Finding out what it means to be Boricua through a genetic & genealogical journey through my family history
Time sure does fly! It feels like only yesterday I was setting up genealogical goals for 2019, and yet here I am December 31st, 2019 – ready to close out the year! Similarly to last year, I wanted to take some time to reflect on my goals for the year 2019 and see how far …
Reflecting on my Genealogical Resolutions of 2019 Read More »
Like my Avilés/Magraner line, I tested my Correa Y-DNA line while I was in Puerto Rico, this time with my maternal grandfather. Though I originally tested this line at Y-DNA67, I have upgraded the line to Y-DNA111 on FTDNA and with the recent Thanksgiving sales I have finally upgraded the line to Big-Y 700. The …
I wanted to focus this post on an aspect of genealogy I think most newbies tend to oversee, whether due to excitement or blindly trusting what we first see – mistakes on records. When you first start out in genealogy, you tend to take all information on records as genealogical gold. But what happens when …
A bit earlier on in the year, around spring/early summer, Ancestry released “MyTreeTags” which can be added to your ancestors in your tree. Hyperlinked above, you will find how to set up the tags and the different types that exist already. Another feature of the tags is that you can create your own “custom tags” …
July 4th, 2019 marks 8 exact years since I began blogging. It all started when I was 21 years old and home from college over the summer. I was inspired by Cece Moore who runs Your Genetic Genealogist and has become a common name in the genealogist household with all the work she has done with …
My 200th Post- 8 Years of Blogging, 15 Years of Genealogy Read More »
Earlier in the year (a few months ago actually), while I visited Puerto Rico I made sure to revisit the Archivo Diocesano in San Juan. Here, my goal is always to try and find marriage dispensas (marriage permissions) given to my ancestors who needed permission to marry cousins of varying degrees. This specific time I was searching …
A Consanguineous Family: The Martínez of Guayama/Maunabo Read More »
Chromosome 7 – Myself [Personal Photo] With the continued use of DNA Painter, I have been able to see (in a sense) my results through a more magnified lens. Being able to break down genetic cousins via a comparison to my other tested family members has allowed me to better parse down a bit from which …
This blog post will be an updated report on my African ancestry from 23andMe. Last month I had posted about some of my new European Ancestry reports from 23andMe while last year I wrote about my generational African mixes from AncestryDNA (which I’ll have to update at some point as well!). Since 23andme has updated their African scores …
A Puerto Rican Look at: Generational 23andMe African Ancestry Read More »
Continuing from my previous, genealogical goals of 2019 (Part I), here are the second set of goals for this new year!6. Push all my lines into the 1700sThis one is a bit harder and will take some time, depending on the availability of records. I have been pretty fortunate to push many of my lines …
With the new year off to a start, I’d figure I set my new genealogical goals for this year. Similarly to last year, I’ll write out 10 genealogical goals I have in mind and what I would like to accomplish through each one. Since I’ve delved deeper into why and how I want to get …