Re: Mayor Isaac "Ike" Alderete of Ysleta, Texas.
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Re: Mayor Isaac "Ike" Alderete of Ysleta, Texas.
Joan E. Rambo 8/18/05
Thank you so much for your feedback and research! I really appreciate it.
My father did not have a birth certificate. A professional genealogist has researched the Alderetes for me without my knowledge and this morning presented me with her results as a gift!
She even came up with a picture of Isaac Alderete Sr., and he and I share the same shape of the face and several features seemed to have been passed down to me and my late father, but not all. I would describe Ike as being very dignified and distinguished, but not handsome.
My father had a fake affidavit of birth made up when he entered the Army in WWII so he could serve overseas in Normandy. He was a medic.
My father was born 1 September 1923. Maria, the genealogist found a death record for the wife of Mayor Ike Alderete dated 1920, but suspects it could be a fake to make it seem as if my father was legitimate. Since Ike virtually ran Isleta it would have easy for him to fudge some documents.
Its beginning to sound like a movie! "A Touch of Evil," springs to mind.
Maria checked two Enrique Alderetes born in New Mexico who I thought might be my grandfather, but she ruled them out. She researched them through many census records and says they were farmers from birth to death, from generation to generation, and I know my grandfather was a judge, or a clerk of the court, which would be the same thing in many minds.
Please check my family home page for more details.
And thanks again for all your help.
http://www.genealogy.com/users/a/l/d/Ernie-Alderete/http://www.genealogy.com/users/a/l/d/Ernie-Alderete/
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Re: Mayor Isaac "Ike" Alderete of Ysleta, Texas.