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The Karg family in México.

From: caskarg@hotmail.com
Date: 08 Dec 2000
Time: 00:23:08
Remote Name: dial-148-240-100-207.zone-3.dial.net.mx

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Hello! It was quite a surprise to find this page! My name is Julio Castro-Karg. I belong to the only known Karg family in México. My great grandfather, Martin KARG, was born in Mannheim, Germany. He was a mining engineer and came to the American continent in the last half of the 1800s. I remember having heard that he decided to come to America because he had relatives living here! He lived in the USA but married a mexican woman, Sara Mariscal. They moved to México and had several children: Oscar, Martin, Eva, Heberto, Constanza, Carmen, Guadalupe, Jorge. Due to hostility against foreigners, my great grandfather took his family back to the USA and lived in New Jersey and then Texas. They moved when my grandfather, their last child, was a few months old. My grandfather was born in México in 1913. Most of the family moved back to México when the revolution was over but one of my grandfather's brothers, Oscar, stayed in the USA due to lepracy. Unfortunately the family lost contact with him (I found out about him when my grandfather died in 1980). I have heard that he married, so I suspect that I have relatives living somewhere in the USA. The family went to México city, and most of their descendants still live there. My grandfather, Jorge N. Karg, returned to México (1934) when he was 21 years old. He married (1937) my grandmother, Graciella Clouthier and had four children: Gina, Jorge, Marcela and Luis. They lived in México city but moved to Guadalajara in 1959. My mother married (1961) my father, Julio Castro Gómez, and had two children, my brother Luis Fernando (1967) and myself, Julio Martín (1962). So, here in Guadalajara there are four Karg families: Karg-Elias, Karg-González, Fabre-Karg and my family, Castro-Karg.