Luis Rivera

A Puerto Rican Look at: My X-Chromosome

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With Mother’s day being this Sunday here in the United States, I decided to take a different and closer look at my DNA – I wanted to see how my X-Chromosome and those of my grandmother, grandfather, and great-grandfather were passed down; all exclusively inherited from my maternal side of the family. Since I am …

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A Puerto Rican Look at: Y-DNA67 (Avilés/Magraner)

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***Si eres descendiente de los Magraner de Sóller, Mallorca, especialmente a través de Damián Magraner Morell o uno de sus hermanos, me gustaría hablar con usted para ver si podemos establecer una conexión genética. Puedes dejar un comentario aquí en este blog para contactarte conmigo. ¡Muchísimas gracias!*** While in Puerto Rico for Spring Break, one of my …

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Chromosome 7 – An African American Connection

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Chromosome 7 – Myself [Personal Photo] With the continued use of DNA Painter, I have been able to see (in a sense) my results through a more magnified lens. Being able to break down genetic cousins via a comparison to my other tested family members has allowed me to better parse down a bit from which …

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A Look at my 5th Great-Grandmother’s Testament

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Currently I am in Puerto Rico for Spring Break, and instead of laying down at the beach soaking in the sun, I have been visiting various genealogical places in order to get research done that I can only do while on the island. One of the places I visited was the Archivo General de Puerto …

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A Puerto Rican Look at: Generational 23andMe African Ancestry

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This blog post will be an updated report on my African ancestry from 23andMe. Last month I had posted about some of my new European Ancestry reports from 23andMe while last year I wrote about my generational African mixes from AncestryDNA (which I’ll have to update at some point as well!). Since 23andme has updated their African scores …

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Manuel Ruiz – A Pardo Slave in the 1700s

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In line with my goals for the new year, I’ve been taking a look at my lines trying to push them back in the 1700s. Many of my Coamo lines have been pushed back to 1700s but I always like to take another look at them and see if I’m missing any children or to …

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