Category: Cuban research

Challenging Relationships with Our Ancestors

While I haven’t posted in quite awhile, I thought today would be the perfect time to update my blog. We all face challenges in our relationships with our spouses, significant other, our family members, and friends. One of the things I have discovered is that our ancestors are truly no different than any of us…

By Anna Bayala December 15, 2016 2

Researching Your African Ancestry in the Caribbean

One of the greatest ways of researching African ancestry in the Caribbean is by actually reading many history books and from different resources and countries.  If you don’t have the time to go through so many books in the beginning then there is a shortcut.  I found that UNESCO Publishing is the best shortcut to…

By Anna Bayala July 15, 2016 1

Expansion of the Blog

In having my DNA done, one of things that I discovered is how my tree is nowhere near the size it should be. Although my family tree currently contains over 6,600 relatives, it is a far cry from what it should be displaying.  The family tree I have is from many years of researching and…

By Anna Bayala June 23, 2016 1

Dominican Biography Dictionary for Genealogy Research

I am always seeking for documentation that isn’t easy to find and hoping that I will hit jackpot.  One of these sources that is not well known is a Dominican Historian named Rufino Martinez.  He was from Puerto Plata before leaving us in 1975 at the age of 82.  Martinez left one important dictionary that…

By Anna Bayala December 15, 2015 0