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From: (by way of Ed Elizondo <>)
Subject: Re: Mira family
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 18:31:47 -0500

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Surnames: Reyes, Lemus, Gutierrez, Diaz
Classification: Query

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http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kRC.2ACE/4243.2.1.1

Message Board Post:

My sister-in-law is Diana HERNANDEZ. The Tomas REYES and Blanca GUTIERREZ
named in your message, below, were her great grandparants. They lived in
Key West, Florida. I would appreciate hearing from you regarding these
people, whom I am researching. My e-mail address is .
Thank you, so much!


<The Mira family was represented in Key West as early as 1830/1840s.

My maternal great-great grandmother (my maternal grandfather's grandmother)
was Manuela Mira, a resident of Key West prior to 1850. She married Julio
Guiterrez. They had several daughters, one was Blanca who married Tomas
Reyes. They in turn had numerous children, one of whom was my grandfather,
Hector Reyes. He often spoke of being related to the Miras (but we never
paid much attention at the time!). They were all life-long residents of Key
West. I was born and raised in Key West simultaneously with George Mira &
his younger brother Jimmy (The 1950s-60s) though slightly younger. George,
in fact, married the first cousin of the huband of my first cousin.

I'm always interested in degrees of separation. Would love to hear from any
Key West/Tampa connections to Reyes, Guiterrez, Fraga, Canalejo, Mira,
Lopez, Macia, Sola, Valdez.

Most dominant migration appears to have been both Spain to Cuba to Key West
& Tampa; and Spain directly to Key West.

Regards, Jose' M. Valdez>

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