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,
ORIGINATION
Colombia, South America. The family
lead by great grandfather Manuel
Gonzalez, at the age of twenty, settled in
this coastal city of Colombia in the
caribbean waters all the way from Spain.
They were to find riches in agriculture,
specifically emeralds, which was heard to
be a popular find in the 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
the generation to follow 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. 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 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 Jr. 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 he left behind and his first
U.S. passport are pictured 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 Reunion, family, church, God.
abundance it received.
Reunion amongst the family was important every year
Everything else comes second.
to share its successes and its failures.
Easter week is actually more important than
This was taught amongst the
Christmas.
family.
Class status was according to the amount of money in
the 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 childre,n including me.
Today, Claudia Margarita my eldest sister is married to Efrain Tirado
and have five children. Ernesto my eldest brother married Monise SUCCESS & STRENGTHS
Viana and has two children. I, David Jose Gonzalez, was born the 26th
of July, 1984. My youngest sister Sandra Lucia married Joao De Lima
and have two children My parents came to the United States with
doctorate degrees in Pharmacy and Medicine in 1981. 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, until
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 1971 with my Grandmother Antonia Blanco, with
my father on his graduation day from medical school with my mother
to the right of him in the photo. Below, is my immediate family in our
first home in Orlando, Florida in 1990. ( I am sitting fourth from the
left at the age of 5.)
11. GONZALEZ -BLANCO
2012
Today, this is
myself along with
my mother Miryam
Gonzalez and
father Jose
Gonzalez II on my
graduation day
from the flight
academy. My
parents are still
happily married
after fourty three
years.
