Finding out what it means to be Boricua through a genetic & genealogical journey through my family history
Godt nytår! Or “Happy New Year” in Danish! I was fortunate to have spent the new year in a new country (Denmark), exploring new cities (Copenhagen, Hillerød; Malmö and Lund in Sweden) with new people. However, it is a new year which means new genealogical resolutions! I realized this week that last year’s posts marked …
And just like that we are at the end of another year! Oh my, time has flown! Wow, already the end of 2023? Another year, just like that!… and all the other phrases we can think of in regards to the passing of time. For me, it has been an “odd” two years – I …
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With Fathers’ Day being this weekend, I decided to recreate a post from last year where I traced a haplogroup back as far as I can go through paper trail. The post I hyperlinked in the previous sentence focused on my father’s maternal haplogroup L2a1, which took me back to the 1600-1700s in Yauco, Puerto Rico …
If memory serves me well, this is probably one of the later times I have written this post. Usually by the end of the year I have already reflected on my goals and totally ready to move onto the new resolutions for the new year. However, this year came with some new challenges and opportunities …
Just like that another year has flown by and this year ended quite different for me. Why? Because I am currently in France where I am living and working for the year. I wanted to seek a bit of adventure abroad and so I applied to work for a year teaching English here in France. …
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Just like that it is time to set goals for the new year! If you’d like to read my goals from 2021 and what I was able to accomplish – click here! My Genealogical Resolutions seem to date back to at least 2013, which means I have been doing this for at least 8 years …
Well jeez – if I thought 2020 was the blink of an eye then 2021 was the second blink! This year definitely flew by as well as we continue to grapple with the pandemic. Now, with the Omicron variant making its way through the United States, things seem almost to be heading backwards as the …
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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 …
If I thought 2019 flew by… then 2020 was literally the blink of an eye! As we all know, the world has been suffering a global pandemic with COVID-19, which I myself unfortunately contracted in mid-April. Given the turbulence of the year and a lot of the uncertainty the year brought (especially as a teacher), …
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With the new year comes change and excitement for what’s to come! For me, not only do I focus on life goals and resolutions for the entering year but I also try to create some resolutions based around genealogy. I spend quite a bit of time (read: a lot) doing genealogy on the day to …