Dominican Blog In Spanish But Worth Reading
One of the best blogs out there about Dominican culture,our African roots and indigenous Taino culture is done by someone by the username Lemba. I’ll refer to him this way to maintain his privacy since he is known as Lemba in many DNA and ancestry communities. The name of the blog is Cultura Campesina Del…
Indexing Project for Dominican Republic Underway – Assistance Needed
Currently there are two projects for Dominican Republic that Family Search is looking for volunteers to transcribe records for their free index. www.Familysearch.org provides free access to digitized records for the entire globe is looking for assistance wint transcribing records written in Spanish. To ensure that records are indexed correctly and accurately, they need our…
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…
Interesting DNA Results from AncestryDNA
Logically you want to say that you are 50% from your mother and 50% from your father. The reality is that it isn’t exactly 50% from each parent. I am of Puerto Rican and Dominican descent and first-generation born in the US mainland while my husband is Haitian born. I had my husband and two…
An Amusing Discovery – Jean-Jacques Philippe Guerrier and Juan Antonio Alvarez Cartagena
So as usual, I’m always coming across some really interesting facts about my ancestry and things that occurred in the past. First I was very surprised to discover that my Dominican Cartagena line was very political and involved in the revolution and independence of the country. I came across a surprising article about my 2nd…
My Ancestry – Benin & Togo – My Culture
So I had my DNA done with Ancestry DNA. One of the great things about having your DNA done with AncestryDNA is that they provide a breakdown on your African DNA if you descend from African ancestry. Most Dominicans have African ancestry just like its neighbor, Haiti. The same can be said about Puerto Rico. …