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…
Ramon Soiza Ortiz is not a direct ancestor of mine but he is related to me. He is actually my 4th great grand uncle. He is also the son of Ignacio Soiza del Carmen and Casimira Cerefina Ortiz de la Cruz. One of the things I found quite interesting is that although he was born…
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…
Alejandra was born in Carraizo, Trujillo Alto in Puerto Rico. She married Esteban Betancourt y Pacheco on January 27, 1907 and lived in Carraizo. She is one of 7 children to Severo Aquino Perez and Regina Bayala Rodriguez. My last update on Alejandra’s and Esteban’s family shows that they had 11 children together. Her grandson…
So this is the record of my 3rd great grandfather, Angel Diaz Nunez on my father’s paternal side. He is Manuela’s Diaz’s grandfather. This line is known to inter-exchange the Nunez with Diaz line. This is because this line is of African descent and Angel Nunez and all of his children and grandchildren were black…