Finding out what it means to be Boricua through a genetic & genealogical journey through my family history
I recently posted about finding more records on FamilySearch via the “Images” search function which allowed me to find more records on my family from Vega Baja. Amongst these records was the 1858 Census which located a few of my Calderón Nazario ancestors living in the neighborhood of Pugnado Afuera. I wanted to focus my […]
Another Look at My Vega Baja Roots Read More »
Last week I took a look at the Lares municipal census of 1878 where I was able to find my 4th great-grandfather and learn some new details about him. So I continued to explore the new records of FamilySearch and saw that Vega Baja had some records online as well. I totally forgot that my
Vega Baja Municipal Census 1841 Read More »
In all honesty, my maternal grandfather’s line has been one of the hardest to trace for what ever reason. Mostly because I have no communication with him, but I was fortunate enough that my grandmother was aware of some names in his family such as his mother’s name as well as her parents which was
Clearing Up A Mix-Up Read More »