Humacao

Searching My “Lamboy” Branch

Francés, French, Genealogía, Genealogy, Guayama, Humacao, Laboy, Lamboy, Las Piedras, Ponce, Puerto Rican, Puerto Rico /

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

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A Puerto Rican Look at: My X-Chromosome

DNA, Humacao, Las Piedras, Maunabo, Puerto Rico, Quebradillas, San Sebastián, Toa Alta, X chromosome, Yabucoa /

With Mother’s day being this Sunday here in the United States, I decided to take a different and closer look at my DNA – I wanted to see how my X-Chromosome and those of my grandmother, grandfather, and great-grandfather were passed down; all exclusively inherited from my maternal side of the family. Since I am

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Searching el “Registro de la Propiedad”

Benito Orozco, Genealogy, Humacao, José Avilés Magraner, José Rodríguez Santigo, Lares, Puerto Rico, Registro de la Propiedad, Utuado, Yabucoa /

While in Puerto Rico during my spring break, one of the main things I wanted to do was go to a Registo de la Propiedad. I had heard a lot about them and how they could provide certain information that census records and church records didn’t. So I knew that this was a place I

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