Finding out what it means to be Boricua through a genetic & genealogical journey through my family history
Juana Negrón Chéverez was my 4th great grandmother through my paternal side of the family. Juana is the woman from which my great grandmother, Mercedes Ortiz Marrero, receives her maternal haplogroup. Here is what I know about Juana! Corozal, Puerto Rico [Google] Juana Negrón Chéverez was either born in one of two towns, Corozal or …
52 Ancestors – #24 Juana Negrón Chéverez (1820-1920) Read More »
My 23rd post will focus on my 5th great grandfather Manuel Santos Marrero. Manuel is from my mother’s side of the family and finding him was interesting for a few reasons. At first, when I began to trace the Santos family, I started with my my 2nd great grandfather who was born in Morovis. His …
52 Ancestors – #23 Manuel Santos Marrero (1814-????) Read More »
Today I want to focus on an ancestor who could potentially be or not be my 3rd great grandfather. The reason I decided to add him to the 52 Ancestors series is because I would like to work out the kinks of this theory. Whether it was possible for him to be the father of …
52 Ancestors – #22 Damià Magraner Morell (1846-1910) Read More »
I’m posting early since I won’t have a chance to write this weekend! Today I want to focus on my 3rd great grandmother Juana Arvelo Vera. She is another ancestress I don’t know much about and hope to learn more as I continue my research. Juana’s estimated year of birth is 1872 according to her …
52 Ancestors – #21 Juana Arvelo Vera (1872-1912) Read More »
Post #20! These posts are going by very quickly! Today I want to focus on Valentin Múxica (also written as Móxica and currently as Mojica). He was my 4th great grandfather on my dad’s side of the family via my grandfather Felipe Rivera. Valentin Múxica would have been born, according to his death certificate, around …
Happy 10 Year Anniversary! Who would have thought that 10 years would have flown by this fast!? It feels like just yesterday I began talking to my relatives, asking them about my ancestors, and typing names into Ancestry.com to begin my search. I have definitely come a long way since then! Equally, this also marks the …
FtDNA myOrigins [FtDNA Email] Recently I received an email about the release of FtDNA’s myOrigins; this would replace the old version of the calculations given for ancestry breakdowns. I was pretty excited about this upgrade because it would add another view of my ancestral breakdown by another company. Currently I have 23andme’s Ancestry Compositon as …
My 3rd great grandmother has been one of my tougher genealogical brick walls and so I write this post in hopes that one day I will shed some more light on her and her past. My 3rd great grandmother has been been written down with two names on documents, the most common one was Luisa …
52 Ancestors – #19 Luisa Rodríguez Masantini (1878-1913*) Read More »
So, a few good moons ago I challenged myself by searching a German family named Hess Klinger that had arrived to Puerto Rico. While searching for my family in Salinas I came across an Italian family and decided to challenge myself to finding more about their background. I had some experience with Italian records but primarily with …
Cultural Exchange: The Italian Challenge, From Italia to Puerto Rico Read More »
Today’s ancestress, my 2nd great grandmother, Dionisia González Padilla is a very interesting ancestor because her death was very different than most of my other ancestors. Dionisia died fairly young at about the age of 26 and it was due to the 1918 Flu Pandemic. Dionisia was born probably in the year 1892 in Lares, …
52 Ancestors – #18 Dionisia González Padilla (1892-1918) Read More »