Marriages from Book 1 of Cathedral in San Juan – Nuestra Senora de los Remedios
I have spent a lot of time pulling marriage records out of book 1 of marriages for Nuestra Señora de los Remedios. This is the cathedral in San Juan that was originally built in 1521, was destroyed by a hurricane in October 1526 by San Francisco and rebuilt in 1529. It is the 2nd oldest…
Researching Your African Ancestry in the Caribbean
One of the greatest ways of researching African ancestry in the Caribbean is by actually reading many history books and from different resources and countries. If you don’t have the time to go through so many books in the beginning then there is a shortcut. I found that UNESCO Publishing is the best shortcut to…
Interesting DNA Results from AncestryDNA
Logically you want to say that you are 50% from your mother and 50% from your father. The reality is that it isn’t exactly 50% from each parent. I am of Puerto Rican and Dominican descent and first-generation born in the US mainland while my husband is Haitian born. I had my husband and two…
Researching Your Belizean Ancestry
Researching your ancestry from Belize formerly known as British Honduras is actually not as hard as some would think. There are many resources available to you where you shouldn’t have to visit the country to find information. Like many other regions of the Caribbean, Central America and South America, names have changed over the years. …
Researching Your Haitian Ancestry
Recommendations in researching your Haitian ancestry: Document what you know about your family. Create a family tree on Ancestry. Make sure you add at least the country of birth if you’re not sure what city a person was born. A generation consists of 20 to 30 years. So if you are not certain of when…
Gregorio Alvarez Cueto
In a prior post about PARES,Spain’s online archives, I mentioned how I located Teresa Cueto in the records. However I don’t believe I explained how I knew who she was. I’ve also posted about her granddaughter, Maria Florentina Alvarez Castillo. So how did I make the connections? Very easily! You see wedding records are the…