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A Memorial to Honor their Past

ancestry, ANOM, France, Genealogy, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Puerto Rican DNA, Puerto Rican Genealogy, Puerto Rico, slavery / Luis Rivera

Recently, it was announced that there has been some more movement towards construction a memorial in the memory of the enslaved individuals who were freed from French slavery in 1848. This is very exciting because two of my ancestors are amongst those who were liberated. Let’s see what was announced and what we should expect! […]

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A Visit to the ANOM

France, Genealogía, Généalogie, Genealogy, Martinique / Luis Rivera

Back in January 2023 when I lived in France I got a chance to visit the ANOM (Archives Nationales d’Outre-Mer). This was exciting because though I had already done research on the ANOM website, I had never been there in person. Their website includes birth, marriage, and death records for my enslaved ancestors from both

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So… You Want to Hire a Genealogist?

France, Genealogía, Genealogy, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Puerto Rican Genealogy, Puerto Rico / Luis Rivera

If you’re stumbling across this post- you’re either a faithful reader (Thanks! ¡Gracias!) or you might be ready to bite the bullet to hire a genealogist but you might not exactly know how to go about it. Granted, I have only hired one genealogist twice myself, but having various years of genealogy under my belt

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Discovering Foreign Ancestors

ancestry, Charles, Correa, France, Genealogy, Guadeloupe, Gustavo, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Spain / Luis Rivera

At the beginning of this journey, I had one goal besides creating my family tree: to find Spanish-born or foreign born ancestors. I don’t know why I thought it important for me to find an ancestor born outside of Puerto Rico, but being that a lot of my ancestors (aka, all the ones I’ve found

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