Finding out what it means to be Boricua through a genetic & genealogical journey through my family history
About 7 years ago, I had discovered the names of my 5th great-grandparents and those of their parents in their marriage record in the year 1819. José de León Correa Carcaño, son of Juan Francisco Correa and María Eugenia Carcaño, said to be natives of San Juan and María de la Cruz Rodríguez Ruiz, daughter …
A bit earlier on in the year, around spring/early summer, Ancestry released “MyTreeTags” which can be added to your ancestors in your tree. Hyperlinked above, you will find how to set up the tags and the different types that exist already. Another feature of the tags is that you can create your own “custom tags” …
Post #20! These posts are going by very quickly! Today I want to focus on Valentin Múxica (also written as Móxica and currently as Mojica). He was my 4th great grandfather on my dad’s side of the family via my grandfather Felipe Rivera. Valentin Múxica would have been born, according to his death certificate, around …
I write today about my oldest male ancestor from whom I inherited the surname Rivera, my 4th great grandfather. I don’t know too much about him, so I’ll just add what I do know and see where it goes from there! When I first began my research at the age of 14 (yup, I was that …