Maria del Rosario Betancourt Falcon
One of the many discoveries about the people from the past in Puerto Rico is their perseverance to survive. The ability to validate whether someone existed or not can be very daunting for a genealogist who has to face what these ancestors did to understand what could have happened to the records. One way of…
Betancourt – A Connection from Gran Canaria, Canary Islands to Puerto Rico
As I mentioned in my prior post, Round Robin Genealogy, the Betancourt line connection is riddled with mistakes on Ancestry and many group forums. If you follow the source of the tree that Ancestry gives you a leaf on, you’ll notice that it will lead to a continuous loop from one tree to another until…
Who was Juan Bayala Montañez? – A Passage to Miguel Bayala Gero
I find that looking through census records to be very interesting. One thing I’ve noticed was that people who were hired to take the census was either illiterate or just plain dumb when it came to capturing data. The spelling of names were atrocious and to top it off the indexing of records is truly…
Round Robin Genealogy
One of the most erred family lines on Ancestry in Puerto Rico is the Betancourt line; hence the title round robin genealogy. There are so many stories floating around about this line. People claiming stories as facts. I’m constantly smacking my head and wishing that people wouldn’t do that. I want facts people and not…
Researching Your Puerto Rican Genealogy
One of my pet peeves regarding genealogy is the amount of incorrect data. There is plenty of incorrect data on the internet and Ancestry. People join Ancestry and simply start clicking away. As a result, adding ancestors to their family trees without checking the resources. Thus never noticing a lack of resources. Researching your Puerto…
Cristobal Aleman Naranjo in Puerto Rico
For my cousins that descend directly from Cristobal Aleman Naranjo, this article is for you. So, Cristobal migrated from Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, España to Puerto Rico, this is true. However, I wanted to share this image of his tree showing his ancestors and direct descendants for correction purposes. Unlike Cristobal, disregard that his parents…