Gustave Jean Charles

Gustave Jean-Charles via Notarial Records (Archive de la Guadeloupe)

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 …

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Those Places Thursday – Salinas, Puerto Rico

Finally a prompt I can use on the actual day! This post is similar to Tuesday’s prompt so I want to focus on a specific town I visited back in March 2015. One of the main towns I wanted to visit while I was in Puerto Rico was Salinas in the southern region of Puerto …

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How a RAOK Broke my Guadeloupean Brick-Wall

[Google] A few months back while I was still in Madrid studying abroad, I received a message from another 23andme member wondering if I needed any help searching for my ancestors in Martinique. As you might already know, offering your help to others is known as a RAOK or Random Act Of Kindness, and in …

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