Finding out what it means to be Boricua through a genetic & genealogical journey through my family history
Recently (as in just yesterday), ancestry.com uploaded the 1935-1936 Census for Puerto Rico. I have been waiting for this census for a while and I’m glad it’s been released! It adds another set of records available on ancestry for Puerto Ricans to use for researching their ancestors. Here is some background information given by ancestry: This …
In honor of International Women’s day and because I was itching to write about a certain haplogroup, I decided that this was the opportune time for me to write! So far with 23andme, I have been able to test 7 people in my family including myself and have been able to discover 4 different maternal …
If you haven’t read the first part click HERE to read it! So now I had some new names surrounding Eglantine, Julienne and Pauline. In 1844, there was a Dame Lapierre, née Forget and in 1847, there was a Dame Laroche, née Lapierre. So I turned to David Quénéhervé with this new found information to see …
Map of Martinique Part ISo a lot has happened in these last couple of days! Hopefully this post isn’t too longwinded but I want to make sure I have everything written down! So it started on Tuesday, when I figured out that the LDS center I go to, to view microfilm records from Puerto Rico, …
This week, after much anticipation and excitement the new version of 23andme‘s Ancestry Painting was released! This new version, which replaced Ancestry Painting, is now known as Ancestry Composition. Ancestry Painting lacked populations which only used three main populations Asian (from China/Japan), European (which I think were US-European samples), and then African (using Yoruba samples …
With my sudden potential discover of a definite Martinique connection, my brain has been yelling “Full Steam Ahead!!!!” I’ve been searching the internet for Martinique books, websites and even videos to find an insight to what my ancestors would have gone through. David Quénéhervé recommended to me a book titled “Black Shack Alley” written by …
I took a little hiatus from searching for my ancestors after I started working and since I was stuck at home due to Hurricane Sandy I decided to give it go again. (I can’t stay away from my tree for that long anyways!) I decided to glimpse through my line of potential Martinique ancestors. There’s …
What seems like already a long time ago, mean while it was probably only a month ago, I ordered and sent off my spit to be analyzed by AncestryDNA. Seeing as how I’ve already tested with 23andme and Genetree (Y-DNA exam), I decided to try another exam as well. The price was only $99 since …
I’ve gotta say, I’ve been pretty fortunate when it comes to finding out some random things and getting clues- which then get confirmed. I guess it’s because I’m young and still have the older generation around that can answer some of questions, its just finding who knows the answers and hold the key to these …
The second person I decided to focus on was someone that doesn’t have too many documents per se but I’m interested in her life and so I decided to include her here since it is an ancestor I discovered through documents. I decided to focus on my 4th great grandmother, Bernardina Sepúlveda Roman, who was born around …
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