Finding out what it means to be Boricua through a genetic & genealogical journey through my family history
2021 has begun and of course the troubles of 2020 have come along as well for the ride. Political issues haven’t gotten any better and neither has the pandemic. However, there are glimmers of hope as well that we can begin looking forward to! With that being said, I am excited to get started with …
We all know it’s been quite and I mean QUITE a year. Not only the raging pandemic here in the United States but also issues on race, police brutality, and issues of politics have been flashing across our TV screens and phones for what feels like forever. Yet, somehow most of it has mainly been …
In the summer of 2018, I clocked in a lot of hours looking into my Yabucoa side of the family. Discovering the church death record of my 4th great-grandfather Manuel de Santiago fortunately unlocked for me new names of ancestors to search. These searches ultimately took me from Yabucoa to the towns of Humacao and Las …
I wanted to focus this post on an aspect of genealogy I think most newbies tend to oversee, whether due to excitement or blindly trusting what we first see – mistakes on records. When you first start out in genealogy, you tend to take all information on records as genealogical gold. But what happens when …
A bit earlier on in the year, around spring/early summer, Ancestry released “MyTreeTags” which can be added to your ancestors in your tree. Hyperlinked above, you will find how to set up the tags and the different types that exist already. Another feature of the tags is that you can create your own “custom tags” …
Earlier in the year (a few months ago actually), while I visited Puerto Rico I made sure to revisit the Archivo Diocesano in San Juan. Here, my goal is always to try and find marriage dispensas (marriage permissions) given to my ancestors who needed permission to marry cousins of varying degrees. This specific time I was searching …
A Consanguineous Family: The Martínez of Guayama/Maunabo Read More »
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 »
Finally a prompt I can use on the actual day! This post is similar to Tuesday’s prompt so I want to focus on a specific town I visited back in March 2015. One of the main towns I wanted to visit while I was in Puerto Rico was Salinas in the southern region of Puerto …
So they say time flies when you’re having fun, right? That’s also VERY true for being busy with work. One day I’m back from Spring Break and before I know it it’s one day short of June! It’s been part laziness and part tiredness that I’ve been disconnected from this blog, which I hate because …
It feels awesome to be back writing about my ancestors! I was a bit nervous at first that I would just get lazy and never get around to it, but I’m almost at the half way mark of the 52 Ancestor Challenge. This is definitely hard to keep up with, with the rest of live …