Finding out what it means to be Boricua through a genetic & genealogical journey through my family history
During the month of June (my last month of living abroad), I was able to visit Andalucía in southern Spain to continue researching my Dávila family that came from San Juan del Puerto. During my time there, I came across a marriage record between my 8th great-grandparents that showed them entering into a consanguineous marriage. …
Recently, I’ve been out of the “blog game”. And to be honest, with school starting up again I always find it hard to balance personal time and work time, though I try to continue searching here and there when I can. I also want to continue cataloguing towns as I was doing this summer and …
Tracing a Line to Spain – The Cantos Dávila Family Read More »
I know today is no longer Tuesday but I wanted to write this post and heck why not still post it even though it’s Wednesday! But I wanted to talk about my trip to Andalusia in the south of the Spain and the wonderful opportunity I got to visit a town in which I have …
Travel Tuesday – El Puerto de Santa María, Spain Read More »
Post #10 already!! Today’s ancestor I want to focus on I’ve talked a little bit about but in a different aspect. I’ve talked about his origins in my post “Travel Tuesday: Oh The Place I’ll Go“. This post will discuss more about my 11th great grandfather Hernán Pérez. I would have NEVER imagined that by …
I’m really loving these geneablogger prompts and one of today’s prompts fits perfectly well with a post I wanted to write! Inspired by Dr. Seuss’ book title “Oh the Places You’ll Go”, I decided to talk about some traveling I actually want to get done! I’ll be spending the next year studying in Spain to …