3. 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.
5. 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.
7. Agriculture has always been
part of my grandfathers life.
Every year he is growing
corn, beans, sugarcane, and
maguey.
8. 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.
9.
10. Terebinth-Pistacia Palestine
The 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
11. 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.
12. 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
13. 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.
14. Traditions
My 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
15.
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 1918present day.
