Finding out what it means to be Boricua through a genetic & genealogical journey through my family history
I wanted to focus this post on an aspect of genealogy I think most newbies tend to oversee, whether due to excitement or blindly trusting what we first see – mistakes on records. When you first start out in genealogy, you tend to take all information on records as genealogical gold. But what happens when …
With Mother’s day being this Sunday here in the United States, I decided to take a different and closer look at my DNA – I wanted to see how my X-Chromosome and those of my grandmother, grandfather, and great-grandfather were passed down; all exclusively inherited from my maternal side of the family. Since I am …
Recently, I’ve been taking a dive into the Puerto Rican Church Records again on FamilySearch. By chance and funny enough, by looking to one branch of my family I bumped into a completely different one. Finding children being born in towns nearby (and not so nearby) and parents appearing as godparents has allowed me to …
I’ve been seeing these style of pedigrees online for a while now and decided I should give it a go! Thanks to Zalewski Family Genealogy blog I was able to use the template and create my very own pedigree. Because my family has been on the island of Puerto Rico for over 200+ years, I …
While in Puerto Rico during my spring break, one of the main things I wanted to do was go to a Registo de la Propiedad. I had heard a lot about them and how they could provide certain information that census records and church records didn’t. So I knew that this was a place I …
Since I am in Puerto Rico for Spring Break I decided to rent a car and live out my long genealogical dream of traveling around the island to see the towns my family are from. Now, I didn’t and won’t get to visit every single town or barrio on this trip but just being in …
So FINALLY getting around to finishing up the last two posts of the 52 Ancestry Challenge — better late than never right!? This post will be about my 4th great grandmother, Juana Burgos Vásquez. Juana Burgos Vásquez was from the town of Yabucoa, Puerto Rico in the southern part of Puerto Rico. My family has …
52 Ancestors – #51 Juana Burgos Vásquez (1839-1899) Read More »
Ok, not fun being behind but hopefully I’ll be able to catch up and get these posts down before the year is over and my holidays start! Here is my 46th post about my 2nd great grandmother Francisca Orozco Santiago. When I first had started my research on my maternal side of the family, I …
52 Ancestors – #46 Francisca Orozco Santiago (1885-1945) Read More »
Moving a little over towards the East from Patillas, we get to Yabucoa where my next ancestor entry will take place! This post is about my 3rd great grandmother María Higinia Ruiz Ramos. María Higinia according to records was originally from Maunabo, Puerto Rico which makes sense since these two towns (Yabucoa and Maunabo) are …
52 Ancestors – #39 María Higinia Ruiz Ramos (1859-1921) Read More »
Today’s post is about my 3rd great grandmother Dolores Santiago Burgos — a lot of recent posts from my 3rd grandparents’ generation! Dolores Santiago Burgos was probably one of the first ancestors I found when I began researching my family. Because my grandmother knew the name of her parents and grandparents, this allowed me to …
52 Ancestors – #31 Dolores Santiago Burgos (1859-1929) Read More »