I've recently started Graduate school, so I'm not sure how much I will be able to get around to continuing my research. So much so that I've sadly canceled my monthly subscription to Ancestry.com for now. I'm a poor starving student again! Well not starving but poor nonetheless. I have till February 15th to use up my subscription and I've decided today to use it on the one person who has alluded everyone mysteriously. With the help of Auntie Carol and an amazing distant, distant non-relative (its hard to explain) I got some leads on Mr. Andres Avila! Here is what I know: Parents were Isabila Yebara and Manuel Avila as stated on his marriage license to Lupe Avila. They were married in LA County then immediately moved to Bakersfield (Delano) and had Grandpa Ernie. His mother and sibling appear in the 1920 and 1930 census in Gallup, New Mexico. ...then with a tip from a friend, I found him in a census in 1920 and things took off from there. I started followi
On a quest to find my origins.