Category: Canary Islands

PARES – Portal to Spain’s Archives

So I’m finally getting around to talking about PARES -Portal to Spain’s Archives. One of the most amazing and largest archives globally as well as one of the most difficult to navigate.  Some of their archives go back as far as the 1400s.  The archives are so vast that it is said that they have…

By Anna Bayala September 11, 2015 3

The Betancourt Mangual Children

First I want to address a question that has been asked by a few.  Why am I sharing my hard work? To answer this question well it starts with the horrible information that is floating on Ancestry. Ancestry even matched me to someone through our DNA simply because this person’s tree has my great grandparents…

By Anna Bayala August 4, 2015 5

Navigating Dominican Republic’s Archive Website ~ Immigrant Entry Database – Entradas de Inmigrantes

The last segment that I want to cover is the best of all the catalogs available on the Dominican Republic’s National Archives by far that can be found here.  I love this database because it contains people from all over the world who visited, stayed to live, or maybe have left. I have found people…

By Anna Bayala August 2, 2015 0

Nemesio Aleman Aleman

Below is the record for Nemesio Aleman Aleman.  He was born in 1919 and the son of Ramon Aleman and Marcelina Aleman.  His father is reporting the birth to Trujillo Alto municipality.  In the record, both grandfathers are deceased but both grandmothers were still alive at the time of his birth.

By Anna Bayala July 30, 2015 0

Navigating Dominican Republic’s Archive Website ~ Archivo General de la Nacion – Part 5 – Revista Clio

The next post is truly a short one if you have been following my blog posts about Dominican Republic’s National General Archive also known as the Archivo General de la Nacion (agn.gov.do). In my prior post I spoke about the Archivo’s Boletin and the Revista Clio functions in the same manner that the Boletins do.…

By Anna Bayala July 29, 2015 0