slaves

Series I, Part II: An Ancestor’s Story Through Records

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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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Antonetti Slaves in Salinas, Puerto Rico

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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;

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ReConstructing/DeConstructing Race

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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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