Finding out what it means to be Boricua through a genetic & genealogical journey through my family history
I haven’t been posting really that much since I’ve gotten back to school with all the work and all but this is something worth blogging about! Sometime over the summer, a distant cousin found my tree on ancestry.com and contacted me about a potential relationship. According to our paper trails, my 4th great grandparents on …
So while I was in Puerto Rico I decided to visit the AGPR which is known to have records. I knew that the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña was located near El Morro and in Old San Juan so I headed there first thinking that was where the AGPR was but I was wrong and so …
A Visit to the AGPR (Archivo General de Puerto Rico) Read More »
I’m back home from Puerto Rico and want to start blogging about what I found, didn’t find and hope to solve with the searching I did while I was there. Every time I visit Puerto Rico, I search my grandmother’s closet (with her permission of course) for the few remaining pictures that were my grandfather’s. …
So while I’ve been here in Puerto Rico I’ve been trying to get the ball rolling on getting some ancestry work done. I’ve visited the AGPR (Archivo General de Puerto Rico) and tomorrow the records I ordered are supposed to come in! (The records are from Lares, Puerto Rico). I’ve been looking at pictures and …
So today at the wee hours of the morning I was searching for the death certificate of my great aunt, Luz Lilliame Correa Miranda. I knew that she only lived to be about 4-5 years old and lived in San Juan, Puerto Rico. I started searching from July 1950 backwards and once I hit March …
I will continue with the Antonetti family except going forward and how they helped me find my elusive great grandfather in the 1930 Census. Francisco and Luisa never seemed to live together. Neither on the 1910, 1920 1930 Census did they live in the same household, though Francisco Antonetti does recognize in the 1910 Census …
When researching your family, I think it’s important to research other branches that have married in. Each of them can carry a unique story that adds to your overall ancestry and can give you more of an insight to how your family and their siblings lived. The family I’m going to focus on today is …
This advice is mainly for Puerto Ricans, especially to those living on the mainland (the United States) wanting to look up their family history. Of course, most of this advice also applies to anyone starting out family history and ancestry searches. Here are some tips, steps and general advice!For Puerto Ricans living in the United …
In Puerto Rico, there can sometimes be a hodgepodge of culture mixing. Besides the typical European, African and Native mix there also happen to be other cultures that have found their way onto the island. From the French and Corsicans, to the Dutch, Italians, Irish and nearby Dominicans and Cubans, and through my research I’ve …
I would say I’m a strong advocate for parents telling children stories about their family’s past, of course I don’t think there’s some campaign for this; but for me most of the stories, whether true or leaning towards false, can contain important information for when looking up family history. There’s one story on my dad’s …