Finding out what it means to be Boricua through a genetic & genealogical journey through my family history
I unfortunately never got to finish the 52 ancestors series before the end of 2014, with traveling around Europe and getting back into the swing of things here in Spain I haven’t really been able to write new blog posts. But hopefully I’ll be able to finish up the 52 Ancestors Challenge and write new …
52 Ancestors – #48 Nicodemus Vélez Ríos (1878-1934) Read More »
Last week I was pretty fortunate to be able to search through the Adjuntas church records which were microfilmed by the LDS. I knew that some ancestors in my family through my paternal side lived in Adjuntas for a while thanks to the Census records. Adjuntas, Puerto Rico- a town nestled in the Central Mountain …
My great grandparents, my grandmother and her siblings This portrait of my great grandparents, Felix Vélez Mercado and Rosalia Avilés González along with my grandmother Carmen Avilés Vélez (seated close to her father) along with her brother Antonio (older boy) and a baby sibling I don’t know the name of, was the start of …