Finding out what it means to be Boricua through a genetic & genealogical journey through my family history
While reading the book The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution, I began thinking a lot about the role both enslaved and free people of color who spent their time working on boats played by passing along through word of mouth important information to their communities and others. The book focuses […]
Ahoy! Exploring Gustave Jean Charles’ Life on the Sea Read More »
This morning I came across this YouTube video by Family Locket on using AI to map land using deeds. I was intrigued because I heard that recently ChatGPT had updated its model for creating images. Nicole (the presenter) was impressed by the accuracy of the image created and so I wanted to see what it
Exploring the Power of AI Imagery in Genealogy Read More »
Recently, it was announced that there has been some more movement towards construction a memorial in the memory of the enslaved individuals who were freed from French slavery in 1848. This is very exciting because two of my ancestors are amongst those who were liberated. Let’s see what was announced and what we should expect!
A Memorial to Honor their Past Read More »
Godt nytår! Or “Happy New Year” in Danish! I was fortunate to have spent the new year in a new country (Denmark), exploring new cities (Copenhagen, Hillerød; Malmö and Lund in Sweden) with new people. However, it is a new year which means new genealogical resolutions! I realized this week that last year’s posts marked
Genealogical Resolutions for 2024! Read More »
Last week on May 23rd, I was able to attend an event in Paris just two days shy before leaving France. I had been living abroad teaching English the last eight months and my last wish was to attend this event hosted by CM98 (Comité Marche du 23 Mai 1998), a genealogical group I am
Limyè Ba Yo: Honoring my Ancestors Read More »
Recently with the help of David Quénéhervé, I was able to receive a bit more information about Gustave Jean Charles from non-genealogical resources. In an earlier post, I had learned about various records that mentioned Gustave Jean Charles and his wife, known in these records as Adèle Jacson, in the Archive de la Guadeloupe. In
Gustave Jean-Charles via Notarial Records (Archive de la Guadeloupe) Read More »
In late spring/early summer, I got two emails regarding the same thing – a updated new resource that could prove fruitful for my research! Both David Quénéhervé and Mickaël Mange, who have helped in different ways throughout my Afro-French Caribbean research, reached out to me to mention this website. Mickaël mentioned the website was fairly
Archives Départementales de la Guadeloupe – An Updated Resource! Read More »
DNA has been both one of the coolest and yet most difficult tools to use for Puerto Rican genealogy and research. For starters, many Puerto Ricans on the island share mutual ancestors, meaning that DNA has been repeated throughout our branches (sometimes multiple times) and thus create cousin matches seem closer in relation than what they
Chromosome 11 – An Afro-Caribbean Connection Read More »
When searching for family, one of the most important things I have come to realize is that sometimes we can find related family members not directly listed as “mother” or “father” in the records, but sometimes we can find them listed as the declarant, a witness, and/or listed as godparents to family members in church
Chaleau Jean Charles – An Uncle on Paper Read More »
If you’re stumbling across this post- you’re either a faithful reader (Thanks! ¡Gracias!) or you might be ready to bite the bullet to hire a genealogist but you might not exactly know how to go about it. Granted, I have only hired one genealogist twice myself, but having various years of genealogy under my belt
So… You Want to Hire a Genealogist? Read More »