{"id":38258,"date":"2016-07-28T15:34:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T22:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=38258"},"modified":"2016-07-28T15:34:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T22:34:57","slug":"volunteers-at-the-colorado-society-of-hispanic-genealogy-help-others-locate-their-ancestors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=38258","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers at the Colorado Society of Hispanic Genealogy Help Others Locate Their Ancestors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hispanicgen.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Colorado-Society-of-Hispanic-Genealogy_300pw.jpg\" alt=\"Colorado-Society-of-Hispanic-Genealogy_300pw\" width=\"300\" height=\"30\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-38263\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following teaser is from the July 28, 2016 edition of TheDenverChannel.com:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>DENVER <\/strong> &#8211; Many Colorado Hispanics who have reached retirement age aren\u2019t ready to stop working. Some want to continue contributing to their community, so they do volunteer work.<\/p>\n<p>Pat Manalo is one of them. She\u2019s a genealogist at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hispanicgen.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Society of Hispanic Genealogy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the 1970s, you asked your aunties and uncles about your family,\u201d she said. \u201cNow, there are other resources available.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manalo told Denver7 that she never got to retire. She said she\u2019s still a fulltime homemaker, but added that that job gave her the opportunity to go to libraries and to other people\u2019s homes, to learn about family histories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBack then, you did everything by charts,\u201d she said.  \u201cNow, it\u2019s a little easier because we have more resources and we have a computer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The society maintains a library at Christ the King Lutheran Church in Southwest Denver.<\/p>\n<p>Society President Joe Gallegos said most of the reference materials are church records.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey include baptisms, marriages, deaths and confirmations,\u201d he said. \u201cA lot of information is also available on the internet.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedenverchannel.com\/news\/front-range\/denver\/volunteers-at-colorado-hispanic-genealogy-society-help-families-trace-their-roots\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following teaser is from the July 28, 2016 edition of TheDenverChannel.com: DENVER &#8211; Many Colorado Hispanics who have reached retirement age aren\u2019t ready to stop working. Some want to continue contributing to their community, so they do volunteer work. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=38258\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Volunteers at the Colorado Society of Hispanic Genealogy Help Others Locate Their Ancestors<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,91,309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colorado","category-genealogical-societies","category-hispanic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38264,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38258\/revisions\/38264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}