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…
San German Puerto Rico Census Records from the 1800s to 1900s
Since there are so many Census Records for San German, I decided that it needs to sit separately once the remaining records have been digitized and uploaded for everyone to review. There are many more records beyond what I have listed below but currently, you’ll have to order the films to review the records. Rosario,…
Caguas Puerto Rico 1800’s Digitized Census and Other Records Available Online
When I originally posted about the Puerto Rico Census records for the 1800’s availability from FamilySearch, they were reporting as not being available online but only by film. After sending them a trouble ticket over the weekend asking for a status, I was told that some were already available for access. I am going to…
Canarios in Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic
I had the most amazing 2015 in regards to genealogy. I was able to find my great grandmother’s parents’ names thanks to her filing a Social Security application within 3 weeks of arriving in the USA in the 1940’s. She joined the ranks of working along with the many other immigrants that came to America. …
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…
PARES – Portal to Spain’s Archives – Part 2
So since I ended my prior post and didn’t go further into details, I’m going to explain one more piece that I didn’t elaborate when searching in PARES. You can check out my prior post at the below link. As a reminder, this entire blog works using pop-ups. Any link I provide always opens a…