Finding out what it means to be Boricua through a genetic & genealogical journey through my family history
Recently, I was fortunate enough to meet my half-uncle (linked post!) who we discovered through 23andme. He and his family were visiting New York City and decided to stop by for the day to hang out with us. It was amazing getting to spend the day with new family and my uncle was able to meet […]
More Pieces… More of a Puzzle! Read More »
I have been pretty quiet here lately since I have been away traveling around Europe (will post about that later) and especially now that I have started work, but I want to blog about something amazing that happened recently! Two weekends ago my dad got a chance to meet his half brother who was given
A Family Reunion… 57 years in the making! Read More »
Finally a prompt I can use on the actual day! This post is similar to Tuesday’s prompt so I want to focus on a specific town I visited back in March 2015. One of the main towns I wanted to visit while I was in Puerto Rico was Salinas in the southern region of Puerto
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Late again on this Travel Tuesday and pretty late seeing as how I took this trip last March but I wanted to highlight my quick trip to Lares, Puerto Rico. Last year in March 2016, for Spring Break, I took a trip to Puerto Rico where I spent time with my grandmother both searching records
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So the day has finally come where FamilySearch has uploaded more of the church records for Puerto Rico!! I am super excited because this means that I can now search these records from home instead of having to order the microfilm, go into the city, and reserve a computer to see the records. Though it
Puerto Rico Catholic Church Records – Uploaded! Read More »
DNA Circles [Ancestry] Fairly recently (in the genealogical world), Ancestry.com has been working on a DNA matching portion of their website called “DNA Circles”. I’ve been waiting to write a post about DNA Circles until I got my first match, and very recently this occurred (this post has been sitting in “drafts” for a while
A Puerto Rican Look at: DNA Circles Read More »
After having found out that my 4th great-grandfather from Guadeloupe, I was interested in seeing who else came to Puerto Rico from that island. Maybe there were other people from the same town or (smaller) island as my 4th great grandfather. I was also interested in seeing how surnames changed once they came to Puerto
Guadeloupeans in Puerto Rico Read More »
So it’s been a while since I’ve posted and it’s already 2017! As the new school year kicked off I saw myself being less and less able to write on the blog, despite having some new blog ideas! So finally I’m back and hopefully I’ll continue to post throughout the year evenly and not in
A Puerto Rican Look at: 23andMe’s Ancestry Timeline Read More »
Every time I search my DNA matches, I’m overwhelmed by Puerto Rican results which makes sense right! Well, it does… in a sense. Since my family is from Puerto Rico and has been since at least the 1700s/1600s, easily it makes sense that most of my DNA matches come from Puerto Rico. Though at the
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So while researching through Puerto Rican records I came across something very interesting that I had never seen before and decided to post about it! While researching in the “Registro Central de Esclavos” of 1872 I came across a slave born in Africa who mentions her African parents’ names! I’m not sure how often this
Whisperings of the Past Read More »