Geography and History of Ames

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Manuel Pardal Calvo es un migrante
 

Natalia Quinteiro Pico · 6 enero 2019 20:36


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Manuel Pardal Calvo era mi bisabuelo, en el año 1942 emigró a Buenos Aires (Argentina) con su mujer (Marcelina Casal Angueira) y tres de sus hijos (Severina,Marcela y Teresa). Emigraron por decisión propia, en busca de una vida mejor, como muchos otros gallegos. Dos de sus hijos (Concepción, mi abuela y Gerardo, mi tío) no quisieron irse puesto que estaban casados y ya tenían un trabajo. Emprendieron el viaje una mañana desde Vigo donde zarpaba un barco que les llevó a Buenos Aires. Una vez establecidos en Argentina, mi bisabuelo encontró trabajo en una carpintería, en la que trabajó hasta que se jubiló. Mi bisabuela, se dedicaba a las labores del hogar, y sus tres hijas, una vez mayores de edad, empezaron a trabajar en unas fábricas de textil. Cuando no trabajaban, se reunían en locales donde se juntaban todos los emigrantes gallegos, para así sentirse como en casa. Sus hijas, se casaron allí con otros gallegos, con los que tuvieron hijos. A veces, cuando económicamente podían, venían a visitar a Galicia a los otros hermanos, pero nunca regresaron a vivir. Mi bisabuelo nunca volvió. Falleció en Buenos Aires en el año 1980 (aproximadamente), y mi bisabuela en el 1983 (aproximadamente). De los hijos que emigraron con ellos, solo siguen vivos dos, Marcela y Teresa, y sus hijos que ya son mayores y están casados. Todos los recuerdos que tengo de mis bisabuelos son álbumes de fotos que conserva mi madre y que eran de mi abuela, Ella tampoco llegó a conocerlos en persona, puesto que no había nacido, pero mi abuela le contaba historias de la vida que tuvieron mientras vivían en Galicia. Fueron muy felices en Buenos Aires, pero siempre sintieron mucha nostalgia por Galicia, y sobre todo, por los hijos que quedaron aquí.


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Carmen Barreiro Miguez is a emigrant
 

Lidia Bugallo Nieto · 17 enero 2018 18:19


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My grandmother emigrate to Venezuela in 1960 and she come back a Galicia in 1970. She went to Venezuela to find a work , she found a job the assistant in a house and also taking care of a girl .She went to Venezuela by boat and returned to Galicia by boat, the first boat the first boat was called begoña and the second boat was called Santamaria.She lived in a flat where she worked.One day there was an earthquake while working and decided to return to Galicia.


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Juan Antonio Portals Saborido is a migrant
 

Raquel Romaní Portals · 8 febrero 2018 23:22


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Juan Antonio Portals Saborido (Tono) is my uncle and he is 43 years old. He was born in Esteiro. He migrated to Oleiros in La Coruña in 2008 with his wife Concha and their daughter Xiana. Tono lived all his life in Esteiro but went to Oleiros for economic reasons because he didn´t have a job. My uncle went to Oleiros and set up a Company with my other uncle Benito. He went to Oleiros permantly and his migration was national because he didn´t leave Spain.
My uncle said that in Oleiros he had more opportunities that he never had in Esteiro for example better working conditions. He said it was vey difficult to leave his home and family and start from zero. They had another daughter Vero. Tono never forgets his family and Friends in Esteiro. He always goes back when he has holidays..My uncle said his expierence was good because he was lucky. He said that he os happy to live in Oleiros but sometimes misses Esteiro.

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Higinia Prieto is a migrant
 

Laura Montaña Mata · 16 enero 2018 17:35


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Higinia was born on the 1935 in Marrozos, when she lived with all her sisters and his aunts. The summer of 1947 she goes to a apartament in Villalba to work. She liked stay there because it was an interesting summer and she met many people from Madrid. At the age of 18 she found a job in Santiago de Compostela as a housewife in the train station of the city (because the director of the station lived in the secound plant of the build) and she stayed at a provisional familly flat. Years ago she got married and decided to bought a house in Santiago for himself and his husband. She had a child, who got married in 1999. Then I was born on the 2004 and a year later she moved with her daugther, his wife and me to our flat in Bertamirans, where stills living actually. Now she doesn't goes to Santiago much often but she always says that it is and still will be the same city that she knew for many years, coexisting with all modern society and the technological advances of our days because is what the cities are for, to harbor people for centuries, before disappearing completely.

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antonio Núñez is a migrant.
 

Paula Núñez Amado · 15 enero 2018 21:10


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My dad called Antonio was born in Santiago, he was teaching there from 1975 to 1977 that he moved to Esteiro (Muros). In 1979 he emigrated to Salceda de Caselas to work until 1990 where he worked and works in Vedra. In 1994 he moved to Ames. He went to Vedra the 1th of september of 1990 and he went to Vedra five days a week..He goes to Vedra when he had 42 years old because he had a job in it. My dad is a teacher of primary and he has been teaching at the school of Vedra for almost 28 years and will continue until next year. Besides he is a teacher he was boss of studies. Now he is teacher and secretary. He teaches Maths,spanish language,galician language,history and biology.