Abelardo Betancourt Betancourt

Below you have the civil registration record with the municipality of Trujillo Alto for Adalberto Rodriguez Betancourt. His father Emilio Rodriguez Betancourt is reporting the birth. Adalberto was born on the 24th of April in 1929.  His mother’s name is Juana Betancourt Marquez.  I hope his birth record will help others in the family tree…

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…