Finding out what it means to be Boricua through a genetic & genealogical journey through my family history
It is that time of the year where the DNA results get updated again! It seems like just yesterday that AncestryDNA released an update, and yet, here we are again a year later! Let’s take a look at my updated AncestryDNA results and see how I feel about them. There are some new features and […]
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There has been a lot of buzz this week around AncestryDNA’s recent update with their DNA percentages. A lot of people have logged in and either been pleasantly surprised, utterly shocked, and somewhere in between. I wanted to share how my percentages have changed and my take on it. Caveat: I am no DNA expert
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I can not believe that this is already my second to last post for 2023! The year has sped by again (… when doesn’t it?) and I soon wrap my genealogical year with a review of my goals and a genealogical look into 2024. However, to end 2023 I want to focus on one of
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Time is flying as the end of the summer nears and it seems like a lot is happening! I missed my final post for August but I am hoping I can post three times this month to make up for it. Quite a bit is going on personally in my life as well (good things!)
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Connecting to DNA Cousins from Guadeloupe [Google Maps] DNA testing is something I initiated about 10 years ago, and I was fortunate to have stumbled upon it when I did. With testing, I have been able to make great discoveries – some of them thanks to the DNA itself and others to the people I
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July 4th, 2019 marks 8 exact years since I began blogging. It all started when I was 21 years old and home from college over the summer. I was inspired by Cece Moore who runs Your Genetic Genealogist and has become a common name in the genealogist household with all the work she has done with
My 200th Post- 8 Years of Blogging, 15 Years of Genealogy Read More »
My journey to discover more about my Mallorcan roots has been a long one! It started with a simple story about an ancestor from Spain (Part I & II), learning about the surname Magraner, going to the archives in Puerto Rico to learn about a man named Damián Magraner and ultimately traveling to Mallorca to
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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
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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
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DNA Circles [Ancestry] Fairly recently (in the genealogical world), Ancestry.com has been working on a DNA matching portion of their website called “DNA Circles”. I’ve been waiting to write a post about DNA Circles until I got my first match, and very recently this occurred (this post has been sitting in “drafts” for a while
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