Finding out what it means to be Boricua through a genetic & genealogical journey through my family history
Back in the late fall last year, in one of the Puerto Rican Genealogical Facebook groups I am a part of, a link was shared to documents that could be important for genealogical research that had been updated at the time. The documents, however, are not your typical Puerto Rican Civil Registry or Registros Parroquiales …
Learning More About My Ancestors in 19th Century Maunabo Read More »
I’m not gonna lie — I have hesitated so many times in writing this post. First, I created the post itself and saved it under drafts for two years (enter the pandemic and other life events), after I began doing some research on the family and then stopped. Lastly, I created a file for them …
A Triple-Barrelled Surnamed Family? The García-Rodríguez-Bonilla Read More »
Like my Avilés/Magraner line, I tested my Correa Y-DNA line while I was in Puerto Rico, this time with my maternal grandfather. Though I originally tested this line at Y-DNA67, I have upgraded the line to Y-DNA111 on FTDNA and with the recent Thanksgiving sales I have finally upgraded the line to Big-Y 700. The …
About 7 years ago, I had discovered the names of my 5th great-grandparents and those of their parents in their marriage record in the year 1819. José de León Correa Carcaño, son of Juan Francisco Correa and María Eugenia Carcaño, said to be natives of San Juan and María de la Cruz Rodríguez Ruiz, daughter …
Back in October 2018 (almost a year ago now), I posted about my Dávila-Cantos family who I had at the time traced via genealogical records on the island of Puerto Rico from Maunabo to Coamo and ultimately back to a town in Spain. That was where my search had ended – with the name of …
Researching my Dávila Ancestors in Andalucía, Spain Read More »
In line with my goals for the new year, I’ve been taking a look at my lines trying to push them back in the 1700s. Many of my Coamo lines have been pushed back to 1700s but I always like to take another look at them and see if I’m missing any children or to …
In the last couple of weeks, I’ve taken another stab at researching my Correa side of the family but as the title suggests I am going nowhere! Though I haven’t be able to move much further into the family tree, I’ve decided to post about them and what I do know about the family and …
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 »
Town Name: CoamoDemonym: CoameñosFounding: 1579Church Name: San Blas de Illescas San Blas de Illescas – Coamo, Puerto Rico [Wikipedia] BAPTISMS/ BAUTISMOS Record Names Nombre de Archivos Start Page Página Inicio End Page Última Página Index? ¿Índice? Film Nº Nº de Rollo Index Baptisms /Índice Bautismos 1861-1865 (Vol. 16) 785 803 Yes/Sí 820743, Item 3 Index …
Recently, I’ve been taking a dive into the Puerto Rican Church Records again on FamilySearch. By chance and funny enough, by looking to one branch of my family I bumped into a completely different one. Finding children being born in towns nearby (and not so nearby) and parents appearing as godparents has allowed me to …