Interesting DNA Results from AncestryDNA
Logically you want to say that you are 50% from your mother and 50% from your father. The reality is that it isn’t exactly 50% from each parent. I am of Puerto Rican and Dominican descent and first-generation born in the US mainland while my husband is Haitian born. I had my husband and two…
Researching Your Belizean Ancestry
Researching your ancestry from Belize formerly known as British Honduras is actually not as hard as some would think. There are many resources available to you where you shouldn’t have to visit the country to find information. Like many other regions of the Caribbean, Central America and South America, names have changed over the years. …
Researching Your Haitian Ancestry
Recommendations in researching your Haitian ancestry: Document what you know about your family. Create a family tree on Ancestry. Make sure you add at least the country of birth if you’re not sure what city a person was born. A generation consists of 20 to 30 years. So if you are not certain of when…
Expansion of the Blog
In having my DNA done, one of things that I discovered is how my tree is nowhere near the size it should be. Although my family tree currently contains over 6,600 relatives, it is a far cry from what it should be displaying. The family tree I have is from many years of researching and…
Questions on Family Research
I have received many private messages via email or even Ancestry from many cousins with DNA confirmation. Many of us share great grandparents or all the way up to 4th great grandparents. Some of you are double related to me so the centimorgans (cM) we share is higher than it should be. Do not be…
Puerto Rico Census from the 1800s
If you were ever told that census records don’t exist for the 1800s then the likelihood is that the person just wasn’t aware. One such group is FamilySearch themselves and they have the records. I had written to them asking when would the Puerto Rico census records be digitized and uploaded. The response I received…