Finding out what it means to be Boricua through a genetic & genealogical journey through my family history
Ahh!!! I know, I know! I’m late again with my posts (by about a month this time)! With settling into life in Spain, and three back-to-back weekend trips I haven’t been able to dedicate much attention to my blog! But I’ll try and catch up this week little by little posting more ancestor posts, I …
52 Ancestors – #34 Agustin Calderón Meléndez (1859-1947) Read More »
I have talked about my 5th great grandmother, Eglantine Lautin, before in previous posts. Many actually when I think about it, since it’s only been a little close to two years since I found out about her. In one post titled “Tracing Eglantine Lautin” I discuss the possibility of discovering her ethnic origin through the …
Almost caught up, almost caught up!! Here is another post of a pretty old ancestor, this time my 12th great grandfather Alonso Maldonado. [Note: because these ancestors are so far back there is always room for error, for example: paper records were wrong due to a NPE (non-paternity event) that occurred somewhere in the family …
Today’s post is about my 3rd great grandmother Dolores Santiago Burgos — a lot of recent posts from my 3rd grandparents’ generation! Dolores Santiago Burgos was probably one of the first ancestors I found when I began researching my family. Because my grandmother knew the name of her parents and grandparents, this allowed me to …
52 Ancestors – #31 Dolores Santiago Burgos (1859-1929) Read More »
It feels awesome to be back writing about my ancestors! I was a bit nervous at first that I would just get lazy and never get around to it, but I’m almost at the half way mark of the 52 Ancestor Challenge. This is definitely hard to keep up with, with the rest of live …
With this post of my 29th ancestor I’ll have concluded the posts from July!! I’m definitely very excited to get into my posts for August and then line up my next ancestors for the next months to come. So without further ado, here is my 29th post about my 3rd great grandfather Valentin González Quiñones. …
52 Ancestors – #29 Valentin González Quiñones (1828-1907) Read More »
I’m kind of on a roll here so I’m going to continue with my 28th post about my 3rd great grandfather Buenaventura Ortiz Rivera! It’s kind of funny to think about a 3rd great grandfather. I was fortunate to meet two of my great grandparents and my father meet his great grandfather (My second great …
52 Ancestors – #28 Buenaventura Ortiz Rivera (1850-1925) Read More »
This post will focus on my maternal 6th great grandfather Sebastián Rodríguez Rodríguez. Sebastián according to his death certificate would have been born around 1779 in Coamo, Puerto Rico. It was very exciting when I found his death certificate because Sebastián is part of a maternal line that took a VERY long time to crack, …
52 Ancestors – #27 Sebastián Rodríguez Rodríguez (1779-1819) Read More »
Ok! So I’m back to posting about my ancestors and I’ll keep going with the ones I had scheduled! Today I’ll be talking about my 4th great grandmother Severina Padilla. I actually don’t have too much information about Severina and her life. Documents point to her origin being in the town of Yauco, Puerto Rico – …
I bumped into this topic from the Geneabloggers emails which posts prompts (amongst other links) from a blog by Anglers Rest. Pretty much the prompts are created for you to fill out, that way you are building up some genealogical information about yourself as well! I think it’s a great idea, especially since we focus so …
Emigration/ Migration / Immigration (Book of Me — Prompt 43) Read More »