Dávila

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An Orphaned Child: Zoilo Dávila Santiago

Today I want to focus on something I have not seen quite often in Puerto Rican genealogy (at least on my end while researching), which are adoption and or orphaned children. Interestingly enough, my own great-grandfather was orphaned by the age of 13, having lost his father at 9 years old and his mother at …

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Learning More About My Ancestors in 19th Century Maunabo

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 …

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Researching my Dávila Ancestors in Andalucía, Spain

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 …

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Tracing a Line to Spain – The Cantos Dávila Family

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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