Finding out what it means to be Boricua through a genetic & genealogical journey through my family history
Late again on this Travel Tuesday and pretty late seeing as how I took this trip last March but I wanted to highlight my quick trip to Lares, Puerto Rico. Last year in March 2016, for Spring Break, I took a trip to Puerto Rico where I spent time with my grandmother both searching records …
Now that I’m on summer vacation I hope I can get some more posts out — especially since I’ll be traveling and doing some research as well! I want to dedicate this post to the Genetic Communities aspect of AncestryDNA that was recently released. This new feature of AncestryDNA is currently listed as “beta” meaning …
So the day has finally come where FamilySearch has uploaded more of the church records for Puerto Rico!! I am super excited because this means that I can now search these records from home instead of having to order the microfilm, go into the city, and reserve a computer to see the records. Though it …
DNA Circles [Ancestry] Fairly recently (in the genealogical world), Ancestry.com has been working on a DNA matching portion of their website called “DNA Circles”. I’ve been waiting to write a post about DNA Circles until I got my first match, and very recently this occurred (this post has been sitting in “drafts” for a while …
After having found out that my 4th great-grandfather from Guadeloupe, I was interested in seeing who else came to Puerto Rico from that island. Maybe there were other people from the same town or (smaller) island as my 4th great grandfather. I was also interested in seeing how surnames changed once they came to Puerto …
So it’s been a while since I’ve posted and it’s already 2017! As the new school year kicked off I saw myself being less and less able to write on the blog, despite having some new blog ideas! So finally I’m back and hopefully I’ll continue to post throughout the year evenly and not in …
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Broken Chains – Free at last! [Google Images] The 26th of August marked 174 years of freedom for my 5th great grandfather, Chaleau Jean Charles. He was lucky to receive emancipation 6 years prior to all French slaves being freed on the islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe. There is still much to learn about this family, …
Every time I search my DNA matches, I’m overwhelmed by Puerto Rican results which makes sense right! Well, it does… in a sense. Since my family is from Puerto Rico and has been since at least the 1700s/1600s, easily it makes sense that most of my DNA matches come from Puerto Rico. Though at the …
So while researching through Puerto Rican records I came across something very interesting that I had never seen before and decided to post about it! While researching in the “Registro Central de Esclavos” of 1872 I came across a slave born in Africa who mentions her African parents’ names! I’m not sure how often this …
For most hispanic genealogist, at one point during our research, the question: Do I have Sephardic Jewish ancestors? has come up! Not only across Spanish speaking countries in the Caribbean, Southern and Central America can Sephardic Jews be found but even on islands such as Jamaica, Curaçao, and as far as the old territories of …