1. FAMILIA
GONZALEZ - BLANCO
1892-2012
The Genealogy & family tree showcasing
migrations and integrations creating an incomparable loving group of people.
Introduction to Diversity for Educators
November 9, 2012
David J Gonzalez
2. In respect to the great family, the genealogy
was able to be traced back to great
grandparents on the Gonzalez-Blanco side
to 1892 in Cartagena, Colombia, South
ORIGINATION
America. The family lead by great
grandfather Manuel Gonzalez, at the age
of twenty, settled in this coastal city of
Colombia in the carribbean waters all the
way from Spain to find riches in
agriculture, specifically emeralds, that was
heard to be a popular find in a new land.
They gave birth to grandfather Jose Maria
Gonzalez on August 2, 1911. With the
business and agricultural influences of his
father Manuel, Grandfather Gonzalez is
the one that planted the seed amongst this
generation that soon migrated from South
America to the United States where the
family still to this day 120 years later is
producing its fruits in medicine and
business. Grandfather Jose Maria Gonzalez
is pictured at the age of fifteen to the right.
3. PLANTING THE SEED
Grandfather Jose Maria Gonzalez was at the top of his
class. He attended an all boy, Catholic school, where strict rituals
were mandated. We believe this is where his strong character
came from and was later diffused in our hereditary leafs in our
family tree. He always expected the best, success, and none the
less. The boys in this picture were said to always have a strong
jaw because they would receive respect back from whomever they
would face. The country between 1929-1939 in my grandfather’s
youth faced a civil war amongst the conservatives and liberals.
Particularly, my grandfather, you could tell his childhood was
tough and well-mannered. When he became a father and
grandfather, his handshake, strong jaw, mannerisms were also
seen amongst his four sons, four daughters, which included my
father Jose Maria Gonzalez II. Grandfather Jose Gonzalez the
first, is pictured to the right with his classmates, circa 1924,
bottom row, second in from the right.
4. MARRIAGE & FAMILY
Grandfather Jose Maria
Gonzalez married my
grandmother, Antonia Thelma
Blanco at the young ages of
eighteen and sixteen on December
5, 1928. Together, they had eight
children. My father was the last to
be born on November 2, 1949.
5. BROTHERS & SISTERS
From left to right
are my father’s
Brothers and sisters
In order from left to
Right of age.This is my father
Jose M. Gonzalez-
Blanco standing at the age of 6.
6. In 1971, Grandfather Jose Maria Gonzalez was
raising a farm full of agricultural needs in IMMIGRATION
Colombia, enriched with cattle, rice, corn, meat, and
sugarcane. Daughter Carmen along with her husband
after graduating at the University of Cartagena
influenced my father and other brothers and sisters to
soon move and see the roads paved with gold in
America as she first resided in Chicago, Illinois.
Grandfather Jose followed their footsteps first, to see
where their children’s generation along with his soon to
be grandchildren’s future would flourish. He saw
abundance in business and the need for health care. He
mandated his children to go into these fields of study.
And they successfully did. Photo of his farm, passport
and cameo photo are found to the right.
7. CULTURAL NORMS &
VALUES
NORMS VALUES
The church and beliefs were rooted Roman Catholic. God
was the center of all thanks and the household abundance it Reunion, family, church, God.
received.
Reunion amongst the family was important every year to
Everyhing else comes second.
share its successes and its failures.
Easter week is actually more important than Christmas.
This was taught amongst the
Class status was according to the amount of money in the
family.
bank account, not of race or ethnicity. Also, sadly, segregation to
this day is of liberal and conservative peoples.
Reason for migration to the United States was to find more
of a protestant faith and revelation belief, rather than a redundant
one. And the family believed in freedom and the idea of
democracy.
10. In 1969, my immediate family was created. My father Jose and
mother Miryam Bustillo married on November 25th, 1968, at the age
of eighteen and sixteen. Together they had 4 children including me. SUCCESS & STRENGTHS
Claudia Margarita is married to Efrain Tirado and has five children.
Ernesto my brother married Monise Gonzalez and has two children.
I was born the 26th of July 1984. They came to the United States with
doctorate degrees in Pharmacy and Medicine. Two years later, my
sister was born whom has two children today. My father recently
took my oldest nephew Efrain to see his first college choice here in
Central Florida. As you see from the early days of 1892, til today
success was found in growing strong roots and large family quantities
to build security in success. Integration and influences of many types
of cultures have been accepted because the main tradition and norm
was love. This is my Gonzalez-Blanco family tree. There to the right
is my Grandfather Jose Maria Gonzalez who migrated to Chicago
Illinois in ‘71 with my Grandmother Antonia Blanco, with my father
on his graduation from medical school with my mother to the right
of him in the photo.
11. GONZALEZ -BLANCO
2012
Today, this is
myself along with
my mother Miryam
Gonzalez and
father Jose
Gonzalez
II, happily married
for 43 years.
