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Antonetti Slaves in Salinas, Puerto Rico

Africa, ancestry, Antonetti, Genealogy, Holand, Puerto Rico, Registro Central de Esclavos, Saint Martin, Salinas, Sint Maarten, slavery, slaves, St Martin / Luis Rivera

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; […]

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ReConstructing/DeConstructing Race

23andme, ancestry, Correa, DNA, Genealogy, Guadeloupe, identity, labels, Martinique, Puerto Rico, slaves, Spain / Luis Rivera

So this post was inspired by my grandfather’s results from 23andme and my conversation with him while I had him taking the test. During Spring Break, I visited my grandfather in Puerto Rico who I rarely see and built up the courage to ask him to take the DNA test. I had to semi-explain (and I

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The Importance of Other Branches- Part I

ancestry, Antonetti, Genealogy, Puerto Rican, Puerto Rico, Salinas, slavery, slaves / Luis Rivera

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

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