Our Caribbean Genealogy
I nearly missed the Naranjito church records as I didn’t have them listed on my remaining list of churches in Puerto Rico. I want to thank Olga Figueroa for asking about them. A quick search of the website and I found that I never broke the films out for everyone. Naranjito is a municipality that…
One of the interesting things I have discovered between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic is the constant repetition of town names. It is not a few but plenty of towns. While pulling up the map of Barranquitas, Puerto Rico, I discovered the town of La Vega which is a province and town in the…
While Puerto Rico is only 100 miles long by 35 miles wide, it contains many municipalities. Comerio is surrounded by 6 municipalities and sits on the eastern side and centered. While many of us think of our families that are dealing with the effects of Hurricane Mary, I cannot stop thinking of what our ancestors…
The research for documents on our African ancestors is one of the biggest challenges that we face. Fortunately, many of us who descend from those enslaved in the Caribbean have found an option in discovering more about who these ancestors are. Up until recently, it was difficult to locate records on our African ancestors out…
So this is the record of my 3rd great grandfather, Angel Diaz Nunez on my father’s paternal side. He is Manuela’s Diaz’s grandfather. This line is known to inter-exchange the Nunez with Diaz line. This is because this line is of African descent and Angel Nunez and all of his children and grandchildren were black…
Sometimes as an experienced researcher, you tend to forget somethings are not natural or known to many. So today, I was asked how to find a family member that is in an index in an actual church book that is digitized online. I decided to post about it in the blog because I realize that…