Finding out what it means to be Boricua through a genetic & genealogical journey through my family history
Last July, 23andMe blogged about a recently (at the time) published article that looked at genetics and the legacy the transatlantic slave trade left on the New World (specifically countries like the United States, countries in the Caribbean and in Latin America which were main receivers of enslaved people). Their post (23andMe blog linked) offers …
23andMe Takes a Look at the Transatlantic Slave Trade Read More »
March 13, 2020 – my school had just gone on Spring Break. COVID-19 had made its way into the United States and things were slowly getting worse (nothing like what we would see months later). There was a case of a man in the Westchester area of New York who had contracted the virus and …
This past week was my late grandfather’s birthday and in wanting to honor his memory and family I decided to switch around some topics and blog today about his own father, Manuel Correa Rivera. My grandfather was fairly young and would like to preserve his anonymity for now and so I will focus on my …
2021 has begun and of course the troubles of 2020 have come along as well for the ride. Political issues haven’t gotten any better and neither has the pandemic. However, there are glimmers of hope as well that we can begin looking forward to! With that being said, I am excited to get started with …
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), …
Reflecting on my Genealogical Resolutions of 2020 Read More »
It’s been quite a bit since I last posted, and for good reasonings. Given the situation we’re in globally and finishing out the school year was pretty rough so genealogy took the back burner for a while. I had originally started migrating everything from my older blog to my new website some time after the …
In the summer of 2018, I clocked in a lot of hours looking into my Yabucoa side of the family. Discovering the church death record of my 4th great-grandfather Manuel de Santiago fortunately unlocked for me new names of ancestors to search. These searches ultimately took me from Yabucoa to the towns of Humacao and Las …
I wanted to share this record I found while searching the Toa Alta baptism records again. In all my years of researching, I have rarely come across an entry this detailed for a slave’s baptism. Four years ago, I posted “Whispers of the Past” where certain entries for slaves in the Registry of 1872 contained …
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 …