Finding out what it means to be Boricua through a genetic & genealogical journey through my family history
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 »
April 25, 2014 [DNAart] I know I am a day behind with this post but I still wanted to publish it! DNA has truly changed the way I view myself, my culture, my history, and my view on the world. I wanted to share a bit why taking a DNA test was important to me. …
It’s probably only been just about a full year that I have known about my 5th great grandfather Bartolomé Dávila Cantos. Having returned to New York City from college I was able to visit the FamilySearch center more and got to use more microfilm rolls for the churches of Puerto Rico. One of the towns …
One of the mysteries that I’m currently facing (one of the many, of course!) is the name of Julienne Malvina’s father. Since Julienne was born a slave in Martinique, I was lucky to have found the birth record of my 4th great grandmother in 1844. Julienne was recorded as a négresse which most likely means that …
Recently while searching through ancestry’s database I noticed there was an update on the “San Juan, Puerto Rico, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1901-1954” and even though I didn’t have many different ancestors that traveled to the US and elsewhere I decided to search for my Charles/Gustave ancestors who indeed traveled a bit. My first and main …
When looking through records for my family in Puerto Rico, I have been fortunate that many of my ancestors have lived either in the same town or a neighboring town for many years if not generations. Some of the migrations across the island in my family happened early when many of the towns were being …
52 Ancestors – #16 Cayetano Mercado Cajigas (1855-1905) Read More »