Gurabo, Puerto Rico – Where to search?
I kind of touched on Gurabo in responding to questions that I have received privately. I didn’t really provide details but there is more than just Census records from the 1900’s. Gurabo is a municipality that is on the eastern side of the island. The town or barrios that exist in the municipality are, Rincon,…
Casimero Bayala Carmona and Ana Beatriz Aleman Betancourt
Below is the wedding record of two Canary Island descendants; Casimero and Ana Beatriz. Casimero was born on 15 of May in 1846 in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico. We know this thanks to his baptism record which can be found in Book 2A of baptism in the same church he married Ana Beatriz. Ana Beatriz…
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…
Juana Regina Bayala Rodriguez
Juana Regina’s parents were not married at the time of her birth which it reflects in the below record. Prior to her birth, her father Miguel Bayala Flores had been married to Maria Encarnacion Colon Diaz but she died not too long after giving birth to her son Pedro Bayala Colon. Her son Pedro eventually…
So Why Do Genealogy?
This is a question many ask those who actually do the research. There isn’t a “one answer fits all approach”. In my path of researching genealogy, I have come across many who are doing it for many different reasons. I’m sure there are plenty more beyond what I’ve listed below. They want a sense of…
Who was Juan Bayala Montañez? – A Passage to Miguel Bayala Gero
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…