This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Estrada y Palma, Owen y Estrada Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kRC.2ACE/5374.3.1 Message Board Post: Dear Maruca, Thank you for providing that link to Estrada Palma's history at the library. I hope to spend considerable time researching at that site. I wonder, whether you have come across any connection with the Estrada family of Mexico. I know that Gilberto Owen Estrada, the famous poet, is being celebrated in Mexico this year due to the 100th anniversary of his birth coming soon--Cuatro de Febrero de 1905. Mr. Owen worked in the diplomatic sphere and live in New York City and in Colombia, where he married. "¡Qué más quisiera, ¡triste de mí!, que anclar mi nave! Pero el remanso está lejos de mi dolor; ya el corazón inhóspito arbusto es para el ave, y en mi pecho, pletórico de hieles, ya no cabe el tesoro mil-y-una-nochesco de tu amor. " He too, was a man of constant self-analysis. Please let me know whether the two families connect and how, as it would enrich even mor Mr. Owen's already international story, and of course help to tie President Estrada Palma's legacy to Mexico. Cordially, Ines Diaz-Owen