2. MY MOTHER’S SIDE
• My Great Grandmother Esther Cisneros was born on September 18th,
1932 in Leon, Spain
• My Great Grandfather Rosalio Gabriel Felix Sr. was born on March 11th,
1930 in Guadalajara, Mexico
• My Grandfather Rosalio Gabriel Felix Jr. was born on December 4th, 1955
in Los Angeles, California
7. MIGRATION AND SETTLEMENT
• My Great Grandmother emigrated from Leon, Spain in 1951 with some of
her family members to Guadalajara, Mexico where she met my Great
Grandfather.
• Both of my Great Grandparents left there families to immigrate into the
U.S., then settled in Los Angeles in 1954.
• They were apart of the 4th wave of immigrants to enter the U.S.
• Then my Grandfather was born a year later and my mother’s side of the
family still resides in the Los Angeles area to this day.
8. MY FATHER’S SIDE
• My Great Grandmother Maria Teresa Amezcua was born on May 8th, 1929
in Zamora Michoacán, Mexico
• My Great Grandfather Hector Gonzales was born on July 28th , 1925 in
Los Angeles, California
• My Grandfather Edward Charles Gonzales Sr. was born on June 7th, 1956
in Los Angeles, California
12. MIGRATION AND SETTLEMENT
• At a young age, my Great Grandmother emigrated from Zamora
Michoacán, Mexico with her family to Los Angeles in 1937
• My Great Grandfather was the first generation of his family to be born in
the U.S; his parents were orignally from Zacatecas, Mexico
• They were both apart of the 4th wave of immigrants to enter the U.S.
• My Grandfather was then born in the year 1956 in Los Angles, California.
He now lives in Oahu, Hawaii.
13. WHAT DO I THINK?
• I think it was very interesting to discover that my family can be traced
from Spain to Mexico, then from California to Hawaii.
• I also find it amazing that my family can be traced back 6 generations, or
over a hundred and 120 years.