My family’s origin began in Spain. My first thought actually believed my ancestors were all originally from what is now Mexico. With this it brought what is now my last name, Arreguin. The surname Arreguin means “stonecutter”. From then on, my past ancestors started the generation and are still continuing today.
One of the Spaniards had married an Indian (Mayan or Aztec) in the past centuries. With these two soul mates made what was my great-grandparents today. My whole family is from Guanajuato, Mexico. From my dad’s side, my great-grandparents had six children. From this my grandpa Elpido Arreguin was born. He was a hard-working independent person. ‘I would wake up every morning and walk to work”. Child labor was very important in those days. When he turned 20 he married a wonderful and hard-working women name Josefina Arreguin. She was the first child from eleven children. Her biological father had passed away when she was 4 or 5 years old. Her mother had her working more than any of the others. She was practically ‘mom”. She was 14 when she married. My grandparents had eight children with little money to spare. “Life was hard it was nothing like it is today”. My dad was the Second from all of them. He went to school and just graduated from sixth grade. He also went to church daily. My dad always said that he played many sport but with very bad equipment. When my grandpa and my uncle Jose first came to Mexico, my dad was in charge of the family. There were many hardships, but no one gave up.
From my mom’s side, my grandparents had a total of nine children. One of those was my grandpa Alvaro “Cha” Arreguin. He was very hard-working and helped many of his people. My Grandpa also worked in fields and tried to work as much as possible to maintain the family. When he turn 21 , he meat a beautiful women name Adelia Laguna. She was very hard-working and full of