Finding out what it means to be Boricua through a genetic & genealogical journey through my family history
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 …
At the beginning of this journey, I had one goal besides creating my family tree: to find Spanish-born or foreign born ancestors. I don’t know why I thought it important for me to find an ancestor born outside of Puerto Rico, but being that a lot of my ancestors (aka, all the ones I’ve found …
Like I mentioned in a previous post, I didn’t know too much about my mom’s grandfather and his family. My grandmother had told me that his father, Manuel Correa (The elusive man in my family tree), worked in San Juan, Puerto Rico as a bus driver after meeting Ernesta. From my knowledge, I don’t know …
In all honesty, my maternal grandfather’s line has been one of the hardest to trace for what ever reason. Mostly because I have no communication with him, but I was fortunate enough that my grandmother was aware of some names in his family such as his mother’s name as well as her parents which was …
Joining 23&me at the age of 18 opened my mind to A LOT, not just about genealogy, ancestry, genes and everything in between but it allowed me to take part and become a member of a community with genealogy buffs like myself. Logging on and seeing how some people have reached ancestors born in the …