Finding out what it means to be Boricua through a genetic & genealogical journey through my family history
With this post of my 29th ancestor I’ll have concluded the posts from July!! I’m definitely very excited to get into my posts for August and then line up my next ancestors for the next months to come. So without further ado, here is my 29th post about my 3rd great grandfather Valentin González Quiñones. …
52 Ancestors – #29 Valentin González Quiñones (1828-1907) Read More »
I’m kind of on a roll here so I’m going to continue with my 28th post about my 3rd great grandfather Buenaventura Ortiz Rivera! It’s kind of funny to think about a 3rd great grandfather. I was fortunate to meet two of my great grandparents and my father meet his great grandfather (My second great …
52 Ancestors – #28 Buenaventura Ortiz Rivera (1850-1925) Read More »
This post will focus on my maternal 6th great grandfather Sebastián Rodríguez Rodríguez. Sebastián according to his death certificate would have been born around 1779 in Coamo, Puerto Rico. It was very exciting when I found his death certificate because Sebastián is part of a maternal line that took a VERY long time to crack, …
52 Ancestors – #27 Sebastián Rodríguez Rodríguez (1779-1819) Read More »
Ok! So I’m back to posting about my ancestors and I’ll keep going with the ones I had scheduled! Today I’ll be talking about my 4th great grandmother Severina Padilla. I actually don’t have too much information about Severina and her life. Documents point to her origin being in the town of Yauco, Puerto Rico – …
I have totally been ignoring this blog all summer but for good reasons! This summer I began my graduate studies in Spanish and I was so swamped with work that I didn’t even get a chance to sit and do some genealogy! (Which is truly shocking if you know me — I’ve been doing genealogy …
I’m kind of late adding my 52 Ancestors post for the week, but not too late! Today, my post is about my 3rd great grandfather Juan Francisco Sánchez Flores. When I first began to search for my 2nd great grandmother Anicasia Sánchez Arvelo, I knew pretty much nothing about her. Luckily, she appeared on the …
52 Ancestors – #25 Juan Francisco Sánchez Flores (1855-1916) Read More »
Puerto Rican Civil Registry [Ancestry] Recently, Ancestry released the Puerto Rico Civil Registry within their records. Even though I have been using these records for five years now, the Ancestry version of these records allowed me to something I was previously unable to do: Search records by a inputting names, places, and dates option like …
Ancestry.com Introduces the Puerto Rican Civil Registry Read More »
My 23rd post will focus on my 5th great grandfather Manuel Santos Marrero. Manuel is from my mother’s side of the family and finding him was interesting for a few reasons. At first, when I began to trace the Santos family, I started with my my 2nd great grandfather who was born in Morovis. His …
52 Ancestors – #23 Manuel Santos Marrero (1814-????) Read More »
Post #20! These posts are going by very quickly! Today I want to focus on Valentin Múxica (also written as Móxica and currently as Mojica). He was my 4th great grandfather on my dad’s side of the family via my grandfather Felipe Rivera. Valentin Múxica would have been born, according to his death certificate, around …
Happy 10 Year Anniversary! Who would have thought that 10 years would have flown by this fast!? It feels like just yesterday I began talking to my relatives, asking them about my ancestors, and typing names into Ancestry.com to begin my search. I have definitely come a long way since then! Equally, this also marks the …