Category: Dominican ancestry

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…

By Anna Bayala July 19, 2016 0

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…

By Anna Bayala July 18, 2016 0

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

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…

By Anna Bayala July 10, 2016 4

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…

By Anna Bayala June 8, 2016 5

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. …

By Anna Bayala June 7, 2016 11