Finding out what it means to be Boricua through a genetic & genealogical journey through my family history
Last week on May 23rd, I was able to attend an event in Paris just two days shy before leaving France. I had been living abroad teaching English the last eight months and my last wish was to attend this event hosted by CM98 (Comité Marche du 23 Mai 1998), a genealogical group I am …
I’ve noticed that I haven’t focused too much on my ancestresses that are scattered through out my tree, so I’m going to try and make more attempts to properly include them in this 52 Ancestors series. Especially seeing as they too are a part of my ancestry! My 4th great grandmother Bernardina Sepúlveda Román was …
52 Ancestors – #8 Bernardina Sepúlveda Román (1803-1893) Read More »
I haven’t blogged in a while and with the holidays being both a busy yet relaxing time, I’ve decided to write a post! Recently, a day passed in December that wouldn’t have meant anything special to me until recently. December 21st would have been any other day for me this year; it was a Saturday, …
Since I wrote about my 2013 New Year Resolutions I decided to review 2012 and all of the genealogical achievements, discoveries and even unanswered questions that came with that year. That way I’ll have a summed up version of all the posts of that year and can aspire to learn even more about myself, my …
If you haven’t read the first part click HERE to read it! So now I had some new names surrounding Eglantine, Julienne and Pauline. In 1844, there was a Dame Lapierre, née Forget and in 1847, there was a Dame Laroche, née Lapierre. So I turned to David Quénéhervé with this new found information to see …
Map of Martinique Part ISo a lot has happened in these last couple of days! Hopefully this post isn’t too longwinded but I want to make sure I have everything written down! So it started on Tuesday, when I figured out that the LDS center I go to, to view microfilm records from Puerto Rico, …
This week, after much anticipation and excitement the new version of 23andme‘s Ancestry Painting was released! This new version, which replaced Ancestry Painting, is now known as Ancestry Composition. Ancestry Painting lacked populations which only used three main populations Asian (from China/Japan), European (which I think were US-European samples), and then African (using Yoruba samples …
With my sudden potential discover of a definite Martinique connection, my brain has been yelling “Full Steam Ahead!!!!” I’ve been searching the internet for Martinique books, websites and even videos to find an insight to what my ancestors would have gone through. David Quénéhervé recommended to me a book titled “Black Shack Alley” written by …
All you need is a spark to ignite something, right? Well yesterday I received one of my many sparks, which lead me down a new road. I was conversing with fellow genealogist David Quénéhervé who has experience using Martinique records and we began to talk about my 4th great grandparents who immigrated from Martinique to …
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 …
Series I, Part II: An Ancestor’s Story Through Records Read More »