Finding out what it means to be Boricua through a genetic & genealogical journey through my family history
The second person I decided to focus on was someone that doesn’t have too many documents per se but I’m interested in her life and so I decided to include her here since it is an ancestor I discovered through documents. I decided to focus on my 4th great grandmother, Bernardina Sepúlveda Roman, who was born around …
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So being home all day bored leads you to a lot of genealogy. So a couple of days ago, I decided to write down all the slaves the Antonetti family owned according to the 1872 Central Registry of Slaves which can be found on ancestry.com. And boy did they have a good number of slaves; …
Puerto Rico’s history is very interesting because a lot of the inhabitants that have been on the island for a long time (like my ancestors) probably have ancestors that were slaves, and/or ancestors that owned slaves. So far I haven’t found any slaves in my family but I do have ancestors that are written down …
I will continue with the Antonetti family except going forward and how they helped me find my elusive great grandfather in the 1930 Census. Francisco and Luisa never seemed to live together. Neither on the 1910, 1920 1930 Census did they live in the same household, though Francisco Antonetti does recognize in the 1910 Census …
When researching your family, I think it’s important to research other branches that have married in. Each of them can carry a unique story that adds to your overall ancestry and can give you more of an insight to how your family and their siblings lived. The family I’m going to focus on today is …