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Welcome to my web site. I am Nancy López a.k.a. cybergata. I was born and raised in Santa Fé in the Río Arriba area New México, but have lived in Alburquerque in the Río Abajo area of New México for the greater part of my life. I live with my husband and our three cats, Dulce, Quatro and Cassy in a small house in the Duránes area close to the Río Grande, el Camino Real and Route 66. This has been my home for over thirty years, and I love the area. |
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| When I first moved here, the area was a rural area right in the middle of town. It has gone through changes in the past thirty years, and has become more residential than rural. As long as we have acequias (irrigation ditches) near by, we will still have wild ducks and roadrunners. Since the city has been farsighted enough to make the bosque (jungle like thicket of large trees, especially cottonwood, with heavy undergrowth of vegetation) along the Rio Grande a protected area, we will always have a bit of the wild nearby. |  |
The ancestors of my father, Carlos López, moved to New México long before it was part of the United States. Some came with Don Juan de Oñate in 1598. Others traveled to New México with Don Diego de Vargas in 1693-1697. | |
 | Some of my Spanish ancestors were Sephardic Jews leaving México during a time of fear for Crypto-Jews who had found a haven in México, before this time. Some of these ancestors were Apache, Pueblo Peoples, Aztec or other Native Americans. A few later came as soldiers in the Spanish army. In fact, I have ancestors who were among the first settlers in both my hometown, Santa Fé, and in Alburquerque. The earliest of my López ancestors that I have been able to locate lived not far from where I live today. |
The ancestors of my mother, Eleanor Atwood Blair, came to the North American from the British Isles and the Palentine area of Europe. They were among the Pilgrims on the Mayflower, and other British colonist who came during the "Great Migration." | |
| I recently uncovered my maternal grandfather's Scott-Irish ancestors who turned out to be neither Scottish nor Irish, well except for the first Blair who came to the New World. Most of women the Blairs married were descendents of Lutherans & Mennonites from Switzerland & Germany who left their homes for similar reasons my Pilgrim and Sephardic Jewish ancestors left Europe. |  |
Among my German Lutheran ancestors I found a common ancestor with my husband, Johannes Martin Schwartz. This makes Jim and I 9th cousins. When we were married about a decade ago, I had no idea I had German ancestors or that Jim and I could be any form of cousins. | |
 | My mother came to New México with my father after WWII. She had told me she was never very happy until she married my father and moved to New México. She fell in love with the land that was so much a part of the man she fell in love with. By the time I was born, my mother already was as much |
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a Native New Méxican as I am after over five decades of life in this amazing land. My parents were my greatest teachers, and the passion my father felt about New México is still strong in me. I love its history, its Hispanic & Indian culture, its land and its people. | |
| I have been a middle school teacher since January 1975. I teach New Méxican and United States History. Not the subjects that usually grab a hold of 12-14 year old people, but there is so much more than teaching history when it comes to teaching middle school. It is all about sharing ones knowledge, skills and love of ones subject with kids. It is all about helping them grow and make it through these difficult years. |  Brooklynne & Chamisa |
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Some people may question the sanity of any person who honestly admits to enjoying spending their days with 11-14 year old people, but I feel that there is no better way I could have spent the past three decades of my life. Teaching has brought out the best in myself, and I hope that in these years I've helped bring out the best in my students. My life has been full of love. What more can a person ask of life! | |
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When computers first became reasonable enough for normal people to have one, my former significant other purchased an IMB clone 286. I gave Bob such a hard time about bringing "a tool of the devil" into my home. I saw them as a tool of "Big Brother" and the words "What do you think you are doing, Dave?" were deeply embedded in my consciousness. The Net has really become "the people's forum." Anyone with an idea, inclination, spark of creativity, etc. has a venue to express themselves. It has become an activists tool as well. |
| Of course it didn't take me long to practically steal the computer from Bob. Being dyslexic made it a great plaything and tool. AND then there was that prodigy disc a friend gave me. All I had to do was find a group of people talking about Northern Exposure to make me an instant addict back in the days of DOS. | Since then I've upgrade a few times, spent time on local bbs, all the possible online services I could find, and all of this long before there was a WWW, which later became assessable with a lynx browser via a dial service using a Unix server. After a while I found that there were so many images I wasn't able to see that I finally & reluctantly started using Windoz. Computers have become a necessity in my life. I use a computer at school. I shop on-line, I have found information that I would not have elsewise, and I've met wonderful people over the years. I also met my husband, Jim, on-line. We had so many |  Jim |
| connections, and even had once lived within a few blocks of each other, yet we never connected to each other until Jim found me on the Web.
Some of the people I meet while talking about Northern Exposure have remained close friends all these years since. We live in Washington, California, Arizona and New México, but our friendship has since transcended both the service and television program that | |
 Me, Meg & Jim | brought us together. We write to each other daily on our own Listserve. Every once in a while I'm fortunate to have one of these dear people pass through New México and we can have a mimi-Moosefest. Moosefest is the name we gave the first gatherings we had in Washington. Others carry on the tradition in Roslyn, Washington today. We carry on the tradition whenever and wherever we can met face to face. |
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I have had a web page since 1994. Over the years my site keeps growing and getting larger as my passions meander through different interests. My love of cats lead to one of the first Cat Web Animation Gallery on the web. My passion for the Grateful Dead led to another Graphix gallery full of Dead & Hippie Graphix. I also filled my pages with friends and family. For the past few years my passion has been genealogy, so I continue to fill my site with pages of anyone who can somehow connect with my family, plus other resources for Netizens looking for help with their New Méxican ancestors. I hope that somewhere within this site you can find something that you can enjoy. | |
 Brooklynne |  Chamisa & Jesús |
 Sydney, Chamisa and Brooklynne |  Madison | ....and BTW, I have never played golf in my entire life! |
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