Liberal Memorial Library received an $8,000 Kansas Humanities Grant to record the immigration stories of immigrants to Southwest Kansas. The Grant titled “Crossroads of Commerce, Culture, and Community” will record and preserve the stories of 40 individuals and/or families who immigrated to Southwest Kansas from a foreign country.
The grant dollars from the Kansas Humanities Council allowed the library to record the interviews with both video and audio equipment and disseminate the information obtained during the interviews through our website and DVD recordings. Preserving the stories of immigrants to Southwest Kansas is important for many reasons, and if we do not begin to record them soon, the stories will be lost as families move on or individuals pass away.
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Name
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Date of Birth |
Place of Birth
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| G B | Durango, Mexico | |
| Hugo Cano | 3/18/1971 | Chihuahua, Mexico |
| Laura Cano | 1/30/1973 | Chihuahua, Mexico |
| Alvaro Cruz | 2/25/1967 | Nicaragua |
| Silvio Cruz | 8/2/1969 | Nicaragua |
| Carlos De Leon | 7/13/1946 | Guatemala |
| Leslie De Leon | 1/25/1969 | Guatemala |
| Rafael Diaz | 9/30/1962 | Cuba |
| Fidencia Lambert | 11/16/1968 | Paraguay |
| Jose Flores | 12/10/1952 | Zacatecas, Mexico |
| Enrique Franz | 6/29/1976 | Nicaragua |
| Miguel Giner | 4/10/1963 | Chihuahua, Mexico |
| Esmeralda Gomez | 11/28/1966 | Zacatecas, Mexico |
| Maria Ibañez | 4/14/1948 | Chihuahua, Mexico |
| Fernanda Lujan | 5/30/1977 | Durango, Mexico |
| Oscar Palacios | 4/24/1960 | Chihuahua, Mexico |
| Raul Pena | 10/28/1955 | Chihuahua, Mexico |
| Sara Peters | 7/17/1967 | Chihuahua, Mexico |
| Arturo and Dora Ponce | Chihuahua, Mexico | |
| Beulah Rocha | 8/23/1963 | Nicaragua |
| Erica Rosales | 5/2/1984 | Zacatecas, Mexico |
| Manuela Rosales | 3/13/1966 | Zacatecas, Mexico |
| Maria Salazar | 3/6/1965 | Zacatecas, Mexico |
| Willie Vargas | 7/21/1957 | Chihuahua, Mexico |
| Amil Yasin | Malaysia |