Finding out what it means to be Boricua through a genetic & genealogical journey through my family history
When researching families in Puerto Rico, something to keep track of that might be different in a lot of other genealogical searches is the idea of “consanguinity”. Consanguineous can be defined as “sharing the same blood or origin, specifically descending from the same ancestor” (Merriam-Webster). The term can broken down into “con-” and “sanguis” meaning …
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 …
In a conversation with my grandaunt about our family and how my grandmother got to the United States, her uncle, my great-granduncle came up in the conversation. It seems like he played a vital role in getting my grandmother (or helping her to some extent) get part of her life started in the United States. …
To be quite honest, I had the idea of this post a long time ago and then I put it off from writing it for a long time as well. Mostly for two reasons: 1) the post seemed rather morbid and 2) I wasn’t sure if I was releasing information I didn’t want out there. …
It’s been quiet a while since I’ve posted on my blog! Taking a quick look, my last post was in March of this year (which sadly means I won’t hit my goal of posting at least twice a month for my genealogical resolution). However, it was not intentional and unfortunately genealogy had to take the …
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” …