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Race among the “Ortiz Rivera” siblings of Corozal

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I was driven to do some investigative research on my 3rd great-grandfather and his siblings after a discussion on a Facebook post about the term “raza india” appearing as a racial category on Puerto Rican records. I had discovered my 3rd great-grandfather’s race labeled as “india” on his death record some time ago, but besides …

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What’s In A (sur)Name?

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The last four days I spent pouring through Puerto Rico’s Civil Registry Birth Records from 1894-1908 from Patillas, Puerto Rico in search of my 2nd great grandmother. 3,003 documents later, I haven’t found her. The reason why I decided to bite the bullet and search each document one-by-one is because in other documents where she …

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