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A Puerto Rican Look at: Updated 23andme Results (2025)

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Recently, at the end of September, 23andMe released a fairly big update to their genetic DNA results. The biggest changes seem to have come to the European section of the results, which have not been majorly updated for about ten years. So let’s take a look, focusing mostly on my European results!  New European Percentages […]

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A Visit to the Obispado de Huelva

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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.

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Tracing a Line to Spain – The Cantos Dávila Family

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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

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Travel Tuesday – El Puerto de Santa María, Spain

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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

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52 Ancestors – #10 Hernán Pérez (1508-1581)

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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

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Travel Tuesday: Oh the Place I’ll Go…

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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

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