Ana Luisa Betancourt Pastrana
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While digging through records for Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico in search of my own African ancestors, I came across a record at the end of the book that caught my attention. Another baptism, but a baptism of an African child. I had previously posted about discovering a record of a 10 years old girl from…
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Finding Enslaved Ancestors in Puerto Rico Through Registries Online
Finding enslaved ancestors in some parts of the world is much easier than in the United States. The slaveholders of many Africans and African descents were usually counted as notches in the United States census and records. One pattern that I noticed with countries held by Spain is that that was not the case. While…
Juan Betancourt Mangual & Matea del Pilar Asencio
One of the things many women faced prior to the 1950s was the inability to support themselves. Many girls were married off young because they brought no value to bringing in sustenance other than working as a maid for a richer household. Most women had no choice but to remarry immediately or soon after their…
Rafael Betancourt Falcon – First Male Survivor – Second Installment
So I previously introduced Rafael Betancourt and if you haven’t read it, just click on his name and it will take you to my previous blog post about him. This blog and prior blog posts have links in the text that I’ve added for further reading. Whether you descend from the Betancourt line or not,…
