Finding out what it means to be Boricua through a genetic & genealogical journey through my family history
Yay for writing a new post (and on time!) Today I want to focus on my 3rd great grandmother who I’ve mentioned multiple times throughout my blog but I wanted to dedicate a section of the 52 Ancestors challenge to her. My 3rd great grandmother on my maternal side was María Paulina Gustavo Lotten, and …
52 Ancestors – #41 María Paulina Gustavo Lotten (1867-1948) Read More »
I can’t believe this is Ancestor #40 already!! Boy has time flown by! I am happy to have finally caught up (yet again) and hopefully I’ll be able to continue to post on the regularly scheduled Friday like I had done before. Today’s ancestor will be Cayetano de los Santos, my 7th great grandfather. Cayetano …
Moving a little over towards the East from Patillas, we get to Yabucoa where my next ancestor entry will take place! This post is about my 3rd great grandmother María Higinia Ruiz Ramos. María Higinia according to records was originally from Maunabo, Puerto Rico which makes sense since these two towns (Yabucoa and Maunabo) are …
52 Ancestors – #39 María Higinia Ruiz Ramos (1859-1921) Read More »
Okay, finally moving our way out of Toa Alta (just for a bit, since I have some more Toa Alta ancestors in the near future to write about). On this post I want to focus on my 3rd great grandfather, Cruz Rivera Collazo – another man of much mystery! I was first introduced to Cruz’s …
52 Ancestors – #38 Cruz Rivera Collazo (1860-19??) Read More »
I’m going to keep this ball rolling and continue posting about my ancestors. So here’s post 37 about yet another ancestor from Toa Alta, my 4th great grandmother Gertrudis Román. When I first discovered Gertrudis through the Toa Alta church records I was really excited, being the wife of my 4th great grandfather, Joseph de …
Okay, finally getting into my September ancestors! I can’t believe that this is ancestor #36, so let’s get started! This will be about my 5th great grandmother Isabel de la Fuente. Isabel is also another ancestor from the town of the Toa Alta who I don’t have clear years of birth and death due to …
My 6th great grandfather is a man of both very little and very interesting information. By FamilySearch uploading Toa Alta church records a while back, I was able to extend my once unknown paternal line far back; Juan de Dios Marrero being part of this family. My great grandmother, Mercedes Ortiz Marrero, is related to …
Ahh!!! I know, I know! I’m late again with my posts (by about a month this time)! With settling into life in Spain, and three back-to-back weekend trips I haven’t been able to dedicate much attention to my blog! But I’ll try and catch up this week little by little posting more ancestor posts, I …
52 Ancestors – #34 Agustin Calderón Meléndez (1859-1947) Read More »
I have talked about my 5th great grandmother, Eglantine Lautin, before in previous posts. Many actually when I think about it, since it’s only been a little close to two years since I found out about her. In one post titled “Tracing Eglantine Lautin” I discuss the possibility of discovering her ethnic origin through the …
Almost caught up, almost caught up!! Here is another post of a pretty old ancestor, this time my 12th great grandfather Alonso Maldonado. [Note: because these ancestors are so far back there is always room for error, for example: paper records were wrong due to a NPE (non-paternity event) that occurred somewhere in the family …