Latest Update: Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua

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Click on this link Ciudad Juárez (or alternatively click on the Our Towns tab from the Main Menu at the top of the page) and scroll down to the Mexico heading to check out the Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua page!  Ciudad Juárez is the largest city in the northern Mexican border state of Chihuahua and was the home to approximately ten generations of our Miranda and Vielma branches from approximately 1680 until 1904 when the last of our Vielma line moved permanently north of the Rio Grande to the United States.  Ciudad Juarez today may be more known for its concentration of factories (maquiladoras) and violence associated with drug cartels. but it is also a vibrant city with a proud history and claims as the originator of the margarita and the burrito.

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June 2021 Update: Juan Aldama, Chihuahua, Mexico

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Click on this link Juan Aldama (or alternatively click on the Our Towns tab from the Main Menu at the top of the page) and scroll down to the Mexico heading to check out the Juan Aldama, Chihuahua page!  Juan Aldama is a small town in the northern Mexican border state of Chihuahua and was the home of several generations of our Vielma family from approximately 1800, with the Spanish cavalry soldier Antonio Vielma, until around 1850 when Antonio’s son Francisco moved the family further north in Chihuahua State to the village of Guadalupe Bravos along the Rio Grande.

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April 2016 Update: Francisca Vielma – the Pioneering Academic

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Click on this link (or click on the Vielma tab from the Main Menu at the top of the page) and scroll down to the fifth generation to check out the discussion on Francisca Vielma.  Francisca is our family’s academic pioneer – a Mexican-American woman who graduated from High School in the early 1920s in the small and then-largely segregated mining town of Clifton, Arizona and who later earned a degree in teaching from the Tempe State Teachers College (the forerunner of Arizona State University) in 1928.  To put this incredible achievement in context, U.S. Department of Education statistics show that in 1930 (two years after Francisca graduated) less than three percent of women in the United States even attended a college or university.  To say that Francisca was part of a tiny minority is one thing – add to this the fact that she was a Mexican-American woman, and the magnitude of her accomplishment is even more apparent!

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