Puerto Rican Genealogy

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Reflecting On My Genealogical Resolutions Of 2024!

In the blink of an eye, here we are closing out another year! It is a bit surreal to think that 2024 is coming to a close and that 2025 is just around the corner. As I do every year, I want to close out the year by reflection on my genealogical goals I set […]

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A Puerto Rican Look At: Researching Your Portuguese Ancestors

In this post I want to share some resources for finding Portuguese ancestors. Over the summer while doing in research in Spain, I potentially identified a Portuguese ancestor on my tree but veryyyyy far back in time (future post to come!).  While digging around in my tree in the 16th century I was able to

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Veterans Day: Abuelo Correa & Vietnam

On Monday, November 11, Veterans Day was celebrated in the United States. This day focuses on honoring military veterans that were/are a part of the United States Armed Forces. One of the important differences between Veterans Day and Memorial Day is that Memorial Day (observed in May) focuses on veterans who died during military service.

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Puerto Rican Look at: AncestryDNA Update 2024

There has been a lot of buzz this week around AncestryDNA’s recent update with their DNA percentages. A lot of people have logged in and either been pleasantly surprised, utterly shocked, and somewhere in between. I wanted to share how my percentages have changed and my take on it.  Caveat: I am no DNA expert

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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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A Visit to the Obispado de Huelva

During the month of June (my last month of living abroad), I was able to visit Andalucía in southern Spain to continue researching my Dávila family that came from San Juan del Puerto. During my time there, I came across a marriage record between my 8th great-grandparents that showed them entering into a consanguineous marriage.

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A Puerto Rican Look at: SS-5 Files

Recently while working on another genealogical case, I realized that I had gone all these years without ordering a crucial record for my ancestor José Avilés – his SS-5 file. Like many novice genealogists, I probably overlooked this resource when I first started my genealogical journey and then as time went on, I forgot that

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