Martinique

Using LucidChart to Trace the Descendants of Eglantine Lautin

One of my goals for this year was to create a chart for all of the descendants that I could find for Eglantine Lautin, my 5th great-grandmother. My hope is that by knowing which lines left female descendants, I would be able to find a modern-day descendant who would be able to test for the […]

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A Puerto Rican Look at: ANOM (Archives Nationales D’Outre-Mer)

Originally this post was going to be a “how-to” guide on navigating the ANOM website. But after seeing that Google Translate works directly on the website, I figured it was better to demonstrate how one could go from having an ancestor in Puerto Rico to finding out more information about them in the French Caribbean.

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Genealogical Resolutions for 2024!

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

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Limyè Ba Yo: Honoring my Ancestors

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

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December 21st – A Day Dedicated to My Ancestress

As I am currently living France, last month while I was on vacation I decided to create a specific and intentional route for my travels. Why? Because I knew that on the 21st of December I wanted to be in the town of Saint-Malo. Currently in my family tree, I have no genealogical connection to

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Archives Départementales de la Guadeloupe – An Updated Resource!

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

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Chromosome 11 – An Afro-Caribbean Connection

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

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New children for Julienne Malvina Lautin

In honor of Black History Month and my 4th great-grandmother’s birthday in February, I wanted to dedicate this post to the ongoing research of Julienne Malvina Lautin, my enslaved Martinican ancestor who moved to Puerto Rico.  There are many times in genealogy when you think you know well enough the life of an ancestor. Given

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So… You Want to Hire a Genealogist?

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

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