Joseph Rivera

An Update to Y-DNA: A look at the Rivera line

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With Father’s Day being today in the United States, I figured I would provide an update to my direct paternal haplogroup which I updated through the Big Y test through FamilyTreeDNA. It took a few months to get the results earlier this year, and I did a new haplogroup assignment. I wanted to go over […]

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6 Generations of Men – I-F12956

Alejandro Rivera González, de Rivera, Genealogía, Genealogical Resolutions, Genealogy, Genetic Genealogy, José de Rivera, José Rivera, Joseph de Rivera, Joseph Rivera, Manuel de Jesús Rivera Díaz, Puerto Rican Genealogy, Rivera, Toa Alta, Y-DNA /

With Fathers’ Day being this weekend, I decided to recreate a post from last year where I traced a haplogroup back as far as I can go through paper trail. The post I hyperlinked in the previous sentence focused on my father’s maternal haplogroup L2a1, which took me back to the 1600-1700s in Yauco, Puerto Rico

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Paying my Respects

Alejandro Rivera González, Antonia Rivera, Gertudis Roman, Iris Rivera Ortiz, Joseph Rivera, La Perla, Mercedes Ortiz Marrero, Puerto Rico, San Juan, Santa Maria Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery /

Early I posted about how my dad’s cousin found me online through this blog (technology is awesome!). She was able to provide me with pictures, stories and more information about my dad’s side which I had no previous knowledge about. It’s so crazy to think that just 2 years I had no idea about my

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