"

Art, I still have aunts and uncles there who visit Tampa occationally so it's won't be to difficult for my children. I hope that they get alot out of this especially seeing where their family lived and worked before coming to Tampa...both paternal and maternal.

if you have not visited, maybe soon!

Terechu, thanks for the link. I was aware that in asturiano, Tamargo ment tejero but I thought they were roof tiles not bricks... this might be because of my Tampa spanish! The article was great! how did you find it? This lends creedance to my idea that my husbands GGmother, Carmen Carballas was fro...

Art, what a surprise, someone who was on line later than me! We are a very unusual family. My grandparents immigrated in the early 1900's but you would swear that my mom is from there! I try to speak with the THETA, but since I travel all over South America and since my in laws are more Cuban than S...

I too am from Tampa, Florida. My paternal Grandparents were from Grado and my maternal from Infiesto and Villamayor. I am thrilled to be going to Oviedo in September with my entire family for a 2 week visit, 10 of us! I'll miss "Los Dias de America en Asturias" at the Centro Asturiano this...

Just as an FYI..the Centro Español still exisits, although with very few members! I am the youngest, I think! and I am 46. My husband is the Vice President. When we sold the hospital and the buildings, we purchased another building, the West Tampa Convention Center on Columbus Dr. Unfortunately, alt...

Tony, I was searching for a website about the Fiesta de San Mateo and Los Dias de America en Asturias and came across your post. I wil be traveling in September to Oviedo with the Sister Cities group. My daughter has been selected as one of the representatives from Tampa. We can't wait! I too grew u...