The following teaser is from the July 28, 2016 edition of TheDenverChannel.com:
DENVER – Many Colorado Hispanics who have reached retirement age aren’t ready to stop working. Some want to continue contributing to their community, so they do volunteer work.
Pat Manalo is one of them. She’s a genealogist at the Colorado Society of Hispanic Genealogy.
“In the 1970s, you asked your aunties and uncles about your family,” she said. “Now, there are other resources available.”
Manalo told Denver7 that she never got to retire. She said she’s still a fulltime homemaker, but added that that job gave her the opportunity to go to libraries and to other people’s homes, to learn about family histories.
“Back then, you did everything by charts,” she said. “Now, it’s a little easier because we have more resources and we have a computer.”
The society maintains a library at Christ the King Lutheran Church in Southwest Denver.
Society President Joe Gallegos said most of the reference materials are church records.
“They include baptisms, marriages, deaths and confirmations,” he said. “A lot of information is also available on the internet.”
