Category: Caribbean slavery

Caguas Transcribed Records – The Case of Giving

Your value will be not what you know; it will be what you share. Ginni Rometty The files & this post was updated on 8/1/2020 How true the above quote rings in our ears. A cousin from the far shores of Japan contributes her hard dedicated Caguas transcribed records. Her work to help many find…

By Anna Bayala July 27, 2020 0

Yabucoa Puerto Rico 1790 to 1937 Church Records – Updated

I had this post sitting in draft for 7 months thinking I had published and shared the information. So edited the intro and releasing today… Nearly 3 years ago on January 1st, 2017, I had posted my 100th post which happened to be about Yabuoca, Puerto Rico church records. At the time I released that…

By Anna Bayala December 25, 2019 0

Are You Guilty of Butchering Your Family Tree?

What a question, but a valid one! Are you guilty of not documenting your family tree? Documentation is a significant step when adding ancestors to the tree. It is not a time to be lazy or state that you’ll take care of it later because later never arrives and things tend to get in the…

By Anna Bayala October 15, 2019 0

African Slavery in the Caribbean & South America

One of the most important things that have made me very successful in my research is reading history. Reading history provides me with clues of where to look next. While the genealogy community has taken a stronghold of dipping into DNA testing, it has opened the door to a lot of misconceptions. Note that this…

By Anna Bayala September 15, 2019 0

Prisons in Puerto Rico in the 1800s and 1900s

While we are searching for ancestors, we never want to think the worst of them. We base our beliefs on how law are written today, but knowing in the back of our mind that they were different then. The way some of the laws were written in the 1800s, it makes you wonder who were…

By Anna Bayala July 13, 2019 1

Trujillo Alto Church Records & Other Resources

One of the hardest things is locating family records for Trujillo Alto in Puerto Rico due to the lack of access to books or not all books being filmed by the LDS back in the 1980s. However, that should not stop us from seeking information on what is available. I am currently working on the…

By Anna Bayala July 7, 2019 0