As someone who was born in El Paso, Texas and was living there when all of the big bruhaha was going on about Don Juan de Onate and his having crossed the dessert and celebrated the first Thanksgiving, they kind of forget to mention that they had their little party on the Mexican side of the river, not in what later became Texas, so I say the Pilgrims had the the first Thanksgiving. There have always been Thanksgivings by people for safe journeys and crops, but not in America. Ours was the first recorded. Joyce Moore [email protected] wrote: Dick Eastman has it listed on his web site see http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2006/11/the_first_thank.ht ml or check with New Mexico Genealogical Society web site posting from a fellow researcher and avid genealogical writer Pauline Chavez Bent. http://www.nmgs.org/art1stThanks.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message