Finding out what it means to be Boricua through a genetic & genealogical journey through my family history
Recently, an email was sent out informing its members that there had been another update on 23andme. I was pleasantly surprised, especially since this had to do with genetic groups in Africa! I was excited to see if any of my own DNA (or that of my family) would be categorized into new African groups, […]
A Puerto Rican Look at: 23andme’s New African Groups 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 »
Back in 2019, I read an interesting book that combined genealogy and non-fiction story telling. The book is called: The Man Who Stole Himself:The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan. The book was written by Icelandic professor of anthropology, Gísli Pálsson, and documents the journey of a former Caribbean slave from St. Croix to Denmark and finally to
The Caribbean, Western Africa, and Iceland: An Unlikely Trio Read More »
This blog post will be an updated report on my African ancestry from 23andMe. Last month I had posted about some of my new European Ancestry reports from 23andMe while last year I wrote about my generational African mixes from AncestryDNA (which I’ll have to update at some point as well!). Since 23andme has updated their African scores
A Puerto Rican Look at: Generational 23andMe African Ancestry Read More »
Recently, I bought a few AncestryDNA test during their Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale. With those tests I was able to add 3 new members of my family to the site: my father, my mother, and my maternal grandmother. I still have one more test left and I’m hoping to test my maternal grandfather, but I’d
A Puerto Rican Look at : A Generational Exploration of African Ancestry Read More »