Away Until May And Records for Puerto Rico

Here is the family of Pablo de Leon and his wife Estebania Orozeo. I’m sure they had other children, however I only provided the information on their son; Rafael de Leon Orozeo. I was able to build this tree based on church records in Dominican Republic. His line does marry into mine but I don’t…

Happy 2016 everyone!  Nothing like starting off the new year by celebrating our family and culture!  One thing I have learned as well as many of you is that each of us carry DNA that is global.  Our culture and islands have seen people from all over the world. So my next blog post is…

I updated this page on 1/2/2016 to add the entire list of digitized Books for La Altagracia church; scroll down to see those.  For the Catedral, I have not added any updates.  Both churches are in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic.  However there are other churches that were not filmed.  One such church is…

One of the things I forgot to mention, any links I provide will always open in a new window. The same goes for the AGN so make sure you turn off pop up blockers for both websites. If you’re looking for Part 1, then click here and it will open in a new window. The…

The next post is truly a short one if you have been following my blog posts about Dominican Republic’s National General Archive also known as the Archivo General de la Nacion (agn.gov.do). In my prior post I spoke about the Archivo’s Boletin and the Revista Clio functions in the same manner that the Boletins do….

As the popularity of genealogy of those who descend from Dominicans increases, it becomes harder for many who live in other regions beside Dominican Republic to research. Yet I’m here to tell you that it isn’t impossible. Today thanks to the LDS aka Mormon religion, they have made it possible for us to review records….