Finding out what it means to be Boricua through a genetic & genealogical journey through my family history
Recently, I’ve been going back into my family tree and trying to attach FamilySearch links to all of the documents that I have previously found in the past for my family through the church records of Puerto Rico. Though at first it had been sporadic, adding documents here and there whenever I remembered, this past …
Genealogical Spring Cleaning! Clearing up the “Vélez Pérez” branch Read More »
Genealogy can be a lot of fun, discovering your ancestors, their stories, and new information that can tell you more about your past. But there is a darker side to genealogy and that is death. It isn’t an easy topic to stomach and as humans we have to deal with this throughout our lives; but …
Recently, I bought a few AncestryDNA test during their Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale. With those tests I was able to add 3 new members of my family to the site: my father, my mother, and my maternal grandmother. I still have one more test left and I’m hoping to test my maternal grandfather, but I’d …
A Puerto Rican Look at : A Generational Exploration of African Ancestry Read More »
2018 [Google Images] It’s been a while since I’ve posted but I wanted to start out the New Year with some genealogical resolutions that hopefully will kickstart my 2018 genealogical year! So here’s a list of 10 things I would love to accomplish throughout the year, whether it’s a one time thing or progressively done …
Recently, I was fortunate enough to meet my half-uncle (linked post!) who we discovered through 23andme. He and his family were visiting New York City and decided to stop by for the day to hang out with us. It was amazing getting to spend the day with new family and my uncle was able to meet …
I have been pretty quiet here lately since I have been away traveling around Europe (will post about that later) and especially now that I have started work, but I want to blog about something amazing that happened recently! Two weekends ago my dad got a chance to meet his half brother who was given …
Finally a prompt I can use on the actual day! This post is similar to Tuesday’s prompt so I want to focus on a specific town I visited back in March 2015. One of the main towns I wanted to visit while I was in Puerto Rico was Salinas in the southern region of Puerto …
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 …