Finding out what it means to be Boricua through a genetic & genealogical journey through my family history
I have totally been ignoring this blog all summer but for good reasons! This summer I began my graduate studies in Spanish and I was so swamped with work that I didn’t even get a chance to sit and do some genealogy! (Which is truly shocking if you know me — I’ve been doing genealogy …
I bumped into this topic from the Geneabloggers emails which posts prompts (amongst other links) from a blog by Anglers Rest. Pretty much the prompts are created for you to fill out, that way you are building up some genealogical information about yourself as well! I think it’s a great idea, especially since we focus so …
Emigration/ Migration / Immigration (Book of Me — Prompt 43) Read More »
I’m kind of late adding my 52 Ancestors post for the week, but not too late! Today, my post is about my 3rd great grandfather Juan Francisco Sánchez Flores. When I first began to search for my 2nd great grandmother Anicasia Sánchez Arvelo, I knew pretty much nothing about her. Luckily, she appeared on the …
52 Ancestors – #25 Juan Francisco Sánchez Flores (1855-1916) Read More »
Puerto Rican Civil Registry [Ancestry] Recently, Ancestry released the Puerto Rico Civil Registry within their records. Even though I have been using these records for five years now, the Ancestry version of these records allowed me to something I was previously unable to do: Search records by a inputting names, places, and dates option like …
Ancestry.com Introduces the Puerto Rican Civil Registry Read More »
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 …