I am in Austin, TX right now for the South by Southwest Music, Film and Web conference. I was in line for a drink at a happy hour, wearing my name badge and somebody said to me “Hey, this guy has your last name”. I assumed they were not talking to me, because nobody has my last name; but to my shock and surprise standing next to me was one Christopher Robleto from El Paso, TX. We did a quick family tree once over, and determined we weren’t related (he’s second generation directly from Nicaragua). I know there are other Robletos out there, but I never face-to-face met one I wasn’t related to. That was so wild.
Because it’s a conference, we typically exchange business cards, so I was excited to give Christopher my personal card that includes my site www.robleto.com on it. He quickly glanced and it, and then replied “So, that’s you!”
But have you met another Robeltog yet?
That’s awesome! Did you take a picture with your long lost non-relation?
Robeltog was the username Wawa gave me when I worked on site there for a few months. Last name (misspelled) then first initial. I started using it as part of my pseudonym. When I was registering online somewhere I didn’t trust, I became Doug Robeltog.
No, didn’t get his picture, did get a business card.
I was informed on Sunday (4/13/08 of you running into my nephew Christopher Paul Robleto. Our father Adolfo Robleto DÃÂaz was born in Nicaragua & so was I. We are a family of six, five boys, one girl. We came to the States in 1963. My father was a Baptist preacher, translador (English-Spanish) and writer of poetry and prose. Please let me know the background on your family. I think the last name Robleto is Italian but have never done any investigation. Please write I would love to hear from you. We also live in El Paso.
Hey Greg. Its, Chris, your long lost non-relation. I randomly found this page and wanted to correct a few things. 1) i’m not second generation but first. i’m the first (on both sides of my family) to be born in the states. 2) you DID get a picture…of my badge which has a picture of me on it.
how you doing by-the-way?
Wait- your family name origin could possibly be Italian?? We’d better clear this up… or it might be a terrible idea for Jeff and I to ever have children.
DOUBLE Irish-Italian?! I believe that could result in some sort of large-scale global disaster.