Finding out what it means to be Boricua through a genetic & genealogical journey through my family history
I unfortunately never got to finish the 52 ancestors series before the end of 2014, with traveling around Europe and getting back into the swing of things here in Spain I haven’t really been able to write new blog posts. But hopefully I’ll be able to finish up the 52 Ancestors Challenge and write new …
52 Ancestors – #48 Nicodemus Vélez Ríos (1878-1934) Read More »
Today I want to focus on my 4th great grandmother on my maternal side of the family – María del Carmen Chéverez Santiago. María del Carmen was probably born in Corozal around the 1830s, it is also possible that she was born in Toa Alta but from my search I haven’t been able to find …
52 Ancestors – #47 María de Carmen Chéverez Santiago Read More »
Today I’m going to focus on my 3rd great grandfather from my paternal side of the family. This will bring me into my November posts and only 7 posts away from finishing the 52 Ancestors Challenge! José Severo Vélez Sepúlveda was born on 6th of November 1837 in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico according to his baptismal …
52 Ancestors – #45 José Severo Vélez Sepúlveda (1837-1894) Read More »
I know today is no longer Tuesday but I wanted to write this post and heck why not still post it even though it’s Wednesday! But I wanted to talk about my trip to Andalusia in the south of the Spain and the wonderful opportunity I got to visit a town in which I have …
Travel Tuesday – El Puerto de Santa María, Spain Read More »
So I’m not gonna lie — this is kind of a cheat post! Before the 52 Ancestor challenge was created I had gone about doing my own little series back in 2012 (has time flown by that fast already?), in which I would focus on ancestors’ stories via the records I had of them. I …
52 Ancestors – #44 Alejandro Rivera González (1883-1958) Read More »
I can’t believe that there are only 10 ancestors left to complete this challenge! I’ve said it many times before, but I’ve had a great time searching and researching for these ancestors in my tree and through the records. I’ve been getting behind again with traveling around Spain but I’m going to try and catch …
I can’t believe this is Ancestor #40 already!! Boy has time flown by! I am happy to have finally caught up (yet again) and hopefully I’ll be able to continue to post on the regularly scheduled Friday like I had done before. Today’s ancestor will be Cayetano de los Santos, my 7th great grandfather. Cayetano …
Moving a little over towards the East from Patillas, we get to Yabucoa where my next ancestor entry will take place! This post is about my 3rd great grandmother María Higinia Ruiz Ramos. María Higinia according to records was originally from Maunabo, Puerto Rico which makes sense since these two towns (Yabucoa and Maunabo) are …
52 Ancestors – #39 María Higinia Ruiz Ramos (1859-1921) Read More »
Okay, finally moving our way out of Toa Alta (just for a bit, since I have some more Toa Alta ancestors in the near future to write about). On this post I want to focus on my 3rd great grandfather, Cruz Rivera Collazo – another man of much mystery! I was first introduced to Cruz’s …
52 Ancestors – #38 Cruz Rivera Collazo (1860-19??) Read More »
I’m going to keep this ball rolling and continue posting about my ancestors. So here’s post 37 about yet another ancestor from Toa Alta, my 4th great grandmother Gertrudis Román. When I first discovered Gertrudis through the Toa Alta church records I was really excited, being the wife of my 4th great grandfather, Joseph de …