Genealogía

A Consanguineous Family: The Martínez of Guayama/Maunabo

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 …

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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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Those Places Thursday – Salinas, Puerto Rico

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 …

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Travel Tuesday – Maunabo, Puerto Rico

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 …

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