Away Until May And Records for Puerto Rico

Dominican Republic is well known for being very much into its history and attempting to document as much as possible. There are some amazing libraries (known as bibliotecas in Spanish) in this country. One of the great things I’ve heard about Dominican Republic’s Archivo General de la Nacion (Archives of the Nation) is that they…

The Reference Catalogs or Catalogos de Referencia which appears the second from the bottom on the menu is a nice way of gaining access to books and documents.  When you click on the link it will lead to a new page and provide you with the view I have provide below.  Notice the error message…

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…

So before I begin, I recommend that you check out Parts 1 and 2 if you’re just arriving at this blog. Below I’ve provided links to each to help you walk through this website.  They will open each in their own window so you won’t lose your place. Navigating the AGN for Dominican Republic –…

So now I want to speak to the Bernardo Vega Collection.  Basically he was a historian of Dominican Republic’s history.  When you click on the link, it will open a new window which provides a brief description.  To save you time, I copied the entire page and dropped it into Google Translate.   Below is…

I purchased Roots Magic 7 as an alternative to FamilyTree Maker as I had heard great things about the software. Here are some of the things I like: Easily import my trees from FamilyTree Maker.  Run many reports and are much easier to generate Save reports in many different formats Connects to FamilySearch for research…