Rafael Betancourt Falcon – First Male Survivor – First Installment
For years I’ve seen people throw around where this Rafael Betancourt Falcon was born. Things such as how he was born in the Canary Islands in Spain and many other numerous claims. I’ve even seen some carry on how this was their direct grandfather. If he were your grandfather, you’d have to be close to…
Maria del Rosario Betancourt Falcon
One of the many discoveries about the people from the past in Puerto Rico is their perseverance to survive. The ability to validate whether someone existed or not can be very daunting for a genealogist who has to face what these ancestors did to understand what could have happened to the records. One way of…
Betancourt – A Connection from Gran Canaria, Canary Islands to Puerto Rico
As I mentioned in my prior post, Round Robin Genealogy, the Betancourt line connection is riddled with mistakes on Ancestry and many group forums. If you follow the source of the tree that Ancestry gives you a leaf on, you’ll notice that it will lead to a continuous loop from one tree to another until…