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Hello Lisa,
My name is Homer C. Pachecano, I was born in San Antonio ,Texas in 1945, to Luciano H. Pachecano and Angelita ( Hela ) Pachecano but we moved to California when I was 6 months old 58 1/2 years ago, I have 2 older sisters Olga and Ofelia and my younger brother Louie who was killed over 39 yrs ago.
I used to visit every summer with my Grandparents Natividad and Rafaela Pachecano on Rivas St. until I was 18 yrs old and have only been back home once since then.
I am sure we are related because if you are a Pachecano, it is not like saying your last name is Jones, Smith etc.
I live Woodland, CA with my wife and all of children are grown and gone out their own except for youngest daughter Megan she will be 19 and is away to college. Woodland is around 18 miles northwest of Sacramento, CA.
I hear that we also are related to the Pach-i-canos
Here is a little history that my cousin Roy R Pachecano has compiled, he has been pursuing the search and origin of our last name for almost 18 yrs.
I have been very interested in building a Pachecano Family Tree that highlights the names, people, and ages of all the Pachecanos in the US firstly, then Mexico and Italy. I have been researching this topic for over 18 years and seek the help of distant family members who I am not in daily contact with. A branch of this tree is the Pach-i-cano klan in Mexico, and who are on the move to the U.S. as part of the new migration sweeping into areas in the mid-west and northeast US---I have first hand knowledge of this as Pach-i-canos who contact me via email are travelling from Mexico. My research has taken me to Italy, where the phonetic equivilent is found in Naples and Rome. I have spent considerable time in Italy and can corroborate many events and facts---For example, outside Mexico and the US, there is no other country that has Pachecano listed. Spain and Portugal are close latin-speaking countries, but no Pachecano has emerged [this is in contrast to my mother's family where Huriega and Uriega can be traced directly to Spain].
As you know, we are direct descendants of Jose Natividad Pachecano who was the first Pach-e-cano to arrrive in the US back in 1913. Those who can be found in Mexico use the Pach-i-cano spelling and are related to Natividad's father's brother, or our great grandfather, Luciano Pachecano. Such names as Luciano and Florencia (Natividad's sister) are strong indicators of Italian customs. What I do not know is what date and by what tall sailing ship did Luciano's father, Pablo (also Paolo) came to Mexico---which is estimated to be around late 1790, early 1800s---at a time when Mexico was New Spain [being navigated frequently by Italians] and a shared province of France. The trick in doing the research has been in understanding how the Italian and Spanish languages are interchangable, then how the name spelling became assimilated, then ultimately re-invented in the US.
Hope this helped
Homer C. Pachecano
Click on the link below and read some more about Pachecanos
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=pachecano
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