The last segment that I want to cover is the best of all the catalogs available on the Dominican Republic’s National Archives by far that can be found here. I love this database because it contains people from all over the world who visited, stayed to live, or maybe have left. I have found people…
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…
While researching my grandmother’s Rivas line, I went with what I did know about her. She was born in La Vega, Dominican Republic in 1911. Her mother’s name is Mercedes and she came to the US with my uncles in 1948 and she passed away in San Francisco, California while caring for a sick friend…
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…
Moca is capital of the Espaillat province that is located in the Cibao region of Dominican Republic. If your family is known to come from the Cibao, it doesn’t hurt to research your lines in a town that had two churches in the 1880s. I knew that I kept a list for Moca Church Books…
So as usual, I’m always coming across some really interesting facts about my ancestry and things that occurred in the past. First I was very surprised to discover that my Dominican Cartagena line was very political and involved in the revolution and independence of the country. I came across a surprising article about my 2nd…