FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Charlene Garcia

Genealogical Society of Hispanic
America
P.O. Box 3040
Pueblo, CO 81005-3040
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Charlene Garcia Simms
charlenegsimms@yahoo.com
or
carmenarteaga@hotmail.com
Date Release is sent out:
“MEMORABLE HISPANIC WOMEN” IS THE FOCUS OF
HISPANIC GENEALOGISTS AT THEIR ANNUAL MEETING
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Mujeres Memorables del Mundo Hispano (Memorable Women of the Hispanic
World) is the theme of the 2015 Annual Meeting and Genealogical
Conference of the Genealogy Society of Hispanic America (GSHA). Over 150
members and guests will gather on the weekend of June 5-7 at the Drury
Plaza Hotel in Santa Fe. Event is open to the public.
Keynote speaker will be Deena Gonzales, author of Refusing the Favor, the
Spanish-Mexican Women of Santa Fe 1820-1880. Also featured on the
program is: Paris-based, New York Times reporter Doreen Carvajal, author of
The Forgetting River: A Modern Tale of Survival, Identity, and the Inquisition .
A key tool for modern genealogists: DNA (genetic genealogy) will be the
focus of a presentation and panel discussion by Angel Cervantes of the New
Mexico DNA Project and Miguel Torrez of the New Mexico Genealogical
Society Genetic Genealogy Project. Assistant New Mexico Historian, Rob
Martinez will also make a presentation.
Doreen Carvajal’s search to recover her Catholic Family’s hidden Sephardic
Jewish roots in Andalusia led to walking in the footsteps of her ancestors
investigated by the Spanish Inquisition. O The Oprah Magazine: "A book that
shimmers with enchantment, pulling the reader into her life with gentle tugs
on the heartstrings. What she calls "hunting family ghosts" will resonate with
anyone who has ever felt out of place where they were and dreamed of
finding another heritage just one layer beneath the one they had always
accepted as the bedrock of their self-definition."
"Deena González's Refusing the Favor is an essential for understanding the
history of New Mexico. This is a capstone work in the field, put together by a
thoughtful and brilliant scholar who gives us an insight into the role women
played in the survival in two separate universes, that of the conquered and
the conqueror." --Rodolfo F. Acuña, California State University at Northridge
Registration form with costs and a full lineup of speakers, events, activities,
entertainment and tours, available at gsha.net.