Category: Canary Islands

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…

By Anna Bayala December 10, 2014 7

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…

By Anna Bayala December 8, 2014 8

Cristobal Aleman Naranjo in Puerto Rico

For my cousins that descend directly from Cristobal Aleman Naranjo, this article is for you. So, Cristobal migrated from Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, España to Puerto Rico, this is true. However, I wanted to share this image of his tree showing his ancestors and direct descendants for correction purposes.  Unlike Cristobal, disregard that his parents…

By Anna Bayala December 6, 2014 0